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Reduplication and Reciprocity in Imagining Community: The Play of Tropes in a Rural Bangladeshi Moot
Authors: Wilce James M.
Published: November 2004

The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconicity analyzed here play traceable roles in particular imaginations of community and give us an opportunity to explore the accessibility of those imaginations to discursive consciousness. The article concludes that the tropes most powerfully shaping the discourse of the moot are those least accessible to metapragmatic consciousness, those that rhetorically contribute to the veiling of their own rhetoricity.
Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World.
Authors: Blount Ben G.
Published: November 2004

Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World. John. Taylor and Robert E. MacLawy. eds. Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, 82. Berlin/NewYork: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. 406 pp.
Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism.
Authors: Mata Hilda
Published: November 2004

Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism. Carmen Silva‐Corvalán. ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995. 304 pp.
Social Indexicality in French Pronominal Address
Authors: Morford Janet
Published: November 2004

This article examines the socially significant meanings generated through the use of the French second‐person singular pronominal address forms, tu and vous. The enduring complexity of this address system derives from the coexistence of two orders of indexical relations, which link particular patterns of pronominal usage with various contextual dimensions. Speakers' strategic use of pronominal forms and beliefs about the uses and users of language are emphasized as crucial to understanding the logic and evolution of such systems.
Metapragmatic Discourse and the Ideology of Impolite Pronouns in Thai
Authors: Simpson Rita C.
Published: November 2004

The complex system of person‐referring expressions in Thai sheds light on relationships between social structures, language use, and language ideologies. This article looks critically at the nature and implications of native speakers' metapragmatic awareness of person‐referring expressions. The analysis focuses on two transcripts of spontaneous metapragmatic discourse about the appropriate use of so‐called impolite pronouns, highlighting gender differences in usage and attitudes and situating this empirical evidence within the broader theoretical framework of language ideology.
Languages. Ives Goddard, ed. Handbook of North American Indians, 17.
Authors: Costa David J.
Published: November 2004

Languages. Ives Goddard. ed. Handbook of North American Indians, 17. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. 957 pp.
Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil.; The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts.; Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect.
Authors: Hill Jonathan D.
Published: November 2004

Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil. Laura R. Graham. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 290 pp.

The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. Gregory G. Mascarinec. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 276 pp.

Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect. Greg Urban. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 288 pp.
The Literary Mind.
Authors: Strauss Claudia
Published: November 2004

The Literary Mind. Mark Turner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 187 pp
Rongorongo, The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts.
Authors: Parmentier Richard J.
Published: November 2004

Rongorongo, The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts. Steven Roger Fischer. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 14. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 714 pp.
Yélî Dnye and the Theory of Basic Color Terms
Authors: Levinson Stephen C.
Published: November 2004

The theory of basic color terms was a crucial factor in the demise of linguistic relativity. The theory is now once again under scrutiny and fundamental revision. This article details a case study that undermines one of the central claims of the classical theory, namely that languages universally treat color as a unitary domain, to be exhaustively named. Taken together with other cases, the study suggests that a number of languages have only an incipient color terminology, raising doubts about the linguistic universality of such terminology.
The Limits of Legitimacy: Language Ideology and Shift in Contemporary Senegal
Authors: Swigart Leigh
Published: November 2004

Current sociolinguistic patterns in Dakar, Senegal, suggest that the French language shares its position as legitimate language, in the sense suggested by Bourdieu, with a mixed Wolof/French code that enjoys no official recognition. This contradiction is explored through the examination of a historic public speech delivered by Senegal's president in 1988 and the linguistic ideologies that the various reactions to this speech represent. It will be seen that the growing use of "Urban Wolof" during the last decade in the informal economic sector, the mass media, and advertising both reflects and reinforces the emergence of a new ideology that attributes an "alternative legitimacy" to this linguistic hybrid.
Deictic Transposition and Referential Practice in Belhare
Authors: Bickel Balthasar
Published: November 2004

A root alternation in Belhare (Sino‐Tibetan, Nepal) spatial demonstratives encodes the transposition of deictic fields to a zero‐point distinct from the deictic origin. This kind ofgrammaticalized transposition is also fundamental for other parts of the grammar, including person deixis and mood categeries. Transposition in spatial deixis makes deliberation between places on "this" versus "the other" side of the transposed zero‐point, a core issue of referential practice in establishing and sustaining social identities and boundaries.
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in a Boston Shelter
Authors: Wilce James M.
Published: November 2004

Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in. Boston Shelter. Robert R. Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 320 pp.
White Men Do It Too: Racialized (Homo)sexualities in Postcolonial Hausaland
Authors: Gaudio Rudolf P.
Published: November 2004

