bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams.
Authors: Demian Melissa
Published: November 2004

Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. David Graeber. New York: Palgrave, 2001. vii. 337 pp., notes, references, index.
Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers.
Authors: Chuang Ya‐Chung
Published: November 2004

Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers. Ping‐Chun Hsiung. Maria Jaschok. and Cecilia Milwertz. with Red Chan. Oxford: Berg, 2001. ix. 332 pp., figures, bibliography, index.
The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures.
Authors: Condry Ian
Published: November 2004

The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Dolores Martinez. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix. 212 pp., figures, index.
A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity.
Authors: Shankland David
Published: November 2004

Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity. Michael E. Meeker. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2002. xxxviii. 420 pp., maps, photographs, tables, references, index.
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World.
Authors: Fiske Jo‐Anne
Published: November 2004

The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. Bruce G. Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. viii. 240 pp., illustrations, photographs, maps, references, index.
Post‐Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan.
Authors: Senčar Tatiana Bajuk
Published: November 2004

Post‐Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan. Joma Nazpary. London: Pluto Press, 2002. vii. 217 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering.
Authors: Abramson Allen
Published: November 2004

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Sherry B. Ortner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix. 376 pp., illustrations, appendixes, notes, references, index.
Nuriye's dilemma: Turkish lessons of democracy and the gendered state
Authors: Kaplan Sam
Published: November 2004

In this article, I explore political consciousness and its relation to language, action, and power relations among schoolchildren and their parents in a small town in southern Turkey. More specifically, I draw on Wittgenstein's concept of language games to examine the ambiguous and indeterminate links between political discourse and educational practices, especially how these links are refracted in everyday life. Thus, I show that the term democracy, as'used in the school system, has become a linguistic "scaffold" on which townspeople can arrange the political and social self‐images they use to narrate their own life courses and life strategies. This sociolinguistic analysis of a political signifier, which draws out the relation among officially proscribed canons of representation, performances of hierarchy, and different understandings of polity and society across generations, lays groundwork for new approaches to the ethnography of the state. [Turkey, state, democracy, political signifier, schooling, language and society]
Invoking a Transnational Metropolis: The Making of the Øresund Region
Authors: Palmer Brian
Published: November 2004

Invoking. Transnational Metropolis: The Making of the Øresund Region. Per Olof Berg. Anders Linde‐Laursen. and Orvar Löfgren. eds. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2000. 317 pp., maps, appendix, references.
Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco
Authors: Hatt Doyle
Published: November 2004

Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco. Remco Ensel. Leiden: Brill, 1999. ix. 279 pp., photographs, maps, tables, glossary, references, index.
The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes
Authors: Striffler Steve
Published: November 2004

The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes. Enrique Mayer. Boulder: Westview Press, 2002. xi. 390 pp., figures, tables, maps, photographs, references, index.
Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem
Authors: Upton Rebecca L.
Published: November 2004

Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem. Leith Mullings and Alaka Wali. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 210 pp., tables, appendix, references, index.
Pathways to Cultural Awareness: Cultural Therapy with Teachers and Students
Authors: Rubio Olga
Published: November 2004

Pathways to Cultural Awareness: Cultural Therapy with Teachers and Students. George Spindler and Louise Spindler eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc. 1994. 337 pp.
Women, Education, and Family Structure in India
Authors: Baker Victoria
Published: November 2004

Women, Education, and Family Structure in India. Carol Chapnick Mukhopadhyay and Susan Seymour, eds. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1994. 246 pp.
From Welfare to Working Poor: Prioritizing Practice in Research on Employment‐Training Programs for the Poor
Authors: Riemer Frances Julia
Published: November 2004

In an effort to better understand relationships among poverty, education, and work, this article uses data from an ethnographic study of two companies in which welfare recipients obtained employment to examine the move from welfare to work. The analysis delineates 23 men's and women's transitions from welfare poor to working poor, and focuses on the ways welfare‐generated identities shaped employment training pedagogies, the social organization of the workplaces, and individuals' resistance and accommodation practices at work.
Daring to Change: The Potential of Intercultural Education in Aymara Communities in Chile
Authors: Arratia Maria‐Inés
Published: November 2004

The following article presents a project in teacher training in northern Chile that was meant to provoke an attitudinal change toward native culture among rural school teachers working in one Aymara district. In keeping with participatory research methods, the project also sought to probe into the dynamics at play in the teachers' position. The conclusions drawn from this experience suggest that hegemonic barriers stand in the way of broadening the scope of intercultural education in plural, democratic societies.
Learning to Teach in Two Cultures: Japan and the United States
Authors: Fujita Mariko
Published: November 2004

