bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Islam and Society in Turkey
Authors: Meeker Michael E.
Published: November 2004

Islam and Society in Turkey. David Shankland. Huntingdon, England: The Eothen Press, 1999. vi. 240 pp., notes, appendixes, references, index.
"Any Time is Trinidad Time": Social Meanings and Temporal Consciousness
Authors: Glazier Stephen D.
Published: November 2004

"Any Time is Trinidad Time": Social Meanings and Temporal Consciousness. Kevin Birth. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. ix. 190 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Authors: Smart Josephine
Published: November 2004

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala
Authors: Hawkins John P.
Published: November 2004

Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Diane M. Nelson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xxi. 427 pp., maps, figures, illustrations, appendix, glossary, works cited, index.
Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand
Authors: Boellstorff Tom
Published: November 2004

Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook. eds. Bangkok: Silkworm Books, 1999. + 289 pp., tables.
Roots and Routes: Ethnicity and Migration in Global Perspective
Authors: Mountcastle Amy
Published: November 2004

Roots and Routes: Ethnicity and Migration in Global Perspective. Shalva Weil. ed. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1999. 248 pp.
Child Sponsorship, Evangelism, and Belonging in the Work of World Vision Zimbabwe
Authors: Bornstein Erica
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the child sponsorship program of World Vision Zimbabwe—offering perspectives from nongovernmental organization (NGO) employees, sponsors, sponsored children, and rural communities being assisted. I demonstrate how transnational processes of giving and membership in a global Christian family contrast with Zimbabwean interpretations of humanitarian assistance and efforts to initiate a Zimbabwean child sponsorship program amidst growing local inequalities. in effect, new perceptions of economic disparity are produced by the very humanitarian efforts that strive to overcome them. I explore the intimate and personal relationships encouraged by sponsorship and the political economies within which they are situated, which include jealousies, desires, and altered senses of belonging. [Africa, NGOs, humanitarianism, transnationalism, development, Christian evangelism, Zimbabwe]
The Ethics of Listening: Cassette‐SermonAudition in Contemporary Egypt
Authors: Hirschkind Charles
Published: November 2004

In this article, I focus on the practice of listening to tape‐recorded sermons among contemporary Muslims in Egypt as an exercise of ethical self‐discipline. I analyze this practice in its relation to the formation of a sensorium: the visceral capacities enabling of the particular form of Muslim piety to which those who undertake the practice aspired. in focusing on both the homiletic techniques of preachers and the traditions of ethical audition that inform the contemporary practice of sermon listening, I explore how sermon listeners reconstruct their own knowledge, emotions, and sensibilities in accord with models of Islamic moral personhood. Normative models of moral personhood grounded in Islamic textual and practical traditions provide a point of reference for the task of ethical self‐improvement, [embodiment, senses, disciplinary practice, reception, media, sermons, Islam]
Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
Authors: Stone Linda
Published: November 2004

Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Janet Carsten. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. vi. 215 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index.
Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race; German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler
Authors: Lakein Diane
Published: November 2004

Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. vii. 322 pp., photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.

German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler. Uli Linke. London: Routledge Press, 1999. vii. 274 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Of 2 Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry
Authors: Breslau Joshua
Published: November 2004

Of. Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. T. M. Luhrmann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. xi. 337 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: November 2004

Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology. Jay Ruby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ix. 339 pp., notes, refrumors erences, index,
Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora
Authors: Maciszewski Amelia
Published: November 2004

Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora. Helen Myers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxxii. 510 pp., illustrations, musical examples, glossary, notes, bibliography, discography, index, compact disc.
Revisiting “Magical Fright”
Authors: Lincoln Bruce
Published: November 2004

In 1948, John Gillin published the first sustained account of a ritual healing ceremony for soul loss as performed in the highlands of Guatemala. Reprinted in Lessa and Vogt's Reader in Comparative Religion (1958, 1965), this article played a foundational role for later work in ethnomedicine and the anthropology of religion. Gillin's analysis centered on the way relations between Indian and ladino populations were renegotiated within the ritual imaginary. Newly available archival materials show that Gillin underestimated the fear and animosity dividing these groups, misconstrued the political situation of the curandero (traditional healer), and effaced the extent to which gender and domestic violence were at issue in both illness and healing. These materials also afford glimpses into the system of power and knowledge in which Gillin participated and that helped shape his research agenda. An epilogue extends this discussion into the Cold War context, [ritual, susto, curanderismo, Mesoamerica, John Gillin, history of anthropology, Cold War]
Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada
Authors: Gould Nathan
Published: November 2004

Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. vi + 240 pp., tables, bibliography, index.
Nature and Culture in the Andes
Authors: Paulson Susan
Published: November 2004

Nature and Culture in the Andes. David Gade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. ix + 287 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index.
Ladakh: Culture, History, and Development between Himalaya and Karakoram
Authors: Sutherland Peter
Published: November 2004

Ladakh: Culture, History, and Development between Himalaya and Karakoram. Martin Van Beek, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen, and Paul Pedersen, eds. Oxford: Alden Press, 1999. 414 pp., photographs, maps, index.
Disputes and Arguments Amongst Nomads
Authors: Rao Anupama
Published: November 2004

Disputes and Arguments Amongst Nomads Robert M. Hayden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix + 1 77 pp., table, references, index.
The Politics of Gender After Socialism
Authors: Hemment Julie
Published: November 2004

The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix +169 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
Authors: Makihara Miki
Published: November 2004

Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities. Paul V. Kroskrity, ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2000. ix+411 pp., tables, illustrations, references, index.
Coming of Age in Post‐Soviet Russia
Authors: Wanner Catherine
Published: November 2004

Coming of age in post‐Soviet Russia. Fran Maricowitz. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ix + 245 pp., Photographs, references, index.
The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge.
Authors: Tamisari Franca
Published: November 2004

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Francoise Dussart. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. xi + 269 pp., maps, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Hindu nationalism, Untouchable reform, and the ritual production of a South Indian village
Authors: Mines Diane P.
Published: November 2004

From 1989 through 1990, residents of a Tamil village drew on national signs— the Rule of Ram, ideas of equality, images of Ambedkar—as they contested the social contours of their village through ritual action. Taking a phenomenological approach, I argue that as village residents localized their imagined futures of equality and power, they were in fact asserting themselves as historical actors with the power to remake their present and to remake the locality (the village) in which they live, [locality, ritual, politics, nationalism, phenomenology, South India]
On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in Haitian Vodou
Authors: Apter Andrew
Published: November 2004

What is African in the African diaspora? In this article, I return to the problematic question of African origins in the black Americas, arguing that despite the distortions of baseline genealogies and associated myths of tribal purity, West African cultural frameworks—when critically reformulated—illuminate New World dynamics of creolization. Focusing on the Petwo paradox in Haitian Vodou, which opposes Creole powers of money and magic to the venerated, if enervated, authority of Ginen (Africa), I address a fairly narrow debate regarding the division of Petwo and Rada deities and their imputed Creole versus African origins. Against the ideology of Haitian Vodou, and its misleading influence on various scholars, a Yoruba–Dahomean cultural hermeneutic reveals the African origins and revisionary principles of the Petwo and Rada opposition, as it emerged before the Haitian revolution and realigned with class relations under François Duvalier, [African diaspora, creolization, secrecy, hermeneutics, race and class, Vodou]
The River, The Road, and The Rural–Urban Divide: A Postcolonial Moral Geography from Southeast Madagascar
Authors: Thomas Philip
Published: November 2004

In this article, I analyze how ideas of attachment to place and the experience of political and economic marginality combine to produce a particular moral geography for people of the Manambondro region of southeast Madagascar. Though the elements of this moral geography comprise an archive of sorts of the colonial encounter, they also speak of people's consciousness of their marginality within the postcolonial present. I argue that moral geography represents a structure of feeling, a form of social consciousness that captures something profound about people's senses of place and also, regarding their ambivalence toward modernity, their sense of who they are and who they might become, [colonialism, modernity, moral geography, place, postcolonialism, structure of feeling, Madagascar]
Eh, Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto
Authors: Ribic Catherine
Published: November 2004

Eh, Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto. Nicholas Demaria Harney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. vii. 209 pp., appendix, notes, glossary, references, index.
Merchants and Migrants: Ethnicity and Trade among Yunnanese Chinese in Southeast Asia
Authors: Walker Andrew
Published: November 2004

