bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Twice‐Born, Once Conceived: Meaning Construction and Cultural Cognition
Authors: Shore Bradd
Published: November 2004

Cultural cognition is the product of two different sorts of meaning: (a) the (objective) semiotic organization of cultural texts or models, and (b) the (subjective) processes of meaning construction through which cultural symbols become available to consciousness as “experience.” This article proposes a way to bridge these two kinds of meaning by considering how cultural knowledge is grounded in sensory experience. Several cognitive processes (schematization, synesthesia, secondary intersubjectivity) are proposed for linking the objectively available schemata found in cultural practices and the processes of meaning construction by which individuals appropriate symbols to consciousness. The nature of the relation between public symbols and individual experience is discussed in relation to a number of current issues in post‐structuralist culture theory.
Samoan Moral Discourse and the Loto
Authors: Mageo Jeannette Marie
Published: November 2004

An old adage in anthropology holds that societies perpetuate their moral codes by the manner in which people raise their children, but socialization is far more than the straightforward passing on of culture. Rather, culture acquisition is a highly conflictual process, rich in contested meanings. What other theorists have shown on the level of cultural systems, this analysis intends to show at the level of micro‐interactive processes. The article examines Samoan child‐rearing routines, subjective reactions to these routines, the manner in which these reactions are in conformity and in resistance to cultural norms, and the discourse through which Samoan society finally strives to temper the resisting subject. By taking the conflictual dimensions of the socialization process into account, the article describes and analyzes indigenous perspectives on Samoan temperament. These perspectives have the potential to reconcile certain vehement disagreements that characterize the ethnography of the self in Samoa.
The Cultural Topography of Wealth: Commodity Paths and the Structure of Property in Rural Lesotho
Authors: Ferguson James
Published: November 2004

Discussions of poverty and wealth often assume that wealth is a measurable substance, the possession of which can be indexed on a linear scale, from high to low. This article contests this implicit assumption, arguing that wealth‐holding is always complicated by the fact that exchange is culturally regulated, and guided along approved paths. An analysis of domains of wealth in a rural Lesotho village illustrates the point. Wealth‐holding here is clearly unequal, but cultural, legal, and moral paths governing economic exchanges between different categories of property mean that the holdings of different households are in important ways incomparable, and that their wealth is different in kind, and not only in amount. The attempt to locate households economically in such a setting thus requires mapping a politicocultural “topography” of channels facilitating the flow of commodity exchange, dams obstructing, slowing, or filtering it, and furrows temporarily diverting the flow from one channel or dam into another. A meaningful ranking of wealth‐holding must include a cultural analysis of commodity paths and the structure of property.
Museum Exhibit and Photographic Book Reviews
Authors: Griset Suzanne
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Money: Tokens of Value from Around the World. Burton Benedict

Money: Tokens of Value from Around the World. A catalog of the exhibition by Burton Benedict.
Lewis H. Morgan and His Contemporaries
Authors: Tooker Elisabeth
Published: November 2004

How Lewis H. Morgan came to do what he did has been much commented on, not always accurately. Manuscripts preserved in the papers Morgan bequeathed to the University of Rochester correct these errors, provide insights into how Morgan went about doing research, and suggest the relevance of his work to issues still being discussed.
Book Reviews
Authors: Langdon John H.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. Frank Spencer

The Piltdown Papers, 1908–1955: The Correspondence and Other Documents Relating to the Piltdown Forgery. Frank Spencer.
Language and Culture on the North Coast of New Guinea
Authors: Welsch Robert L. , Terrell John , Nadolski John A.
Published: November 2004

Statistical analysis of variability in assemblages of material culture obtained at different villages on the North Coast of New Guinea indicates that similarities and differences among these assemblages are most strongly associated with geographic propinquity, irrespective of linguistic affinities. When assemblage similarity is adjusted for the effect of distance, diversity in material culture appears unrelated to the linguistic relationships of these communities. This study shows that similarity in material culture assemblages can mask marked heterogeneity in language. Language, however, is frequently used to index people in Melanesia on the assumption that language is a useful key to their other human characteristics. This analysis does not lend support to this common practice, and it has implications for how prehistoric cultural complexes in Melanesia are defined and interpreted.
Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality
Authors: Rodman Margaret C.
Published: November 2004