Learning to Teach in Two Cultures: Japan and the United States. Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. 264 pp.
Over the Ivy Walls: The Educational Mobility of Low‐Income Chicanos.
Authors: Hirano‐Nakanishi Marsha
Published: November 2004

Over the Ivy Walls: The Educational Mobility of Low‐Income Chicanos. Patricia Gándara. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 151 pp.
Restructuring Urban Schools: A Chicago Perspective
Authors: Noblit George W.
Published: November 2004

Restructuring Urban Schools: A Chicago Perspective. G. Alfred Hess Jr. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995. 247 pp.
Unraveling the “Model Minority” Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth.
Authors: Everhart Robert
Published: November 2004

Unraveling the “Model Minority” Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth. Stacey J. Lee. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 143 pp.
Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning
Authors: Hill Jacquetta
Published: November 2004

Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning. Bradd Shore. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 428 pp.
Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa
Authors: Fife Wayne
Published: November 2004

Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa. Paul Stoller New York: Routledge, 1995. 226 pp.
Teaching and Learning in Japan.
Authors: McConnell David
Published: November 2004

Teaching and Learning in Japan. Thomas Rohlen and Gerald Le Tendre, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 399 pp.
English as an International Language of Prestige: Conflicting Cultural Perspectives and Shifting Ethnolinguistic Loyalties
Authors: Francis Norbert , Ryan Phyllis M.
Published: November 2004

A wide range of conflicting cultural perspectives associated with language acquisition and ethnolinguistic loyalties exists in Mexico wherever English is taught and spoken. The interplay of socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic tensions produce positive and negative attitudes toward learning English. Students confront an array of sociolinguistic factors associated with dominant and subordinate languages. The following study compared perceptions of students and teachers in two contrasting settings, urban and rural.
Student Voice as Agency: Resistance and Accommodation in Inner‐City Schools
Authors: Mirón Louis F. , Lauria Mickey
Published: November 2004

In this article we describe the results of a comparative case study of two inner‐city high schools located in the southeastern United States. One school, a citywide school with high admission standards, enrolls an all‐African American lower‐to‐middle‐class population. The other school enrolls a more ethnically and racially diverse population of students from a single lower‐class neighborhood. Using Grossberg's notion of identity politics, we describe how students' racial/ ethnic identity to a greater or lesser degree becomes both a means of resistance and accommodation to white hegemony.
Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork
Authors: Jessup Patrica A. , Lubeck Sally
Published: November 2004

Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork. Annette Lareau and Jeffrey Shultz, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 260 pp.
The Call to Teach
Authors: Foster Michèle
Published: November 2004

The Call to Teach. David T. Hansen. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995. 174 pp.
First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
Authors: Brayboy Bryan McKinley
Published: November 2004

First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories. Andrew Garrod and Colleen Larrimore, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 250 pp.
A Geology of School Reform: The Successive Restructurings of a School District
Authors: Finnan Christine
Published: November 2004

A Geology of School Reform: The Successive Restructurings of a School District. Liane Brouillette. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 251 pp.
Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools
Authors: Chaudhry Lubna
Published: November 2004

Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools. Maxine Seller and Lois Weis, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 328 pp.
Language Revitalization and Identity in Social Context: A Community‐Based Athabascan Language Preservation Project in Western Interior Alaska
Authors: Dementi‐Leonard Beth , Gilmore Perry
Published: November 2004

This study documents a language planning effort funded by an Administration for Native Americans Grant to the Tanana Chiefs Conference, a regional nonprofit tribal organization. The language revitalization project focuses on western interior Alaska and encompasses five traditional Athabascan languages with few remaining speakers. Project discussions included options for language planning, training activities, and educational program and materials development that would enhance language survival. Three dominant project themes are identified and discussed. They are (1) critique and resistance, (2) self‐determination and activism, and (3) collaboration and leadership.
Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities
Authors: Rolón‐Dow Rosalie
Published: November 2004

Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities. Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way, eds. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 409 pp.
Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools
Authors: Kennett Carol L.
Published: November 2004

Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools. Laurie Olsen New York: The New Press, 1997. 276 pp.
Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes
Authors: Brenner Mary E.
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.
Studying Children in Context: Theories, Methods, and Ethics.
Authors: Hemmings Annette
Published: November 2004

Studying Children in Context: Theories, Methods, and Ethics. M. Elizabeth Graue and Daniel J. Walsh. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. 270 pp.
Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring.
Authors: Watkins John M.
Published: November 2004

Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring. Pauline Lipman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 334 pp.
Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society.
Authors: Foley Douglas E.
Published: November 2004

Ethnic Identity and Power. Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society. Yali Zou and Enrique T. Trueba. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 452 pp.
Teaching Genres: A Bakhtinian Approach
Authors: Rockwell Elsie
Published: November 2004

