Includes bibliographical references.

Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing -- Rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen -- The sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall -- The worst mistake in the history of the human race / Jared Diamond -- The domestication of wood in Haiti : a case study in applied evolution / Gerald F. Murray -- Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda -- Death without weeping / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Society and sex roles / Ernestine Friedl -- Women and men in !Kung society / Marjorie Shostak -- The Kpelle moot / James L. Gibbs Jr. -- Customary law development in Papua New Guinea / Richard Scaglio -- The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Baseball magic / George Gmelch -- The price of progress / John Bodley -- The glaciers of the Andes are melting : indigenous and anthropological knowledge merge in restoring water resources / Inge Bolin.