The concept of “voice” has received considerable attention in anthropology recently. This article suggests that the concept of “place” requires a concomitant rethinking. It explores ways in which place, like voice and time, is a politicized social and cultural construct. It applies insights from geography and sociology to the anthropological study of place, drawing on research in Melanesia, including the author's fieldwork in Vanuatu. The article concludes that attention to multilocality as well as multivocality can empower place conceptually and encourage understanding of the complex social construction of spatial meaning.
Distinguished Lecture: Coming into Focus
Authors: Clark J. Desmond
Published: November 2004

This essay was presented as the Distinguished Lecture at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 5, 1992, in San Francisco, California.
“Critical Ethnocentrism” and the Ethnology of Ernesto De Martino
Authors: Saunders George R.
Published: November 2004

Italian anthropologist, folklorist, and historian of religions Ernesto De Martino was an eclectic and creative intellectual who fostered a whole generation of studies on popular culture in Italy. In this article, I focus on one particular aspect of his work, a method referred to as “critical ethnocentrism,” attempting to situate De Martino's concerns in the historical moment of postwar ideological struggles. De Martino's approach, however, has a wider relevance to understanding the relationships between the ethnographer and the subjects of the research, as well as the historical and political contexts in which they meet.
The Power of the Imagined Community: The Settlement of Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
Authors: Chavez Leo R.
Published: November 2004

Using logistic regression, this article tests the relative importance of the “imagined community” on the intentions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States. The argument is that, everything else being equal, imagining oneself as part of a local community is a powerful influence on settlement. If for whatever reason, an undocumented immigrant comes to this self‐perception, then he or she is likely to desire to stay in the community. The results clearly underscore the importance of feeling part of the community. Not only is the influence on the dependent variable statistically significant, but the odds ratio indicates that those who feel part of the local community are almost four times (Mexicans) or almost five times (Central Americans) as likely to intend to stay permanently in the United States as those who do not.
Museum Exhibit and Photographic Book Reviews
Authors: Nzegwu Nkiru
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Secrecy: African Art That Conceals and Reveals. Mary H. Nooter, senior curator.

Secrecy: African Art That Conceals and Reveals. Mary H. Nooter, ed.
Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies
Authors: Larson Daniel O. , Johnson John R. , Michaeisen Joel C.
Published: November 2004

Anthropologists have long been interested in missionization, acculturation, and political subjugation of traditional peoples. In recent years scholars have generated voluminous amounts of data on Spanish colonialism and its effects on the native population of the Americas. This article specifically examines the missionization of the Chumash occupying the coastal region of central California. Although the abandonment of Chumash villages occurred over a 40‐year period, the vast majority of the Chumash people—over 85 percent—migrated to the missions between 1786 and 1803. We suggest that the decision to move to the missions may have been based on a desire to minimize risk and was considered an acceptable alternative under the pressures of several interrelated catastrophic events: the period between 1780 and 1830 was characterized by high climatic variability, several years of droughts, and significantly elevated sea surface temperatures. This was a particularly difficult period of high subsistence risk, and the traditional Chumash buffers of trade and political alliances failed under intense pressures of missionization. Compounding these conditions were European diseases that decimated the Chumash people. Primary sources used for this research include mission documents and registers produced by Franciscan missionaries between 1786 and 1834. Information on paleoenvironmental conditions is derived from high‐resolution dendrochronological and marine sedimentary records.
Lessons from the Holocaust Museum
Authors: Handler Richard
Published: November 2004

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Jeshajahu Weinberg, Michael Birnbaum, Martin Smith, and Raye Farr.
New Directions in Primate Research
Authors: Overdorf Deborah J.
Published: November 2004

Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution. W. C. McGrew

Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus. N. G. Jablonski
Living with Gay and Lesbian Identity and Community, Dreaming of Utopia
Authors: Kennedy Elizabeth Lapovsky
Published: November 2004

Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town. Esther Newton

Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet. Gilbert Herdt and Andrew Boxer

Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture. Ellen Levin
The Pace of Change in the Paleolithic
Authors: Straus Lawrence G.
Published: November 2004

Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic. H. Knecht, A. Pike‐Tay, and R. White, eds.
Mayaness at Its Most Complex
Authors: Coggins Clemency Chase
Published: November 2004

Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D.: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1989. Jeremy A. Sabloff and John S. Henderson, eds.

