bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Systemic Administration of Argatroban Reduces Secondary Brain Damage in a Rat Model of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Histopathological Assessment
Authors: Nagatsuna Toshikazu , Nomura Sadahiro , Suehiro Eiichi , Fujisawa Hirosuke , Koizumi Hiroyasu , Suzuki Michiyasu
Published: January 2005

This study investigated the effects of argatroban, a thrombin inhibitor, on brain edema and inflammation in a rat intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) model. ICH was induced by injecting collagenase IV into the right caudate nucleus. Argatroban was administered intraperitoneally. Argatroban reduced brain edema from 44.6 to 14.3 µl at 72 h. Infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes at 24 h and monocyte/macrophage at 24 and 72 h was significantly suppressed by argatroban. Argatroban did not increase the volume of hematoma. Systemic administration of argatroban reduced secondary brain damage including edema and inflammation in a rat ICH model.
Sclerosant Therapy as First-Line Treatment for Solitary Liver Cysts
Authors: Poźniczek Marek , Wysocki Andrzej , Bobrzyński Andrzej , Krzywoń Jerzy , Kostarczyk Wojciech , Budzyński Piotr
Published: January 2005

Aim: The aim was to determine the outcome from percutaneous sclerosing treatment of solitary non-parasitic hepatic cysts. Methods: The results of treatment of patients with symptomatic solitary non-parasitic hepatic cysts treated between 1995 and 2000 were reviewed. Results: There were 23 women and one man with a median (range) age of 59 (34–79) years. The median (range) diameter of the cysts was 10 (5–24) cm. Five patients were treated by laparoscopic fenestration ab initio as they also required a cholecystectomy because of gallstones. The remaining 19 patients underwent percutaneous sclerotherapy. In one just aspiration was successful without further treatment. In six contrast leaked from the cyst and five of these had laparoscopic fenestration. Twelve patients had sclerosant treatment with good results at a median (range) follow-up of 35 (6–60) months in 10 patients. Good results were also obtained in 10 of the 12 patients who had fenestration.
The Efficacy of Linear Accelerator Radiosurgery in the Management of Patients with Cushing’s Disease
Authors: Devin Jessica K. , Allen George S. , Cmelak Anthony J. , Duggan Dennis M. , Blevins Lewis S.
Published: January 2005

We identified 35 patients who had undergone stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for their biochemically proven Cushing’s disease in order to assess the efficacy of SRS with regard to control of hypercortisolism, improvement of clinical features and prevention of tumor progression, and subsequent incidence of hypopituitarism. Seventeen (49%) patients achieved control of their cortisol levels following SRS; the mean time to normalization was 7.5 months (range: 1–33). Four (19%) patients experienced recurrent hypercortisolism at a mean time of 35.5 months following therapy (range: 17–64). Control of tumor progression was achieved in 91% patients. Fourteen (40%) patients demonstrated a new pituitary deficiency following SRS. Our results suggest that cortisol levels are normalized more efficiently and with a lower recurrence rate with SRS than with conventional fractionated external beam radiotherapy (EBT). We have confirmed the near 100% tumor control rate reported with SRS. The percentage of patients developing pituitary insufficiency following SRS is less than that of patients having undergone EBT; however, deficits occurred up to 10 years posttreatment. We advocate the use of SRS as the primary therapeutic modality in those patients who are poor surgical candidates, or as the adjunct treatment to microsurgery in eliminating residual tumor cells or disease that is not easily amenable to resection.
Functional promoter upstream p53 regulatory sequence of IGFBP3 that is silenced by tumor specific methylation
Authors: Hanafusa Tadashi , Shinji Toshiyuki , Shiraha Hidenori , Nouso Kazuhiro , Iwasaki Yoshiaki , Yumoto Eichiro , Ono Toshiro , Koide Norio
Published: January 2005

Background

Insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-3 functions as a carrier of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) in circulation and a mediator of the growth suppression signal in cells. There are two reported p53 regulatory regions in the IGFBP3 gene; one upstream of the promoter and one intronic. We previously reported a hot spot of promoter hypermethylation of IGFBP-3 in human hepatocellular carcinomas and derivative cell lines. As the hot spot locates at the putative upstream p53 consensus sequences, these p53 consensus sequences are really functional is a question to be answered.

Methods

In this study, we examined the p53 consensus sequences upstream of the IGFBP-3 promoter for the p53 induced expression of IGFBP-3. Deletion, mutagenesis, and methylation constructs of IGFBP-3 promoter were assessed in the human hepatoblastoma cell line HepG2 for promoter activity.

