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Pathways to Cultural Awareness(1st Edition)
Cultural Therapy With Teachers and Students
by George Spindler, Louise Spindler, George Dearborn Spindler, Henry T. Trueba
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1993 by Corwin
ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-6109-8, ISBN: 0-8039-6109-X

"Cultural therapy is a way of helping people cope with cultural diversity and societal inequity through the mediation of the school as a central institution for cultural transmission and maintenance. This book illustrates how cultural therapy can be applied in educational settings to promote better understanding among teachers and students. Each chapter presents a situation in which the author has been intimately involved, offering a ..."






Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures(1st Edition)
Born in One World, Living in Another
by Janice E. Stockard, George Spindler, George Dearborn Spindler, J. Spindler
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2006 by Cengage Learning
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-534-63648-7, ISBN: 0-534-63648-9

"Explore cultural change with GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE IN FIFTEEN CULTURES: BORN IN ONE WORLD, LIVING IN ANOTHER! Composed of original articles, this anthology brings anthropology to life and reflects a world changed by globalization and an anthropology committed to documenting the effects of the vast cultural flows of people, information, goods, and technology, now in motion the world over. Examples of global coverage include the Bedoui ..."






Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad(1st Edition)
by Louise Spindler, George Spindler, Psychology Press, George Dearborn Spindler
Paperback, 520 Pages, Published 1987 by Psychology Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89859-955-8, ISBN: 0-89859-955-5

"This ambitious and unique volume sets a standard of excellence for research in educational ethnography. The interpretive studies brought together in this volume are outstanding discipline-based analyses of education both in the United States and in complex societies abroad."






Native North American Cultures
Four Cases (The Hano Tewa / The Kwakiutl / The Blackfeet / The Menominee)
by George Dearborn Spindler, Louise Spindler, New York :.
Paperback, 508 Pages, Published 1977 by Harcourt School
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-018401-7, ISBN: 0-03-018401-0






A Kwakiutl Village and School(Updated)
by Harry F. Wolcott, Harry F., Louise Spindler, George Spindler
Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2003 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0525-6, ISBN: 0-7591-0525-1

"This book is a reprint of a now classic text dealing with Wolcott's dissertation topic on the study of a Kwakiutl Indian village and the one-room school he taught at Village Island in the Alert Bay region of British Columbia. Within the book, Wolcott's interest in anthropology and training as an educator are blended together to present a unique look into the educational training of Indian children. Village life and the social environmen ..."






Friend by Day, Enemy by Night
Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by R. Lincoln Keiser, Louise Spindler, George Spindler
Paperback, 131 Pages, Published 1997 by Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-053332-7, ISBN: 0-03-053332-5

"Two miles away Khan Akbar heard the shooting; gathering his allies, he hurried to the scene of battle. In a surprise move Golam Sarwar and his paternal kin entered the fighting on the side of Khan Akbar. Later I learned that Golam Sarwar had ..."






Doing the Ethnography of Schooling(1st Edition)
Educational Anthropology in Action
by George Spindler
Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 1982 by Holt Rinehart & Winston
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-059039-9, ISBN: 0-03-059039-6

"This book is about schooling in the U.S. from the particular point of view of ethnography. It tries to show how ethnography, as a field arm of anthropology, can give fresh insights into perplexing educational problems. The fifteen essays included are much more than simply examples of "doing ethnography." They are original explorations of significant educational processes from a sociocultural point of view. Together the chapters constitu ..."






Innovations in Educational Ethnography
Theories, Methods, and Results
by George Spindler, Lorie Hammond
416 Pages, Published 2015 by Psychology Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-87270-9, ISBN: 1-136-87270-1

"He pursued there his interests in clinical psychology and sociology, as well as anthropology, as he had at Wisconsin, wrote his dissertation on the Menominee and acquired his Ph.D. there in 1952, after researching and teaching at Stanford for two years. Meanwhile Louise Spindler was acquir- ing her training in anthropology at Wisconsin, UCLA, and Stanford and acquired her Ph.D. there in 1956, writing her dissertation on Menominee w ..."






American Oil Co v. N L R B U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
(Perfect)
by George Spindler, Arnold Ordman
Published 2011 by Gale, U.S. Supreme Court Records
ISBN-13: 978-1-270-61725-9, ISBN: 1-270-61725-7






Doing the Ethnography of Schooling(Reprint)
Educational Anthropology in Action
by George Spindler
Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 1988 by Waveland Pr Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-88133-316-9, ISBN: 0-88133-316-6

"This book is about schooling in the U.S. from the particular point of view of ethnography. It tries to show how ethnography, as a field arm of anthropology, can give fresh insights into perplexing educational problems. The fifteen essays included are much more than simply examples of "doing ethnography." They are original explorations of significant educational processes from a sociocultural point of view. Together the chapters constitu ..."






