bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
national texts and gendered lives: an ethnography of television viewers in a North Indian city
Authors: MANKEKAR PURNIMA
Published: November 2004

Recent anthropological research highlights the significance of mass media in the construction of identities. This article focuses on the ways in which men and women, located in specific sociocultural contexts, interpret entertainment serials shown on Indian television. It then proceeds to explore the place of the viewers' active engagement with television in terms of their constitution as national and gendered subjects. [television audiences, subjectivity, gender, nationalism, India]
of trees and kings: politics and metaphor among the Aluund of Southwestern Zaire
Authors: DE BOECK FILIP
Published: November 2004

By means of a detailed analysis of the relationship between the political body and a particular species of tree among the Aluund of Southwestern Zaire, this article demonstrates the specific ways in which traditional political structure and ideology are constituted by ritual and vice versa. Secondly, it offers a reflection upon the ways in which vernacular concepts are translated into anthropological metalanguage and presents a reconsideration of the currently used concepts of symbol and metaphor. [Central Africa, enthronement ritual, kingship, metaphor theory, personhood, tree symbolism]
dialogic dreams: creative selves coming into life in the flow of time
Authors: GRAHAM LAURA R.
Published: November 2004

This article discusses male Xavante youths' experience of subjectivity through exploration of dream‐songs using, following Singer, a Peircian model of the semiotic self. Dreamed songs are shown to straddle the territory between the domains of individual subjectivity and publicly circulating discursive practice, mediating between the creativity and experience of individual selves and the experience of collectivity. Preinitiates construct images of the dream‐song “type” through performance with seniors, then share dreamed compositions with a cohort to merge individual experience with collective experience in performance. Performance links participants to seniors, past performers, and, ultimately, to the ancestors. [dreams, song/dance, semiotics, expressive performance, Brazilian Indians]
to sell or not to sell? theory versus practice, public versus private, and the failure of liberalism: the case of Israel and its Palestinian citizens
Authors: RABINOWITZ DAN
Published: November 2004

Two themes are explored. The first is junctions whereby personal interests contradict dominant values. The Israeli residents of Natzerat Illit, a new town in Galilee, conform with mainstream Zionist narratives when they view the presence of Palestinian residents in their town as unacceptable. At the same time, selling properties to incoming Palestinians is irresistibly Iucrative and has become a norm. The mismatch between theory and practice and the gaps between an idealized Zionist past and a disappointing present are interpreted in terms of the tension between the private and the public domains. Second, the tendency of liberalism to personalize, depoliticize, and decontextualize conflicts allows modern western states to claim the role of rational and faithful guardian of rights of all constituents. It takes the vicissitudes of interstitial zones to expose the falseness of these claims and their efficacy in arresting change, [nationalism, liberalism, minorities, borderlands, private and public domains]
on fixing ethnographic shadows
Authors: SAPIR J. DAVID
Published: November 2004

Anthropology and Photography—1860–1920. ELIZABETH EDWARDS ed.

Ethnographie et Photographi. EMMANUEL GARRIGUES ed.

Photography, a Middle‐Brow Art. PIERRE BOURDIEU with LUC BOLTAHSKI, ROBERT CASTEL, JEAN‐CLAUDE CHAMBOREDON and DOMINIQUE SCHNAPPER

W. Eugene Smith and the Photographic Essay. GLENN G. WILLUMSON
“thus are our bodies, thus was our custom”: mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society
Authors: CONKLIN BETH A.
Published: November 2004

This article examines the cultural logic of mortuary cannibalism practiced, until the 1960s, by the Wari' (Pakaa Nova) of western Brazil. Wari' practices are inadequately explained by the materialist, psychogenic, and symbolic interpretations prominent in recent cannibalism theories. This analysis emphasizes indigenous understandings of the relation of cannibalism to experiences of mourning. Concepts of the human body's social significance made its destruction important to the working out of grief and the attenuation of memories of the dead. In a social process of mourning concerned with transforming mourners' images of the dead, cannibalism appeared as a key element that affirmed ideas of human‐animal regeneration and reciprocity expressed in Wari' myth, cosmology, and eschatology. [cannibalism, body concepts, ritual, death and mourning, Amazonian Indians]
revolutionary anticlericalism and hegemonic processes in an Andalusian town, August 1936
Authors: MADDOX RICHARD
Published: November 2004