Results

Deletions and mutations of these sequences completely abolished the expression of IGFBP-3 in the presence of p53 overexpression. In vitro methylation of these p53 consensus sequences also suppressed IGFBP-3 expression. In contrast, the expression of IGFBP-3 was not affected in the absence of p53 overexpression. Further, we observed by electrophoresis mobility shift assay that p53 binding to the promoter region was diminished when methylated.

Conclusion

From these observations, we conclude that four out of eleven p53 consensus sequences upstream of the IGFBP-3 promoter are essential for the p53 induced expression of IGFBP-3, and hypermethylation of these sequences selectively suppresses p53 induced IGFBP-3 expression in HepG2 cells.
Evaluating the evidence for models of life course socioeconomic factors and cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review
Authors: Pollitt Ricardo A , Rose Kathryn M , Kaufman Jay S
Published: January 2005

Background

A relatively consistent body of research supports an inverse graded relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). More recently, researchers have proposed various life course SES hypotheses, which posit that the combination, accumulation, and/or interactions of different environments and experiences throughout life can affect adult risk of CVD. Different life course designs have been utilized to examine the impact of SES throughout the life course. This systematic review describes the four most common life course hypotheses, categorizes the studies that have examined the associations between life course SES and CVD according to their life course design, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the different designs, and summarizes the studies' findings.

Methods

This research reviewed 49 observational studies in the biomedical literature that included socioeconomic measures at a time other than adulthood as independent variables, and assessed subclinical CHD, incident CVD morbidity and/or mortality, and/or the prevalence of traditional CVD risk factors as their outcomes. Studies were categorized into four groups based upon life course design and analytic approach. The study authors' conclusions and statistical tests were considered in summarizing study results.

Results

Study results suggest that low SES throughout the life course modestly impacts CVD risk factors and CVD risk. Specifically, studies reviewed provided moderate support for the role of low early-life SES and elevated levels of CVD risk factors and CVD morbidity and mortality, little support for a unique influence of social mobility on CVD, and consistent support for the detrimental impact of the accumulation of negative SES experiences/conditions across the life course on CVD risk.

Conclusions

While the basic life course SES study designs have various methodologic and conceptual limitations, they provide an important approach from which to examine the influence of social factors on CVD development. Some limitations may be addressed through the analysis of study cohorts followed from childhood, the evaluation of CVD risk factors in early and middle adulthood, and the use of multiple SES measures and multiple life course analysis approaches in each life course study.
English prototyped small clauses in the interlanguage of Chinese/Taiwanese adult learners
Authors: Chen Marina Yueh-ching
Published: January 2005

This study of consider and find attempts to shed light on second language acquisition of English small clause complements, as in we consider [Mary intelligent] and we find [Mary interesting]. It examines how learners’ First language (Mandarin Chinese) interacts with the target language. The analysis is based on the results of two kinds of tasks: grammaticality judgements, intended to elicit nonnative participants’ implicit knowledge as compared with the responses of native participants; and oral translations to test their explicit access to this knowledge. The results indicate that Chinese learners tend to avoid sentences that contain small clause complements. A related finding is that, like small clause complements, infinitival complements are under-generated and not preferred by the subjects; tensed clauses and clauses introduced by that are preferred. It is suggested that learners’ difficulty with small clause complements involves underlying first language transfer. On the other hand, the difficulty with infinitive clauses may be related to universal developmental order, as the interpretation for an NP involves an extra mechanism, Exceptional Case Marking.
Constraining second language word order optionality: scrambling in advanced English-German and Japanese-German interlanguage
Authors: Hopp Holger
Published: January 2005

This study documents knowledge of UG-mediated aspects of optionality in word order in the second language (L2) German of advanced English and Japanese speakers ( n = 39). A bimodal grammaticality judgement task, which controlled for context and intonation, was administered to probe judgements on a set of scrambling, topicalization and remnant movement constructions. Given first language (L1) differences and Poverty of the Stimulus, English and Japanese learners face distinct learnability challenges. Assuming Minimalist grammatical architecture (Chomsky, 1995), convergence on the target language would entail the unimpaired availability of Universal Grammar (UG), i.e., computational principles and functional features beyond their L1 instantiation. Irrespective of L1, the L2 groups are found to establish systematic native-like relative distinctions. In addition, L1 transfer effects are attested for judgements on scrambling. It is argued that these findings imply that interlanguage grammars are fully UG constrained, whilst initially informed by L1 properties.
Lunatic fringe null female mice are infertile due to defects in meiotic maturation
Authors: Hahn Katherine L. , Johnson Joshua , Beres Brian J. , Howard Sheena , Wilson-Rawls Jeanne
Published: January 2005

