bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate.
Authors: Sutton David
Published: November 2004

Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. Susan J. Terrio. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix + 313 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, references, index.
The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective.
Authors: Gray Patty A.
Published: November 2004

The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix + 326 pp., tables, figures, photographs, notes, references, index.
Articulating Class In Post‐Fordist France
Authors: Lem Winnie
Published: November 2004

In analyses of the key changes that have taken place in the international organization of capitalism, it has been argued that the shift from Fordism to post‐Fordism has transformed the material realities of peoples' everyday lives and their forms of subjectivity and collective identity. Universalist forms of identification, especially class, it is argued, have given way to forms of affiliation based on the particularisms of ethnicity, nationalism, regionalism, and other cultural affinities. The theoretical weight accorded to class to explain the complexities of change under late capitalism has declined as analysts have turned increasingly to the study of nationalism, regionalism, and ethnicity in order to apprehend the dynamics of contemporary societies, particularly where ethnic conflict has become salient in regional and national politics. Yet, the extent to which universalistic forms of affiliation have been superseded by particularistic forms of identity in contemporary consciousness is the subject of much debate. By drawing on fieldwork undertaken among the family farmers of rural Languedoc, I argue that class maintains its potency both as a subjective category and an analytical category. Further, I show that class remains indispensable to understanding the nature of change in late capitalism. [Post–Fordism, class, identity, France, regionalism, Occitan]
Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of Japanese Women's Language
Authors: Inoue Miyako
Published: November 2004

"Women's language" is a critical cultural category and an unavoidable part of practical social knowledge in contemporary Japan. In this article, I examine the genealogy of Japanese women's language by locating its emergence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when state formation, capitalist accumulation, industrialization, and radical class reconfiguration were taking off. I show how particular speech forms were carved out as women's language in a network of diverse modernization practices. I theorize the historical relationship between Japan's linguistic modernity—language standardization, the rise of the novel, and print capitalism—and the emergence of Japanese women's language, [gender and language, modernity, language ideology, metapragmatics, reported speech, Japan, Japanese women, effective history]
Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East
Authors: King Alexander
Published: November 2004

Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East. Petra Rethmann. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. ix. 219 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America
Authors: Coutin Susan Bibler
Published: November 2004

Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. Cecilia Menjívar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiii. 301 pp., map, tables, appendixes, notes, references, index.
Saqqaq: An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World
Authors: Searles Edmund
Published: November 2004

Saqqaq: An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World. Jens Dahl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. vi. 277 pp., maps, figures, tables, references, index.
No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan
Authors: Adachi Nobuko
Published: November 2004

No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. Daniel Touro Linger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiii. 342 pp., maps,photographs, glossary, references, index,
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
Authors: Eidson John
Published: November 2004

Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv. 195 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, index.
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism
Authors: Goodman Jane E.
Published: November 2004

Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism. Alaina Lemon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. vii. 308 pp., photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index.
Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult
Authors: Hubbert Jennifer
Published: November 2004

Biography of. Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of. Personality Cult. Melissa Schrift New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. ix. 214 pp., photographs, references, index.
Islam and Gender. The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Authors: Guindi Fadwa El
Published: November 2004

Islam and Gender. The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran. Ziba Mir‐Hosseini. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix. 305 pp., glossary, bibliography, index.
The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes
Authors: Whitten Norman E.
Published: November 2004

The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes. Rudi Colloredo‐Mansfeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix. 258 pp., photographs, figures, maps, tables, references, index.
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Authors: Jackson Jean
Published: November 2004

Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. Susan Greenhalgh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 371 pp., tables, figures, notes, references, index.
The intimacies of power: rethinking violence and affinity in the Bolivian Andes
Authors: Van Vleet Krista E.
Published: November 2004

In the Bolivian Andes although violence between spouses is more frequent, violence also erupts between women who are affines. By examining events of violence through the discourses and practices that sustain asymmetries of power among affines, I demonstrate that kinship and violence in the highland Andean region of'Sullk'ata are shaped by multiple inequalities and embedded in, yet extend beyond, the domestic arena. Incorporating violence into an analysis of kinship further highlights the lived interactions of individuals rather than static structures of kinship. [gender, power, domestic violence, marriage, kinship, Andes, Latin America]
The Politics of desire and disdain: Croatian identity between "Home" and "Homeland"
Authors: Winland Daphne
Published: November 2004