This article accentuates the cultural/historical nature of teaching. Drawing on Bakhtin's theory of speech genres, it approaches classroom discourse as a composite genre that reflects the history of teaching in each locality. The analysis of a lesson observed in a rural school in Mexico shows how genres drawn from a variety of sources convey different sorts of knowledge as they are woven into ongoing classroom conversation.
What a Little Hate Literature Will Do: “Cultural Issues” and the Emotional Aspect of School Change
Authors: DiPardo Anne
Published: November 2004

Describing a class entitled “Cultural Issues,” this article is drawn from an ethnographic study of an affluent, predominantly white high school responding to recent neo‐Nazi incidents. I argue that in focusing on cultural issues around the world rather than those close at hand, the course depoliticized ethnic difference and left unchallenged white privileging at the levels of classroom, school, and community. This neutralizing urge is traced to collective emotions of shame and guilt, which prompted well‐intentioned efforts to bolster the school's reputation but prohibited critical exploration of inequity and conflict.
Canal Town Boys: Poor White Males and Domestic Violence
Authors: Hall Julia
Published: November 2004

In this research, I contend that domestic violence is thoroughly embedded in the lives of a group of poor, white, middle school males living in an urban section of the postindustrial Northeast. The scope of the investigation spans one year of observation and interviews with 18 poor youth as they went about their days—at their bilingual school, on neighborhood streets, and in the local community center. By not disrupting the violent attitudes and tendencies expressed among those boys, I argue, the institutions around which their lives were patterned become implicated in the normalization of abusive behavior.
The Marketization of Education: Public Schools for Private Ends
Authors: Bartlett Lesley , Frederick Marla , Gulbrandsen Thaddeus , Murillo Enrique
Published: November 2004

This article argues that the neoliberal renaissance of the 1980s marketized education, with distinctly negative social consequences. We examine the emergence and promotion of a national‐level discourse that positioned schools in the service of the economy. Based on ethnographic research conducted in North Carolina, we then show how local growth elite utilized this discourse to further their own race and class interests to the exclusion and detriment of poorer, African American parents and students. We suggest that ethnographic studies of policy formation help to socially and historically contextualize contemporary debates and denaturalize unwarranted assumptions about the public good.
Democratic Pedagogy and the Discourse of Containment
Authors: Popen Shari
Published: November 2004

This article points to the application of a discourse of containment in pedagogical practice. Growing out of a containment culture that has its beginnings in Cold War domestic strategies, the discourse of containment limits democratic possibilities in our classrooms, producing and legitimating a culture that governs what can be said and who can speak. Drawing on the mythologized version of the Rosa Parks story and the current agenda of conservative cultural managers and news media to contain the story around September 11,1 analyze the stakes in the political struggle over the control of the production of meaning in our classrooms.
Language Ideology: The Case of Spanish in Departments of Foreign Languages
Authors: Valdés Guadalupe , González Sonia V. , García Dania López , Márquez Patricio
Published: November 2004

In this article we investigate language ideology in a department of Spanish. We are concerned with examining the acquisition and transmission of linguistic culture in departments of foreign languages within university settings and the ways in which views about non‐English languages that are part of the American cultural dialogue are maintained and nurtured by educational institutions. Using long‐term participant‐observation data and focused interviews, we contend that foreign language departments in U.S. colleges and universities, although involved in a nonhegemonic practice—that is, in the teaching of non‐English languages—are nevertheless working in concert with deeply held American ideologies about bilingualism and monolingualism.
"Quit Talking and Learn English!": Conflicting Language Ideologies in an ESL Classroom
Authors: Olivo Warren
Published: November 2004

This article addresses the relationship between educational theory—as manifested in particular ideologies of teaching and learning—and classroom practice. Based on an ethnographic study of English‐as‐a‐second‐language (ESL) learning at a Canadian senior public school, I outline a conflict between two language ideologies that give shape to, and are shaped by, the classroom practices of the ESL teacher, his assistants, and the students. I discuss the implications of this ideological conflict in terms of the opportunities ESL students are given, and that they create for themselves, to practice speaking English. I end by outlining how these findings can be used to shape educational policy as it relates to ESL classroom curricula in order to create a more equitable learning environment for ESL students.
Basing Educational Anthropology on the Education of Anthropologists: Can Bilingualism and Biculturalism Promote the Fundamental Goals of Anthropology Better than Multiculturalism?
Authors: Thompson Richard H.
Published: November 2004