Culture In Process
by Alan R. Beals, George Spindler, Louise Spindler
Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 1967 by International Thomson Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-055945-7, ISBN: 0-03-055945-6

"Unique in its emphasis on the inductive method, this introduction to cultural anthropology presents illustrative data first and generalizations second."






The Cheyennes
Indians of the Great Plains
by Edward Adamson Hoebel, George Spindler
Paperback, 103 Pages, Published 1960 by Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-005780-9, ISBN: 0-03-005780-9

"A powerful tribe of Native American Indians, the Cheyenne are a tribe of Algonkian linguistic group closely associated with the Arapaho and loosely allied with the Lakota Sioux. One of the most prominent of the Plains tribes, they primarily lived and hunted on hills and prairies alongside the Missouri and Red Rivers."






culture in process – second edition(2nd Edition)
by Alan Robin Beals, George Dearborn Spindler, Louise S. Spindler
394 Pages, Published 1973 by Holt,R.& W.
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-086654-8, ISBN: 0-03-086654-5






Life in Riverfront(1st Edition)
A Middle Western Town Seen through Japanese Eyes (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Mariko Fujita Sano, Toshiyuki Sano, George Spindler
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2000 by Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-506421-8, ISBN: 0-15-506421-5

"LIFE IN RIVERFRONT is a unique case study that offers a fresh approach to ethnography because it looks at American culture as seen through the eyes of Japanese anthropologists. Every cultural anthropology student is introduced to papers on the "Nacirema," a very foreign culture with many daily rituals and a fanaticism for cleanliness, especially as they prepare themselves for work in the morning. In truth, the "nacirema" is American (sp ..."






Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000
A Spindler Anthology
by George Spindler
Paperback, 454 Pages, Published 2016 by Psychology Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-96973-5, ISBN: 1-138-96973-7

"George and Louise Spindler are widely regarded as significant founders of the field of educational anthropology. This book brings together their best, most seminal work from the last 50 years--a time frame representing the developmental epoch of the field--and binds them together with a master commentary by George Spindler. Previously scattered over a wide range of publications, the articles collected here allow for a unified view of th ..."






The American Cultural Dialogue and Its Transmission
by George Spindler
198 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-61553-5, ISBN: 1-136-61553-9

"George Spindler ... And to Louise Bay Waters, a graduate student in the School of Education at Stanford in the mid-seventies, we owe a special debt, since it was her paper, The Ethnicity of White Non-Ethnics, that stimulated us to pursue certain interpretations of relations between minorities and the mainstream in America; to Beatriz Jamaica for word-processing several drafts of this writing; to Betsy Lancefield who searched census ..."






Innovations in Educational Ethnography
Theories, Methods, and Results
by George Spindler, Lorie Hammond
416 Pages, Published 2012 by Psychology Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-87269-3, ISBN: 1-136-87269-8

"Theories, Methods, and Results George Spindler, Lorie Hammond. O'Connor, Carla. “Dispositions toward (Collective) Struggle and Educational Resilience in the Inner City: A Case Analysis of Six AfricanAmerican High School Students.” American ... Parker, Laurence, Donna Deyhle, and Sofia Villenas, eds. Race IsRace Isn't: Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Studies in Education. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Payne, Charles. Getting W ..."






From the Bush(1st Edition)
The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Marsha B. Quinlan, T. Quinlan, George Spindler
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2003 by Cengage Learning
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-508567-1, ISBN: 0-15-508567-0

"This case study will be the first to deal with a topic in medical anthropology. It explores the world of folk medicine in the Caribbean (Dominica) - local beliefs and practices concerning how the body functions and malfunctions and the home remedies Dominicans use to cure common illnesses. The case study goes beyond discussing the exotic medical system of a developing country (which includes sorcery and folk-illnesses) to discuss how fo ..."






Learning to Spell
Research, Theory, and Practice Across Languages
by Charles A. Perfetti, Laurence Rieben, Michel Fayol, George Spindler
392 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-4106-0458-3, ISBN: 1-4106-0458-6

"... letter tiles), and oral spelling (spelling the word aloud). Children benefited most from oral spelling, and adults benefited most from oral spelling while learning to spell pseudowords. Most importantly, however, all spelling-instruction methods ..."






Yanomamo - Yanomamö(5th Edition)
(Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Napoleon A. Chagnon, George Spindler, Louise Spindler
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1997 by Wadsworth
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-505327-4, ISBN: 0-15-505327-2

"Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995."



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