Merchants and Migrants: Ethnicity and Trade among Yunnanese Chinese in Southeast Asia. Ann Maxwell Hill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. vi. 178 pp., notes, references, index,
Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe
Authors: White Bob W.
Published: November 2004

Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. Thomas Turino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ix. 401 pp., photographs, notes, references, discography, index.
The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China
Authors: Scoggin Mary
Published: November 2004

The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China. Erik Mueggler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 360 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti
Authors: Murray Gerald
Published: November 2004

When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti. Jennie M. Smith Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. ix. 229 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy
Authors: Udvardy Monica
Published: November 2004

Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000. vii. 358 pp., tables, figures, notes, glossary, references, index.
Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealandís High Country
Authors: Park Julie
Published: November 2004

Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealandís High Country. Michèle D. Dominy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. xiii. 306 pp., figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
People of the Chisel: Apprenticeship, youth, and elites in Oku (Cameroon)
Authors: Argenti Nicolas
Published: November 2004

In this article, I explore the ways in which Oku carvers negotiate their relation to the palace hierarchy and to the nation‐state by means of the masterapprentice relationship. I describe the palace hierarchy's incorporation of the procreational powers of apprenticed carvers and examine a separate group of nonapprenticed carvers and the alternative network of new‐elite patrons for whom they work. This case study leads to a deconstruction of the dichotomies pitting locality against the state, palatine against business elites, and tradition against modernity, suggesting that tradition may conceal social change and that modernist youth movements may conversely provide sources of historical continuity. [apprenticeship, youth, modernity, nationalism, elites, carving, hierarchy]
Book Reviews
Authors: Santos‐Granero Fernando
Published: November 2004

Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. ix +285 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Engelke Matthew
Published: November 2004

Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Adeline Masquelier. Durham, NO Duke University Press, 2001. xi. 348 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index,
Book Reviews
Authors: Biella Peter
Published: November 2004

Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video. Catherine Russell. NC: Duke University Press, 1999. xvii. 391 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, filmography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Haley Brian
Published: November 2004

Postcolonial America. C. Richard King. ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. vii. 361 pp., index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Saler Benson
Published: November 2004

The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs. Brenda Denzler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xi. 295 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, Index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Schmidt Garbi
Published: November 2004

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Schyrock. eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pp., index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Bouchard Michel
Published: November 2004

Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists in Postsocialist States. Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick. eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. xi. 250 pp., photographs, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Goldín Liliana R.
Published: November 2004

The Maya Diaspora: Guatemalan Roots, New American Lives. James Loucky and Marilyn M. Moors. eds. Philadelphia: Temple University 2000. ix. 263 pp., references, contributors, index.
Quiché Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
Authors: Carlsen Robert S.
Published: November 2004

Quiché Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala. Ricardo Falla. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. vii. 279 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad
Authors: Birth Kevin
Published: November 2004

Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad. Viranjini Munasinghe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. ix. 315 pp., references, index.
The British on the Costa del Sol: Transnational Identities and Local Communities
Authors: Fechter Anne‐Meike
Published: November 2004

The British on the Costa del Sol: Transnational Identities and Local Communities. Karen O'Reilly. London: Routledge, 2000. viii. 187 pp., maps, notes, references, index.
War and Slavery in Sudan
Authors: Fábos Anita
Published: November 2004

War and Slavery in Sudan. Jok Madut Jok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. vii. 211 pp., maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams
Authors: Borovoy Amy
Published: November 2004

Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. Karen Kelsky. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 294 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
Authors: Shalinsky Audrey
Published: November 2004

Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad. David B. Edwards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ix. 354 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation
Authors: Brown Caroline
Published: November 2004

Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation. Thomas Biolsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 240 pp., maps, tables, references, index.
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
Authors: Smedal Olaf H.
Published: November 2004

New Directions in Anthropological Kinship. Linda Stone. ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. ix. 358 pp., index.
Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900.
Authors: Stevens Charles J.
Published: November 2004

Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900. Alice Bullard. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 290 pp., appendix, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America.
Authors: Block Pamela
Published: November 2004

Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Gelya Frank .Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 284 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand.
Authors: Fishel Thamora
Published: November 2004