The collapse of communism in the former Yugoslavia has sparked an avalanche of personal and political questions for Croatians everywhere on the meaning of their history, traditions, and identity. This article analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships of diaspora Croatians and the focus of their desire: a free Croatia whose citizens participate in the "production" or "recovery" of the historic Croatian state. But, rather than inspiring unity, independence has created the conditions for the emergence and exacerbation of often fraught or equivocal relationships within and between these groups. The Croatian example challenges the inclination to juxtapose diaspora and homeland contexts and points to the need to investigate the struggles of their subjects to define their often tenuous yet increasingly intimate relationships within, across, and between borders. [Croatian independence, politics of desire and disdain, diaspora, identity, homeland]
Book Reviews
Authors: Rupp Katherine
Published: November 2004

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ix. 266 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Van Vleet Krista E.
Published: November 2004

The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. eds. London: Routledge, 2000. ix. 305 pp., index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Brown Michael F.
Published: November 2004

Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea. Kathy Whimp and Mark Busse. eds. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2000. vii. 216 pp., appendix, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Robbins Joel
Published: November 2004

Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia. Edward LiPuma. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ix. 342 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Dickinson Jennifer A.
Published: November 2004

Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. xi. 352 pp., figures, notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Magnarella Paul J.
Published: November 2004

Blueprints for. House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts. Robert M. Hayden. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xi. 208 pp., notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Gamburd Michele
Published: November 2004

Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. Tom Gill. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ix. 263 pp., maps, photos, cartoons, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Wilson Carter
Published: November 2004

Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in. Highland Town. Garrett W. Cook. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. vii. 292 pp., maps, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Lewis Herbert S.
Published: November 2004

Subject to Colonialism: African Self‐Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Gaurav Desai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. xi. 197 pp., bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Forshee Jill
Published: November 2004

Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. Karen Tranberg Hansen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ix. 298pp., illustrations, maps, tables, notes, references index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Flanagan James G.
Published: November 2004

World of Fine Difference: The Social Architecture of. Modern Irish Village. Adrian Peace. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001. ix. 157 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Hangen Susan
Published: November 2004

Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging. Ralph Litzinger. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix. 331 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Hatfield D. J.
Published: November 2004

Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. Leo T. S. Ching. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 251 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Burkhart Louise M.
Published: November 2004

Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. Max Harris. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. ix. 309 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Landsman Gail
Published: November 2004

The Elusive Embryo: How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies. Gay Becker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 320 pp., appendix, glossary, notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Demirdirek Hülya
Published: November 2004

Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory. Bruce G. Privratsky. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. xiii. 321 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, references, glossary, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Berkaak Odd Are
Published: November 2004

Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona. Adrian J. Ivakhiv. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xii. 326 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long‐Oistance Nationalism and the Search for Home
Authors: Lewis Laura A.
Published: November 2004

Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long‐Oistance Nationalism and the Search for Home. Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 324 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City
Authors: Hay M. Cameron
Published: November 2004

Healing the Modern in. Central Javanese City. Steve Ferzacca. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. vii. 280 pp., illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index.
North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity
Authors: Okano Kaori H.
Published: November 2004

North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity. Sonia Ryang. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. xi. 248 pp., photographs, references, index.
Death, Memory and Material Culture
Authors: Green James W.
Published: November 2004

Death, Memory and Material Culture. Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey. Oxford: Berg, 2001. ix. 249 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index.
Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand
Authors: Williams Walter L.
Published: November 2004

Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand. Chris Lyttleton. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. ix. 246 pp., figures, illustrations, tables, map, bibliography, index.
An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe
Authors: McMurray David
Published: November 2004

An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe. Irène Bellier and Thomas M. Wilson. eds. Oxford: Berg, 2000. vii. 205 pp., index.
Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority Languages in the European Union
Authors: Gross Joan
Published: November 2004

Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority Languages in the European Union. Camille C. O'Reilly. ed., vol. 1. New York: Palgrave, 2001. viii. 183 pp., index.
Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference
Authors: Sutton David E.
Published: November 2004

Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference. Jane Cowan. ed. London: Pluto Press, 2000. viii. 166 pp., maps, figures, tables, index.
Fate in the Narrativity and Experience of Selfhood, a Case From Taiwanese Chhiam Divination
Authors: Hatfield Donald J.
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the deployment of poetry in Taiwanese practices of calculating fate. Observing that fate is both a grounding notion to self‐representation in narrative and to the recognition of efficacious agents in a social field, I analyze texts and interpretive practices of poetic divination, attending to specific features that give fate its compelling qualities. Most important among these features is the chronotopic character of divination poems, which shape the experience of selfhood in alternation and encounter through time. Investigating how poetic contrast sets (such as those between gathering and dispersal, fate as coterminous with a lifespan and fate as linked to specific opportunities) produce these chronotopes, I ask how the poetics of fate informs the distribution and abeyance of agency in particular situations of crisis. In particular, I focus on crises that lead to divination, emerging as fresh junctures in life historical narratives. Finally, in light of the role of fate in the interpretation of these variously distributed junctures and agents, I suggest that the notion of fate could inform ethnographic work on micropolitics. [divination, poetics, chronotopes, narrativity, agency, life history, Taiwan]
Vanishing Mediators: Enjoyment as a Political Factor in Western Mexico
Authors: De Vries Pieter
Published: November 2004

Anthropologists, historians, and political scientists have pointed to the pervasiveness of the cacique (political boss) as a habitual figure who, through his role as an intermediary, is instrumental in the reproduction of a structure of domination. In this article, I argue that the performative and imaginary aspects of caciquismo (political bossism) have been neglected in the analysis of structures of power. Going beyond the conventional view of the cacique as an effective intermediary, I argue that this figure often operates as a sort of vanishing mediator who both unveils and masks the absence of a center while standing for the corrupt and venal side of the state. Furthermore, it is through the orchestration of enjoyment and the image of excessive power that the cacique contributes to the reproduction of a particular mode of hegemony. I illustrate these performative and imaginary processes by drawing on an ethnography of a regional cacique involved in the power struggle of a local Water Users' Association in western Mexico. [Mexico, brokerage, caciquismo, ideology, hegemony, enjoyment, culture of power]
Spending Power: Love, Money, and the Reconfiguration of Gender Relations in Ado‐Odo, Southwestern Nigeria
Authors: Cornwall Andrea
Published: November 2004

Women's (mis)behavior in intimate relationships is a constant topic of commentary among women and men in Ado‐Odo, southwestern Nigeria. Today's women are said to be wayward and troublesome, defying their husbands in pursuit of other men's love and money. Yet, many women maintain marriages in which there is no love and no money. And for those who do leave, remarriage offers little attraction: neither for love nor for money. In this article, I explore the interplay between love and money in intimate relationships in Ado‐Odo and implications for the ways in which gender and agency are construed and enacted in everyday life. [Nigeria, Yoruba, women, gender relations, love, money]
Religious practice and cultural politics in Jewish Copenhagen
Authors: Buckser Andrew
Published: November 2004

The small Jewish community of Copenhagen is one of the most liberal and assimilated in Europe. In its liturgy, its leadership, and its ritual practice, however, it maintains strictly orthodox forms. In this article, I examine how this orthodox dominance has persisted, despite the often vigorously expressed dissatisfaction of the liberal majority. I argue that the confluence of Jewish religious forms with the cultural setting of contemporary Denmark tends to confer control over ritual practice on the orthodox. The interaction of Jewish institutional structures with Danish social patterns leads to orthodox social control, whereas the interaction of Jewish religious ideas with the Danish cultural setting promotes cultural control. These outcomes have implications for social scientific approaches to contemporary conservative religious movements, which have often been characterized primarily as forms of opposition to modern social change. The political dynamics of such movements are not simple reflections of a broad opposition between tradition and modernity; they emerge out of the intricate and often unpredictable interplay of religious structures with the social and cultural worlds within which those structures are embedded. [cultural politics, Denmark, Jews, liberalism, religion]
Nongovernmental organizations and the work of memory in northern Thailand
Authors: Delcore Henry D.
Published: November 2004

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide an ideal context in which to examine the production and reproduction of identities and modernities in the contemporary world because they tend to concentrate within themselves ideas, people, and resources drawn from various sites in the world system. In this article, I examine the practice of memory among NGO activists, village leaders, and farmers in Nan Province, northern Thailand. Assessing the impact of NGOs on the cultural constitution of Thai modernity, I trace contending representations of the rural past to different social concerns with identity and interests that have emerged in the era of planned development and increasing global interconnectedness. [Thailand, NGOs, development, globalization, memory, modernity]
Dynamic tensions in indigenous sovereignty and representation: A sampler
Authors: Field Les W.
Published: November 2004

Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. Chadwick Allen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. + 308 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism. Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xi. 338 pp., photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index.

Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Film and Video. Beverly R. Singer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xvi +110 pp., foreword by Robert Warrior, photographs, notes, index.
Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences
Authors: Beizer Laura
Published: November 2004

Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences. Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super, eds. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996. 558 pp.
Computers and Classroom Culture
Authors: Costa Victoria B. , Matthews Alice L.
Published: November 2004

Computers and Classroom Culture. Janet Ward Schofield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 271 pp.
Negotiating the Maze of School Reform: How Metaphor Shapes Culture in a New Magnet School
Authors: Truesdell Lee Ann
Published: November 2004

Negotiating the Maze of School Reform: How Metaphor Shapes Culture in a New Magnet School. Jean Wincek. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995. 139 pp.
Making Sense of Qualitative Data
Authors: Chin Elaine
Published: November 2004

Making Sense of Qualitative Data. Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. 206 pp.
Nerds, Normal People, and Homeboys: Accommodation and Resistance among Chinese American Students
Authors: Goto Stanford T.
Published: November 2004

This article examines how peer interaction may influence Chinese American high‐school students to adopt strategies of accommodation or resistance. The choice of strategy arises not only from the group's voluntary minority status, as Ogbu (1978,1983) contends, but also from more local factors. This analysis of the immediate social setting adds detail to cultural ecological theory, allowing the observer to explain changing and contradictory behavior in a given minority group.
The Role of Teachers' Stories in the Staffroom of a Religious School
Authors: Kainan Anat
Published: November 2004

Women teachers in the staffroom of a religious high school in a small Israeli town are caught in a conflict between a modern consumer society that requires them to be educated career women, and the religious community of the town that requires them to be mothers and housewives. They solve the dilemma by turning the staffroom into an extension of their homes, by means of stories. The stories not only present the conflict to the teachers in the staffroom, but present the solution to the conflict.
Caught in the Middle: Evangelical Public Elementary Educators
Authors: Lederhouse Jillian N.
Published: November 2004

The tensions that arise between private beliefs and teaching in the public school are examined in a case study of three evangelical elementary classroom educators who support constructivist pedagogy. This study involves teachers at differing points in their careers who strongly advocate a transactional curriculum in their professional community while existing in a theologically conservative community that often supports a return to traditional forms of educational practice. The article informs us that such teachers do exist, describes the range of challenges they face, and examines the roles of school, church, and family in mediating such challenges.
“This Job Is Harder Than It Looks”: Rural Oaxacan Women Explain Why They Became Teachers
Authors: Howell Jayne
Published: November 2004

During the past six decades, rural women throughout the southeastern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, have comprised a significant percentage (currently the majority) of primary teachers. This article demonstrates that this phenomenon is a result of intertwining socioeconomic factors. It examines why expansion of the education system and economic opportunities may contribute to declining enrollment in teacher training programs even though the career remains a viable, and even desirable, choice for certain rural women.
Teacher Thinking in Cultural Contexts
Authors: Ernst‐Slavit Gisela
Published: November 2004

Teacher Thinking in Cultural Contexts. Francisco A. Rios, ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 400 pp.
Dialectics of Race and Nationality: Contradictions and Philadelphia Working‐Class Youth
Authors: Schneider Jo Anne
Published: November 2004

This article explores the concept of dialectical contradictions as it relates to individual understandings of intergroup relations in the United States. The ways that working‐class white youth and adults combine contradictory experience and ideology in their behavior and belief systems regarding foreign‐born residents and people of color are detailed. By describing conflict and cooperation among youth from different races and nationalities, the discussion shows the relationship between the concept of dialectics and race relations as they are played out in day‐to‐day interactions in a Philadelphia neighborhood and Polish nationalities parish school.
Third‐Generation Koreans' Entry into the Workforce in Japan
Authors: Okano Kaori
Published: November 2004

