Speech play reflects a degree of selectivity and creativity beyond ordinary language use. Consistent with the approach of ethnography, each culture may have its own definition of speech play. Articles collected in this volume investigate speech play as language structure--"Play Languages: Implications for (Socio) Linguistics,""Secret Play…

The purpose of this study guide is to provide students of anthropology with an ethnographic accompaniment to Robert Gardiner's film about the Dani tribesmen, "Dead Birds." The first section offers an ethnographic profile of Dani culture, describing its most important features. These include: 1) their material culture, covering matters…

Courses on New World Negro societies and communities are, of course, just as valuable in illustrating anthropological concepts as are area courses surveying North American Indians, but anthropology departments have been reluctant to introduce these courses. Afro-American studies could be a valuable extension of anthropology offerings by: 1)…

The Navajo Studies Program at Navajo Community College consists of 2 major areas of study, the first of which includes courses dealing with the Navajos. This book deals with that portion of the program and provides a picture of selected Navajo Studies courses as taught at Navajo Community College. Contained in the book are the origin myths of the…

Summarizes the history and uses of open air museums (recreations of village farming settlements emphasizing folk culture and its architecture) in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Also examines the Lejre Research Center in Denmark which discovers and preserves pre-industrial agricultural technology and production methods. (Author/JK)

Reports how a communications perspective and visual materials have been utilized to revitalize introductory area anthropology courses. Discusses what might be done to incorporate a contextual understanding of mass media into classroom instruction. (Author/JM)

Concludes that in addition to using multivariate methods to analyze their data, investigators need to begin thinking in terms of large-scale randomized controlled field trails (i.e., experiments). One of the challenges for the ethnographic educational researcher is to demonstrate the superiority of the anthropological field method over the more…

The Experimental Schools (ES) program is one of a series of federally funded projects designed to stimulate and study planned change within local educational agencies. This paper presents the goals and methods of the ES program and of research being conducted under its jurisdiction. It considers exclusively issues in the design and implementation…

Various sources are explored to determine what content should be provided, and issues to consider when building ethnocultural content into the curriculum are described. (Author/MH)

Illustrates how the Northern Panya People were the key link in a Pacific Southwest trade route extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Colorado River, where it forked northeast--toward the Hopi Pueblos--and southeast--toward the Pima People. Conceptualizes an established network of pre-Contact trade centers in North America. (JHZ)

This handbook contains more than 400 charts and tables covering data on Non-Hispanic Whites, Native Americans, and African, Hispanic, and Asian Americans. The handbook presents a broad range of data on demographic context; education; economics and employment; health, well-being, and lifestyles; family; sex, fertility, and contraception; religion;…

A letter from Thomas Sticht, written while conducting research for the United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, compares the learning situations of classrooms in schools and in battalions. (MKM)

Reviews some major characteristics of ethnography as they apply to policy issues and policy formulation, and ethnography's utility from the perspective of how public educational policy is made. Discusses the potential contributions of ethnography and the responsibilities ethnographers must consider if their work is to have an impact on public…

A synthesis of ethnographic studies of multicultural education in North American and Australian multiethnic classrooms is presented. Nine assertions about culturally relevant instruction and two outcomes useful for teachers working in cross-cultural and multiethnic classrooms are provided. (MMU)

Those who study and propose policy for dealing with the non-Western world are advised to balance their urge to modernize with an appreciation for indigenous social and cultural differences. Equilibrium is important, writes Stanley Kurd, yet the leftists who dominate social sciences have largely abandoned such an appreciation, as have…