Anthropologists and social historians have debated whether the participants in violent attacks on the church and clergy in Spain during the Civil War period were “millenarian” protestants whose actions sprang from a premodern sociopolitical mentality or were pragmatic radicals whose actions simply represented a series of well‐calculated attacks on a key ideological institution. In analyzing the events leading to anticlerical violence in an Andalusian town, this article argues that the attacks were the outcome of hegemonic processes of differing scope, intensity, and duration. Neither pure traditionalists nor modernists, the revolutionary anticlericals of August 1936 sought to define the specific character of the present in ways that were gauged to have the maximum effect on their allies and adversaries alike. The article discusses implications of these findings for analyses of “tradition,” “modernity,” and contemporary sociopolitical movements. [hegemonic processes, Spain, anticlericalism, tradition, modernity, social movements]
dancing with corpses reconsidered: an interpretation of famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madagascar)
Authors: GRAEBER DAVID
Published: November 2004

The ritual of exhumation and rewrapping of ancestral bodies practiced in Imerina, Madagascar, is the culmination of a pervasive relation of memory and violence—a relationship that can only be fully understood by contrasting the attitudes toward ancestors held by ambitious or powerful men in rural society, and those attitudes held by most women. Doing so reveals the parameters of a complex and ambivalent attitude toward authority. [kinship, authority, gender, mortuary ritual, Madagascar]
contested ritual, contested femininities: (re)forming self and society in a Nepali women's festival
Authors: HOLLAND DOROTHY C. , SKINNER DEBRA G.
Published: November 2004

The Tij festival of contemporary Nepal represents a case in which a ritual has become a crucial space for the cultivation of feminine subjectivities. For Tij, Hindu women create novel songs that are performed before the entire community. Sometime in the past this portion of a larger ritual complex, previously analyzed as representing and reproducing an ideal Hindu femininity, became a space for protests and complaints about the patriarchal Brahmanical ideologies and practices that dominate women's lives. In the wake of the democracy movement, the festival has been turned to a new arena, to the world of governmental politics, and the songs have become more explicitly revolutionary in content. Here, we argue that these critical voices, developed through the collective processes of song composition and their enactment in the special atmosphere of the festival, have provided a basis for women's critical self‐consciousness and for their social action in the new political climate.[gender, ritual‐in‐practice, cultural production and social movements, women's political culture, Nepal, South Asia]
metaphor and the metalanguage: “groups” in northeast Arnhem Land
Authors: KEEN IAN
Published: November 2004

Ethnographic description often involves the substitution in an anthropological metalanguage of expressions embedding one set of metaphors for indigenous expressions that incorporate quite different tropes. In this article I examine metaphors implicit in the language of “clan” and related expressions, especially the corporate “body” or “person,” “boundaries,” “segments,” and the “levels” of taxonomic hierarchy. I then show why the use of such expressions has led to anomalies in descriptions of the construction of Yolngu “Murngin” patrifilial groups. These are constituted through tropes related to ancestors, the body and plants, and connections through ancestral journeys and creative acts. [metaphor, translation, lineage theory, Murngin, Yolngu, Australian Aborigines]
smugglers or samaritans in Tucson, Arizona: producing and contesting legal truth
Authors: COUTIN SUSAN BIBLER
Published: November 2004

In 1985–86, 11 religious activists whose congregations had declared themselves sanctuaries for undocumented Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees were tried in Tucson, Arizona, on alien‐smuggling charges. Although 8 of the 11 were convicted and although the verdicts were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the social and legal significance of the trial, and of the sanctuary movement itself, has continued to be negotiated by sanctuary activists. Examining the events that led to this trial, the trial itself, and the trial's aftermath sheds light on how legal truth is produced and contested both within and outside of courtrooms. [power, resistance, truth, sanctuary, prosecution, law]
from tlahtocayotl to gobernadoryotl: a critical examination of indigenous rule in 18th‐century central Mexico
Authors: OUWENEEL ARIJ
Published: November 2004