The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand. Alan Klima. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. vii. 317 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle‐Class Daily Life in Brazil.
Authors: Torresan Angela
Published: November 2004

Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle‐Class Daily Life in Brazil. Maureen O'Dougherty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ix. 262 pp., maps, graphs, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics.
Authors: Boretz Avron
Published: November 2004

Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Louisa Schein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix. 365 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Pentecostalism in translation: Religion and the production of community in the Haitian diaspora
Authors: Brodwin Paul
Published: November 2004

I examine the growth of Pentecostalism in the Haitian diaspora through both a neo‐Weberian framework and the argument, derived from Walter Benjamin, that the cultural translation of religious doctrine should resonate with the original and not merely substitute scholarly categories for sacred meanings. Haitian migrants to Guadeloupe, French West Indies, appropriate Pentecostalism to produce a transnational enclave in the face of marginality and displacement. Using Christian idioms, they defend themselves against denigrating stereotypes and articulate sentiments of loss and remembrance of the Haitian homeland. Their theology of sin, salvation, and the spirit therefore overlaps with anthropological frameworks about the production of community. These two languages complement each other, and each provides a partial theory to explain the need for moral separationism as well as its likely effects. Examining this complementary relationship suggests both the specificity of Haitian Pentecostalism and the limits of Benjamin's literary model for ethnographic interpretation. [Pentecostalism, Haiti, transnationalism, religion, morality, translation, Benjamin]
Children and the gendered politics of globalization: In remembrance of Sharon Stephens
Authors: Malkki Liisa
Published: November 2004

Written to honor the memory of Sharon Stephens as an exceptional anthropologist this article focuses on her groundbreaking work of critically theorizing children and childhoods in relation to the politics of late capitalism and structures of modernity. Stephens's research into the contested category of childhood is here linked specifically to the location and uses of the figure of "the child" in the gendered politics of globalization, [children, childhood, globalization, gender, late capitalism, modernity, Cold War, "national security" discourses]
Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency.
Authors: Frankenberg Ronnie
Published: November 2004

Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Cristiana Bastos .Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. vii. 225 pp., notes, reference, index.
Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia.
Authors: Clayton Cathryn
Published: November 2004

Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia. Kai‐wing Chow. Kevin M. Doak. and Poshek Fu, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 404 pp., index.
Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Authors: Scott Michael W.
Published: November 2004

Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner. eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2001. vii. 281 pp. figures, references, index.
From market to market: Bioprospecting's idioms of inclusion
Authors: Hayden Cori
Published: November 2004

In this article I explore how "community" and its foil, the (urban) market, provide competing models for the market‐mediated modes of inclusion and exclusion on offer through bioprospecting agreements. Focusing on the collecting strategies of Mexican scientists implementing one such agreement, I show how community and market inform prospecting participants' ideas not just about (re)distributing benefits but also about managing the political liabilities now haunting corporate resource extraction in the South [bioprospecting, anthropology of science, Mexico, Latin America, globalization, intellectual property, indigenous rights]
Malay male migrants: Negotiating contested identities in Malaysia
Authors: Thompson Eric C.
Published: November 2004

Ethnic identity has dominated the political and social landscape of Malaysia throughout most of the 20th century. Recent changes, including government development policies, feminization of the industrial workforce, and rural to urban migration, have transformed the underlying political economy of the country. In relationship to these changes, official discourse has sought to engender a "New Malay" subjectivity, dissociating the Malay‐peasant complex of the early 20th century and associating Malayness, instead, with urbanism and entrepreneurship. Malay male migrants figure centrally in this articulation of identity and political economy. Focusing on the articulation of multiple fields of identity, I argue that social and cultural forces are shaping and reshaping the lives of Malay men, although their effects are felt differentially by subjects who must negotiate intersecting fields of ethnicity, gender, migrancy, religion, and class, [identity, ethnicity, class, migrants, masculinity, Malaysia]
Knowing adoption and adopting knowledge
Authors: Gershon Ilana
Published: November 2004

Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco. Jamila Bargach. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xvii. 304 pp., bibliography, index.

Sealed and Secret Kinship: The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption. Judith Modell New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. vi. 220 pp., bibliography,index.

Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Ann Laura Stoler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ix. 335 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Authors: Sutherland Peter
Published: November 2004

States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. vii. 423 pp., bibliography, index.
"Here, Our Culture Is Hard": Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
Authors: Hautzinger Sarah
Published: November 2004

"Here, Our Culture Is Hard": Stories of Domestic Violence from. Mayan Community in Belize. Laura McClusky. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. x+271 pp., illustrations, glossary, index.
Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia
Authors: Batteau Allen W.
Published: November 2004

Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia. Anita Puckett. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2000. xv+ 309 pp., figures, tables, appendices, notes, references, index.
Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High‐Tech City
Authors: Warrier Maya
Published: November 2004

Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High‐Tech City. Smriti Srinivas. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. vii. 329 pp., illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Silences and Serenades: The Journeys of Three Ethnic Minority Women School Leaders
Authors: Benham Maenette K. P.
Published: November 2004

This article articulates the need to explore the knowledge and practice of ethnic minority women school leaders, to encourage dialogue, and to ask, “What is it about these women's lives that reveals ontological and political discourses and practices that disrupt the rhythm of the mainstream?” The stories affirm each woman's explicit struggle against “overt and passive racism” and objectifying marginalization. Additionally, each story reveals a unique “self‐text,” which is a composite of history, family, profession, and cultural memories. Each woman, in the way she expresses this “self,” is an advocate for respect and equity.
Exploring and Explaining the Variability: Cross‐National Perspectives on the School Performance of Minority Students
Authors: Gibson Margaret A.
Published: November 2004

This article introduces the theme issue on ethnicity and school performance and provides an overview of five international case studies—from the Netherlands, France, Britain, Israel, and Canada—each of which examines the variability in the school performance of ethnic minority youth in their respective countries.
Ethnic Minority Students in the Netherlands from a Cultural‐Ecological Perspective
Authors: Eldering Lotty
Published: November 2004

Ethnic minority students in the Netherlands have substantial educational disadvantages compared with Dutch students. Equally striking are the differences in school performance among the various ethnic minority groups. In this article, the educational position of ethnic minority students in the Netherlands is explored from a cultural‐ecological perspective. The article concludes that cultural as well as educational differences between schools and parents have an impact on the school performance of ethnic minority students and that Ogbu's typology needs to be reconsidered.
Schooling Immigrants in France in the 1990s: Success or Failure of the Republican Model of Integration?
Authors: Zanten Agnès van
Published: November 2004

The perception and treatment of immigrants in French society have been strongly influenced by an ideology of integration known as the Republican model, a model that relies on state institutions and particularly on schools for its transmission. Analysis of the schooling of immigrants in the 1990s reveals that the enforcement of this model is still producing the desired manifestations of cultural assimilation, but that it has become much less effective in promoting the social and economic integration of immigrant groups. As a result, competing alternative models, especially neoliberal ones, might progressively play a central role.
Complicating the Immigrant/Involuntary Minority Typology
Authors: Gibson Margaret A.
Published: November 2004

Drawing on both international and U.S. studies, this article takes stock of what recent ethnographic research on immigrant and involuntary minority youth reveals about variability in school performance. Empirical reality proves to be far more complex than what can be explained through dichotomous typologies of accommodation and resistance, success and failure, or immigrant and involuntary minorities. Moreover, minority youth do better in school when they feel strongly anchored in the identities of their families, communities, and peers and when they feel supported in pursuing a strategy of selective or additive acculturation.
Everyday Learning about Identities among Young Adolescents in Television Culture
Authors: Fisherkeller JoEllen
Published: November 2004

Using a cultural studies approach, this study situates three young adolescents in their home, neighborhood, school, and peer cultures, and contextually analyzes their uses and interpretations of television. Analyses of each student's favorite television persona illuminate each of their identity projects, which are a primary kind of cultural acquisition process. I find qualitative differences in their everyday learning within television culture as compared to local cultures, although their learning about social power across cultures is reciprocal.
Voices of Our Past: Using Oral History to Explore Funds of Knowledge within a Puerto Rican Family
Authors: Olmedo Irma M.
Published: November 2004