The Ceramics of Tikal: Vessels from the Burials, Caches, and Problematical Deposits. T. Patrick Culbert.
Sex the Invisible 833
Authors: Friedl Ernestine
Published: November 2004

The human habit of conducting the sex act in private is a near universal that has not received the attention it deserves. This essay discusses the possible evolution of the practice through changes in human brain structures that allowed for increased social intelligence for political maneuvers, and the ability to be conscious of self. It also examines the consequences of invisible sex for the education of children and for gender relations regardless of cultural and historical context
Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 886
Authors: Desjarlais Robert
Published: November 2004

An ethnographic study of a shelter in downtown Boston for people considered homeless and mentally ill documents the way in which the category of “experience,” which many have taken to be universal and natural, is culturally and historically constituted. The residents of the shelter tend not to experience—defined here as an inwardly reflexive process that proceeds, coheres, and transforms through temporally integrative forms—but rather “struggle along” by way of an acutely tactile mode of perception that attends to episodic, temporally finite encounters. The fact that experience in the shelter is only a possibility, not a given, points to the need for a critical phenomenology that would help us to consider how this and other ways of being come about through specific social, cultural, political, and material forces.
Rastafari Voices Reach Ethiopia
Authors: Homiak John
Published: November 2004

The Emperor's Birthday. 1992. 52 minutes, color. A film by John Dollar. For information contact Volcano Films, Ltd., 52 Long Lane, Smithfield, London E.C.I. (071/600‐0481; Fax 071/600‐0482).
An Interview with Dr. Mondo
Authors: Staples Amy J.
Published: November 2004

Yes, this is an unusual dawn. Even the timid zebra challenges the leopard. This is the dawn in which the prey takes courage and turns on the predator. It is the dawn in which the underdog finds the strength to rebel and nothing disorients the mighty more than the attack of those who have already feared him in the past. In the great game, the same ones don't always win. [From the epilogue of the film Mondo Violence, c. 1978]
From Car to House (Del coche a la casa)
Authors: Gudeman Stephen , Rivera Alberto
Published: November 2004

Joint fieldwork has led the authors to question several accepted ideas of ethnographic method and theory. According to traditional wisdom, the fieldworker is a solitary figure who, acting as participant and observer, strives to overcome a gap of knowledge between her world and that of others; ethnographies are compilations, translations, and interpretations of knowable facts. In contrast to this construction, the authors' collaboration suggests that in fieldwork the anthropologist creates a community of inquiry. This community includes voices from the field, from home, from the past, and from joint workers; the ethnographer participates in many‐stranded conversations and contexts of learning. Ethnographies are not objective reports or displays of new methodologies but the products of artisans who draw on the skills and imaginations of many. like good conversations and culture itself, ethnographies are never complete.
Do Rocks Listen?
Authors: POVINELLI ELIZABETH A.
Published: November 2004

This essay attempts to show the competing cultural frameworks involved in the (e)valuation of Aboriginal work in the context of the Dreaming and development, juxtaposing Western and Belyuen ways of understanding what happens when humans act in the natural environment and their economic and politico‐jural consequences. To do so, it critically opposes political‐economic assumptions about the alleged divide between human subject‐agents, nonintentional animal appropriators, and objects, and between cultural belief and economic‐ecological reality. In this way we can begin to apprehend Aboriginal labor without aiding and abetting the state on the dispossession of Aboriginal lands and delegitimization of Aboriginal beliefs.
Invention and Representation as Cultural Capital
Authors: ULIN ROBERT C.
Published: November 2004

The paramount reputation of Bordeaux wines is believed to follow from superior techniques of vinification and a climate and soil reputedly ideal for winegrowing. Through a qualification of the invention of tradition theme, this essay argues that Bordeaux's paramount reputation follows from a social history and a hegemonic, invented winegrowing tradition that enabled winegrowing elites to replicate and profit from the cultural capital associated with the aristocracy. The essay concludes that commodity production tends to naturalize the social.
Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Culture Concept
Authors: WATSON PATTY JO
Published: November 2004

Abstracts

The culture concept has been central to anthropology since the formational period of the discipline. Yet for much of the discipline's history it was used without explicit definition. Recent attempts to define it have yielded a range of varied formulations in the subdisciplines of archaeology and sociocultural anthropology. Does this mean that the center of anthropology—shared belief in a unified culture concept—has been destroyed? Quite the opposite, the author concludes—the debate has yielded benefits.
Revenants That Cannot Be Shaken: Collective Fantasies in a Maroon Society
Authors: VAN VELZEN H. U. E. THODEN
Published: November 2004

