目录: World Map and Geographical Placement of Readings inside cover Preface xiii ONE Culture and Ethnography 1 1 Ethnography and Culture 6 JAMESP. SPRADLEY To discover culture, the ethnographer must learn from the informant as a student. 2 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari 13 RICHARDBORSHAYLEE The “generous” gift of a Christmas ox involves the anthropologist in a classic case of cross-cultural misunderstanding. 3 Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS 20 CLAIREE. STERK Fieldwork among urban prostitutes means doing ethnography under difficult but, in the end, manageable circumstances. 4 Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas 31 GEORGEGMELCH Interaction between a U.S. student and a Rastafarian illustrates the destructive power of naïve realism in the fieldwork setting. TWO Language and Communication 37 5 Shakespeare in the Bush 41 LAURABOHANNAN Cross-cultural communication breaks down when an anthropologist attempts to translate the meaning of Hamlet to the Tiv. v
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