We have demonstrated that Notch genes are expressed in developing mammalian ovarian follicles. Lunatic fringe is an important regulator of Notch signaling. In this study, data are presented that demonstrate that radical fringe and lunatic fringe are expressed in the granulosa cells of developing follicles. Lunatic fringe null female mice were found to be infertile. Histological analysis of the lunatic fringe-deficient ovary demonstrated aberrant folliculogenesis. Furthermore, oocytes from these mutants did not complete meiotic maturation. This is a novel observation because this is the first report describing a meiotic defect that results from mutations in genes that are expressed in the somatic granulosa cells and not the oocytes. This represents a new role for the Notch signaling pathway and lunatic fringe in mammalian folliculogenesis.
ceh-16/engrailedpatterns the embryonic epidermis ofCaenorhabditis elegans
Authors: Cassata Giuseppe , Shemer Gidi , Morandi Paolo , Donhauser Roland , Podbilewicz Benjamin , Baumeister Ralf
Published: January 2005

engrailed is a homeobox gene essential for developmental functions such as differentiation of cell populations and the onset of compartment boundaries in arthropods and vertebrates. We present the first functional study on engrailed in an unsegmented animal: the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. In the developing worm embryo, ceh-16/engrailed is predominantly expressed in one bilateral row of epidermal cells (the seam cells). We show that ceh-16/engrailedprimes a specification cascade through three mechanisms: (1) it suppresses fusion between seam cells and other epidermal cells by repressing eff-1/fusogen expression; (2) it triggers the differentiation of the seam cells through different factors, including the GATA factor elt-5; and (3) it segregates the seam cells into a distinct lateral cellular compartment, repressing cell migration toward dorsal and ventral compartments.
Analysis of Sound Transmission Loss of Double-Leaf Walls in the Low-Frequency Range Using the Finite Element Method
Authors: Davidsson Peter , Brunskog Jonas , Wernberg Per-Anders , Sandberg Göran , Hammer Per
Published: January 2005

The sound transmission loss of double walls in the low-frequency range is studied by means of structure-acoustic finite element analysis. The analysis simulates standard experiments to determine sound transmission loss of walls. The model is a detailed description of the geometry of the system, including both the double wall and the rooms acoustically coupled to the wall. The frequency range studied is in the 1/3-octave bands between 40 Hz and 200 Hz. Aparametric study is performed to investigate the influence on the sound transmission loss of various material and geometric properties of the wall and the dimensions of the connecting rooms. The model confirms the importance of primary structural resonance and the size of the connecting rooms in determining the degree of sound transmission loss. The primary structural resonance is mainly determined by the distance between the wall studs and the properties of the sheeting material. Wall length is also important; if the length is such that the wall studs of the last wall cavity are closer together than those of the other wall cavities, the primary structural resonance will be at a higher frequency, thereby decreasing sound transmission loss over a broader frequency range. Similar dimensions of the connecting rooms results in poor transmission loss, mainly at frequencies below 100 Hz (for the wall and room dimensions studied here).
Developing an Acoustic School Design: Steps to Improve Hearing and Listening at Schools
Authors: Hagen Mechthild , Kahlert Joachim , Hemmer-Schanze Christiane , Huber Ludowika , Meis Markus
Published: January 2005

Previous research has demonstrated the considerable influence of acoustics on learning and acquisition of knowledge, on social behavior and on the psychic condition of pupils and teachers. This paper describes an approach to an acoustic school design, which includes the improvement of the acoustic conditions of classrooms as well as of the social conditions. Various measures were developed and explored within the project “GanzOhrSein” by the educational department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. The conclusion is drawn, that it is not enough to improve the room-acoustic measures to contribute to an atmosphere in which listening and in consequence learning is facilitated. A school design should combine technical measures with educational activities to support listening at schools and so contribute to improve individual learning conditions and to diminish stress on students and teachers.
The Contribution of Roller Shutters to Noise Insulation of Façades
Authors: Patrício Jorge , Bragança Luís
Published: January 2005

This paper describes an experimental study of the influence of roller shutters on noise insulation of façades. The study is based on the results of a set of tests carried out in laboratory and in a new residential building, which is typical of Portuguese cooperative construction. The window system (glazing and frame, plus the roller shutter) was first tested in a laboratory. In situ, the tests were performed in two rooms having different window dimensions. The measurements were in accordance with international standards, using a loudspeaker as noise source. The considered shutters positions were: totally opened, half closed, partially closed and completely closed. Additionally, in situ measurements with the window open were also done. The results show that the façade transmission loss curve is affected by shutter position. The investigation highlighted the importance of shutter position when the window is open and the discrepancy between laboratory and in situ measured values.
Estimating Mid-Frequency Effects of Aperture Diffraction on Reverberant-Energy Decay in Coupled-Room Auditoria
Authors: Summers Jason E. , Torres Rendell R. , Shimizu Yasushi
Published: January 2005