Abstracts

All societies possess and cherish group fantasies, programs of travels through imaginary space. Although such culturally shaped flights of the imagination influence collective behavior, they are neither an acknowledged part of public discourse nor coterminous with “implicit” or “covert” culture. Two strikingly different fantasies of Suriname's Maroons reveal the main dimensions of collective fantasies.
Transportation Innovation and Social Complexity among Maritime Hunter‐Gatherer Societies
Authors: ARNOLD JEANNE E.
Published: November 2004

Abstracts

Advanced watercraft were in use at historic contact among a number of the most complex hunting‐gathering societies of western North America, including the Chumash and the Nootkans. Though anthropologists often relegate technological innovations to very minor roles as stimuli toward social evolution and power inequities, archaeological analyses of long‐term cultural change cannot afford to ignore the many social, symbolic, and practical implications of major innovations in transportation. Analysis of the linkages between watercraft and political, ideological, and economic systems reveals a strong association between social complexity and transportation of high capacity and range among maritime peoples.
Indigenous Architecture and the Spanish American Plaza in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
Authors: LOW SETHA M.
Published: November 2004

Abstracts

Plazas are often important spatial representations of society and social hierarchy. Those built in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean under the direction of the Spanish have been interpreted as architectural representations of colonial control and oppression. Underlying these interpretations is the tacit assumption that plaza‐centered urban design was of solely European derivation, in spite of considerable evidence of pre‐Columbian contributions. In fact, the correspondence between the indigenous forms and Spanish reconstruction is so well documented that the denial of its significance is startling.
Conceptual Differences between Mexican and Peruvian Archaeology
Authors: Patterson Thomas C.
Published: November 2004

ABSTRACTS

This essay asks why interpretations of pre‐Columbian history and state formation in Mexico and Peru are framed in different terms by archaeologists. While the differences are due in part to the empirical realities of the two civilizations, this essay explores how sociological considerations and theoretical orientations of archaeologists as they interpreted those empirical realities contributed to the construction of the interpretive differences.
The History of Samoan Sexual Conduct and the Mead‐Freeman Controversy
Authors: SHANKMAN PAUL
Published: November 2004

ABSTRACTS

The Mead‐Freeman controversy over Samoan culture—especially Samoan sexual conduct—has provoked debate for more than a decade. A key issue involves the nature of the Samoan system of institutionalized virginity. Citing historical sources, Freeman has argued that the taupou system's restrictive code of sexual behavior permeated colonial Samoan culture. Yet a rereading of many of these sources indicates that sexual conduct was less restrictive and more variable than Freeman allows. His refutation of Mead rests on the accuracy of his historical reconstruction, but the evidence does not support important parts of his interpretation.
Narratives of Jewish Identity
Authors: Boyarin Jonathan
Published: November 2004

Sojourners: The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity. John Borneman and Jeffrey M. Peck. Lincoln

Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Yael Zerubavel. Chicago

The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel. Nachman Ben‐Yehuda. Madison
Science, Commerce, and Control: Patronage and the Development of Anthropological Archaeology in the Americas
Authors: Snead James E.
Published: November 2004

At the end of the nineteenth century, the drive to "professionalize" anthropology in the United States promoted the development of particular patterns of interaction between archaeologists and their patrons, which had a significant impact on the conduct of research. The expansion of fieldwork and the acquisition of collections required the financial backing of sponsors, whose own ambitions often diverged from those of the scholars whom they supported. This essay explores shifts in patron‐professional relationships in southwestern archaeology at the turn of the century, using the case of the Hyde Expedition to Chaco Canyon (1896‐1909). [archaeology, history, patronage, U.S. Southwest]
Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry
Authors: Chin Elizabeth
Published: November 2004

The toy industry has touted ethnically correct dolls as a progressive solution to representation and inclusion in the toy box, and in children's lives. Ethnographic work with ten‐year‐old, poor and working‐class black children in New Haven, Connecticut complicates these assertions. These children had very few ethnically correct dolls. Instead, girls had white dolls that they brought into their worlds through styling their hair in ways racially marked as black. Contrasting a case study of Mattel's Shani dolls with an ethnographic look at race and commodities among New Haven kids, this paper locates children's consumption within the context of social inequality, a context examined in few studies of toys or consumption. Taking kids as primary ethnographic subjects suggests ways in which this largely silenced group can speak to larger social and theoretical issues, among them race, class, gender, and age. [children, U.S. anthropology, social inequality, consumption]
Seeking the Spirit: Plains Indians in Russia.
Authors: Black Lydia
Published: November 2004

