Q ualitative inquiry seeks to discover and to describe in narrative reporting what particular
people do in their everyday lives and what their actions mean to them. It identifies meaning …

The primary reference group of the community advocate anthropologist is the community. It
is through an understanding of this relationship that we can best understand the nature of …

The weakness of Brazil's black consciousness movement is commonly attributed to the
fragility of Afro-Brazilian ethnic identity. In a major account, John Burdick challenges this …

Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly
oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of …

Eight working assumptions are generated from the gterature in three problem areas and
evaluated with recently published quantitative data, paying particular attention to variation …

It is the final week of the 1970s as I begin this article, and I am in Sweden From this vantage
point in space and time our species appears to be ffirt with disaster, and those of us studying …

Frederick Erickson is George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education at the
University of California, Los Angeles, where he also is a participant in that university's …

Discusses reasons why the Spanish-speaking/surnamed population receives mental health
care of a different kind, of a lower quality, and in lesser proportions than any other ethnically …

The 13 papers are grouped into 2 sections:" General Theoretical and Methodological
Issues," and" Microethnographic Studies of Minority Culture Children in the Classroom." …

Community case studies are basic to anthropology, yet there are relatively few examples in
which the promotion of social change has been the explicit goal of the research. The case …