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Product Description
The lucid essays in the original edition of High Heels and Bound Feet drove lively discussions and engagement with core anthropological concepts in traditional and online courses. Lenkeit showed how one's daily life at work, at school, at home, and at play could be more engaging and provocative when viewed through anthropology's multifaceted lens. The slightly expanded Second Edition is freshened by the addition of seven new essays. Each continues to illustrate myriad possible applications of concepts and methods from anthropology to everyday experiences.While essays focus on cultural anthropology, the inclusion of topics on linguistics, biological anthropology, and archaeology brings attention to the holistic nature of the discipline. All essays conclude with material useful for assimilating content: Thinking It Through, Anthropological Terms, and Thinking Practically.
According to the author, education should color one's life and broaden one's perspective. High Heels and Bound Feet, 2/E will pique readers' interest as they discover how anthropology informs, energizes, and infuses their lives every day.
Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Anderson, Around the World in 30 Years: Life as a Cultural Anthropologist (ISBN 9781577660576); DeVita, Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781478630630); DeVita, Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work (ISBN 9781577661252); and Gardner-Hoffman, Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World (ISBN 9781577664512).
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