My central argument in this article is that the pueblo de indios of 18th‐century central Mexican highlands should be seen as the continuation of pre‐Hispanic indigenous landed estates. The pueblos were highly stratified entities and were ruled by a small elite of families, usually referred to as caciques. The local level elite either traced descent from the pre‐Hispanic nobility or had taken the place of that nobility by acquiring parts of early post‐conquest grants in which pre‐Hispanic demesnes were recognized. Consequently, Spanish institutions might have changed the form but not the basic substance of indigenous forms of lordship.
spirit girls and marines: possession and ethnopsychiatry as historical discourse in Samoa
Authors: MAGEO JEANNETTE MARIE
Published: November 2004

Through an analysis of a case of possession I argue that possession can be read as historical discourse. The possessed person and the ethnoanalyst often do cultural‐historical work useful to the larger society. The case examined casts light on Samoan moral history from missionization to the present and on how Samoans have reinvented traditions—not naively as the literature on cultural reinvention suggests, but as at least a partially self‐conscious process.
caste, colonialism, and the speech of the colonized: entextualization and disciplinary control in India
Authors: RAHEJA GLORIA GOODWIN
Published: November 2004

In the wake of rebellion and other crises of colonial rule in mid‐19th‐century India, particular varieties of oral folklore began to appear in land settlement reports, official glossaries and grammars, census reports, and reference works on caste compiled for the use of colonial officers. The heterogeneity of “tradition” and Indian speech, as well as their situated pragmatic character, were erased in these documents. Such entextualizations of the speech of the colonized, especially proverbial speech, figured in the construction of a monologic discourse about caste and caste identities, in the naturalization of revolt and other forms of noncompliance, and in the creation of the illusion that disciplinary control was carried out with the consent of the colonized. [colonialism, entextualization, linguistic ideology, caste, folklore, India]
love and marriage in a Sri Lankan Muslim community: toward a reevaluation of Dravidian marriage practices
Authors: DE MUNCK VICTOR C.
Published: November 2004

I argue that structural and transactional models of Dravidian marriage practices cannot adequately account for the variation in mate selection in situations of arranged marriage practices exhibited among the Sri Lankan Muslims of Kutali. The inadequacy of these models is an outcome of three interrelated problems: (1) the assumption of a normative model for marriage; (2) a dichotomous conceptualization of marriage practices that divides them into love and arranged marriage categories; and (3) the absence of romantic love as a valid motivation for mate selection. In this article I show that villagers use a polythetic model for marriage in which core symbols of marriage category types are manipulated to serve as figure or ground depending on situational contingencies. Second, I show that love can be accommodated to an arranged marriage model. [arranged marriages, love marriages, Sri Lanka, love, core symbols, foreground, background]
the second annual Corsican spelling contest: orthography and ideology
Authors: JAFFE ALEXANDRA
Published: November 2004

In this article, I interpret a broadcast Corsican spelling contest as evidence of both resistance and accommodation to dominant models of language as an autonomous, authoritative code. First, the broadcast illustrates that efforts to promote the minority language by focusing on written standards conflict with everyday linguistic practices and cultural values and can create new forms of cultural alienation. Second, broadcast participants powerfully assert the countervalues of intimacy and egalitarianism associated with Corsican. This resistance, however, is only partial in that it does not escape the diglossic compartmentalization of domains of linguistic use and value; it therefore fails to take into account the mixed nature of both Corsican identity and everyday language practices. [orthography, Corsica, language ideology, minoritized languages, language planning]
spatializing culture: the social production and social construction of public space in Costa Rica
Authors: LOW SETHA M.
Published: November 2004

In this article I explore how an integrated approach to the anthropological study of urban space would work ethnographically. I discuss four areas of spatial/cultural analysis—historical emergence, sociopolitical and economic structuring, patterns of social use, and experiential meanings—as a means of working out of the methodological implications of broader social construction theoretical perspectives. Two plazas in San José, Costa Rica, furnish ethnographic illustrations of the social mediating processes of spatial practices, symbolic meaning, and social control that provide insight into the conflicts that arise as different groups and sociopolitical forces struggle to claim and define these culturally significant public spaces. [urban space, ethnographic methods, plazas, Costa Rica, social production, social construction]
Anthropology of Organizations
Authors: Reed Michael C.
Published: November 2004

