Medical Anthropology as Cultural Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective . Byron J. Good.
Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life . Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.     

Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic nature of anthropology remains an important and necessary endeavor. This article provides an introduction to this special issue of the American Anthropologist , which focuses on the subfield of biological anthropology. Hopefully, as a result, increased connections among the subfields will be fostered, for the betterment of both biological anthropology and anthropology in general. The underlying theme of this article and the subtext for the entire special issue is clear: Biological anthropology needs anthropology, and anthropology needs biological anthropology. [Keywords: biological anthropology, subfields, four-field approach, holistic]     

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film (book and video). Karl G. Heider. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 347 pp.; 190:58 running time, VHS, color.     

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film. Karl G. Heider. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 347 pp.,. videotapes.     

Economic Anthropology

Economic Anthropology. Stephen Gudeman. ed. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1998.576 pp.     

Visual Anthropology

Cultural Travel and Migrancy: The Artistic Representation of Globalization in the Electronic Media of West Java . Edwin Jurriëns. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004. 213 pp.     

Home-town Anthropology

As I undertake fieldwork in my home-town area, I experience the familiar and the unfamiliar colliding, overlapping and interrelating in a critically productive, yet tense, dialectic. Questions arise for me such as: What is the field? What is home? When am I an anthropologist? When am I a local? By looking at the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in my home-town area, I am able to briefly explore these questions and come to a position where 1 sense the need for anthropology to look to comparative strategies (whereby difference and similarity are seen in relation to each other). This I see as a corrective to an overly contrastive approach which prioritises the representation of difference between cultural groups.     

Anthropology Is Dead! Long Live Anthropology!

Cultural Studies . Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson , and Paula A. Treichler , eds. New York: Routledge, 1992. 798 pp.     

Physical Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
The Roots of Prejudice. Arnold Rose.
Racial Myths. Juan Comas.
Race and Psychology. Otto Klineberg.
Race and Culture. Michel Leiris.
Race and Biology. L. C. Dunn.
The Significance of Racial Differences. G. M. Morant.
Race and History. Claude Lévi-Strauss.     

Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century . Sarah Pink, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 244 pp.