Editor's Note: This article is the third contribution to AEQ's new feature section, Reflections on the Field, which offers concise, scholarly, reflective articles on key moments, developments, ideas, and individuals in the field of educational anthropology. Here, Richard H. Thompson draws upon ethnographic research, the history of anthropology, and the literatures on multiculturalism and bilingualism and biculturalism to argue that neither multiculturalism nor multicultural education can mitigate the assimilationist and racializing costs that Eurocentrism poses for immigrants and minoritized groups. He proposes instead a sweeping policy of bilingual and bicultural education for all students on the grounds that the education of anthropologists can serve as a model for an educational anthropology that effectively addresses our foundational disciplinary goals.
Ladies Are Seen, Not Heard: Language Socialization in a Southern, African American Cosmetology School
Authors: Jacobs‐Huey Lanita
Published: November 2004

This article examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. To constitute themselves as hair experts, freshman and senior students learn to distinguish between specialized and lay hair terminology, avoid loud talking, and ask clients' diagnostic questions. Students also reframe textbook metacommunicative theories using personal narrative, role‐play, and “mother wit.” Findings from this ethnographic and discourse analytic study highlight the actual processes through which students learn to speak as and hence, become “hair experts.” Data further reveal how language learning is shaped by students' cultural and communal contexts.
Schooling, Language, and Ethnic Identity in the Basque Autonomous Community
Authors: Echeverria Begoña
Published: November 2004

Basque‐versus Spanish‐schooled students in San Sebastian, Spain, understand ethnic identity differently. The former are more likely to speak Basque and to consider the Basque language key to Basque identity. The latter are more likely to claim “biethnic” identities based on territory. The Basque case suggests that an understanding of educational efforts to reverse language shift require an examination of the language ideologies reigning in popular culture, the public sphere, and the home and school domains.
Imagining the Future of the Anthropology of Education if We Take Laura Nader Seriously
Authors: Hamann Edmund T.
Published: November 2004

The large corpus of scholarship of cultural anthropologist Laura Nader is relevant to the contemporary practice of the anthropology of education. In particular, her work is relevant to contemporary debates about methodology and what constitutes “scientifically based” education research; to the prospect and need for more crossfertilization within the discipline of anthropology; and for the proud assertion of anthropology's distinctive suitability for understanding and responding to many contemporary educational challenges, including how to have anthropologically derived insights more favorably compete in the “marketplace of ideas” against less empirically grounded claims and strategies.
Articulating the Boundary between Secularism and Islamism: The Imam‐Hatip Schools of Turkey
Authors: PAK SOON‐YONG
Published: November 2004

On the basis of an ethnographic analysis of an Imam‐Hatip vocational religious secondary school in Turkey, I examine teachers' and parents' expectations and the process of students' identity formation. Although the students attending the Imam‐Hatip school were expected to accept a reality infused with an Islamic worldview, their schooling experience actually strengthened the relational nature of identity formation in the context of Islamism and secularism, respectively.
Dreams and Culture
Authors: Caughey John L.
Published: November 2004

Barbara Tedlock. ed. Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi. 298 pp. $42.50 (cloth).
Locating the Divine in Melanesia: An Appreciation of the Work of Kenelm Burridge
Authors: Jorgensen Dan
Published: November 2004

A peculiarity of Kenelm Burridge's work on cargo cults and Melanesian religion is his emphasis on what he calls the divine. Although superficially resembling Durkheim's concept of the sacred, the divine designates a realm of experience that challenges the moral sphere, rather than endorses it. This departure from functionalist tenets takes the limited and incomplete character of the social order into account, dispensing with the premise of culture as a closed and integrated system in order to examine the ways in which an openness to events and their transformational possibilities highlights the improvisatory and mobile character of Melanesian cosmologies.
The Time of Circumcision
Authors: King Andrew
Published: November 2004

At night, before sleep, I hear the bells outside my house. The circumcision candidate and his young male relatives wear them draped from wrists and ankles. During July and August they run, perhaps 30 kilometers a day: to Matendi and Kapchai, to Mwahweya, and down into the Chwele Valley, paying their respects to their families, gathering strength to face the knife.