This article explores how, in talk about sex, Nigerian Hausa men who self‐identify as homosexual or womanlike and a Euro‐American gay male ethnographer reified racially distinct sexualities against a backdrop of perceived sexual similarity. These discursive transformations indexed and (reconstructed prototypes of ethnic, racial and national identities, and articulated speakers' claims to, or denials of, those identities. Such claims are connected to the global workings of wealth and power, and the discourses of desire and difference that inform and sustain them.
Emotional Meaning and the Cognitive Organization of Ethnozoological Domains
Authors: Nolan Justin M. , Robbins Michael C.
Published: November 2004

This article shows that the cognitive structure of semantic ethnozoological domains is influenced by the culturally constituted affective values of these domains. Data were collected from American undergraduates who free listed the generic constituents of four ethnozoological life‐forms: birds, fish, snakes, and wugs. Participants indicated on each free list which items they liked and disliked, and which single item best represented the life‐form domain. They were also asked whether they liked or disliked the exemplar and the domain. Concordance was found between the attitude toward the life form (i.e., whether it is liked or disliked) and the salience of similarly judged items, and between the attitude toward the life form and the attitude toward the exemplar. Concordance was also found between the attitude toward the exemplar and the salience of similarly judged items. The exemplars of each life‐form domain are highly salient overall, and the proportion of liked and disliked items in the free lists generally corresponds with the attitude toward the life‐form domain. All findings support our hypothesis that emotional meaning and culturally conditioned attitudes play a significant role in the organization of ethnozoological domains.
The Half‐Lives of Texts: Poetry, Politics, and Ethnography in Kabylia, Algeria
Authors: Goodman Jane E.
Published: November 2004

Poetry, politics, and ethnography have been intimately linked in Algeria's Kabyle Berber region for over a century. This article examines two entextualizations of a related Kabyle poem: one recorded by French colonel Hanoteau in 1867 and the other unearthed by Kabyle scholar and cultural activist Mammeri in 1980. By analyzing the relationship between metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function in each poetry collection, the article shows how Berber culture has been variously configured as an object of ethnographic knowledge.
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of "18‐Rabbit‐God K," King of Copan
Authors: Stross Brian
Published: November 2004

Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of "18‐Rabbit‐God K," King of Copan. Elizabeth A. Newsome. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xx. 294 pp.
Language and Gesture
Authors: Bavelas Janet , Gerwing Jennifer
Published: November 2004

Language and Gesture. David McNeill. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 420 pp.
Investing in Emotion: Love and Anger in Financial Advertising
Authors: Lefkowitz Daniel
Published: November 2004

In the late 1990s, when the American stock market was booming, television commercials for financial‐services companies represented investing either as nurturing love or as violent anger. Although investing has long been constructed as love, this study of the visual, aural, and textual deployment of emotions in television advertising argues that the representation of investing as anger reflects a broad revaluation of anger in American culture from an emotion that is properly repressed to one that is ideally celebrated.
"Keepin' It Real": White Hip‐Hoppers' Discourses of Language, Race, and Authenticity
Authors: Cutler Cecilia
Published: November 2004

This study investigates the discursive construction of authenticity among white middle‐class young people in the New York City area who affiliate with hip‐hop. It explores the ways in which hip‐hop mediates the adoption of African American English‐influenced speech by these young people and how this phenomenon complicates traditional sociolinguistic conceptions of identity. There is a discourse within hip‐hop that privileges the urban black street experience. This forces white middle‐class hip‐hoppers whose race and class origins distance them from this socially located space to construct themselves linguistically as authentic via both form and content.
Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice.
Authors: Jaffe Alexandra
Published: November 2004

Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice. Ron Scollon. New York: Routledge, 2001. 182 pp.
Discourse Analysis.
Authors: Sunakawa Chiho
Published: November 2004

Discourse Analysis. Barbara Johnstone. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. xi. 269 pp.
Grassroots Historiography and the Problem of Voice: Tshibumba's Histoire du Zaïre
Authors: Blommaert Jan
Published: November 2004

This article addresses the issue of historical interpretation of documents produced in semiotic economies that do not correspond to the dominant ones. It tries to show how attention to linguistic ideologies may assist historical interpretation. Rather than truth or factuality, voice should be central to this interpretive project. Voice can be identified by a close ethnographic inspection of textual practices, placed against the ackground of local hierarchies of signs and sign values from which individual signs derive meaning and function. An analysis of a handwritten document called “History of Zaire” (Congo) and written by Tshibumba shows how forms of genre work offer spaces for Tshibumba to define himself as a historian, that is, as the producer of prestigious types of ordered and organized knowledge. The act of writing in generically regimented ways is what allows Tshibumba to call his document an instance of historiography.
Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness. Conversations in a Cameroon Village
Authors: Yoder P. Stanley
Published: November 2004

Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness. Conversations in a Cameroon Village. Robert Pool. Oxford, UK & Providence, RI: Berg Publishers, 1994 (cloth and paper). xii + 286 pp.
Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography
Authors: Leidy Lynnette E.
Published: November 2004

Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography. James W. Wood. NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 1994 (cloth and paper). xvi + 653 pp.
Drinking Careers: A Twenty‐Five‐Year Study of Three Navajo Populations
Authors: Bennett Linda A.
Published: November 2004

Drinking Careers: A Twenty‐Five‐Year Study of Three Navajo Populations. Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy with Tracy Andrews, Chena DuPuy, K. Ruben Gabriel, and Scott Russell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. vii + 280 pp.
The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology and Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives
Authors: Willging Cathleen E.
Published: November 2004

The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology. T. Kue Young. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 (cloth), ix + 275 pp.

Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, and T. Kue Young. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), xii + 334 pp.
Disease and Social Diversity: The European Impact on the Health of Non‐Europeans
Authors: Campbell Gregory R.
Published: November 2004

Disease and Social Diversity: The European Impact on the Health of Non‐Europeans. Stephen J. Kunitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 (paper), vii + 209pp.
Speed, Sex, Gay Men, and HIV: Ecological and Community Perspectives
Authors: Gorman E. Michael , Barr Ben‐David , Hansen Anthony , Robertson Bruce , Green Caleb
Published: November 2004

Fifteen years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a great deal is now known about the different populations impacted by the disease, including those affected directly or indirectly by drug use. Anthropology has played a critical role in assisting with this task by identifying hidden populations, developing new methodological approaches, and targeting outreach efforts. In spite of this considerable body of ethnographic knowledge, men who have sex with other men (i.e., MSM, or gay and bisexual men) who use drugs have not received the same research attention as other drug users, despite the fact that they represent nearly one‐fifth of AIDS cases in the U.S. with injection drug histories. In response to the alarming increase in HIV seroprevalence among this population, this ethnographic project provides preliminary data about those who are at dual risk for HIV through both homosexual behavior and injection drug use.
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience.
Authors: Hopper Kim
Published: November 2004

Medicine, Rationality, and Experience. Byron J. Good. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994(cloth and paper). xvii. 242 pp.
Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method, Revised Edition
Authors: Trostle James A.
Published: November 2004

Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method, Revised Edition. Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson. eds. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996 (cloth and paper), xxi. 557.
Debilidad: A Biocultural Assessment of an Embodied Andean Illness
Authors: Oths Kathryn S.
Published: November 2004

Northern Peruvian highlanders complain of debilidad to express an embodied exhaustion resulting from a lifelong accumulation of productive and reproductive stresses. This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and a political‐economic and materialistinformed biocultural approach to explore this "women's illness " and why is also experienced by men and children. Eighty‐two percent of cases of debilidad occur in the households of postreproductive women with debilidad. For women, household sex ratio, number of pregnancies, and death of offspring are associated with the incidence of debilidad, while for men, household wealth is the most salient correlate. The young required to undertake full adult responsibilities are also vulnerable. Findings are strengthened when the household is used as the unit of analysis. [Andes, culture‐bound illness, biocultural, embodiment, reproduction]
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Authors: Willigen John van
Published: November 2004

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Lawrence Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxv. 367 pp.
Exploring Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective and Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology
Authors: Price Laurie J.
Published: November 2004

Exploring Medical Anthropology. Donald Joralemon. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. xiv+ 158pp.

Medical Anthropology and the World System:. Critical Perspective. Hans A. Baer. Merrill Singer. and Ida Susser. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1997. + 276 pp.

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Peter J. Brown. ed. Mountain View, CA. Mayfield, 1998. xii. 451 pp.
From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey
Authors: Stein Howard F.
Published: November 2004

Claiming Power in Doctor‐Patient Talk. Nancy Ainsworth‐Vaughn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii. 212 pp.