Anthropology of Organizations. Susan Wright. ed. New York: Routledge, 1994. xi +217 pp., contributors, notes, references, index.
The Ethnography of Transnational Social Activism: Understanding the Global as Local Practice
Authors: Cunningham Hilary
Published: November 2004

Through a study of two contemporary U.S. religio‐political movements, I analyze globalization as a process in which social actors appropriate distinctive kinds of global imagery and rhetoric to create new forms of activism. I document and contrast the development of transnational identities among two groups of political activists and examine the unique but shifting historical conditions underlying these differences. Rather than begin with "globalization" as a structural given, I explore the "global" as itself a constructed context of political identity and practice. I include a discussion of my own discovery that my anthropological terms of analysis were often shared by the second group of political activists under study, and I explore how and why this happened, [globalization, social movements, political economy and culture, global civil society]
Alternative Modernities: Statecraft and Religious Imagination in the Valley of the Dawn
Authors: Holston James
Published: November 2004

Many new religions promote the emblems and institutions of modern nation‐states. In this article, I consider an example from Brazil, analyzing the mimetic relations between its modernist capital, Brasilia, and a millenarian and ecstatic religion called the Valley of the Dawn located on the city's outskirts. I focus on the project of salvation that each sponsors and on a religious ritual that stages a judicial event associated with the state. Arguing against compensatory explanations, I suggest that both state and religion are performances, mutually critical, of the same paradigm of modernity. [Brazil, modernity, millenarian religion, spirit possession, ritual, nation‐state, bureaucracy, law]
Playing for Control of Distance: Card Games between Jews And Muslims on a Casablancan Beach
Authors: Levy André
Published: November 2004

As part of their effort to cope with their future dissolution as a diasporic community (due to a constant demographic decrease), members of the diminished Jewish minority in Morocco try to contain their relations with Muslims within well‐defined and controllable sociocultural enclaves. In this article, I examine one such enclave— a private beach named "Tahiti"—where Jews and Muslims engage through card games. I argue that as non‐serious and rigidly patterned behavior, card games offer a protective social frame, allowing Jews and Muslims to interact freely. Moreover the games provide lews a legitimate opportunity to convey critical messages and to maintain an open dialogue with Muslims without feeling exposed to danger. These very constrained and controlled enclaves, however, also provide Jews with an opportunity to construct and underline strangeness in a society that has hosted them for two millennia. This strangeness in turn, fortifies the enclave's boundaries, [enclave culture, diaspora, religious minority group, demographic decrease, Moroccan Jews, Jewish‐Muslim relations, card games]
A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Authors: Madhavan Sangeetha
Published: November 2004

Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Nancy Rose Hunt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. vii. 475 pp., photographs, illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People
Authors: Karlsson B. G.
Published: November 2004

Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among. Migrant Pastoral People. Arun Agrawal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. ix. 219 pp., tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria
Authors: Dwyer Ellen
Published: November 2004

Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria. Jonathan Sadowsky. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. vii. 169 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Le roi de Kongo et les monstres sacrés
Authors: Jacobson‐Widding Anita
Published: November 2004

Le roi de Kongo et les monstres sacrés. Luc de Heusch. Paris: Gallimard, 2000. 420 pp., appendix, bibliography, index.
Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda
Authors: Silva Sónia
Published: November 2004

Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda. Susan Whyte. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xi. 258 pp., notes, references,index.
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
Authors: Leis Philip
Published: November 2004

Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa. John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. vii. 318 pp., photographs, index.
Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance, and Ceremony
Authors: Ness Sally Allen
Published: November 2004

Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance, and Ceremony. Janet Goodridge. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999. 304 pp., tables, figures, photographs, references, index.
Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program
Authors: Roth Joshua Hotaka
Published: November 2004

Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program. David L. McConnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 328 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews
Authors: Rice Timothy
Published: November 2004

Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews. Kay Shelemay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvii. 289 pp., glossary, index, discography, compact disc.
Goddesses, Priestesses, and Sisters: Mind, Gender, and Power in the Monarchic Tradition of the Ryukyus
Authors: Williams E. Leslie
Published: November 2004

