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Gender and Anthropology. Frances E. Mascia‐Lees and Nancy Johnson Black. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000. 128 pp.

This books presents the proceedings of a workshop which focussed on the health of women and young children. The first section presents papers and discussions on issues of women's health, especially that of pregnant women. One essay concerns women in Tanzania. The middle section focusses upon Mozambique and Zimbabwe while the last moves to a consideration of Progressive Primary Health care and its role in South Africa now and in the future

This article describes the use of an experiential classroom exercise using the card game Set® to introduce concepts related to qualitative approaches to research design and analysis, particularly those based in an interpretive framework. The multiple components of the game, which centers on visual pattern recognition, parallel the "organic" complexity of ethnographic investigation and demonstrate how strong interpretations can be supported with qualitative evidence. The first author adapted the exercise, originally developed by the second author for teaching undergraduate anthropology students, for use in workshops teaching qualitative research to mid - career professionals working on health - related projects in Bolivia. In the process the first author discovered that the game was also useful in team - building in a workshop setting, providing a base of shared experience to which participants could refer as they grappled with the intellectual and emotional issues that arose while designing their own research projects and discovering the system and rigor of qualitative data analysis. An unanticipated finding was the exercise's usefulness in demonstrating the distinction between and complementarity of inductive and deductive approaches in qualitative research.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Health Consequences of War -- Part I Afghanistan and Pakistan -- 1 Childbirth in the Context of Conflict in Afghanistan -- 2 Drone Strikes and Vaccination Campaigns How the War on Terror Helps Sustain Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- 3 Remaining Undone Heroin in the Time of Serial War -- 4 Dignity under Extreme Duress The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan- Pakistan Border Areas -- Part II Iraq -- 5 War and the Public Health Disaster in Iraq -- 6 The Political Capital of War Wounds -- 7 Iraqis' Cancer Itineraries War, Medical Travel, and Therapeutic Geographies -- 8 War and Its Consequences for Cancer Trends and Services in Iraq -- Part III United States -- 9 Imagining Military Suicide -- 10 Afterwar Work for Life -- 11 "It's Not Okay" War's Toll on Health Brought Home to Communities and Environments -- Appendix The Body Count -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index