From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey. Robbie Davis‐Floyd and Gloria St. John. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiv. 308 pp.
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political‐Economic Perspectives on Human Biology
Authors: Stini William A.
Published: November 2004

Building. New Biocultural Synthesis: Political‐Economic Perspectives on Human Biology. Alan H. Goodman and Thomas L. Leatherman. eds. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998. xxii. 486 pp.
Menopause and the Transmission of Women's Knowledge: African American and White Women's Perspectives
Authors: Agee Eve
Published: November 2004

Recent menopause literature does not sufficiently explore women's attitudes on the transmission of knowledge about menopause from sources other than biomedical providers. Analysis of 70 interviews with African American and Euro‐American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health‐care technologies surrounding it. African American women who grew up in the segregated South frequently expressed that their mothers provided them with the knowledge and power to negotiate difficulties during the menopausal process, while many middle‐class Euro‐American women expressed that their mothers did not. Drawing on literature that examines the effects of race, class, and kinship on mother/daughter relationships, this article explores the reasons for this divergence, [menopause, gender, mother/daughter relationships]
Pluralism and Pragmatism: Knowledge and Practice of Birth in Morocco
Authors: Obermeyer Carla Makhlouf
Published: November 2004

This article examines knowledge and practice surrounding birth in Morocco, using women's narratives of their recent birth experiences, observations of medical encounters, and statements about prescribed behaviors during pregnancy and birth, as well as the vocabulary used to refer to physiological processes, disease conditions, and social relationships. The analysis shows that the three major themes that define the traditional Moroccan ethnophysiology of birth—conceptions of hot and cold, the symbolism of blood, and the metaphors of openness and obstruction—are not inconsistent with the precepts ofbiomedicine and public health and do not in themselves constitute obstacles either to safe home births or the use of formal health services. Women integrate biomedical and local knowledge and practices and simultaneously seek care from "traditional" and "modern" practitioners, creatively combining elements in accordance with their situations and the means at their disposal. Birth narratives show the eclecticism and flexibility that characterize women's attitudes and behaviors regarding pregnancy and birth. Women's decisions are shaped by two overriding considerations: incertitude about what can happen during the last phase of a pregnancy and ambivalence toward the available alternatives for care, both of which reflect a realistic assessment of their situations. By showing how women make decisions in response to these considerations, this article seeks to clarify some of the links between beliefs and practices and to contribute to ongoing discussions regarding the relevance of local knowledge for patterns of health care, [birth, Morocco, ethnophysiology, knowledge, practice, pluralism, health care]
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Authors: Kendall Carl
Published: November 2004

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Paul Farmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv. 375 pp.
Privatizing Health Services in Africa
Authors: Wilson Ruth P.
Published: November 2004

Privatizing Health Services in Africa. Meredeth Turshen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xvi. 185 pp.
Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood
Authors: Sobo Elisa J.
Published: November 2004

Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Carolyn Sargent. eds. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. iv. 429 pp.
Anthropology in Public Health
Authors: Glittenberg Jody
Published: November 2004

Anthropology in Public Health. Robert A. Hahn. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxii +384 pp.
Preventing and Controlling Cancer in North America: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective; Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies: A Guide to the Science and Politics of an Emerging Medical Field
Authors: Rosenbaum Marcy
Published: November 2004

Preventing and Controlling Cancer in North America:. Cross‐Cultural Perspective. Diane Weiner. ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. xvii. 245 pp.

Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies:. Guide to the Science and Politics of an Emerging Medical Field. David J. Hess. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xxi. 260 pp.
The Pollution of Incontinence and the Dirty Work of Caregiving in a U.S. Nursing Home
Authors: Jervis Lori L.
Published: November 2004

In U.S. nursing homes, it is the job of nursing assistants to tend to residents ' basic bodily needs, including elimination and incontinence care.

Given their frequent contact with pollutants, aides are very much at risk of becoming “pollutedpeople.” In this article, I investigate how nursing assistants' continual contact with contaminating substances impacts their status within the workplace, their relationships with others, and their attitudes toward their work and themselves as workers. I also explore how aides manage their encounters with pollutants and their stigmatized role as “dirty workers.” In doing so, I hope to explicate the meaning of elimination and of incontinence caregiving in the United States, [nursing homes, caregiving, symbolic pollution, incontinence, American culture]
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry
Authors: Brodwin Paul
Published: November 2004

Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Margaret Lock. Allan Young. and Alberto Cambrosio. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ix+295 pp.
In Search of Community: A Quest for Well‐Being among Tamil Refugees in Northern Norway
Authors: Grønseth Anne Sigfrid
Published: November 2004

Over the past ten years, Tamil refugees have settled in marginal fishing communities along the Arctic coastline of northern Norway. This article focuses on social aspects of Tamil resettlement and on the refugees' struggle for well‐being. Tamils in these communities often experience diffuse aches and pains that are difficult for health workers to diagnose and treat. This article argues for the need to understand such health problems as embedded in social relations as they are experienced and embodied by the Tamils. Case studies are presented emphasizing that Tamils experience being misunderstood as individuals and as whole persons. This article draws a picture of a social context in which Tamils are stretched and pulled in different directions in search of community and individuality. The question emerges how best to understand the process of embodiment, which may transcend the individual body. [Tamil, refugee, community, health, embodiment]
Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care: Understanding How Perceptions Influence Success
Authors: Wayland Coral , Crowder Jerome
Published: November 2004

