"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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 ..."
"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 GeorgeSpindler 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 ..."
"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 ..."
Doing the Ethnography of Schooling(Reprint) Educational Anthropology in Action by GeorgeSpindler 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 ..."
"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, GeorgeSpindler 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."
Life in Riverfront(1st Edition) A Middle Western Town Seen through Japanese Eyes (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Mariko Fujita Sano, Toshiyuki Sano, GeorgeSpindler 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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, GeorgeSpindler 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 ..."
"... 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 ..."
"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."