The chants rise and fall above tinkling bells, "Hmmmm, Huwaaaah, Hmmmmmm, Huwaaaaaah." Lying in bed, late, I hear the procession coming down the footpath. Sometimes, instead of passing, they linger to dance and sing a few feet beyond the mud wall. Then the sounds fade out gradually, down the path to Mwahweya and the farms to the east at Matendi.
Ritual Presence
Authors: Farrer Claire R.
Published: November 2004

Edith Turner. with William Blodgett. Singleton Kahona. and Fideli Benwa Experiencing Ritual:. New Interpretation of African Healing Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. xiii. 239 pp.
Artistic Embodiments of the Self
Authors: Adams Kathleen M.
Published: November 2004

Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson eds. Art and Identity in Oceania. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. viii. 315 pp.
Javanese Lives
Authors: Nourse Jennifer Williams
Published: November 2004

Walter L. Williams Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xxiii. 238 pp.
Overlapping Endeavors: Anthropology and Literature
Authors: Narayan Kirin
Published: November 2004

Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham. Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and. Writer Discover Africa. New York: Crown, 1993. xix. 324 pp.
Suppressed Meanings in Narratives about Suffering: A Case from Papua New Guinea
Authors: Leavitt Stephen C.
Published: November 2004

There is a commonsense notion that prolonged suffering—whether from pain, illness, or loss—can change people by compelling them to see themselves and their world in a new, deeper way. They may seek solace and understanding by turning to culturally framed moral, religious, or medical explanations, but the suffering itself, by shattering complacency and undermining a sense of well‐being, drives them to new views of self and place. Anthropologists have drawn upon the transformative potential of suffering to refine their ideas about how culture articulates with personal experience. One aim has been to show that people deal with suffering by building "illness narratives" out of meanings supplied by their cultural repertoire (Kleinman 1988). By making suffering meaningful, people are able to live with it. In this paper, I use case material from a Bumbita Arapesh man (Papua New Guinea) to suggest that while it is important to recognize the ultimate cultural basis of healing, it is equally important to attend to the rhetorical process underlying the construction of an illness narrative. I argue that building a personal narrative is both a psychological and a political activity, one that draws on deep motives as well as pragmatic interests. Because so much is at stake in building a successful narrative, the rhetorical process involves suppressing some meanings even while deploying others. In what follows, I outline a strategy for interpreting narratives that focuses on the point of tension between these expressed and suppressed meanings.
Ritual Constituencies
Authors: Sklar Deidre
Published: November 2004

Daniel de Coppet. ed. Understanding Rituals. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. vii. 120 pp.

Jeremy Boissevain. ed. Revitalizing European Rituals. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. + 204 pp.
Casting out the Foreigners: Interpretation of a Curing Rite in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Authors: Nourse Jennifer Williams
Published: November 2004

When I began fieldwork among the Laujé of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, one particular man, Sumpitan, became my key informant and friend. Sumpitan explained the Laujé worldview in such a way that correlated the spirit world with the social world. He believed that spirits were metaphoric representations of the good and evil actors in everyday Laujé life. Because Sumpitan's metaphoric view described so eloquently the social, economic, and political turmoil of Laujé life, I adopted his worldview. When Sumpitan died in 1985, however, I found that not all Laujé regarded spirits as metaphors. Many of the people in the community believed it sacrilegious to define spirits in terms of the social world. Their rather mystical, non‐meaning‐oriented interpretations led me to characterize the Laujé worldview as twofold: one part metaphoric and the other mystical. In the conclusion of this paper, however, I discuss the pitfalls of using key informants' voices to make clear, consistent, and homogeneous statements about worldview. I conclude that people's interpretations of the ritual world are difficult to characterize in terms that are compatible with anthropological writing.
Introduction
Authors: Ingersoll Dan
Published: November 2004

The 1995 Fiction Contest first prize winner is Paul Heinrich's "The Informant," which appears after the following introduction. Honorable mentions go to C. Springwater's "The Stories of Red Clay: Man of the Mesa" and Linda Williamson's "Circle of White," to be published in a future issue.
Sundered Subjects and Opaque Others
Authors: Crapanzano Vincent
Published: November 2004

What worries me about so much postcolonial cultural criticism is its appropriation of an other as its limit‐text rather than an opening text. Those with a different metaphysics are given short shrift by both the appropriative Westerner and those who claim through kinship to be their representatives.
Brothels, Bamu, and Tu Kina Bus in South Coast New Guinea: Human Rights Issues and Global Responsibilities
Authors: Hammar Lawrence
Published: November 2004

The paper describes the unfolding situation of prostitution on Daru Island, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, a practice that is also growing elsewhere on a worldwide scale. Owing to the seriousness of the problem and to the character of the fieldwork, understudied as it is in anthropology, the author claims that to set the field material merely within the context of the debate between relativism and ethnocentrism will not get us very far. He recommends intervention, holding that intervention in such cases is not ethnocentrism—intolerance of a feature of another culture—but a matter of global responsibility.
Remembering to Forget: Memory, Burial, and Self‐Similarity in Sursurunga, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Authors: Jackson Stephen A.
Published: November 2004