The importance of community in primary health care (PHC) is evident in the role of community participation and in the types of programs that are routinely implemented (community health‐worker [CHW] programs, community clinics, community–based disease‐control programs). Few health care providers and program administrators, however, have considered the meaning of community. Instead, they frequently impose their own definition of community and assume that it corresponds to local realities. This is problematic because target populations may have different ideas about what a community is and how it functions. When disparate ideas of community exist, they can affect the implementation of PHC programs, leading to low rates of acceptance, participation, and utilization. Using two examples, a community clinic in El Alto, Bolivia, and a CHW program in Rio Bronco, Brazil, this article discusses some of the problems that arise when local definitions of community do not correspond to programmatic definitions, [community, primary health care, Brazil, Bolivia]
Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death.
Authors: Joralemon Donald
Published: November 2004

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. Margaret Lock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xii. 429pp.
Characterizing Latino Anglers' Environmental Risk Perceptions, Sport Fish Consumption, and Advisory Awareness
Authors: Beehler Gregory P. , McGuinness Bridget M. , Vena John E.
Published: November 2004

Sport fish advisories for the Great Lakes states suggest limiting consumption offish taken from the lakes and their tributaries because of chemical contamination. It appears, however, that minority anglers are less aware of the advisories and also consume greater amounts of sport fish than white anglers. We conducted focus groups in western New York with Latino anglers and partners of anglers to explore these patterns. Analysis revealed that older anglers believed local waters were of good quality and that it was safe to consume fish taken from them. They based their evaluation of both water and fish primarily on visual inspection. In contrast, younger Latinos believed that area waters were highly polluted because of dumping of waste from local industries. They fished away from urban areas in an effort to find cleaner, more swiftly moving waters. They considered consuming sport fish from urban areas highly risky, given their occasional illness experiences following meals of what they thought were polluted fish. For all Latino anglers, however, state‐sponsored advisories were minimally effective because of their limited distribution and complex wording. Results point to differences in lay and scientific models of pollution and a need to bridge this gap in future risk‐communication strategies. [Latinos; risk perception; risk communication; sport fish advisories]
Book Reviews
Authors: Morgan Lynn M.
Published: November 2004

. Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth‐ Century America. Michael Sappol. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii. 430 pp.
Contextualizing the Politics of Knowledge: Physicians' Attitudes toward Medicinal Plants
Authors: Wayland Coral
Published: November 2004

This article examines how a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon values medicinal plant knowledge. As biomedical health care providers, physicians routinely draw on scientific plant knowledge. At the same time, as residents of the Amazon and health care providers to the poor, they are aware of and sometimes participate in local systems of plant knowledge. When discussing medicinal plant use, physicians repeatedly mention three themes: science, superstition, and biopiracy. The way in which physicians construct and negotiate these themes is part of the process of maintaining and legitimating their expertise and authority. This analysis finds that context is key to understanding whether, when, and why physicians value certain bodies of knowledge. Locally, in clinics, scientific plant knowledge is constructed as superior. In a global context, however, local plant knowledge is explicitly valued. This situational valuation/devaluation of plant knowledge relates to the positions of power physicians occupy in each context, [medicinal plants, politics of knowledge, Brazil, Amazon, physicians]
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Polities of Fetal Protection
Authors: Erikson Susan L.
Published: November 2004

Smoking and Pregnancy: The Polities of Fetal Protection. Laury Oaks. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. + 276 pp.
Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa.
Authors: Foley Ellen E.
Published: November 2004

Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa. Caroline H. Bledsoe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii. 396 pp.
They're All My Children: Foster Mothering in America
Authors: Landsman Gail
Published: November 2004

They're All My Children: Foster Mothering in America. Danielle F. Wozniak. New York: NYU Press, 2002. + 245 pp.
The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
Authors: Kabel Allison
Published: November 2004

The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care. Julia Lawton. London: Routledge, 2000. ix. 229 pp.
Childhood Asthma on the Northern Mexico Border
Authors: SCHWARTZ NORAH ANITA
Published: November 2004