A case study of third‐generation Korean high schoolers in Japan reveals how they perceive employment market realities and decide upon and obtain employment. Sharing a collective perception of the labor market, these students exhibit intragroup variation in their destination preferences and the strategies taken. This article uncovers how the school intervenes in students' decision making and points to the potential for school intervention in linking minority students to employment.
Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education
Authors: Siegal Meryl
Published: November 2004

Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education. Catherine C. Lewis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 249 pp.
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.
Authors: DeYoung Alan
Published: November 2004

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Deborah Reed‐Danahay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 240 pp.
Anthropology and Education in Canada, the Early Years (1850–1970)
Authors: Fisher A.D.
Published: November 2004

The subfield of anthropology and education has developed differently in Canada from the path it followed in the United States, even though the discipline of anthropology shared individuals and research topics across the border. Anthropology and education in Canada is distinctly Canadian and is a peripheral version of the central subdiscipline found in the United States.
Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A Cultural‐Ecological Theory of School Performance with Some Implications for Education
Authors: Ogbu John U. , Simons Herbert D.
Published: November 2004

This article has three objectives. First, it describes Ogbu's classification of minorities: autonomous, voluntary or immigrant, and involuntary or nonimmigrant minorities. Second, it explains Ogbu's cultural‐ecological theory of minority school performance. Finally, it suggests some implications of the theory for pedagogy. The authors regard the typology of minority groups as a heuristic device for analysis and interpretation of differences among minority groups in school experience.
From Positivism to Interpretivism and Beyond: Tales of Transformation in Educational and Social Research
Authors: Lemke J. L.
Published: November 2004

From Positivism to Interpretivism and Beyond: Tales of Transformation in Educational and Social Research. Louis Heshusius and Keith Ballard, eds. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 197 pp.
Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High
Authors: Morgan Marcyliena
Published: November 2004

Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High. Signithia Fordham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 411 pp.
The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools
Authors: Lipman Pauline
Published: November 2004

The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools. George W. Noblit and Van O. Dempsey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 225 pp.
Having Arrived: Dimensions of Educational Success in a Transitional Newcomer School
Authors: Hertzberg Martha
Published: November 2004

This article examines a program for newly arrived, non‐English‐speaking immigrant children in a major California city. Focusing on students of Mexican and other Latino origin, I explore the local model of success and ask, How is student success defined and fostered? This study lays the ethnographic foundation for a comparison between settings for first‐generation students. The research demonstrates how a nurturing setting, a culturally flexible teaching approach, linguistic and cultural validation, and a valued spatial environment can contribute to newcomer students' success and educational confidence. Further, it addresses both the personal and political tensions that can arise when such programs are physically separate and distant from the “home” or neighborhood school.
School‐Smart and Mother‐Wise: Working‐Class Women's Identity and Schooling
Authors: Puccia Ellen , Borman Kathryn M.
Published: November 2004

School‐Smart and Mother‐Wise: Working‐Class Women's Identity and Schooling. Wendy Luttrell. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 164 pp.
The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe: 1763–1995, a Basket of Apples
Authors: McCarty Teresa L.
Published: November 2004

The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe: 1763–1995, a Basket of Apples. Joel Spring. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. 210 pp.
Authenticity and the Revitalization of Hawaiian
Authors: Wong Laiana
Published: November 2004

The process of language revitalization relies heavily on education in its broadest sense. That is, there must be a viable conduit for the transmission of communicative competence, and any individual who contributes to that process is an educator. This article deals with the responsibility of such educators with respect to the quality of the product they intend to transmit. In particular, they must address the issue of authenticity, especially in the case of Hawaiian in which the shift to English has almost run its full course. It is inevitable in efforts to recover and maintain a language in a community in which few competent speakers (experts) remain that competing opinions will arise as to the direction such efforts should take, each professing to be better informed than the other and each pointing to its link to traditional forms as verification of its authenticity.
American Indian Narrative
Authors: Singer Eliot A.
Published: November 2004

Traditions of the Arapaho. George Dorsey and Alfred Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxx + 487 pp.