Seeking the Spirit: Plains Indians in Russia. 1997. Approximately 40 minutes, color. film by Beatrice Medicine and Liucija Baskauskas. For more information in the U.S.A, contact Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA 02172, or in Canada, V‐Tape, 101 Richmond Street, Suite 452, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8.
The Moche.
Authors: Pozorski Thomas
Published: November 2004

The Moche. Garth Bawden. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 375 pp.
Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes.
Authors: Sabloff Jeremy A.
Published: November 2004

Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. Ruth Osterweis Selig and Marilyn R. London. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. 348 pp.
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.
Authors: Dolhinow Phyllis
Published: November 2004

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Richard W. Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Boston: Houghton‐ Mifflin, 1996. 350 pp.
Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity.
Authors: Hegland Mary
Published: November 2004

Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. Herbert L. Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi. eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 310 pp.
At the Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima.
Authors: Fritz Gayle J.
Published: November 2004

At the Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima. Amadeo M. Rea. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. 430 pp.
The Spiritual Conquest of La Florida
Authors: McEwan Bonnie G.
Published: November 2004

Spanish exploration and colonization of the New World has long been characterized as a quest for "Gold, Glory, and God." This article examines the last of these motives, the religious aspects of colonization, as revealed through seventeenth‐century mortuary remains and documentary evidence from the Spanish territory known as La Florida. Data suggest that these missionized native populations underwent religious transformations that resulted in a unique expression of Christianity incorporating both European and native elements. Related data indicate that while religious conversion may have had a lasting impact, other native social and political institutions remained largely intact during the mission period. [missions, Native Americans, Spanish colonization, southeastern United States]
Sixteen Decisions
Authors: Gross Daniel R.
Published: November 2004

Sixteen Decisions. 2000. 58 minutes, color. video by Gayle Ferraro. For more information, contact University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center Street, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704.
Europe, Continent of Migrants
Authors: Cole Jeffrey
Published: November 2004

Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move. Floya Anthias and Gabriella Lazaridis. eds. New York: Berg, 2000. 263 pp.

Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe. Russell King. Gabriella Lazaridis. and Charalambos G. Tsadanidis. eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 368 pp.

Guests and Aliens. Saskia Sassen. New York: The New Press, 1999. 202 pp.
Is There a Political Ecology of the Sierra Leonean Landscape?
Authors: Nyerges A. Endre
Published: November 2004

Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone. William Reno. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 229 pp.

Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone. Paul Richards. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 182 pp.

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa. John F. Oates. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 310 pp.
Politically Compromised Scholars, or What German Scholars Working under Missions, National Socialism, and the Marxist‐Leninist German Democratic Republic Can Teach Us
Authors: Poewe Karla
Published: November 2004

Mein Freund Maleboch. Christoph Sonntag. Ulrich van der Heyden. ed. Berlin: Edition Ost, 1999. 256 pp.

Von der philologischen zur volkischen Religionswissenschaft. Horst Junginger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. 399 pp.

Die Afrikaw issenschaften in der DDR. Ulrich van der Heyden. Miinster. LIT Verlag, 1999. 640 pp.
Models for the Millennium: Great Basin Anthropology Today
Authors: Fowler Don D.
Published: November 2004

Models for the Millennium: Great Basin Anthropology Today. Charlotte Beck. ed. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999. 314 pp.
Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge
Authors: Veit Richard
Published: November 2004

Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge. Pedro Paulo A. Funari. Martin Hall. and Sian Jones. eds. New York: Routledge, 1999. 350 pp.
Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record
Authors: McDermott LeRoy
Published: November 2004

Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record. Alison E. Rautman. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 283 pp.
Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis
Authors: Kelly John E.
Published: November 2004

Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis. Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 366 pp.
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse
Authors: Queen Robin
Published: November 2004

Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse. Mary Bucholtz. A. C. Liang. and Laurel Sutton. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 431 pp.
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High
Authors: Woolard Kathryn A.
Published: November 2004

Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High. Penelope Eckert. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 240 pp.
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Authors: Wolpoff Milford
Published: November 2004

The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Richard G. Klein. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 810 pp.
Central African Hunter‐Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Challenging Elusiveness
Authors: Fisher John W.
Published: November 2004

Central African Hunter‐Gatherers in. Multidisciplinary Perspective: Challenging Elusiveness. Karen Biesbrouck. Stefan Elders. and Gerda Rossel. eds. Leiden, the Netherlands: CNWS Publications, 1999. 331 pp.
Is America Breaking Apart?
Authors: Ogbu John U.
Published: November 2004

Is America Breaking Apart? John A. Hall and Charles Lindholm. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 162 pp.
The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics
Authors: Coleman Simon
Published: November 2004

The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Friend Harding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 336 pp.
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
Authors: Poewe Karla
Published: November 2004

Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice. Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 252 pp.
Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race; German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler
Authors: Eidson John R.
Published: November 2004

Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 332 pp.

German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler. Uli Linke. New York: Routledge, 1999. 274 pp.
Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life
Authors: Frey Rodney
Published: November 2004

Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life. Alma Hogan Snell and Becky Matthews. eds.; foreword by Peter Nabokov. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 213 pp.
Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
Authors: Bellman Beryl
Published: November 2004

Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative. Michael Taussig. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 311 pp.
Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times
Authors: Fraser James
Published: November 2004

Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times. Daniel A. Yon. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 175 pp.
Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
Authors: Cerroni‐Long E. L.
Published: November 2004

Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures. Tony Bennett. Michael Emmison. and John Frow. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 313 pp.
Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma
Authors: Bornstein Avram
Published: November 2004

Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma. Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Marcelo M. Sudrez‐Orozco. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 285 pp.
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945‐1994.
Authors: Beidelman T.O.
Published: November 2004

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945‐1994. Organized by the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. Curator: Okwui Enwezor. P.S. Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, Long Island City, Queens, New York City. February 10‐May 5, 2002.
The Anthropology of Globalization (with Notes on Neomedievalism, and the End of the Chinese Model of the Nation‐State)
Authors: Graeber David
Published: November 2004

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 320 pp.

Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Néstor García Canclini. George Yúdice. trans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 200 pp.

The Anthropology of Globalization:. Reader. Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. eds. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 498 pp.
Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition/Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess.
Authors: Blank Jonah
Published: November 2004

Questioning Ramayanas:. South Asian Tradition. Paula Richman. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 452 pp.

Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess. Tracy Pintchman. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 254 pp.
Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport.
Authors: West Paige
Published: November 2004

Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport. Ellen Messer and Michael Lambek. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 376 pp.
Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict: State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age.
Authors: McGovern Thomas H.
Published: November 2004

Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict: State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age. Tina L. Thurston. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 340 pp.
A Historian among the Anthropologists
Authors: Yelvington Kevin A.
Published: November 2004

Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 404 pp.
Family and Community in Ireland.
Authors: Vincent Joan
Published: November 2004

Family and Community in Ireland. Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball. Third edition, with. new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, and Tony Varley. Ennis, Ireland: Clasp Press, 2001. 417 pp.
Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender.
Authors: Digiacomo Susan M.
Published: November 2004

Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender. Hans A. Baer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 248 pp.
Empire and Domestic Economy.
Authors: Covey R. Alan
Published: November 2004

Empire and Domestic Economy. Terence N. D'Altroy. Christine A. Hastorf. and associates. New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2001. 375 pp.
Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Authors: Delle James A.
Published: November 2004

Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean. Paul Farnsworth. ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 378 pp.
Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City.
Authors: Arsdale Peter W. Van
Published: November 2004

Healing the Modern in. Central Javanese City. Steve Ferzacca. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. 280 pp.
Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State.
Authors: Langer Erick D.
Published: November 2004

Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. Lesley Gill. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 222 pp.
Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay.
Authors: Sivaramakrishnan K.
Published: November 2004

Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Thomas Blom Hansen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 280 pp.
The Psychology of Cultural Experience.
Authors: Castillo Richard J.
Published: November 2004

The Psychology of Cultural Experience. Carmella C. Moore and Holly F. Mathews. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 247 pp.
Women and Human Development.
Authors: Yoon Soon‐Young
Published: November 2004

Women and Human Development. Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 303 pp.
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile.
Authors: Finn Janet L.
Published: November 2004

Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile. Julia Paley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 255 pp.
Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities.
Authors: Bulag Uradyn E.
Published: November 2004

Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities. Carole Pegg. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 376 pp.
Lakota Culture, World Economy.
Authors: Littlemeld Alice
Published: November 2004

Lakota Culture, World Economy. Kathleen Ann Pickering. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 188 pp.
Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides.
Authors: Berry Susan
Published: November 2004

Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides. Margaret Critchlow Rodman. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 247 pp.
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa.
Authors: Sanders Todd
Published: November 2004

Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. Lyn Schumaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 376 pp.
Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge.
Authors: Haugerud Angelique
Published: November 2004

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge. James C. Scott and Nina Bhatt. eds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 320 pp.
Separation and Reunion in Modern China.
Authors: Madsen Richard
Published: November 2004

Separation and Reunion in Modern China. Charles Stafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 220 pp.
The Transatlantic Trade in African Ancestors: Mijikenda Memorial Statues (Vigango) and the Ethics of Collecting and Curating Non‐Western Cultural Property
Authors: Udvardy Monica L. , Giles Linda L. , Mitsanze John B.
Published: November 2004

This article details obstacles to deterrence of the global trade in non‐Western cultural properties and examines the ethics of Western collecting and curating of such property. We focus on the theft and global marketing of memorial statues (vigango) erected by the Mijikenda peoples of East Africa, relating an unusually well‐documented case study, tracing two statues from their theft to their appearance in U.S. museums. We describe the large‐scale extraction of such statues from Kenya and its impact on the Mijikenda, their quantity and distribution in U.S. museums, and local deterrence efforts. We call for greater activism by Western museum staffs, anthropologists, and other scholars to curb the trade in non‐Western cultural properties. We recommend (1) tightening legal loopholes, (2) strengthening observance of international agreements and the U.S. and international museums' codes of ethics, (3) stepping up field efforts to deter theft, and (4) educating the public about this growing trade. [Keywords: East Africa, Mijikenda peoples, international trade in African cultural property, museum ethics]
Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Mountain Arapesh Warfare
Authors: Roscoe Paul
Published: November 2004

In Sex and Temperament, Margaret Mead depicted the Mountain Arapesh of New Guinea as a gentle, nurturant people among whom warfare was "practically unknown." A few years later, however, Reo Fortune, her husband and cofieldworker, was to claim that warfare was "good Arapesh custom." This article reexamines this disagreement, addressing two issues: Did the Arapesh have a tradition of warfare?, and How do we reconcile the differences in Mead and Fortune's descriptions? I conclude that, prior to pacification, the Mountain Arapesh resorted to significant levels of violence and waged war on a regular basis. Mead was drawn to a contrary conclusion because of the comparative nature of her analysis and because of covert licenses in the theoretical gestalt she had acquired from Ruth Benedict, which rendered her analysis immune to contradictory data. I suggest that Freeman overlooked the effects of this gestalt in assessing Mead's work in Samoa. [Keywords: Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, Mountain Arapesh warfare, Derek Freeman, Samoa]
Public Environmental Archaeology
Authors: Browman David L.
Published: November 2004

Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose. Umberto Albarella. ed. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. 324 pp.

Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Dena F. Dincauze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 587 pp.

Public Benefits of Archaeology. Barbara J. Little. ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. 277 pp.
Arab and Muslim America: Emergent Scholarship, New Visibility, Conspicuous Gap in Academe
Authors: El Guindi Fadwa
Published: November 2004

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock. eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pp.

Family and Gender among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge. eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 19961996. 327 pp.

Arabs in America: Building. New Future. Michael W. Suleiman. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 355 pp.

Without Forgetting the Imam. Linda S. Walbridge. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 242 pp.
Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place
Authors: Lawrence‐Zuniga Denise
Published: November 2004

Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place. Barbara Bender and Margot Winer, eds. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 320pp.
The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today
Authors: Crapanzano Vincent
Published: November 2004

The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today. James D. Faubion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.242 pp.
The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia
Authors: Chernela Janet
Published: November 2004

The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. eds. London: Routledge, 2000. 305 pp.
Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership
Authors: Dominy Michèle D.
Published: November 2004

Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 248 pp.
Comment: Got Language? Law, Property, and the Anthropological Imagination
Authors: Maurer Bill
Published: November 2004

