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Paperback The Anthropology of Real Life: Events in Human Experience Book

ISBN: 1577660420

ISBN13: 9781577660422

The Anthropology of Real Life: Events in Human Experience

The Anthropology of Real Life is about how events push and pull, oppress and liberate, enhance and destroy people's lives. While people are shaped by their cultures and their position in society, events--whether authored by natural forces, by other people, or by people themselves--take on a life of their own, and become independent forces determining human destinies. An anthropology of events shows the way in which the substance and texture of life...

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The Events of Our Lives

My introductory cultural anthropology students and I started reading this book in early September this fall. I kept wondering what real events had influenced my students' lives. After September 11th we used Salzman's framework for studying real events and how they shape people's lives to predict how 9-11 would influence us and change our lives. This book really has something to say about how events do influence us--whether we come from kinship-based societies like the Baluchi of Iran or from class-based societies like the Sardinians of Italy. If you have ever tried to think about how a forest fire, a bombing of a local factory, or a kidnapping or vendetta has influenced your life or those around you, then you can really relate to the shape of violence in the everyday lives of the Sicilians. Or perhaps you can relate to a small squabble that turns into a major feud between groups, as in the case of the Baluchi herder whose camel strayed into another man's date palms and partook heartily. This introductory anthropology book really does explain how events influence the lives of ordinary folks. It sure gave me and my students lots to chew on after 9-11.
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