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Cultural diversity in a changing world -- Contradictions, conflicts, and change : the United States -- From past to present : love and marriage in China -- Marriage and love : variations on a theme in modern Indian -- Sexuality, love, and marriage : the Brazilian favela -- Diversity in Islam : exploring the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Matriarchy and matriliny : the Minangkabau of Indonesia -- Courtship, marriage, and fidelity : the Igbo of Nigeria -- Fact and fantasy : sexuality in Polynesia -- Brothers share a wife : fraternal polyandry in the Himalayas -- Same-sex relationships : variations in sexuality, love, and marriage -- Romantic love and marriage : similarities and differences in a changing world.

Preface -- Introduction: -- Some basic definitions -- Social attitudes toward sex/gender diversity -- Sexuality and gender diversity -- Globalization and gender diversity -- Female gender diversity -- Book outline -- Anthropology and cultural difference -- Multiple Genders Among Native Americans: -- Distribution and characteristics of variant sex/gender roles -- Transvestism -- Occupation -- Gender variance and sexuality -- Biological sex and gender transformations -- Sacred power -- Alyha: a male gender variant role among the Mohave -- Female gender variants -- Review and reflection -- Hijra And Sadhin: Neither Man Nor Woman In India And Bangladesh: -- Gender diversity in Hinduism -- Hijras as not-men -- Hijras as women and not-women -- Religious identifications -- Social responses to Hijras -- Hijra sexuality -- Social structure of the Hijra Community -- Sadhin: a female gender variant -- Hijras of Bangladesh -- Review and reflection -- Men And Not-Men: Sexuality And Gender In Brazil -- Gender diversity: Travestis, Bichas, and Viados -- Men and not-men: the Brazilian binary attitudes toward gender diversity -- Afro-Brazilian Religion -- Links between Candomble and gender diversity -- Penetration, possession trance, and gender diversity in Candomble -- Changing sex/gender ideologies -- Review and reflection -- Liminal Gender Roles In Polynesia: -- Gender liminal male roles -- Historical contexts -- Appropriations of the feminine -- Sexuality and gender liminality -- Sexuality and social status -- Performing gender diversity -- Gender liminality and the Polynesian concept of the person -- Review and reflection -- Transgendered Males In Thailand And The Philippines: -- Homoeroticism in Thai Culture -- Transformations in traditional sex/gender ideology -- Social attitudes toward the Kathoey -- Sex/gender diversity in the Philippines -- Contemporary constructions of gender diversity: transgendered male homosexuality -- Bakla sexual relationships -- Association of transgendered males with beauty -- Transvestite beauty contests -- Review and reflection -- Indonesia: Bissu, Waria, And Lesbi: -- Bissu -- Waria -- Lesbi -- Review and reflection -- Sex/Gender Diversity In Euro-American Cultures: -- Transvestite female saints -- Sworn virgin of the Balkans -- Transsexualism -- Transgenderism -- Intersexuality -- Review and reflection -- Variations On A Theme: -- Criteria for constructing sex/gender variation -- Varying degrees of institutionalization -- Public recognition of sex/gender transformations -- Explaining sex/gender diversity -- Functions, roles, and significance of sex/gender diversity -- Globalization -- Review and reflection -- Glossary -- Selected films -- References -- Index.

ABSTRACTMuseums are important sites of national cultural production, collective memory making, and the construction of national narratives. Contemporary South Africa is a particularly interesting place to study these processes. With the demise of apartheid, South Africa faces the difficult challenge of creating a new national identity that incorporates an examination of past oppression yet leaves the way open for building a national identity that incorporates all its diverse groups. The museums reviewed below, the Robben Island Prison Museum, the District Six Museum in Capetown, and the Kwa Muhle local history museum in Durban all make important contributions to this process.

North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present. Lois Sherr Dubin. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1999 608 pp.

This new and updated edition of Norgren and Nanda's classic text brings their examination of American cultural pluralism and the law up to date through the Clinton administration. While maintaining their emphasis on the concept of cultural diversity as it relates to the law in the United States, new and updated chapters reflect recent, relevant court cases dealing with culture, race, gender, and class, with particular attention paid to local and state court opinions. Drawing on court materials, statutes and codes, and legal ethnographies, the text analyzes the ongoing negotiations and accommodations via the mechanism of law between culturally different groups and the larger society. An important text for courses in American government, society and the law, cultural studies and civil rights.

"Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to think creatively about today's culture and society. Authors Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms show how historical studies and anthropological techniques can help readers reflect on the nature, structure, and meaning of human societies. Updates to the Thirteenth Edition include a new chapter on race and ethnicity; emphasis on areas such as inequality, power, gender, race, and history; discussions of issues around medical care and public health; and new features that reflect changes in world culture." --

Introducing anthropology -- Culture counts -- Doing cultural anthropology -- Communication -- Making a living -- Economics -- Political organization -- Social stratification: class and caste -- Race and ethnicity -- Marriage, family and kinship -- Gender -- Religion -- Creative expression: anthropology and the arts -- Making the modern world: globalization from the fifteenth to the twentieth century -- Anthropology in the twenty-first century: understanding and acting in a challenging world.

Introduction to a global pandemic -- Pandemic numbers, consequences, and contradictions -- The haves and never hads -- Global inequities : a tale of two pandemics -- Citizenship, migration, and legal belonging -- Vulnerable and minority populations -- Culture counts -- To learn or not to learn? -- Digital inequalities : exacerbating the divide -- Politics and ideologies -- Grey skies are gonna clear up? -- Vaccines : are we really all in this together? -- (Re-)building a post-pandemic world.