In the Sursurunga events of death, small interconnectivities of events are related by pattern to large‐scale patterns in the whole system. Whichever we choose to focus on, the relationship of scale is powerful and persuasive. In this I see the principle of self‐similarity, the idea of recursiveness occurring across a variety of scales, a repetition of shape and detail in smaller and smaller, or larger and larger, scales. Applying self‐similarity to social analysis allows the focus to be on shapes and patterns generated by a whole system, rather than on individual variables, and it shows that patterning, the relationship between variables, remains consistent through different scales of analysis. The variables are then seen to point toward or contain the particular pattern of the whole system.
Talk, Text, and Truth: Culture in Conversation
Authors: Foley Willaiam A.
Published: November 2004

Dennis Tedlock and Bruce Mannheim. eds.The Dialogical Emergence of Culture.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. vi. 302 pp.
Hyphenated Poets
Authors: Mitchell Don
Published: November 2004

Donna Jo Napoli and Emily Norwood Rando. eds. Lingua Franca. Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press, 1989157 pp.

Bradley R. Strahan. Donna Jo Napoli and Emily Norwood Rando. eds. Speaking in Tongues. Falls Church, VA: Black Buzzard Press, 1994.80 pp.
Fieldwork: The Dance of Power
Authors: Tehindrazanarivelo Emmanuel D.
Published: November 2004

I make no pretense to be a positivist writer. Nor do I claim to be writing a rational and objective narrative, lam trying to understand what it means to do fieldwork and to be a subject of fieldwork. My writing is rooted in the experience of being both a researcher and the object of research. It deals with issues of how truth is seen, perceived, lived, and told; how experiences are translated from lived reality to discursive thought. These are questions I wrestle with constantly.
"When Do You Think the World Will End?": Globalization, Apocalypticism, and the Moral Perils of Fieldwork in "Last New Guinea"
Authors: Robbins Joel
Published: November 2004

At the heart of this article is the claim that the changes in the world that anthropologists seek to capture with terms like globalization and transnationalism are transforming the ethical situation confronting the fieldworker. As people aspire to increase their participation in the emerging global culture, they will look to the anthropologists who live amongst them, themselves participants in that global culture, to help them achieve this goal. The Urapmin of Papua New Guinea pin their hopes for greater interaction with the global culture on the eschatological promises made by the intensely millenarian brand of Christianity to which they subscribe. Theirs is a globalizing apocalypticism in which heaven is a place where everyone participates fully in what the Urapmin imagine is Western culture. Throughout my time in Urapmin, people sought to compel me to use the knowledge of the timing of the Second Coming they were sure I possessed on the basis of my Western identity, to help them plan for the future. The Urapmin hoped, in short, that I would tell them if Jesus was about to return. This article describes this situation and discusses the various ways in which I tried to respond in an ethical fashion to the Urapmin's claims that it was my responsibility to use my knowledge of global culture to help them prepare for their millennial destiny.
Why Writing Matters
Authors: Stewart Kathleen
Published: November 2004

Norman Denzin Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage Publications, 1997. xxii. 289 pp.
An Amazonian Anthropology of the Senses
Authors: Conklin Beth A.
Published: November 2004

Pei‐Lin Yu Hungry Lightning: Notes of. Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. xiii. 238 pp.
The Not‐So‐New Social History at Colonial Williamsburg
Authors: Cameron Catherine M.
Published: November 2004

Richard Handler and Eric Gable The New History in an Old Museum. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 235 pp.
Love, Race, and Racism
Authors: Yengoyan Aram A.
Published: November 2004

Reginald Gibbons Sweetbitter:. Novel. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. + 421 pp.
The Textual Lives of Pacific Islanders
Authors: Goldsmith Michael
Published: November 2004

Jurg Wassmann. ed. Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction. Oxford: Berg, 1998. vii. 449 pp.
Edith Turner: The Gender of Giftedness
Authors: Wagner Roy
Published: November 2004

Is it possible that there is an antidote to precocity, the blight that saps human genious at an early age and leaves more questions than answers? That would Edie Turner. Is it possible that there could be a solution to gender, rather than a mere consummation or compromise? That would be Edie plus or minus Vic. More or less like anthropology itself, Edie started her career after the demise of other options, became sure of herself when most of us are not even sure about “sure.” That would be a liminal event, would it not?, and possibly the only real way to define liminality.
Miami Money and the Home Gal
Authors: Richman Karen E.
Published: November 2004

Since the massive labor migrations of young adults from Haiti to North America and beyond that began more than two decades ago, protracted separation of husbands from wives and parents from children has caused severe hardship to the women left behind, especially to the mothers of young children. They suffer under the severity of the cultural commitment to patriarchy, yet they require for their survival their own economic autonomy. This article shows these contradictions as they are worked through in a dramatic event involving infidelity in a Haitian family compound.
Maquiladora Cousins
Authors: Wilson Tamar Diana
Published: November 2004