This article presents an educational rationale for using oral history to teach students that there are multiple sources of knowledge and ways to seek valid information. A case study to explore the funds of knowledge within an extended Puerto Rican family is used illustratively. The study describes the leadership role played by one grandmother as the family participated in multiple migrations, describes creative ways employed by her and other women to reestablish the community, and challenges some stereotypes of Latinas.
Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education
Authors: Lustig Deborah Freedman
Published: November 2004

Multicultural education aims to improve understanding among students of different ethnic groups, but it can lessen intergroup conflict only if it is implemented systematically. In multiethnic school settings, the relationships among students of different “minority” groups are problematic; conflicts need to be both understood and addressed if multicultural education is to succeed. In one inner‐city California high school, the celebration of Kwanzaa leads to exclusion and isolation, and the speaking of Spanish in the classroom sparks conflict and resentments.
Adding Cognition to the Formula for Culturally Relevant Instruction in Mathematics
Authors: Brenner Mary E.
Published: November 2004

Although equity is one of the goals of the mathematics reform movement, there has been little research done to develop programs that meet the needs of specific cultural groups. By studying how mathematical knowledge is developed in the course of everyday life, it is possible to change mathematics instruction to enhance mathematical achievement. In a series of research projects with Native Hawaiian children, ethnographic information and cognitive studies of mathematical thinking guided a program to develop culturally relevant mathematics teaching. The approach taken in this study is compared to other recent efforts to develop culturally relevant instruction in mathematics.
Student Culture and the Contradictions of Equality at a Mexican Secondary School
Authors: Levinson Bradley A.
Published: November 2004

This article examines the dynamic relationship between official school structures and forms of student subjectivity through an ethnographic account of student culture at a Mexican secondary school. Tightly interwoven discursive and organizational practices promoting solidarity and equality defined the “official” school structure. Students appropriated these resources to fashion a culture of equality which both accommodated and denied different student sensibilities. The article concludes with an analysis of student culture in terms of practice and cultural production theory.
Year‐Round Schools and the Politics of Time
Authors: Orellana Marjorie Faulstich , Thorne Barrie
Published: November 2004

This ethnographic study explores the politics of time in a multitrack, “yearround” school in inner‐city Los Angeles. We analyze different types and experiences of time within the school and time collisions across institutions in this densely populated immigrant community. Viewing time as a contested commodity, we examine the politics behind the presumed impartiality of the clock and calendar. The school's year‐round schedule is especially problematic, involving multiple tracks with lengthened days and a shortened school year. We show how issues of educational equity go to the core of debates over alternative school schedules.
How Does a Community of Learners Maintain Itself? Ecology of an Innovative School
Authors: Matusov Eugene
Published: November 2004

This article asks how a community of learners maintains itself with the inclusion of new generations, each of which must explore the issue of what the community is about. An example of how new parent volunteers joined an innovative public elementary school is used. Four models of community maintenance defining the relationship between the community and newcomers are described and analyzed on the basis of observational studies of an innovative school and review of the literature.
Dissin' “the Standard”: Ebonics as Guerrilla Warfare at Capital High
Authors: Fordham Signithia
Published: November 2004

This article analyzes the discourse styles, including the linguistic practices, of a group of African American high school students and offers a twofold conclusion: (1) Ebonics or Black English is the norm against which all other speech practices are evaluated by the students at the research site and (2) “the standard”—that is, the standard English dialect—is constructed as a vernacular. As a vernacular, this discourse is not privileged; indeed, it is “dissed” (disrespected) and is only “leased” by the students on a daily basis from nine to three. This linguistic practice is centrally implicated in the postulated guerrilla warfare at the school. With data from a predominantly African American high school in Washington, D.C., the effects of this practice on African American academic achievement are documented. Several policy implications are also noted.
“Playing between Classes”: America's Troubles with Class, Race, and Gender in a Black High School and Community
Authors: Cousins Linwood H.
Published: November 2004

A cultural and relational framework of social class is used to present an ethnographic portrait of class as it unfolds with race and gender in a black high school and community. Traditionally viewed as troubling, these students (and staff) play between classes in ways that impact structural analyses of class and their implications for public policy.
The Campus Tour: Ritual and Community in Higher Education
Authors: Magolda Peter M.
Published: November 2004