Effects of aperture diffraction on reverberant energy decay in coupled-room auditoria are estimated at mid frequencies, defined as frequencies above the Schroeder frequencies of subrooms, but having wavelengths of the order of the characteristic dimensions of apertures. Hybrid models are developed that account for wave effects at apertures but treat sound fields in subrooms using high-frequency models. The models give more accurate estimates of the random-incidence power transmission coefficient. These estimates agree well with independent measurements of circular apertures in thin, hard screens. When used to predict the effects of diffraction in a schematic representation of typical coupled-room auditoria, new mid-frequency models suggest that effects of diffraction on decay curves, while smaller than variations due to input-parameter uncertainty, are large enough to be audible.
The Fiesta of the Word: The Zapatista Uprising and Radical Democracy in Mexico
Authors: Nash June
Published: January 2005

As they assert their rights to land, political participation, and their distinctive cultures, Mayas of Chiapas are redefining the modernist ideals of justice, liberty, and democracy for a postmodern age. Accustomed to cultural diversity, they have learned to live without attempting to eradicate or dominate the others in their midst. Their vision of progress still contains the communal values found in mythopoetic traditions from the preconquest period. But far from being primordial remnants of the past, these values have been enacted continually in everyday life since the conquest and may offer a model for pluriethnic and pluripolitical institutions as we enter the third millennium.
An Avian and Aphrodisian Reading of Homer's Odyssey
Authors: Friedrich Paul
Published: January 2005

The meaning, even the sheer presence, of birds in the Odyssey has been ignored by all but a few scholars. A similar statement could be made about an aphrodisian reading of the text. Yet Homer felt that birds were deeply significant, often as symbols of Aphrodite. Examination of these meanings leads to a unique understanding of essential, underlying values in Homeric culture. Such efforts are consonant with the anthropological goal of understanding how culturally defined natural phenomena work in the articulation, expression, and condensation of powerful, culturally defined emotions.
Paradoxes, Problems, and Opportunities in Zaire
Authors: MacGaffey Janet
Published: January 2005

Zaire: The Cycle of the Serpent. 1992. 58 minutes, color. Directed by Thierry Michel. First Run/Icarus Films, 153 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014. (212) 727‐1711.

The Last Colonials. 1995. 61 minutes, color. Directed by Thierry Michel. First Run/Icarus Films, 153 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014. (212) 727‐1711.
A People's History of Human Biodiversity
Authors: Landau Misia
Published: January 2005

Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race and History. Jonathan Marks. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1994. 321 pp.
The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Herte and Its Legacy
Authors: Stevens Phillips
Published: January 2005

The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Herte and Its Legacy, Robert Parkin. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. 226 pp.
Charles Darwin Voyaging: A Biography
Authors: Rodseth Lars
Published: January 2005

Charles Darwin Voyaging:. Biography, Janet Browne Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 605 pp.
Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities
Authors: Chen Nancy N.
Published: January 2005

Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities. Stuart J. Youngner. Renee C. Fox. and Laurence J. O'Connell. eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.290 pp.
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Authors: Lindholm Charles
Published: January 2005

Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. David B. Edwards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 307 pp.
Inside the Drama House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Authors: Wadley Susan S.
Published: January 2005

Inside the Drama House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India. Stuart Blackburn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 291 pp.
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
Authors: Hoskins Janet
Published: January 2005

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Laurie Sears. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pp.
Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins oflnca Sky Watching
Authors: Urton Gary
Published: January 2005

Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins oflnca Sky Watching. Brian S. Bauer and David S. P. Dearborn. Austin: University of Texas Press,1995 .220 pp.
Establishing the Fact of Whiteness
Authors: Hartigan John
Published: January 2005

Surveying public discourses on race, one suspects that anthropologists and academics are struggling to keep pace with the innovations and obsessions this subject generates in popular culture. But academic discussions of whiteness and the way it operates may provide a means of altering the terms of racial debates. As an analytical object, whiteness is being established as a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems of racial inequality. Studies of whiteness are demonstrating that whites benefit from a host of social arrangements and institutional operations that seem, to whites, to have no racial basis.
Ambiguating Agency: The Case of Malinowski's Ghost
Authors: Battaglia Debbora
Published: January 2005

Agency is useful to people not so much for controlling a site of authorship or authority as for ambiguating social relationships and authority. Both indigenous and anthropological practices of ambiguation are critical sites of discourse that allow the gaps and ruptures between epistemologies the possibility of positive value.
Gender and the Deconstruction nf the Race Concept
Authors: Lieberman Leonard
Published: January 2005

