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Practicing Anthropology Today: Being Critically Applied And Publically Engaged -- Part 1: Thinking Anthropologically Introduction: Thinking Anthropologically -- 1.1 A Dispute In Donggo: Fieldwork And Ethnography / John Monaghan And Peter Just -- 1.2 Tricking And Tripping: Fieldwork On Prostitution In The Era Of Aids / Claire E. Sterk -- 1.3 Cultural Relativism And Universal Human Rights / Carolyn Fluehr-lobban -- 1.4 Maxwell's Demons: Disenchantment In The Field / Janet Mcintosh -- 1.5 Is Native Anthropology Really Possible? / Takeyuki Tsuda -- Anthropology In Practice: Presidential Profiles: Ashraf Ghani And Jim Yong Kim -- Part 2: Communicating Culture: Language And Expressive Culture -- Introduction: Communicating Culture: Language And Expressive Culture -- 2.1 Shakespeare In The Bush / Laura Bohannan -- 2.2 What Are You Laughing At? Assessing The Racial In U.s. Public Discourse / John Hartigan --^ 2.3 Sex, Lies, And Conversation: Why Is It So Hard For Men And Women To Talk To Each Other? / Deborah Tannen -- 2.4 Speaking Like A Minority: Fob Styles, Gender, And Racial Meanings Among Desi Teens In Silicon Valley / Shalini Shankar -- 2.5 Anything Can Happen On Youtube (or Can It?): Endangered Language And New Media / Jillian Cavanaugh -- Anthropology In Practice: Dr. Bernard Perley -- Part 3: Belief Systems Introduction: Belief Systems -- 3.1 Baseball Magic / George Glemch -- 3.2 No Peace In The House: Witchcraft Accusations As An Old Woman's Problem In Ghana / Alexandra Crampton -- 3.3 The Politics Of Righteousness: Race And Gender In Apostolic Pentecostalism / Judith Casselberry -- 3.4 Choosing Both Faith And Fun: Youth Negotiations Of Moral Norms In South Beirut / Lara Deeb And Mona Harb -- Anthropology In Practice: Dr. Tanya Luhrmann -- Part 4: Marriage, Family, Gender, And Sexuality Introduction: Marriage, Family, Gender, And Sexuality --^ 4.1 When Brothers Take A Wife / Melvyn C. Goldstein 4.2 Death Without Weeping / Nancy Scheper-hughes -- 4.3 Hijra And Sadh