This study examines the messages that a university transmits to prospective students during a particular ritual—the campus tour. Specifically, the article discusses the ways that members of a university communicate their expectations with respect to becoming contributing members of the academic community. Three community discourses serve as the theoretical foundation for the analysis. The conclusion discusses ways that rituals could be examined and modified to create multicultural and democratic communities.
Contextual Challenges to Dual‐Language Education: A Case Study of a Developing Middle School Program
Authors: Freeman Rebecca
Published: November 2004

This article describes how a team of urban middle school educators in Philadelphia were developing a dual‐language program to address the needs of their low‐income, predominantly Puerto Rican population. It demonstrates how the structural, sociolinguistic, and ideological context influenced the way that this bilingual program functioned on the local level, and it challenges the dichotomous thinking that characterizes most discussions of bilingual education.
Who's the Boss? How Communicative Competence Is Defined in a Multilingual Preschool Classroom
Authors: Tsai Min‐Ling , García Georgia Earnest
Published: November 2004

This article investigates how classroom communicative competence was defined in a multilingual preschool classroom. Sociolinguistic analysis of a conflict event, and the larger classroom context, reveals the norms and values that influenced the behaviors of an English‐speaking teacher, bilingual teaching assistant, and two Chinese‐speaking preschoolers. The article identifies problems that teachers face when they attempt to value the children's home languages at the same time that they socialize them into U.S. English‐speaking classrooms.
“Points Ain't Everything”: Emergent Goals and Average and Percent Understandings in the Play of Basketball among African American Students
Authors: Nasir Na'ilah Suad
Published: November 2004

This study examines the shifting nature of the cultural practice of basketball as players move from middle school to high school play and related shifts in players' statistical evaluations linked to play. Thirty‐four middle and high school African American basketball players were observed and interviewed as they participated in the practice of basketball. Results show that the practice of basketball differs at these two levels of play corresponding to differences in mathematics linked to play.
Essentializing Dilemma and Multiculturalist Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Children in a U.S. School
Authors: Nozaki Yoshiko
Published: November 2004

This article examines some Japanese children's experiences at a U.S. elementary school, as well as their teachers' pedagogical responses. Two discourses of difference—“individual difference” and “social/cultural difference”—were used in the school in somewhat dichotomous ways, and the combination worked against those children who had difficulty adjusting. A third pedagogic discourse of difference needs to be constructed to aid teachersfacing essentializing dilemmas.
Humble on Sundays: Family, Friends, and Faculty in the Upward Mobility Experiences of African American Females
Authors: Shaw Kathleen M. , Coleman Ashaki B.
Published: November 2004

This article describes how African American women community college students portray their attempts to achieve upward social mobility via college attendance. We focus in particular on the role of interpersonal relationships in this process. All kinds of supportive relationships are seen as important, but unsupportive friends and faculty are generally ignored. However, unsupportive family members present real obstacles to the ability and desires of these women to achieve their educational goals.
Latina Mothers and Small‐Town Racisms:Creating Narratives of Dignity and Moral Education in North Carolina
Authors: Villenas Sofia
Published: November 2004

Within the context of relatively new immigration and settlement in North Carolina, this ethnographic study highlights Latina mothers' narratives and conversations about a moral family education. Their narratives involved the claiming of el hogar (the home space) in the midst of the English‐speaking community's attempts to define their families and childrearing practices as “problem.” With a race‐based feminist perspective, this article examines the role of the mothers' counternarratives in contesting their deficit framing, producing “educated” identities, and creating community in the rural South.
Developing Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Vernacular Elementary School Classrooms: A Collaborative Study in Papua New Guinea
Authors: Nagai Yasuko
Published: November 2004

Unlike previous research studies that focused on teaching and learning strategies in indigenous societies, this study presents an investigation of assessment and evaluation strategies in a local community in Papua New Guinea. On the basis of the findings, this study also presents a process of developing more culturally appropriate classroom practices from the indigenous teachers' perspectives. It is a collaborative study between the indigenous teachers, who play the major role, and the researcher, who plays the role of facilitator.
Hyper Talk: Sampling the Social Construction of ADHD in Everyday Language
Authors: Danforth Scot , Navarro Virginia
Published: November 2004