Consensus over the utility and validity of the race concept no longer exists in anthropology. More anthropologists today reject the concept than accept it. Women have played a significant role in the concept's deconstruction. Factors that have contributed to this change include the discipline's concepts, traditions, and domain; new data; new research paradigms; feminist viewpoints; biographical histories; and the external social milieu.
The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
Authors: Kulick Don
Published: January 2005

The essay discusses how an analysis of the gendered practices of Brazilian transgendered prostitutes (travestis) can illuminate the ways in which gender in Latin America is bound up with sexuality. The article suggests that the particular configurations of sex, gender, and sexuality in Brazil and other Latin American societies differ importantly from the dominant configurations in northern Europe and North America and generate different arrangements of gender, consisting not of men and women, but of men and not‐men.
Textual Interpretation in the Amazon
Authors: Langdon E. Jean
Published: January 2005

Yumpari: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth. Geraldo Reichel‐Dolmatoff. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. 300 pp.

Cool Tobacco, Sweet Coca: Teachings of an Indian Sage from, the Colombian Amazon. Hipólito Candre and Juan Alvaro Echeverri. Devon, England: Themis Books, 1996. 294 pp.
Anthropology as an Agonistic Discipline
Authors: Boon James A.
Published: January 2005

Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge. Richard Fardon. ed. New York: Routledge, 1995. 233 pp.
Les Ahiarmiut: À Vécart des Inuit Caribous
Authors: Dorais Louis‐Jacques
Published: January 2005

Les Ahiarmiut: À Vécart des Inuit Caribous. Yvon Csonka. Neuchàtel, Switzerland: Éditions Victor Attinger, 1995. 501 pp.
A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Authors: Prins Harald E. L.
Published: January 2005

History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. Ingeborg Marshall. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1996. 640 pp.
Athabaskan Language Studies: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Young
Authors: Ritter John T.
Published: January 2005

Athabaskan Language Studies: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Young. Eloise Jelinek Sally Midgette. Keren Rice. and Leslie Saxon. eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. 490 pp.
The Social and Interactional Dimensions of Human‐Computer Interfaces
Authors: Suchman Lucy
Published: January 2005

The Social and Interactional Dimensions of Human‐ Computer Interfaces. Peter J. Thomas. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 268 pp.
Force of Habit: Exploring Everyday Culture
Authors: Stromberg Peter G.
Published: January 2005

Force of Habit: Exploring Everyday Culture. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren. eds. Lund Studies in European Ethnology, 1. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1996. 172 pp.
Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols
Authors: Balzer Marjorie Mandelstam
Published: January 2005

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols. Caroline Humphrey. with Urgunge Onon. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996.396 pp.
San Nicol´s de Zurite: Religion and Daily Life of a Peruvian Andean Village in a Changing World
Authors: Lyons Barry J.
Published: January 2005

San Nicol´s de Zurite: Religion and Daily Life of. Peruvian Andean Village in. Changing World. Fred Spier. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995. 130 pp.
Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain
Authors: Frey Nancy L.
Published: January 2005

Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain. William A. Christian. Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 220 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives
Authors: Wautischer Helmut
Published: January 2005

Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives. Edited by Frank S. Kessel. Pamela M. Cole. and Dale L. Johnson. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992. 136 Pp. $16.50 (cloth).
The Stuff of Dreams
Authors: LaBerge Stephen
Published: January 2005

A model of dreaming is developed along the following lines: A primary function of the brain is to predict and control environmental events. In order to do so, it constructs a model of the world. The waking brain bases its model primarily on current sensory information, and secondarily on contextual and historical information. In contrast, because the sleeping brain acquires little information from the senses, sources of information that are secondary in the waking state become predominant in the sleeping state. I believe dreams result from the sleeping brain using internal information (memories, expectations, fears, desires, etc.) to create a simulation of the world. According to this theory, dreaming is the result of the same perceptual and mental processes that we use to comprehend the world when awake. From this perspective, to perceive is to dream, or more precisely, perception is dreaming constrained by sensory information; dreaming is perception independent of sensory input, and thus external constraints. Data is presented indicating that typical dreaming and waking experience are less distinct than often assumed, but that dreaming exhibits a wider range of qualities of consciousness than the normal waking state.
The Straight Path
Authors: Galanti Geri‐Ann
Published: January 2005

The Straight Path. Richard Katz. New York: Addison‐Wesley, 1993. 413 pp. $27.95 (cloth), $39.95 in Canada; $15.00 (paper).
Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Authors: Constable Nicole
Published: January 2005

Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong are viewed as sexually threatening and thus in need of strict discipline. In this article I present and analyze the discourse on the sexuality of Filipina domestic workers, arguing that their reputation is linked primarily to their ambiguous social and class identities, and to broad changes in the familial and economic landscape of Hong Kong. Clothing serves as one forum in which sexuality is expressed, discipline is enacted and resisted, and various forms of power are exercised, [sexuality, Filipina domestic workers, discipline, resistance, clothing, Hong Kong].
Snakes in the Ladies' Room: Navajo Views on Personhood and Effect
Authors: Schwarz Maureen Trudelle
Published: January 2005

In the summer of 1994 snakes were sighted in a public restroom facility on the Navajo reservation. In this article I analyze the reactions of Navajo involved in this incident in order to illustrate the philosophical principles governing Navajo views of the cultural construction of the human body, self, personhood, and effect. The philosophical system, which provides a cultural context for explaining this disturbing event, is in part based on the principle of synecdoche—the premise that parts of the body (hair, fingernails) and bodily secretions (saliva, blood, skin oil, urine) retain lifelong influence and can thereby affect the well‐being of the individual from whom they originated for a long time after their detachment or expulsion. This analysis of the Navajo case contributes to broader disciplinary concerns about the opposition of “self” and “person” found in classic anthropological discourse, [self, the human body, personhood, effect, Navajo, Native America]
The Rites of Domination: Practice, Process, and Structure in Lower Courts
Authors: Lazarus‐Black Mindie
Published: January 2005

In this article I develop a model explaining how certain practices and processes that operate in and around lower courts are shaped by and support class and gender inequities in the wider society. Analyzing an Antiguan case for child support, I show that everyday activities in the courts reproduce rather than eliminate hegemony, and that they have complex and contradictory consequences for litigants. I distinguish 12 “rites of domination” to explain why reform of prevailing structures of domination is so difficult. [Caribbean, structures of domination and resistance, legal processes, class, gender].
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance
Authors: Stoeltje Beverly J.
Published: January 2005

Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, Peggy Phelan. London: Routtedge, 1993. xi + 207 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
About the House: Lévi‐Strauss and Beyond
Authors: George Kenneth M.
Published: January 2005

About the House: Lévi‐Strauss and Beyond. Janet Carsten and Stephen Hughjones, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiv + 300 pp., figures, notes, photographs, references, contributors, index.
Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives on Frontiers
Authors: Ninetto Amy
Published: January 2005

Border Approaches: Anthropological Permanages spectives on Frontiers. Hastings Donna and Thomas M. Wilson, eds. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. vi + 128 pp., notes, references, Index, contributors.
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World
Authors: Dumit Joseph
Published: January 2005

God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. Christopher P. Toumey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xl + 289 pp., bibliography, index.
North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture
Authors: McMullen Ann
Published: January 2005

North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture. Raymond J. Demallie, and Alfonso Ortiz, eds. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. + 430 pp., figures, tables, contributors, references, Index.
In The Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change
Authors: Cross Joan E.
Published: January 2005

in the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change. Reée C. Fox. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994. xii + 339 pp., photos, Index.
The Shona and Their Neighbors
Authors: Werbner Richard
Published: January 2005

The Shona and Their Neighbors. David Beach. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994. xvii + 246 pp., maps, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Behind The Courtyard Door: The Dally Life of Tribes Women in Northern Morocco
Authors: Joseph Terri Brint
Published: January 2005

Behind the Courtyard Door: The Dally Life of Tribeswomen in Northern Morocco. Ursula Kingsmill Hart. Ipswich, MA: Ipswich Press, 1994. 166 pp., illustrations, maps, photographs.
From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba In to Sudanese Society
Authors: Ibrahim Abdullahi A.
Published: January 2005

From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba Into Sudanese Society. Leif O. Manger. Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1994. 173 pp. glossary, bibliography, index.
After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture
Authors: El‐Haj Nadia Abu
Published: January 2005

After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture. Ammiel Alcalay. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. xi + 336 pp., notes, index.
Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic of China
Authors: Chen Nancy Nu‐Chun
Published: January 2005

Training the Body for China: Sports In the Moral Order of the People's Republic of China. Susan Brownell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xi + 393 pp.
Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Authors: Nourse Jennifer W.
Published: January 2005

Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Alhwa Ong and Michael Q. Peletz, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide
Authors: Hinton Alexander Laban
Published: January 2005

More than one and one half million Cambodians died from disease, starvation, overwork, and execution under Khmer Rouge rule (1975–79). To help redress the lack of anthropological research on the origins of such large‐scale genocides, in this article I explore how the Cambodian cultural model of disproportionate revenge, in combination with Communist Party ideology, provided a cultural template for the extreme violence that took place during this period, [genocide, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, violence, revenge, cultural models, Marxist ideology]
An Athapaskan way of knowing: Chipewyan Ontology
Authors: Smith David M.
Published: January 2005

