Handwerker (anthropology, U. of Connecticut) offers his wide-ranging musings on the nature of culture, with the core argument suggesting that culture is a product of interaction between innovations an
What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year old girl shopping there? In this provocative and important
Our Story explores the relationship between the individual and the many cultures to which he or she belongs simultaneously?cultures that make it possible for people to act as teams with a shared moral
Quick Ethnography takes traditional anthropological fieldwork techniques and applies them to contemporary applied research problems. For most applied projects, time is of the essence, and QE shows how
A research guide for anthropologists on the go, this book offers a comprehensive, integrated multi-method approach intended to meet the needs of social scientists dealing with complex interactions and
Our Story explores the relationship between the individual and the many cultures to which he or she belongs simultaneously?cultures that make it possible for people to act as teams with a shared moral