Children with asthma living on the northern Mexico border suffer not only from the physical aspects of this condition, but also from the lack of a clear biomedical definition and treatment plan for the illness. An ethnographic study involving participant observation and focused interviews in Tijuana, Mexico, sought to understand the intersection of diagnostic uncertainties surrounding childhood asthma on the part of parents, particularly mothers, living in acute poverty. Environmental factors such as dust and insects in impoverished homes probably acted as asthma triggers among many of the children in the study. Furthermore, management of children's asthma took place not only in biomedical clinics, but also in homes, traditional medical settings, and pharmacies, where mothers often sought remedies for their children's asthma attacks on an emergency basis. In all treatment settings, including biomedical ones, they often faced significant barriers to effective care, including the misuse of antibiotics. Thus, the role of pharmaceutical sales clerks, as well as pediatric asthma specialists, is explored in this article. [pediatric asthma, northern Mexico border, illness narratives, doctor‐patient interaction, pharmaceuticals, poverty]
A Separate Vision
Authors: Hedlund Ann Lane
Published: November 2004

. Separate Vision: Case Studies of Four Contemporary Indian Artists. Linda B. Eaton. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 58, 1990. 90 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography. $14.95 (paper).

. Separate Vision. Linda B. Eaton. Special issue of Plateau Magazine 60(1), 1989. 32 pp., color plates. $4.95 (paper).
Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture
Authors: Bischof Phyllis B.
Published: November 2004

Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture. Edited by Doran H. Ross. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1992. 413 pp.; color and b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. $69.00 (cloth); $39.99 (paper).
Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection; A Legacy of Arctic Art
Authors: Halpern Joel M.
Published: November 2004

Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection. Nelson H. H. Graburn. Molly Lee. and Jean‐loup Rousselot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. University of California Publications in Anthropology, Volume 21. 582 pp. illus., bibliographical references, index, concordanc.

. Legacy of Arctic Art. Dorothy Jean Ray. Foreword by Aldona Jonaitis. photographs by Barry McWayne. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.196 pp., bibliographical references, appendix, notes, index.
Rethinking Visual Anthropology
Authors: Mclaughlin Castle
Published: November 2004

Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 306 pp.
Nomads: Nomadic Material Culture in the Asian Collections of the Horniman Museum
Authors: Chang Claudia
Published: November 2004

Nomads: Nomadic Material Culture in the Asian Collections of the Horniman Museum, Ken Teague. London: The Horniman Museum and Gardens and Museu Antropologico da Universidade de Coimbra. 2000.100 pp. 52 color and 27 black and white photographs,. maps, bibliography.
Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900‐1942
Authors: Ruf Gregory A.
Published: November 2004

Prasenjit Duara Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900‐1942. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988
Japan's Image in America: Popular Writing about Japan, 1800‐1941
Authors: Teghillo Tamara R.
Published: November 2004

Japan's Image in America: Popular Writing about Japan, 1800‐1941 Charles B. Wordell (Kyoto: Yamaguchi Publishing House, 1998)
Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States
Authors: Bowen John
Published: November 2004

Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States Carol J. Greenhouse and Roshanak Kheshti eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998)
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile
Authors: Coles Kimberley A.
Published: November 2004

Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile Julia Paley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
The Network Inside Out
Authors: Coutin Susan Bibler
Published: November 2004

The Network Inside Out Annelise Riles (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).
Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives; Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror
Authors: Bass Jeffrey
Published: November 2004

Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives. Richard A. Wilson. ed. (London and Chicago: Pluto Press, 1997).

Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Jeffrey A. Sluka. ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
West of the Thirties: Discoveries Among The Navajo And Hopi
Authors: Brigard Emilie De
Published: November 2004

West of the Thirties: Discoveries among the Navajo and Hopi. Edward T. Hall 1994 190 pp. New York: Doubleday
Period Piece
Authors: Goslinga‐Roy Gillian
Published: November 2004

Period Piece (1995) Jennifer Frame and Jay Rosenblatt 30 Min., Video ($45 Rental, $195 Sale) Jay Rosenblatt Film Library 22‐D Hollywood Avunue Ho‐Ho‐Kus, Nj 07423
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Errol Morris (and others) at Sundance 1997
Authors: Lutkehaus Nancy
Published: November 2004

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Errol Morris (and Others) At Sundance 1997
From Artful Ethnography to Ethnographic Art: The Enduring Significance of the Navajo Film Project
Authors: Dubin Margaret
Published: November 2004

Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Sol Worth and John Adairt. with. new foreword, afterword, and illustrations by Richard Chalfen. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. 380 pages. xxvi.
Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire; Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925
Authors: Buckley Liam
Published: November 2004

Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire. James R. Ryan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1997

Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925. Robert J. Gordon. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1997. 208 pp. xiii. 61 illustrations.
Paradise Unmasked Amazon Journal: The true story of how the world got it wrong
Authors: Rice Eric P.
Published: November 2004