The ontology of those Canadian Chipewyan who still actively hunt, fish, and trap is based on the assumption that one must maintain a harmonious communication with nature, especially with animal persons. To this end, emphasis is placed on paying attention to the full complement of holistically interacting senses, giving more attention to the intuitive and affective realms than is typical for Euro‐American ontologies. No single sensorium dominates metaphorically; greatest validity is given to firsthand, experiential knowledge attained in waking life or in dreams, with the powerful stories of the elders serving as guides to understanding. Chipewyan thought is monistic—there are no human/nature, mind/body, thought/action, or spirit/matter dualisms. There is a definite cognitive connection among the inseparability of the senses, an implicit monistic philosophy, the understanding that individual can never be separate from society, social egalitarianism, and the belief in the need for maintaining harmonious communication with animal persons. [Chipewyan, ontology, perception, inkonze, monism]
Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge
Authors: Romagosa Frank
Published: January 2005

Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge. RICHARD FARDON, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. x + 233 pp., contributors, notes, references, name index, subject index.
Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka—Politics, Culture, and History
Authors: Guneratne Arjun
Published: January 2005

Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka—Politics, Culture, and History. MICHAEL ROBERTS. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995. xvi + 377 pp., plates, tables, charts, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index.
Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries
Authors: Karlström Mikael
Published: January 2005

Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. P. T. W. BAXTER, JAN HUTLIN, and ALESSANDRO TRIULZI, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1994. 310 pp., glossary, references, contributors, appended maps.
Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens/Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435–353 BC
Authors: Lyons Deborah
Published: January 2005

Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens. DAVID COHEN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii + 214 pp., notes, bibliography essay, bibliography, index.

Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435–353 BC. LYNETTE G. MITCHELL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 248 pp., notes, bibliography, appendixes, indexes.
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community in Central France
Authors: Reed‐Danahay Deborah
Published: January 2005

Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community in Central France. PERLE MOHL. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanuum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1997 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index.
Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
Authors: Kahn Susan
Published: January 2005

Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception. SARAH FRANKLIN. London and New York: Roultedge, 1997. xii + 252 pp., bibliography, notes, index.
Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala
Authors: Hawkins John P.
Published: January 2005

Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala. EDWARD F. FISCHER and MCKENNA BROWN, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. viii + 245 pp., maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society
Authors: Harkin Michael E.
Published: January 2005

Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society. RONALD NIEZEN. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., figures, references.
The Work of Memory in Madagascar
Authors: Cole Jennifer
Published: January 2005

This article examines the practices through which the Betsimisaraka of Madagascar attempt to recode, assimilate, and contain the influences of the outside world. The Betsimisaraka endured colonization by the Merina and the French for 130 years. They rarely refer to this colonial past except on certain occasions when it is powerfully evoked. They prefer instead to commemorate ancestors. A processual view of remembering and forgetting productively complicates anthropological understandings of the colonization of consciousness and the consciousness of colonization, revealing how local cultural autonomy can be partially maintained through the work of memory. [Madagascar, memory, forgetting, colonization, Bartlett]
The Shaman's Needle: Development, Shamanic Agency, and Intermedicality in Aguaruna Lands, Peru
Authors: Greene Shane
Published: January 2005

In this article I juxtapose and integrate three distinct but interrelated lines of analysis: (1) a critique of “development” with respect to its (misconceptions of ethnomedicines as epistemologically and practically (that is, culturally) static; (2) an explication of how shamanic curing epitomizes such perceived stasis; and (3) an ethnographic analysis of a specific shamanic session (originally presented by Brown [1988]) conducted by an Aguaruna shaman whose discourse and practice, when contextual ized and fully explored, undermine (misconceptions of stasis. The article employs a notion of intermedicality to examine medical development, demonstrating the important social agency executed on the part of native practitioners. I discuss implications for theorizing indigenous culture and the importance of an ethnographic approach, [development, shamanism, ethnomedicine, culture change, medical anthropology, Amazonia]
Descent, Alliance, and Political Order among Akha
Authors: Kammerer Cornelia Ann
Published: January 2005

This article explores the way patrilineal descent and affinity intersect and interlock with the political system among Tibeto‐Burman‐speaking Akha highlanders of mainland Southeast Asia. In contrast to Leach's famous work on the Kachin of Burma, the Akha case suggests that asymmetric alliance is not only compatible with egalitarian political organization but can also be constitutive of it. Uncovering the cultural nexus between descent and affinity and the structural linkage between asymmetric alliance and political egalitarianism requires a kinship analysis that is also an analysis of local constructions of gender, [kinship, asymmetric alliance, gender, political systems, comparison, Southeast Asia, Akha]
Global Desirings and Translocal Loves: Transgendering and Same‐Sex Sexualities in the Southern Philippines
Authors: Johnson Mark
Published: January 2005