This article examines the ways that meanings about the concept Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are socially constructed within the everyday language use of lay persons. The 224 language events referencing ADHD, including media sources, were recorded in journals by student assistants. These data reveal five patterned ways that lay persons appropriate and interpret discourses originating in medical and school communities of practice. Conclusions raise issues about the moral opportunities and responsibilities afforded and occluded by specific discourse practices.
Contestation or Collaboration? A Comparative Study of Home–School Relations
Authors: Lewis Amanda E. , Forman Tyrone A.
Published: November 2004

In this article we focus on two public elementary schools that are known to have a great deal of parental participation, examining the relationships parents and school personnel build, and how these relationships unfold. We found that accommodation and community typified parent–teacher interactions at one school, while interactions at the other could be characterized as ambivalent and fraught with competing demands. We argue that social class and school culture interact to shape what is possible for parents and teachers to accomplish in the way of forming strong and meaningful relationships, ultimately leading to quite different outcomes.
Contesting “Culture”: The Perspectives of Hmong American Female Students on Early Marriage
Authors: Ngo Bic
Published: November 2004

This article complicates the meanings of early marriage among Hmong American female students. It moves beyond explanations of cultural difference in the examination and explication of the discourse and practice of early marriage among female adolescents in the Hmong community. Drawing on the perspectives and experiences of Hmong American female students, this article reveals that early marriage may be an expression of students' opposition to the structures of and experiences with school and family. The significance of this analysis is its recognition and illumination of the fluidity of cultural and social practices, and the tensions between and within ethnic groups.
Teaching the Day After: An Assessment of American University Pedagogy in the Wake of September 11, 2001
Authors: Flynn Karen Coen , Boisseau Tracey Jean
Published: November 2004

This article presents data drawn from a confidential, voluntary survey conducted the week after September 11, 2001, at a large, state‐funded Midwestern university, asking university faculty to describe the ways they engaged with students in their classrooms in the wake of the events. Acknowledging the charges against academics by some who felt faculty had abused their responsibilities as teachers and public intellectuals, we recast the debate over the political nature of faculty classroom strategies by setting the questions raised by critics, and by faculty responses to the survey, in the context of the development of mass education in the United States.
Lessons from Imagining the World Trade Center Site: An Examination of Public Space and Culture
Authors: Low Setha M.
Published: November 2004

The World Trade Center site allows anthropologists and educators to reflect on the relationship of public space to culture, and to consider the symbolic importance of this site for imagining the public culture of the future. Public spaces in the city have the potential of being places of learning and democratic practice, but the trend toward increased surveillance and policing of these spaces, exaggerated by September 11, makes this potential difficult to realize. Anthropologists and educators interested in the nexus of education, place, and culture should consider becoming involved in this imagining process and insert themselves into the ongoing debate in order to preserve spaces for learning and democracy.
Being Seen and Heard: Listening to Young Women in Alternative Schools
Authors: Loutzenheiser Lisa W.
Published: November 2004

This interview‐based study examines nine young women's perceptions of their disconnection from high school and reconnection to school in an alternative program. Rather than focusing on a fixed notion of what "at‐risk" students "need," the students and author note the importance of working with the messy, partial, and complicated sense of students' identities to gain better understandings of the schooling experiences of marginalized youth. With an eye toward practice‐ and theory‐oriented representations and sense‐makings, this article presents theoretical constructions of student disconnection and connection, student testimony as one useful pedagogy, and policy implications for schools.
Shaping Education through Diverse Funds of Knowledge: A Look at One Latina Paraeducator's Lived Experiences, Beliefs, and Teaching Practice
Authors: Monzó Lilia D. , Rueda Robert
Published: November 2004

We examine the experiences of one Mexican immigrant paraeducator and how these translate into beliefs and teaching. Generally, the concept of "funds of knowledge" has been used with respect to students. We use this concept more broadly to consider the experiences of teachers as critical to their teaching and as resources for instruction. This paraeducator had markedly different experiences from those of the mainstream teaching force yet numerous factors mitigated against using these for instruction. Our work documents how the multiple sociocultural contexts of teachers' lives and their later beliefs and practices interact in particular institutional settings to impact teaching practices. Increased attention to the study of teachers' cultural beliefs and practices has important implications for the study of schooling and teacher education.