This is a short story about four young women who went to work in the Mexicali foreign‐owned assembly plants (maquiladora), told from the point of view of one of them. Two are composite characters; all live in the colonia (district), I call “Colonia Popular.” Their stories are not untypical of the young maquiladora workers along the northern Mexican border. The phenomena of relatives networking each other into work sites is also common. Despite the examples of unhappy marriages and abusive men surrounding them, the young women in the colonia still hope one day to find a true love, a responsible man who will give them affection and take care of them.
A Place to Write: The Bartender as Ethnographer
Authors: Olivo Warren
Published: November 2004

Julie Lindquist. A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in. Working‐Class Bar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. vii. 204 pp.
The Human Food Niche in the Levant Over the Past 150,000 Years
Authors: Neeley Michael P. , Clark Geoffrey A.
Published: November 2004

Archaeologists have tended to accept Flannery's (1969) broad spectrum revolution (BSR) as a general phase in an evolutionary sequence of subsistence changes leading to the appearance of domestication economies. Previous partial tests of the Flannery model in both hemispheres have tended to support it, especially those aspects of it that predict increasing subsistence diversity over time and increases in the relative intensity of food procurement. Phillip Edwards has recently claimed, however, that the BSR is not documented in Levantine archaeofaunal data and that its generality as a phase in the domestication process in that region can therefore be called into question. We re‐analyzed Edwards's data using a simulation approach and came to the conclusion that there was, in fact, considerable support for the BSR. We attribute the disparity between our results and those of Edwards to the way in which diversity is measured.
The Development of the Bow in Western Europe: A Technological and Functional Perspective
Authors: Bergman Christopher A.
Published: November 2004

The development and use of archery equipment in prehistoric Europe has always stimulated archaeological interest. Much of the focus of research has been concerned with the temporal origins of the bow. Surviving examples of prehistoric bows and arrows make it possible to evaluate the functional capabilities of these weapons. Experimental replication of prehistoric European archery equipment shows that early bow and arrow designs were well engineered and adapted to maximize hunting efficiency.
Floodplains and the Development of Complex Society: Comparative Perspectives from the West African Semi‐arid Tropics
Authors: Mclntosh Susan Keech
Published: November 2004

The diverse nature of iron‐using societies in the semi‐arid tropics of West Africa is illustrated by the very different sequences of growth and change in the floodplains of the Middle Senegal Valley and the Inland Niger Delta during the first millennium A.D. The Inland Delta is characterized by a pattern of rapid population growth over the course of centuries‐long occupation in very large, high‐density settlement mound clusters. The Middle Senegal Valley has low‐density occupation in fairly regularly spaced small villages. These differences are due, in part, to differences in the size, distribution of critical resources, and nature of subsistence scheduling conflicts and opportunities in the two floodplains. Faced with similar risks to agriculture posed by chaotic variation in the timing and extent of annual flooding, societies on both floodplains have responded in broadly similar ways historically by developing subsistence specializations that are integrated through exchange. Despite the large scale and considerable integration of first millennium societies in the Inland Niger Delta, the clustered settlement pattern that persisted even through the period of maximum population density at around A.D. 1000 indicates that centralizing pressures did not succeed in producing an effective administrative hierarchy at that time. Rather, various models of heterarchical organization provide a better “fit” for the archaeological data currently available. In the Middle Senegal Valley, on the other hand, the small and relatively dispersed nature of settlement around A.D. 900 should not immediately be assumed to indicate simple, autonomous, village‐level organization. Here, the possibility that complex territorial units composed of overlapping territories of subsistence specialists had already emerged in the first millennium deserves consideration. As archaeology works to counterbalance its long‐standing focus on vertical hierarchies as the primary modality of complexity, the archaeological sequences in these two African floodplains offer insights into the various ways that specialization, trade, population heterogeneity, and even urban growth may have emerged and flourished relatively unconnected to the development of social stratification and centralized power.
Observations on Political Ideology in Complex Societies in the Tropics–and Elsewhere
Authors: Helms Mary W.
Published: November 2004

A number of related themes are teased from the diverse essays composing this volume. The question of whether or not “the tropics” constitutes a unique setting for anthropological investigation is also briefly visited. The paper concludes with discussion of the basic ideological concept underlying the issue of political legitimacy in complex polities.
Women, Labor, and State Formation in Western Uganda
Authors: Robertshaw Peter
Published: November 2004