This article explores male transgendering and same‐sex sexualities in the southern Philippines. In particular, the article focuses on the translocal context of nonmainstream genders and sexual identities. I describe a range of homosexual encounters and elaborate on transactional scenarios, each of which has significant implications for the way in which the respective partners are gendered. In addition to these transactional forms, I discuss the various real and imagined worlds with which they are associated and within which they are set. The article thus challenges the trope of cultural particularity in anthropological accounts of gender and sexual diversity, arguing that gender and sexual identities are the product of relations that extend beyond any particular locale, [gender, sexuality, translocality, cartographies, cultural imagination]
The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice
Authors: Gottlieb Alma
Published: January 2005

The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice. BRAD WEISS. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. viii + 250 pp., maps, figures, plates, references, index.
Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self
Authors: Cohen Lawrence
Published: January 2005

Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. STEVEN M. PARISH. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii + 342 pp., maps, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Laws of Desire? Race, Sexuality, and Power in Male Martinican Sexual Narratives
Authors: Murray David A. B.
Published: January 2005

In Martinique, both homosexual and heterosexual narratives of sexual desire reveal the centrality of an orthodox masculinity as a hegemonic force in public articulations about social relations and identity. Race also figures prominently in these narratives, but no straightforward correlative relations exist between race and other sociological categories such as class or education. In this article, I argue for the necessity of recognizing the influence of Martinique's neocolonial relationship with France. This relationship continues to affect cultural and political ideologies. I also demonstrate the influence of context in determining identity choices in narrative constructions, {homosexuality, heterosexuality, race, masculinity, Martinique]
Possibilities for Migration Anthropology
Authors: O'Neal Colleen G.
Published: January 2005

Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 1975‐1995. JAMES M. FREEMAN. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. ix. 141 pp., references.

From the Workers' State to the Golden State: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in California. STEVEN J. GOLD. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xix. 138 pp., references.

New Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin. JO ANN KOLTYK. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xiv. 146 pp., notes, photographs, references.

From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City. JOHANNA LESSINIGER. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon. 1995. xvi. 166 pp., references.

Salvadorans in Suburbia: Symbiosis and Conflict. SARAH J. MAHLER. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xxix. 137 pp., notes, references.

An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City. MAXINE L. MARGOLIS. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xiii. 140 pp., notes, photographs, postscript, references.

Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York. PYONG GAP MIN. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. + 133 pp., photographs, references.

Visa for. Dream: Dominicans in the United Slates. PATRICIA R. PESSAR. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xvi. 98 pp., notes, references.

Pride against Prejudice: Haitians in the United States. ALEX STEPICK. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. + 134 pp., note, references.

Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship: The New Chinese Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. BERNARD WONG. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. viii. 120 pp., references.
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town/ Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico
Authors: Restall Matthew
Published: January 2005

The War for the Heart and Soul of. Highland Maya Town. ROBERT S. CARLSEN. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xvi. 206 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index.

Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico. BETTY BERNICE FAUST. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1998. xxviii. 190 pp., references, index, photographs.
Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society
Authors: Mahmoud Mohamed A.
Published: January 2005

Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society. JOHN R. BOWEN. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. xv. 358 pp., maps, photographs, diagrams, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
Authors: Gregory Christopher
Published: January 2005

Kinship, Networks, and Exchange. THOMAS SCHWEIZER and DOUGLAS WHITE. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. vii. 337 pp., contributors, references, index.
Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt
Authors: Andes Karen
Published: January 2005

Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt. MARCIA C. INHORN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. + 296 pp., notes, glossary, references, index.
Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences
Authors: Smith Daniel J.
Published: January 2005

Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences. SARA HARKNESS and CHARLES M. SUPER. eds. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. xiv. 558 pp., notes, references, contributors, indexes.
Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove
Authors: Maynard Kent
Published: January 2005

Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove. ERNEST GELLNER. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. xvi. 260 pp., preface, acknowledgments, index.
L 'Histoire de Sàbé et de Ses Rois (République du Bénin)/ Nom, Famille et Lignage Chez les Sàbé (République du Bénin)
Authors: Flynn Donna K.
Published: January 2005

'Histoire de Sàbé et de Ses Rois (République du Bénin). MONTSERRAT PALAU MARTÍ. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1992. 345 pp., index, bibliography, glossary, English summary, tables, maps, summary in Spanish.

Nom, Famille et Lignage Chez les Sàbé (République du Bénin). MONTSERRAT PALAU MARTÍ. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1992. 369 pp., index, bibliography, glossary, English summary, maps, summary in Spanish.