Paradise Unmasked Amazon Journal. The true story of how the world got it wrong. Directed by Geoffrey O'Connor. Realis Pictures, 32 Union Square East, #816, New York, NY 10003. 60 minutes.
The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer
Authors: Trachtenberg Alan
Published: November 2004

The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer. Jay Ruby. State Park: Penn State University Press. 304 pp, illus.
Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs
Authors: Edwards Elizabeth
Published: November 2004

Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs. Christopher Pinney. London: Reaktion Books. 1997. 240pp, illus.
Delivering Views Distant Cultures in Early Postcards
Authors: Buckley Liam
Published: November 2004

Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards. Christraud M. Geary and Virginia‐Lee Webb. eds. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington and London. 1998 199pp. 132 ill.
Clinical, Histologic, and Transcriptomic Evaluation of Sequential Fat Grafting for Morphea
Authors: Liu Juzi , Wang Jing , Zhang Qian , Lu Feng , Cai Junrong
Published: February 2024

Importance

Morphea is a rare disease of unknown etiology without satisfactory treatment for skin sclerosis and soft tissue atrophy.

Objective

To provide clinical, histologic, and transcriptome evidence of the antisclerotic and regenerative effects of sequential fat grafting with fresh fat and cryopreserved stromal vascular fraction gel (SVF gel) for morphea.

Design, Setting, and Participants

This single-center, nonrandomized controlled trial was conducted between January 2022 and March 2023 in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University and included adult participants with early-onset or late-onset morphea who presented with varying degrees of skin sclerosis and soft tissue defect.

Interventions

Group 1 received sequential grafting of fresh fat and cryopreserved SVF gel (at 1 and 2 months postoperation). Group 2 received single autologous fat grafting. All patients were included in a 12-month follow-up.

Main Outcome and Measures

The primary outcome included changes in the modified Localized Scleroderma Skin Severity Index (mLoSSI) and Localized Scleroderma Skin Damage Index (LoSDI) scores as evaluated by 2 independent blinded dermatologists. The histologic and transcriptome changes of morphea skin lesions were also evaluated.

Results

Of 44 patients (median [IQR] age, 26 [23-33] years; 36 women [81.8%]) enrolled, 24 (54.5%) were assigned to group 1 and 20 (45.5%) to group 2. No serious adverse events were noted. The mean (SD) mLoSSI scores at 12 months showed a 1.6 (1.50) decrease in group 1 and 0.9 (1.46) in group 2 (P = .13), whereas the mean (SD) LoSDI scores at 12 months showed a 4.3 (1.34) decrease in group 1 and 2.1 (1.07) in group 2 (P < .001), indicating that group 1 had more significant improvement in morphea skin damage but not disease activity compared with group 2. Histologic analysis showed improved skin regeneration and reduced skin sclerosis in group 1, whereas skin biopsy specimens of group 2 patients did not show significant change. Transcriptome analysis of skin biopsy specimens from group 1 patients suggested that tumor necrosis factor α signaling via NFκB might contribute to the immunosuppressive and antifibrotic effect of sequential fat grafting. A total of 15 hub genes were captured, among which many associated with morphea pathogenesis were downregulated and validated by immunohistochemistry, such as EDN1, PAI-1, and CTGF.

Conclusions and Relevance

The results of this nonrandomized trial suggest that sequential fat grafting with fresh fat and cryopreserved SVF gel was safe and its therapeutic effect was superior to that of single autologous fat grafting with improved mLoSSI and LoSDI scores. Histological and transcriptomic changes further support the effectiveness after treatment.

Trial Registration

Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier: ChiCTR2200058003
Sex-Specific Pathways From Prenatal Maternal Inflammation to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Authors: Lipner Emily , Mac Giollabhui Naoise , Breen Elizabeth C. , Cohn Barbara A. , Krigbaum Nickilou Y. , Cirillo Piera M. , Olino Thomas M. , Alloy Lauren B. , Ellman Lauren M.
Published: February 2024

Importance

Prenatal maternal inflammation has been associated with major depressive disorder in offspring in adulthood as well as with internalizing and externalizing symptoms in childhood; however, the association between prenatal inflammation and offspring depression in adolescence has yet to be examined.

Objective

To determine whether maternal levels of inflammatory biomarkers during pregnancy are associated with depressive symptomatology in adolescent-aged offspring and to examine how gestational timing, offspring sex, and childhood psychiatric symptoms impact these associations.

