Investigating Culture (eBook)

Carol Delaney is Associate Professor Emerita of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society (1991) and Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth (1998), and is co-editor of Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis (1995, with Sylvia Yanagisako). Deborah Kaspin is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College and has taught at University of Virginia, Yale University, Wheaton College, and Rhode Island College.

"Using an innovative and novel framework, Delaney's
Investigating Culture moves students through a series of
anthropological concepts and demonstrates the ways in which
universal human concepts- time, space, family, status and gender
are reformulated across the breadth of human cultural diversity.
This book draws from classical and contemporary ethnographic texts
providing students a week-by week journey through the study of
human culture- pedagogically brilliant, easy to teach and well
structured, this work provides students with engaging assignments,
topics for discussion and advanced questions for those interested
in more advanced research. I use it every year..."'



Michael Wilcox, Stanford University





PRAISE FOR FIRST EDITION

"Engaging, intelligent, and intellectually generous,
Investigating Culture introduces students to cultural
anthropology --- and reintroduces all of us to our everyday worlds
as seen through ethnographic eyes. Delaney brings together acute
observation, revelatory projects, telling and appropriate
comparisons, and an imaginative and stimulating range of readings.
A book I'm eager to teach!"

Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

"A splendid achievement. Carol Delaney has written an absorbing
and strikingly original introduction to anthropology.
Investigating Culture takes students on a self-reflexive
journey around the world and back home again. Courageous,
conversational, scholarly, and engaging."

Carol Stack, University of California, Berkeley