Traditions of the Caddo. George Dorsey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxiv + 133 pp.
To Live Heroically: Institutional Racism and American Indian Education
Authors: Marker Michael
Published: November 2004

To Live Heroically: Institutional Racism and American Indian Education. Delores J. Huff Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 211 pp.
Off Whiter Readings on Race, Power, and Society
Authors: Noblit George W.
Published: November 2004

Off Whiter Readings on Race, Power, and Society. Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda C. Powell and L. Mun Wong eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. 366 pp.
Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Production Floor
Authors: Rubio Olga G.
Published: November 2004

Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Production Floor. Tara Goldstein. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 277 pp.
The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era
Authors: Paradise Ruth
Published: November 2004

The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era. Rubén Donate. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 210 pp.
Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives
Authors: Olmedo Irma M.
Published: November 2004

Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives. Nancy Lemberger. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 206 pp.
“Hey, Those Shoes Are Out of Uniform”: African American Girls in an Elite High School and the Importance of Habitus
Authors: Horvat Erin McNamara , Antonio Anthony Lising
Published: November 2004

We examine how race and class influenced the lives of six African American high school seniors who attended a predominantly white, elite, independent secondary school. Race and class contributed to an organizational habitus of the school characterized by white and wealthy privilege. Interaction of that dominant habitus with the dissimilar individual habitus of the students resulted in a form of symbolic violence—symbolic violence the black students knowingly endured in exchange for the social mobility afforded by attending the elite school.
College Aspirations among Low‐Income African American High School Students: Gendered Strategies for Success
Authors: Hubbard Lea
Published: November 2004

This study examines the gender‐specific strategies that 30 African American high school youths developed to remain academically successful and traces their success to participation in an educational reform program, the culture of their families, and the culture of the low‐income communities in which they lived. One learns the benefit of examining the interrelatedness of ethnicity, class, and gender when attempting to understand the ways in which academic success is constructed.
The Role of State Departments of Education in Complex School Reform.
Authors: Wilson Suzanne M. , Lesser Jo Allen
Published: November 2004

The Role of State Departments of Education in Complex School Reform. Susan Lusi. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. 217 pp.
Studying Schools, Studying Ourselves: Ethnographic Perspectives on Educational Reform
Authors: Emihovich Catherine
Published: November 2004

Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 319 pp.

How It Works: Inside. School‐College Collaboration. Sidney Trubowitz and Paul Longo. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. 172 pp.

Studying Your Own School: An Educator's Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research. Gary L. Anderson. Kathryn Herr. and Ann Sigrid Nihlen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1994. 203 pp.
Hispanic Students in High School and College: Two Views of a Continuing Challenge
Authors: Abi‐Nader Jeannette
Published: November 2004

Personas Mexicanas: Chicano High Schoolers in a Changing Los Angeles. James Diego Vigil. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997. 160 pp.

The Struggle of Latino/Latina University Students: In Search of a liberating Education. Felix M. Padilla. New York Routledge, 1997. 245 pp.
Gendered Futures: Student Visions of Career and Family on a College Campus
Authors: Stone Linda , McKee Nancy P.
Published: November 2004

In the United States, female college students enter less prestigious occupations and earn far less than their male counterparts. Though some employers may discriminate against women, the “gender gap” in the workplace is also fostered by decisions made by women college students themselves. A study conducted on a university campus in the Northwest shows how men and women students position themselves differently for careers, marriage, and parenthood while sharing an ideology of gender difference.
Narrating Professional Development: Teachers' Stories as Texts for Improving Practice
Authors: Wood Diane R.
Published: November 2004

This article traces a systematic, respectful process for using narrative materials as vehicles for teachers' professional development. Ann, a high school history teacher, wrote a series of stories about school experiences, using them as departure points for discussing, thinking, and writing about her ongoing practice in collaboration with the author. The article outlines in detail the methods of narrative inquiry the author employed to safeguard Ann's voice and perspective while supporting her in critical reflection and changed practices
This Bed of Roses Has Thorns: Cultural Assumptions and Community in an Elementary School
Authors: Bushnell Mary
Published: November 2004

Educational reformers and social observers call for increasing community in our schools and neighborhoods. In that discourse, community appears as a catch phrase that has become meaningless in its ubiquity. Through an ethnographic study of a small elementary school in which community is regularly invoked, the author identifies community's negative as well as beneficial aspects and discusses the implications for schools.
Viewing Classrooms as Cultural Contexts for Fostering Scientific Literacy
Authors: Hogan Kathleen , Corey Catherine
Published: November 2004