This comment reflects on the legal (specifically, proprietary) tropes of linguistics, and the linguistic tropes of legal anthropology.It suggests analogies between discussions around "language rights" in contemporary political struggles, and discussions around the delineation of objects and subjects in anthropological theory. Such analogies may help side‐step the relativism‐universalism impasse that has beset the critique of rights and the critique of the objectification of language. [Keywords: language, law, anthropological theory, value]
The Proverbial Bourdieu: Habitus and the Politics of Representation in the Ethnography of Kabylia
Authors: Goodman Jane E.
Published: November 2004

Since the 1970s, anthropologists have been centrally concerned with the relationship of ethnographic representation to political and historical context. Interestingly, the work of Pierre Bourdieu has largely escaped such contextualization, despite the significance of Bourdieu's ideas to anthropological theorizing. Today, many of Bourdieu's central concepts float free from the context out of which they arose—the Kabyle region of Algeria. This article addresses this omission by reading Bourdieu's early works against each other to reconstitute aspects of his methodology and fieldwork. Focusing on his choice to represent the Kabyles of his early work in prose, and those in his later work via proverbs, I suggest that key premises of Bourdieu's theory may not be supported by historical and ethnographic evidence. I consider how Bourdieu's position as a young social scientist grappling with ethnographic responsibilities in colonial wartime led him to privilege his interlocutors' accounts in some studies while expunging them from others. [Keywords: Bourdieu, represented speech, literacy, Algeria, Berbers]
Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism.; Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology.
Authors: Stone Pamela K.
Published: November 2004

Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism. Clark Spencer Larsen. ed. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 320 pp.

Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology. Clark Spencer Larsen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 248 pp.
Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins
Authors: LAMPHERE LOUISE
Published: November 2004

Initially given as the Presidential Address at the 100th Meeting of the AAA, this article examines the contributions women and minority anthropologists who have struggled to gain a place at the center of the discipline. Despite 25 years of scholarship on women and minorities, anthropology needs to go further in terms of paying attention to their pioneering efforts and the breadth of their scholarship. The article explores four currently important areas of creativity: (1) the transformation of field research through problem‐oriented participant observation and “native anthropology,” as exemplified by George Hunt, the young Margaret Mead, Delmos Jones; (2) the evolution of more dialogical forms of ethnographic writing, as pursued by Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys Reichard, Ella Deloria, and Zora Neale Hurston; (3) sources of critique, as embodied in the work of Ruth Benedict and Michelle Rosaldo; (4) forms of activism, engaged in by Anita McGee, Benedict, Mead, and Alfonzo Ortiz.
From Leaders to Rulers
Authors: CARNEIRO ROBERT L.
Published: November 2004

From Leaders to Rulers. Jonathan Haas, ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 286 pp.
Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State
Authors: BRUUN OLE
Published: November 2004

Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State. David Sneath. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 320 pp.
Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Toward a Holistic Environmental Narrative
Authors: WORKMAN CATHERINE
Published: November 2004

Vietnam is home to a considerable diversity of primates: Indeed, five of the world's top 25 most endangered primate species are found within Vietnam. To understand and ultimately address Vietnam's conservation crisis, the complex interplay of history, demography, economics, international relations, and culture must be analyzed within Vietnam's specific context. Conducting a holistic analysis with the example of hunting represents how seemingly disparate factors such as the U.S. war, increased tourism and globalization, population density, and cultural traditions converge to significantly impact wildlife.
Crafts, Capitalism, and Women: The Potters of La Chamba, Colombia.
Authors: WEIL JIM
Published: November 2004

Crafts, Capitalism, and Women: The Potters of La Chamba, Colombia. Ronald J. Duncan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 253 pp.
Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter between the LoDagaa and the “World on Paper.”
Authors: LOBNIBE ISIDORE
Published: November 2004

Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter between the LoDagaa and the “World on Paper.” Sean Hawkins. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 468 pp.
The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination.
Authors: GOLDSTEIN DONNA
Published: November 2004

The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. László Kürti. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. 259 pp.
Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
Authors: PRICE SALLY
Published: November 2004

Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Fred R. Myers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 410 pp.
Development Anthropology: Encounters in the Real World
Authors: GRILLO RALPH
Published: November 2004

Development Anthropology: Encounters in the Real World. Riall Nolan. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2002. 345 pp.