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Introduction, or how to read this book -- Science basics -- Human variation: race and gender -- From inside and out -- Ecological systems -- An anthropological approach to economics -- Political systems -- Stratification without a state: medieval iceland -- How states work -- The anthropology of religion -- Political economy -- Class -- Back to the land -- Global processes, local systems -- Connecting the people to the system -- Anthropology goes to work -- The end is near

The early paradigm on a pacific island: excerpt from Argonauts of the Western Pacific / Bronislaw Malinowski -- How it works in the global world: anthropologist -- the myth teller / Miles Richardson -- Where Pacific Islanders live: residence rules / Ward H. Goodenough -- Anthropology gets religion: cultural ecology, pantheism, and paper dolls among the Nahua people of Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom -- Sacred cows in India: the myth of the sacred cow / Marvin Harris -- Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport -- The origin of Islam: the social organization of Mecca and the origins of Islam -- Community in Mexico and Indonesia: closed corporate peasant communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java / Eric R. Wolf -- Household to firm in Iceland: peasants, entrepreneurs, and companies: the evolution of Icelandic fishing / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson -- The development of underdevelopment / Andre Gunder Frank -- Leaf of paradise or aid to terrorism? Cultural constructions of a drug called khat / Lisa L. Gezon -- Bordering culture: the U.S. -- Mexico case / Josiah Heyman and Howard Campbell -- Wealth unbound: corporate capitalism and the transformation of U.S. culture / Dimitra Doukas -- Households and gender relations in economic development: a central Anatolian village / Emine Onaran Incirlioglu -- Economists' blind spots: field stories of the informal economy among Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / Christian Zlolniski -- Water, the other name of life: South Asian perspectives / Azizur R. Molla -- This little piggy went to market: the social, cultural, and economic effects of changing systems of swine production in Iowa / Barbara J. Dilly -- Cooperative in Japan: Japan's worker cooperative movement into the twenty-first century / Bob Marshall -- Responses to tourism in Indonesia: ethnic tourism and the renegotiation of tradition in Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Kathleen M. Adams -- The Sims meet anthropology: the use of computer simulation to harness social complexity / Lawrence A. Kuznar.

Science basics -- People are primates -- Human variations : race and gender -- Language -- How we think about kinship -- Ecological systems -- An anthropological approach to economics -- Political systems -- Stratification without a state : medieval Iceland -- How states work -- The anthropology of religion -- Political economy -- Class -- Back to the land -- Global processes, local systems -- Connecting the people to the system -- The end is near

Because of a change at a hospital, we are able to contrast two different structures of leadership in a union worksite. Since we had tested a cognitive construct we call "union consciousness" before the change, the difference in structure provides a natural experiment to determine the consequences of structural change for cognition. We repeated the test after the change and found a different cognitive structure. We conclude that cognitive structures are not enduring configurations but that they change as structures change. This leads to the further conclusion that external structures are powerful determinants of patterns of thought, [experiment, cognition, structure, organized labor, unions, healthcare, culture, theory]

The authors illustrate the roles of agency and structure as workers, management, and a union representative use ritual encounters for their own ends in an American hospital. They also discuss the symbolism of the union contract as a charter for ritual and indicate how it and the structure that defines it subvert the broader goals of the union.