Design, Setting, and Participants

This was an observational study of a population-based birth cohort from the Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS), which recruited almost all mothers receiving obstetric care from the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) in Alameda County, California, between June 1959 and September 1966. Pregnancy data and blood sera were collected from mothers, and offspring psychiatric symptom data were collected in childhood (ages 9-11 years) and adolescence (ages 15-17 years). Mother-offspring dyads with available maternal prenatal inflammatory biomarkers during first and/or second trimesters and offspring depressive symptom data at adolescent follow-up were included. Data analyses took place between March 2020 and June 2023.

Exposures

Levels of inflammatory biomarkers (interleukin 6 [IL-6], IL-8, IL-1 receptor antagonist [IL-1RA], and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-II) assayed from maternal sera in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy.

Main Outcomes and Measures

Self-reported depressive symptoms at adolescent follow-up.

Results

A total of 674 mothers (mean [SD] age, 28.1 [5.9] years) and their offspring (350 male and 325 female) were included in this study. Higher second trimester IL-6 was significantly associated with greater depressive symptoms in offspring during adolescence (b, 0.57; SE, 0.26); P = .03). Moderated mediation analyses showed that childhood externalizing symptoms significantly mediated the association between first trimester IL-6 and adolescent depressive symptoms in male offspring (b, 0.18; 95% CI, 0.02-0.47), while childhood internalizing symptoms mediated the association between second trimester IL-1RA and adolescent depressive symptoms in female offspring (b, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.19-1.75).

Conclusions and Relevance

In this study, prenatal maternal inflammation was associated with depressive symptoms in adolescent-aged offspring. The findings of the study suggest that pathways to adolescent depressive symptomatology from prenatal risk factors may differ based on both the timing of exposure to prenatal inflammation and offspring sex.
Should Current Laws Be Revised to Address Occupational Hazards Caused by Hand-Tool Size Mismatch Among Surgeons?
Authors: Braman Anna , Robertson Christopher , King Louise
Published: February 2024

This Viewpoint discusses the challenges faced by surgeons with a smaller hand size—and women in particular—when using surgical tools designed for larger hands and explores potential legal remedies to address these challenges.
Health Insurance Status and Unplanned Surgery for Access-Sensitive Surgical Conditions
Authors: Dualeh Shukri H. A. , Schaefer Sara L. , Kunnath Nicholas , Ibrahim Andrew M. , Scott John W.
Published: February 2024

Importance

Access-sensitive surgical conditions, such as abdominal aortic aneurysm, ventral hernia, and colon cancer, are ideally treated with elective surgery, but when left untreated have a natural history requiring an unplanned operation. Patients’ health insurance status may be a barrier to receiving timely elective care, which may be associated with higher rates of unplanned surgery and worse outcomes.

Objective

To evaluate the association between patients’ insurance status and rates of unplanned surgery for these 3 access-sensitive surgical conditions and postoperative outcomes.

Design, Setting, and Participants

This cross-sectional cohort study examined a geographically broad patient sample from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases, including data from 8 states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin). Participants were younger than 65 years who underwent abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, ventral hernia repair, or colectomy for colon cancer between 2016 and 2020. Patients were stratified into groups by insurance status. Data were analyzed from June 1 to July 1, 2023.

Exposure

Health insurance status (private insurance, Medicaid, or no insurance).

Main Outcomes and Measures

The primary outcome was the rate of unplanned surgery for these 3 access-sensitive conditions. Secondary outcomes were rates of postoperative outcomes including inpatient mortality, any hospital complications, serious complications (a complication with a hospital length of stay longer than the 75th percentile for that procedure), and hospital length of stay.

Results

The study included 146 609 patients (mean [SD] age, 50.9 [10.3] years; 73 871 females [50.4%]). A total of 89 018 patients (60.7%) underwent elective surgery while 57 591 (39.3%) underwent unplanned surgery. Unplanned surgery rates varied significantly across insurance types (33.14% for patients with private insurance, 51.46% for those with Medicaid, and 72.60% for those without insurance; P < .001). Compared with patients with private insurance, patients without insurance had higher rates of inpatient mortality (1.29% [95% CI, 1.04%-1.54%] vs 0.61% [0.57%-0.66%]; P < .001), higher rates of any complications (19.19% [95% CI, 18.33%-20.05%] vs 12.27% [95% CI, 12.07%-12.47%]; P < .001), and longer hospital stays (7.27 [95% CI, 7.09-7.44] days vs 5.56 [95% CI, 5.53-5.60] days, P < .001).

Conclusions and Relevance

Findings of this cohort study suggest that uninsured patients more often undergo unplanned surgery for conditions that can be treated electively, with worse outcomes and longer hospital stays compared with their counterparts with private health insurance. As efforts are made to improve insurance coverage, tracking elective vs unplanned surgery rates for access-sensitive surgical conditions may be a useful measure to assess progress.