Population growth and concomitant agricultural intensification are often considered to be instrumental in the development of hierarchical societies. However, an examination of two 19th century states in wet tropical Africa, Bunyoro and Buganda, reveals that a shortage, rather than an abundance, of people encouraged elite control of resources. The demand for labor, primarily in the form of women's agricultural labor, may have been the motor of sociopolitical evolution. Historical, demographic, and epidemiological data demonstrate both the importance of women's labor for the development of subsistence economies and a corresponding scarcity of women in western Uganda. Thus, the development of chiefdoms and states was predicated upon the ability of leaders to attract followers in a region where arable land was abundant but required labor to clear the forest. In the sparsely settled regions of western Uganda at the beginning of the present millennium, wealth in people was the key to both subsistence and security. Examination of archaeological evidence from Bunyoro reveals some of the strategies used by elites to attract followers. Prior to the 15th century, these included the development of an international style and control of prestige goods obtained from long‐distance exchange networks, control of iron production, the giving of feasts, and the exercise of ritual authority. As a result of the success of some of these strategies, several larger polities developed by the mid‐15th century. Extensive systems of earthen ditches were then constructed at several sites, their construction financed by surplus production of staple foods. The earthworks served a variety of functions, with military defense being one of the least important. Nevertheless, raiding for cattle and women may have become commonplace, with the latter increasingly being treated as commodities, a status against which some women later expressed their opposition through their involvement in spirit‐medium cults. The earthworks and their associated settlements seem to have been abandoned about the end of the 17th century for unknown reasons. A settlement pattern of dispersed homesteads then developed. These changes may be linked to the establishment of the Nyoro state under the Bito dynasty. Subsequent centuries witnessed the growth of the Nyoro and Ganda states spurred by competition between them and by the development of markets and the growth of long‐distance trade. Despite the power of these states, much smaller polities, founded primarily upon ritual legitimacy, continued to exist. In the long term these polities might have been more stable than the larger states whose existence required continuous inputs of foreign goods and labor. However, this conclusion is conjecture because British colonialism and its aftermath intervened at the close of the 19th century.
Prestige and Potency: Political Economies of Protohistoric Visayan Polities
Authors: Bacus Elisabeth A.
Published: November 2004

This chapter examines elite control of foreign and local craft goods in three protohistoric Visayan polities. Eleventh to sixteenth century archaeological data from the Dumaguete polity in the central Philippines reveal changes in its economy against which to evaluate the tributary, prestige goods, and wealth finance political economy models. Dumaguete's economy exhibits similarities to parts of each model. Within the Visayas, Dumaguete's economy resembled the contemporary Cebu and Tanjay polities in chiefly control of the economy and political valuation of foreign goods. However, Dumaguete's economy differed in scale, types of craft goods produced under elite control, valuation of local craft goods, and possibly in the means for acquiring foreign goods during a period which witnessed an increase in trade within the Southeast Asia‐China area. Southeast Asian conceptions of power suggest the political authority of Visayan chiefs derived from their ability to exhibit potency; potency and control over the economy may have thus been in a “circular reciprocal relationship.”
Introduction: The Space and Place of Death
Authors: Silverman Helaine
Published: November 2004

Archaeologists typically study death from the perspective of mortuary patterns, devising classifications of disposal facilities and their dead inhabitants along parameters such as technique and materials of tomb construction, position and orientation of the deceased, and paleobiology of the interred populations. From this information a society's organization and level of sociopolitical complexity is reconstructed. Less common among archaeologists is attention to the spatiality of death practice, the unifying focus of this volume. Archaeologists are concerned with issues such as the siting of mortuary facilities; the interplay of agency and expressive style in the funerary context as these relate to the physical space and taking place of mortuary custom; and the recognition, cultural reconstruction, and explanation of death landscapes. These perspectives provide a more holistic framework for achieving an ethnographically sensitive archaeology of death. The studies in this volume range widely in areal location, cultural and temporal focus, and theoretical approach.
Microlithic Technology in Northern Asia: A Risk‐Minimizing Strategy of the Late Paleolithic and Early Holocene
Authors: Elston Robert G. , Brantingham P. Jeffrey
Published: November 2004

Microblade technology was important in hunter‐gatherer adaptations throughout northern Asia from the late Pleistocene through the Pleistocene/Holocene transition and beyond. To date, most studies from the region are concerned with origins, technological lineages, and culture history. In contrast, we direct attention to issues involving the role of microlithic technology in adaptive strategies and problem solution among north Asian hunter‐gatherers by looking at artifact design and risk analysis. First we discuss the function of Asian microblades and outline the general costs and benefits of organic points with microblade insets over simple organic points and flaked stone points, as well as the relative advantages of wedge‐shaped and split‐pebble microcores in terms of the Z‐score model. We conclude with a review of the role of microlithic technology as a risk‐minimizing strategy of Arctic and sub‐Arctic large‐game hunters in northern Asia and suggest further lines of inquiry.