单项选择题

Suggested Readings:
Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Based on the author’s participant observation, this book explores what it is like to work as a hostess in a club that caters to corporate male employees and discusses how that microculture is linked to men’s corporate work culture.
Fraces Dahlber, ed. Woman the Gatherer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. These path-breaking essays examine the role of women in four different foraging societies, provide insights on human evolution from studies of female chimpanzees, and give an overview of women’s role in human cultural adaptation.
Elliot Fratkin, Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Surviving Drought and Development in Africa’s Arid Lands. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1988. Based on several phases of ethnographic research among the Ariaal beginning in the 1970s,this book provides insights about pastoralism in general and the particular cultural strategies of the Ariaal, including attention to social organization and family life.
David Uru Iyam, The Broken Hoe: cultural Reconfiguration in Blase Southeast Nigeria. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Based on fieldwork among the Blase people by a scholar who is a member of a Blase group, this book examines changes since the 1970 in the traditional forms of subsistence—agriculture, fishing, and trade—and related issues such as environmental deterioration and population growth.
Katherine S. Newman, Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. New York: The Free Press, 1988. This book provides ethnographic research on the downwardly mobile of New Jersey as a "special tribe," with attention to loss of employment by corporate managers and blue-collar workers, and the effects of downward mobility on middle-class family life, particularly women.
Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Longman, 1999. Robins takes a critical look at the role of capitalism and global economic growth in creating and sustaining many world problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, violence, and environmental destruction. The last section includes extended case studies to support the argument.
Deborah Sick, Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. This book is an ethnography of coffee-producing households in Costa Rica that describes the difficulties facing coffee farmers due to unpredictable global forces and the uncertain role of the state as a mediator between the global and the local. The two books published by the University Press of Chicago were written or edited by ______.