Goddesses, Priestesses, and Sisters: Mind, Gender, and Power in the Monarchic Tradition of the Ryukyus. Arne Rokkum. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1998. xi. 281 pp., photographs, illustrations, appendix, glossary, anbibliography, index.
Home Away From Home: A History of Basque Boarding Houses
Authors: Thursby Jacqueline
Published: November 2004

Home Away From Home:. History of Basque Boarding Houses. Jeronima Echeverria. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999. ix. 359 pp., illustrations, maps, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
The Mourning for Diana
Authors: McEachern Charmaine
Published: November 2004

The Mourning for Diana. Tony Walters. ed. Oxford: Berg, 1999. vii. 286 pp., illustrations, photographs, index.
Problems and Issues of Diversity in the United States
Authors: Glazier Jack
Published: November 2004

Problems and Issues of Diversity in the United States. Larry. Naylor. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. vii. 215 pp., bibliography, index.
Commodifying Communism: Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City
Authors: Blake Fred
Published: November 2004

Commodifying Communism: Business, Trust, and Politics in. Chinese City. David L. Wank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi. 298 pp., tables, figure, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index.
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago
Authors: Harney Nicholas
Published: November 2004

Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago. Gloria Nardini. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. vii. 164 pp., tables, appendix, endnotes, works cited, index.
The Anthropology of Cannibalism
Authors: Obeyesekere Gananath
Published: November 2004

The Anthropology of Cannibalism. Laurence R. Goldman. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999.168 pp., tables, maps, index.
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory
Authors: Coe Kathryn
Published: November 2004

African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ix. 287 pp., notes, references, index.
The Problem of Context
Authors: Crapanzano Vincent
Published: November 2004

The Problem of Context. Roy Dilley. ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. vii. 242 pp., index.
Dancing Histories: Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo
Authors: Bastian Misty L.
Published: November 2004

Dancing Histories: Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo. John C. McCall. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ix. 192 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice
Authors: Frey Rodney
Published: November 2004

The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. Raymond Bucko. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. vi. 336 pp., notes, references, index.
Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life
Authors: Fahy Michael A.
Published: November 2004

Tales of the City:. Study of Narrative and Urban Life. Ruth Finnegan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii. 212 pp., appendixes, notes, references, photographs.
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings
Authors: Wilce James
Published: November 2004

Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings. Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. 529 pp., tables, index.
Converging Interests: Traders, Travelers, and Tourists in Southeast Asia
Authors: Hill Ann Maxwell
Published: November 2004

Converging Interests: Traders, Travelers, and Tourists in Southeast Asia. Jill Forshee. with Christina Fink and Sandra Cate. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. + 328 pp., photographs.
The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community
Authors: Hammarberg Melvyn
Published: November 2004

The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining. Traditional Community. Jack M. Schultz. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 vi. 260 pp., maps, photographs, figures, notes, references, index.
Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village
Authors: Nourse Jennifer
Published: November 2004

Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance:. Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village. Roy Willis. Oxford: Berg, 1999. viii. 220 pp., maps, photographs, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index.
Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu
Authors: Ogan Eugene
Published: November 2004

Bridging Mental Boundaries in. Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu. William F. S. Miles. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. viii. 271 pp., maps, tables, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
The Heart is Unknown Country: Love in the Changing Economy of Northeast Brazil
Authors: Cravalho Mark
Published: November 2004

The Heart is Unknown Country: Love in the Changing Economy of Northeast Brazil. L. A. Rebhun. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 297 pp., maps, photographs, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index,
Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror
Authors: Nagengast Carole
Published: November 2004

Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Jeffrey A. Sluka. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. vii. 260 pp., illustrations, photographs, index.
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858–1906
Authors: Bunzl Matti
Published: November 2004

Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858–1906. Douglas Cole. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. vii. 360 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley
Authors: Waldis Barbara
Published: November 2004

The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley. Patrick Heady. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. xi. 248 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, index.
Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development
Authors: Gade Daniel W.
Published: November 2004

Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development. Paul H. Gelles. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xv. 233 pp., maps, photographs, diagrams, appendixes, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture
Authors: Davies Charlotte Aull
Published: November 2004

Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture. Jonathan Hearn. Edinburgh: Polygon Publishing, 2000. viii. 222 pp., references, index.
Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil
Authors: Kozart Michael
Published: November 2004

Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. John Burdick. New York: Routledge, 1998. vii. 246 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain
Authors: Blasco Paloma Gay Y
Published: November 2004

Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain. Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ix. 443 pp., illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index.
Public Sex, Gay Space
Authors: Manalansan Martin F.
Published: November 2004

Public Sex, Gay Space. William L. Leap. ed. New York: Columbia University Press. 1999. vii+ 287 pp. photographs, index,
New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden
Authors: Snodgrass Jeff
Published: November 2004

New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden. Kimberly Lau. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 178 pp., bibliography, notes, index.
UnstructuringChinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong
Authors: Darian‐Smith Eve
Published: November 2004

UnstructuringChinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Allen Chun. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. xi. 348 pp., tables, map, bibliography, appendix, index.
Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village
Authors: Kressel Gideon M.
Published: November 2004

Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in. Bulgarian Village. Gerald W. Creed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. ix. 304 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography, index.
Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict
Authors: Goldberg Harvey E.
Published: November 2004

Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict. Sander L. Gilman and Milton Shain. eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.401 pp., tables, index.
Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices
Authors: Sturman Randy
Published: November 2004

Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices. Tamara Kohn and Rosemary McKechnie. eds. Oxford: Berg, 1999. vii. 206 pp., index.
Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography
Authors: Edwards Bridget
Published: November 2004

Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography. Theresa J. Buckland. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1999. ix. 223 pp., photographs, illustrations, index.
Memory and Methodology
Authors: Vinitzky‐Seroussi Vered
Published: November 2004

Memory and Methodology. Susannah Radstone. ed. Oxford: Berg, 2000. vii. 228 pp., index.
Devil Sickness and Devil Songs: Tohono O'odham Poetics
Authors: Apodaca Paul
Published: November 2004

Devil Sickness and Devil Songs: Tohono O'odham Poetics. David L. Kozak and David I. Lopez. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1999. ix +190 pp., notes, references, index.
The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Authors: Abeysekara Ananda
Published: November 2004

The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. H. L. Seneviratne. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii. 358 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index.
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of Movement
Authors: Torresan Angela
Published: November 2004

Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in. World of Movement. Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson. eds. London: Berg, 1998. ix. 246 pp., list of contributors, index.
Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Authors: Rivkin‐Fish Michele
Published: November 2004

Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Daphne Berdahl. Matti Bunzl. and Martha Lampland. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. vii. 252 pp., maps, photographs, references, index,
A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies
Authors: Beatty Andrew
Published: November 2004

World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies. Judy DeLoache and Alma Gottlieb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ix. 280 pp., photographs, references, index.
"Keeping the Lakes Way": Reburial and the Re‐Creation of a Moral World among an Invisible People
Authors: Bierwert Crisca
Published: November 2004

"Keeping the Lakes Way": Reburial and the Re–creation of. Moral World Among an Invisible People. Paula Pryce. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. ix. 203 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index.
Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move
Authors: Ohly Sara H.
Published: November 2004

Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move. Floya Anthias and Cabriella Lazarides. eds. New York: Berg, 2000. ix. 263 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
The Untouchables of India
Authors: Cauchran Neema
Published: November 2004

The Untouchables of India. Robert Deliege. Oxford: Berg, 1999. vii. 299 pp., bibliography, index.
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Authors: Whitaker Elizabeth Dixon
Published: November 2004

An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. Jennifer Terry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix. 537 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America
Authors: Pineda Baron
Published: November 2004

From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America. Alison Brysk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. ix. 370 pp., tables, references, index.
Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Authors: Saris A. Jamie
Published: November 2004

Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Johannes Fabian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 320 pp., maps, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan
Authors: Zeserson Jan
Published: November 2004

Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan. Susan Orpett Long. ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. vii. 295 pp., tables, photographs, index.
Spaces of Hope
Authors: Sayre Nathan
Published: November 2004

Spaces of Hope. David Harvey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. viii. 293 pp., appendix, bibliography, index.
Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change
Authors: Sutton David E.
Published: November 2004

Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children,and Social Change. Jun Jing, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. ix. 279 pp., figures, tables, notes, works cited, index.
Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
Authors: Mascia‐Lees Frances E.
Published: November 2004

Bodies of Inscription:. Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community. Margo DeMello. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. vii. 222 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict; Música Tejana: The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation
Authors: Bigenho Michelle
Published: November 2004

The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict. Manuel Peña. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xi. 350 pp., notes, selected discography, references, index

Música Tejana: The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation. Manuel Peña. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. ix. 239 pp., photographs, selected discography, references, index.
Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village
Authors: Hicks David
Published: November 2004

Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in. Sumatran Village. Evelyn Blackwood. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. vii. 219 pp., figures, photographs, glossary, references, index.
United They Survive: Redistribution, Leadership and Human Services Delivery in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Wilson Margot
Published: November 2004

United They Survive: Redistribution, Leadership and Human Services Delivery in Rural Bangladesh. Showkat H. Khan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. xi. 174 pp., tables, maps, charts, bibliography, appendixes.
'You're So Fat!' Exploring Ojibwe Discourse
Authors: Loether Christopher
Published: November 2004

'You're So Fat!' Exploring Ojibwe Discourse. Roger Spielmann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. vii. 280 pp., notes, references, index.
Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger
Authors: Taylor Christopher C.
Published: November 2004

Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger. Jutta Weldes. Mark Laffey. Hugh Gusterson. and Raymond Duvall. eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. vii. 432 pp., bibliography, index.
Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints
Authors: Paxson Heather
Published: November 2004

Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints. Andrew Russell. Elisa J. Sobo. and Mary S. Thompson. eds. Oxford: Berg, 2000. + 252 pp., figures, tables, photographs, maps, index.
Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
Authors: Lewis Linda
Published: November 2004

Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi. eds. New York: Routledge Press, 1998. vii. 324 pp., photographs.
A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness
Authors: Burdick John
Published: November 2004

Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness. Rachel E. Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 251 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography.
Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity
Authors: Rassam Amal
Published: November 2004

Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity. Suad Joseph. ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. ix. 318 pp., notes, references, index.
Spirit Possession: Modernity and Power in Africa
Authors: Halliburton Murphy
Published: November 2004

Spirit Possession: Modernity and Power in Africa. Heike Behrend and Ute Luig. eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. vi. 170 pp., figures, photographs, index.
The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp
Authors: Takezawa Yasuko I.
Published: November 2004

The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Lane Ryo Hirayabashi. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. viii. 219 pp., figures, illustrations, appendix, bibliographicessay, index.
Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil
Authors: Caldeira Teresa
Published: November 2004

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. Jeffrey Lesser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. 281 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture
Authors: Mahon Maureen
Published: November 2004

Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Arthur K. Spears. ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999. 242 pp., index.
Sounding Out The City: Personal Stereos and The Management of Everyday Life; Music in Everyday Life
Authors: Yano Christine
Published: November 2004

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life. Michael Bull. Oxford: Berg, 2000. vii. 208 pp., bibliography, index.

Music in Everyday Life. Tia DeNora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. viii. 181 pp., figures, bibliography, index.
Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Korom Frank J.
Published: November 2004

Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh. James M. Wilce. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. + 300 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, references, index, glossary.
Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives
Authors: Bulag Uradyn E.
Published: November 2004

Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Ingvar Svanberg. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. vi. 152 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index,
Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Authors: Holtzman Jon D.
Published: November 2004

Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 352 pp., maps, notes, bibliography, index.
The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives On Tree Symbolism
Authors: Alley Kelly D.
Published: November 2004

The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism. Laura Rival. ed. Oxford: Berg, 1998. ix. 315 pp., photographs, figures, tables, index.
Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line
Authors: Regis Helen A.
Published: November 2004

Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re‐appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a “dying tradition,” neighborhood‐based parades produced by working‐class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most affected by the violence of contemporary urban life, [blackness, memory, New Orleans, urban space, performance, violence, heritage]
The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism
Authors: Bruner Edward M.
Published: November 2004

In this article, I analyze how the Maasai of Kenya are presented in three different tourist performances—postcolonial, postindependence, and postmodern. Each site tells a different story, an alternate version of history, with its own perspective on the role of ethnicity and heritage within the nation‐state and in the world community. Using a method of controlled comparison, I expand the theoretical dialogue in tourism debates by departing from the monolithic discourse that has characterized so much of tourism scholarship, [ethnic tourism, Maasai, globalization, performance, authenticity, ethnography, media images]
The Unheimlich Man‐Oeuvre
Authors: Lutzker Adam , Rosenthal Judy
Published: November 2004

The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Harding. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 336 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index.

Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan. John R. Hall with Philip D. Schuyler and Sylvaine Trinh. London: Routledge, 2000. viii + 228pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.

Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench. Vincent Crapanzano. New York: The New Press, 2000. xi + 406 pp., notes, references, index.
Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
Authors: Feldman Jeffrey D.
Published: November 2004

Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel. Susan Martha Kahn. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. vri + 227 pp., appendixes, notes, bibliography, index.
African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design
Authors: Lotfalian Mazyar
Published: November 2004

African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design. Ron Eglash. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xi + 258 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Voices of the Land: Identity and Ecology in the Margins
Authors: Boyd David J.
Published: November 2004

Voices of the Land: Identity and Ecology in the Margins. Ali Hornborg and Mikael Kurkiala, eds. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1998. 361 pp., maps.
Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present: An Ecological Perspective
Authors: Stocks Anthony
Published: November 2004

Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present: An Ecological Perspective. David J. Wilson. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. vii + 480 pp., tables, figures, glossary, references, index.
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency; Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective
Authors: Mahler Sarah J.
Published: November 2004

Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency. Susan Bibler Coutin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ix + 228 pp., notes, references, index.

Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective. JosiahMcC. Heyman. Arlington, VA: American Anthropoiogical Association, 1998 iv + 120 pp., references cited.
Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account
Authors: Bråten Eldar
Published: November 2004

Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account. Andrew Beatty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 272 pp., glossary, map, notes, references, index.
The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display
Authors: Raz Aviad E.
Published: November 2004

The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Joy Hendry Oxford: Berg, 2000. vii + 257 pp., figures, plates, bibliography, index.
Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post‐Soviet Ukraine
Authors: Berdahl Daphne
Published: November 2004

Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post‐Soviet Ukraine Catherine Wanner. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1998. xxvii + 255 pp, illustrations, tables, notes, references, index.
The Blood of Guatemala—A History of Race and Nation
Authors: Sanford Victoria
Published: November 2004

The Blood of Guatemala—A History of Race and Nation. Greg Grandin. Durham, NO Duke University Press, 2000. vxiii + 236 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index.
Growing Old In El Barrio
Authors: Climo Jacob
Published: November 2004

Growing Old In El Barrio. Judith Noemi Freidenberg. New York: New York University Press, 2000. ix + 309 pp., tables, notes, references, index.
Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives
Authors: Applbaum Kalman
Published: November 2004

Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives. Angelique Haugerud, M. Priscilla Stone, and Peter D. Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. 249 pp., tables, figures, index.
Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970
Authors: Scherl Richard
Published: November 2004

Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970. Sumathi Ramaswamy Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxii + 303 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink‐Collar Identities in the Caribbean
Authors: Richman Karen
Published: November 2004

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink‐Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Carla Freeman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix + 334 pp., tables, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies
Authors: Hugh‐Jones Stephen
Published: November 2004

Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie, eds. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2000. 280 pp., maps, figures, notes, references, index.
Congo‐Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law.
Authors: Hansen Karen Tranberg
Published: November 2004

Congo‐Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa‐Ganga. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ix + 189 pp., glossary, bib‐ liography, index.
Language, Charisma, and Creativity: The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement; The Globalization of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity
Authors: Amster Matthew H.
Published: November 2004

The Globalization of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity. Simon Coleman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 264 pp., photographs, references, index.

Language, Charisma, and Creativity: The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement. Thomas J. Csordas. Berkeley: University oi California Press, 1997. xxii + 320 pp., illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, reference, index.
Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa
Authors: Schroeder Richard
Published: November 2004

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa, John F. Oates. Berkeley: University oi California Press, 1999. ix + 310 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.