This article explores the sociocultural dynamics within an urban fifth grade science classroom in which we were teacher‐researchers. We draw fine‐grained portraits of our attempts to emulate the ideals of the collective culture of science within the classroom, and how students sought to reframe those practices. We argue that it is useful to think about students' approach to and deviations from the norms of scientific practices in terms of their contextual resources, interactive norms, and school‐based cultural perspectives, rather than simply in terms of their cognitive development level.
Parental Strategies in Contrasting Cultural Settings: Families in México and “El Norte”
Authors: Reese Leslie
Published: November 2004

A “culturally relevant pedagogy” has been recommended to enhance the achievement of Latino students in American schools. In practice, this pedagogy is often based on a view of the home culture as static and in conflict with mainstream culture. The present study compares the child‐rearing practices and values of Mexican immigrants raising their children in the United States with those of their siblings who are raising children in Mexico. The study contributes to the theories of culture, documenting the dynamic nature of cultural practices on both sides of the border and examining the implications of cultural change of different types for practice in language minority education.
From “Easy Phonetics” to the Syllabary: An Orthographic Division of Labor in Cherokee Language Education
Authors: Bender Margaret
Published: November 2004

Drawing on classroom participant‐observation and interviews conducted among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this article describes the ways in which literacy practices in Cherokee language education perpetuate and teach local categories of knowledge, behavior, and persons. I describe the semiotic functioning of the native‐developed Cherokee syllabary, as well as its place among four Cherokee orthographies. This work contributes to our understanding of the multiple functions and meanings of writing systems in use in language education and other cultural contexts, and demonstrates the importance of analyzing the full range of semiotic implications of any particular writing system.
Students and a “Culture of Resistance” in Provincetown's Schools
Authors: Faiman‐Silva Sandra
Published: November 2004

Provincetown, Massachusetts is a popular multigendered tourist destination where openness to diversity is part of the school and wider community ethos. Youth encounter their hometown as a place whose cultural ethos they do not always embrace. Based on participant‐observation fieldwork from 1995 to 2002, this article explores how students have developed a “culture of resistance” to dominant discourses of tolerance and acceptance. By deconstructing how schools are sites of intergroup conflicts over gender tolerance and public school ownership, student‐resistance conduct is shown to be a response to perceived alienation from mainstream social norms and discourses.
The Tragedy of Terrorism: Perspective, Reflection, and Action in the Aftermath
Authors: Macias José
Published: November 2004

Public reactions to the terrorist acts of September 11 included a range of responses from shock, fear, and anger, to group profiling, acts of violent retribution, and dichotomous “us” and “them” thinking. The cycle of terrorism requires perspective and reflection so that educational anthropologists can act in ways that lead to more useful understandings of the phenomenon and tragedy of terrorism within society‐at‐large.
Children's Expressive Culture in Light of September 11, 2001
Authors: Beresin Anna Richman
Published: November 2004

Play and games relating to September 11 reflect children's strategies for making sense with nonsense. This essay calls for the reexamination of play and recess as nontrivial parts of schooling and as sources for anthropological research.
In the Belly of the Beast
Authors: Smith Nathaniel W.
Published: November 2004

This article relates one high school teacher's experiences in the classroom following September 11, 2001, focusing on classroom participation in George W. Bush's national pledge of allegiance. A personal, autobiographical account, this episode reflects some of the ramifications of September 11 on a teacher, his students, and the ways we imagine our enemies.
"This Is Active Learning": Theories of Language, Learning, and Social Relations in the Transmission of Khmer Literacy
Authors: Needham Susan
Published: November 2004

This article examines the role language ideologies played in the changing instructional and social organization of Khmer literacy classes in Long Beach, California. Language and language use in classrooms have been carefully examined over the years, but analysis of how language attitudes influence pedagogical theory and practice has been largely neglected. This article reveals one way in which language ideologies engage with local theories of learning to shape not only pedagogies informing instruction but also social relations within classes.
(Un)Necessary Toughness?: Those "Loud Black Girls" and Those "Quiet Asian Boys"
Authors: Lei Joy L
Published: November 2004

This article examines the process of identity construction and its relationship to discursive and representational acts in producing students as academic and social beings. Drawing on Judith Butler's work on gender performativity, I focus on two student populations—black females and Southeast Asian American males—and analyze the symbolic and material effects of the production of them as racialized, gendered Other through the repeated stylization of their bodies and behavior. The materialization of the students as "loud black girls" and "quiet Asian boys," however, opens up the potential for disrupting the hegemonicfbrces of regulatory norms.
What Does Africa Have to Do with Being African American? A Microethnographic Analysis of a Middle School Inquiry Unit on Africa
Authors: Morris Jerome E.
Published: November 2004

