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I became more and more interested in developments around symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology. I became very interested in challenges to traditional soci Rohan. . Bastin. Deputy Head (almost). School of Humanities & Social Sciences. Peer Esteem. ERA has created an interesting set of dilemmas for academic publishing:. Journal rankings. Or, I wouldn’t belong to a club… Hang on! It’s all changed!. From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively, accessible, and irreverent introduction to the fieldWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to California, uncovering surprising insights about how humans organize their lives and articulate their values. In the process, anthropology has done more than any other discipline to reveal what culture means and why it matters. By weaving together examples and theories from around the world, Matthew Engelke provides a lively, accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to anthropology, covering a wide range of classic and contemporary approaches, subjects, and anthropologists. Presenting memorable cases, he encourages readers to think deeply about key concepts that anthropologists use to make sense of the world. Along the way, he shows how anthropology helps us understand other cultures and points of view--but also how, in doing so, it reveals something about ourselves and our own cultures, too. Anthropologist practitioners work outside the confines of the university, putting their knowledge and skills to work on significant problems in a wide variety of different contexts. The demand for anthropologist practitioners is strong and growing practice is in many ways the leading edge of anthropology today, and one of the most exciting aspects of the discipline. How can anthropology students prepare themselves to become practitioners?Specifically designed to help students, including those in more traditional training programs, prepare for a career in putting anthropology to work in the world, the book:- provides an introduction to the discipline of anthropology and an exploration of its role and contribution in today\'s world- outlines the shape of anthropological practice - what it is, how it developed historically, and what it looks like today- describes how students of anthropology can prepare for a career in practice, with emphasis on the relationship between theory, method, and application - includes short contributions from practitioners, writing on specific aspects of training, practice, and career planning- sets out a framework for career planning, with specific and detailed discussions of finding and securing employment - reviews some of the more salient challenges arising in the course of a practitioner career and- concludes with a discussion of what the future of anthropological practice is likely to be. Using Anthropology in the World is essential reading for students interested in preparing themselves for the challenges and rewards of practice and application. The myth of Bigfoot has captured the popular imagination since the creature\'s first public debut in 1958--numerous citations of evidence, newspaper articles, books, hysterical personal accounts, and even Hollywood movies illustrate the American public\'s enduring romance with the Sasquatch. The scientific community on the whole, however, has stubbornly refused to comment on what it views as a very tall tale, though Bigfoot\'s existence continues to be hotly argued between proponents of the beast and its skeptics. Now, biological anthropologist and primate physiology specialist David J. Daegling enters the fray to offer both sides of the dispute benefit of objective scientific study. A well-crafted read, Bigfoot Exposed will prove to be as much a model of scientific method for anthropologists and researchers as it is an engaging and persuasive debunking of the myth of Bigfoot. The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of the human mind. The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché in The Medical Detectives. Sacks\'s stories are of differently brained people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie. The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic Temple Grandin, whose own book Thinking in Pictures gives her version of how she feels--as unlike other humans as a cow or a Martian. The other minds Sacks describes are equally remarkable: a surgeon with Tourette\'s syndrome, a painter who loses color vision, a blind man given the ambiguous gift of sight, artists with memories that overwhelm real life, the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, and a man with memory damage for whom it is always 1968. Oliver Sacks is the Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould of his field his books are true classics of medical writing, of the breadth of human mentality, and of the inner lives of the disabled. --Mary Ellen Curtin