Applying Cultural Anthropology: Readings

This reader offers a selection of 39 articles written in the words of those cultural anthropologists who are making their discipline useful. The readings are organized into five major sections reflecting those areas that are benefiting from the practice and application of cultural anthropology.

This reader offers a selection of 39 articles written in the words of those cultural anthropologists who are making their discipline useful. The readings are organized into five major sections reflecting those areas that are benefiting from the practice and application of cultural anthropology.

Gary Ferraro, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, received his B.A. in history from Hamilton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University. He has been teaching anthropology courses since 1971, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Swaziland in Southern Africa and at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, and served as a visiting professor of anthropology in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea Program, a floating university that travels around the world. Ferraro continues to teach the introductory class at UNC to stay current with today's students. He has conducted research for extended periods of time in Kenya and Swaziland and has traveled widely throughout many other parts of the world. Ferraro has also served as a consultant for such organizations as USAID, the Peace Corps, the World Bank, IBM, G.E. Plastics, and Georgia Pacific, among others. From l996 to 2000 Dr. Ferraro served as Director of the Intercultural Training Institute at UNC-Charlotte, a consortium of cross-cultural trainers and educators from academia and business designed to help regional organizations cope with cultural differences at home and abroad. In addition to publishing in a number of professional journals, he is the author of CLASSIC READINGS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2004, 2009), GLOBAL BRAINS: KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES FOR THE 21st CENTURY (2002), THE CULTURAL DIMENSION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (l990, l994, l998, 2002, 2006, 2010), CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE (now in its Eighth Edition), ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE (l994), and THE TWO WORLDS OF KAMAU (1978).