In the United States, “race” and “black identity” are becoming more complex with the increasing numbers of individuals who identify as “black and foreignborn.” Emanating from a year‐long study in an urban middle school classroom and a microethnographic investigation of a two‐week unit on Africa, this article employs a Pan‐African framework to examine how schools and the broader society serve as sites where black identity is contested. The article concludes with implications for education, society, and the study of race and black identity in classroom life.
Panopticonics: The Control and Surveillance of Black Female Athletes in a Collegiate Athletic Program
Authors: Foster Kevin Michael
Published: November 2004

This article analyzes black female student athletes' participation in an elite collegiate athletic program and shows how the program maximizes black female participants' athletic and academic potential through surveillance, control, and discipline. The program instills in black female athletes a model of womanhood whereby they come to expect and achieve academic and athletic success, but does so at the expense of their autonomy and freedom from surveillance. Ultimately, this analysis shows the promise and peril of panopticonics as educational technology.
Coming Unstuck: Thinking Otherwise about “Studying Up”
Authors: Priyadharshini Esther
Published: November 2004

This article extends arguments that seek to account for the paucity of research on “studying up,” suggesting that to foster a more congenial climate in which such studies can he undertaken, received discourses in educational research that assume fixed/stable identities for researcher and subjects need to be rethought. I argue that poststructuralist perspectives help us “think otherwise” on matters of power and subjectivity in research. By allowing for an inquisitorial rather than an adversarial stance to studying the workings of power, such perspectives allow a different conceptualization of research that could ease the process of doing ethnographic research with the powerful and broaden the approaches currently available to studying up in educational research.
The Gendered and Racialized Pathways of Latina and Latino Youth: Different Struggles, Different Resistances in the Urban Context
Authors: CAMMAROTA JULIO
Published: November 2004

This article explores the student resistances that shape orientations to schooling. Drawing on a study of Latina/o youth, I examine how race and gender influence whether they perceive education as oppressive or useful in resisting oppression. The key lever that may alter their perceptions is how school and society treat Latinos differently from Latinas. This study shows how ethnography can inspire pedagogical practices that bolster urban students' resistances to the oppressive forces negatively impacting their education. [Latina/o youth, race, gender, resistance, urban education]
Seduced by Images: Identity and Schooling in the Lives of Puerto Rican Girls
Authors: ROLÓN‐DOW ROSALIE
Published: November 2004

Based on a two‐year ethnographic study at an urban middle school, this article describes the power that images created by and about Puerto Rican girls hold in shaping their schooling experiences. Using a black, critical, feminist framework, I show how dichotomizing the sexuality of Puerto Rican females against their intellectual development obscures the complex ways that identities are co‐constructed and then affirmed, appropriated, or resisted within their school site. I conclude that to resist the reproduction of educational inequality in the lives of Puerto Rican females, we must explore and seek to transform the influential ways that identities are mediated and educational outcomes are produced within the school contexts where Puerto Rican females are educated. [Puerto Rican, urban, educational equity, ethnicity, gender]
Traversing the Center: The Politics of Language Use in a Catholic Religious Education Program for Immigrant Mexican Children
Authors: Baquedano‐López Patricia
Published: November 2004

This article examines the implementation of educational policy in a religious education program at a Los Angeles Catholic parish. It charts the elimination of Spanish‐based classes (doctrina) for Mexican immigrant children in favor of “English‐only” instruction. The article offers insights into the politics of language use in everyday practice and examines the resulting educational policy decisions.
“What if We Are Doing This All Wrong?”: Sequestering and a Community of Practice
Authors: BRADLEY VICKI L.
Published: November 2004

This article explores how sequestered novices within a community of practice struggled with their reliance on individual learning resources and identity development. In a year‐long study at a child‐care center that included methods of participant‐observation, interviewing, videotaping, and apprenticeship, five inexperienced child‐care teachers, including me, relied heavily on our creativity, recollections, learning by doing, and embodied experiences. I suggest that future studies of communities of practice examine instances of sequestering and include the perceptions of novices.