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Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland
Authors: Saris A. Jamie
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine a community psychiatric nurse's highly commodified descriptions of the activities and interests of two clients of a mental hospital in rural Ireland. These examples show an intimate relationship between a discourse of economics and a discourse of rationality that can also be discovered in sources connected to the history of Ireland's mental hospital system. Using these and other connections, I argue that the distinctive utilitarian rationality associated with modernity, as well as reactions to it, can be promulgated and maintained at a local level through means other than economic markets. At the same time, I explain how the mental hospital now has a place within a local moral world. These two insights provide a novel perspective on a venerable debate in social scientific work on Ireland (and, by implication, many other peripheral areas of the global economy), that is, if, how, and in what respects the place has "modernized." [asylums, Ireland, rationality, modernization, commodity logic]
Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
Authors: McDonogh Gary W.
Published: November 2004

Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. Steven Gregory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii. 282 pp., map, illustrations, notes, references, index.
Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre.
Authors: Peacock James L.
Published: November 2004

Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre. John Emigh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xii. 336 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index.
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless
Authors: Estroff Sue E.
Published: November 2004

Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless. Robert Desjarlais. Philadelpiha: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. vii. 307 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy
Authors: Haenn Nora
Published: November 2004

The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy. Neil Harvey. Durham, IMC: Duke University Press, 1998. xviii. 292 pp., tables, maps, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Changing Families: An Ethnographic Approach to Divorce and Separation
Authors: Starr June
Published: November 2004

Changing Families: An Ethnographic Approach to Divorce and Separation. Bob Simpson. Oxford: Berg Press,1998. xiii. 181 pp., bibliography, index.
L'Illusion mythique
Authors: Redfield Peter
Published: November 2004

L'Illusion mythique. Jean‐Louis Siran. Paris: Institut Synthglabo, 1998.127 pp., references.
The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle
Authors: Schiller Anne
Published: November 2004

The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle. Douglas W. Hollan and Jane C. Wellenkamp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xii. 239 pp., appendixes, notes, glossary, references, index.
Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo
Authors: Masquelier Adeline
Published: November 2004

Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo. Judy Rosenthal. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xii. 282 pp., illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis
Authors: Miller Barbara
Published: November 2004

Anthropological Demography: Toward. New Synthesis. David I. Kertzer and Tom Fricke. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ix. 294 pp., contributors, index.
Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America
Authors: Adams Jane
Published: November 2004

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. Cynthia M. Duncan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xvii. 235 pp., map, appendix, notes, index.
The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography
Authors: McCay Bonnie
Published: November 2004

The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography. David Griffith. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. ix. 196 pp., illustrations, photographs, references, index,
Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy
Authors: Keeler Ward
Published: November 2004

Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy. Custaaf Houtman. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999. iii. 392 pp., tables, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography.
Banana Justice: Field Notes on Philippine Crime and Custom
Authors: Wiber Melanie
Published: November 2004

Banana Justice: Field Notes on Philippine Crime and Custom. W. Timothy Austin. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. ix. 173 pp., illustrations, photographs, figures, references, index.
Talking Heads: Capturing Dayak Deathways on Film
Authors: Schiller Anne
Published: November 2004

In 1996, an elite group of Ngaju Dayak religious activists invited National Geographic Television to film their rites of secondary treatment of the dead in the village ofPetak Putih, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. In this article; I explore activists' efforts to engage the National Geographic Society and their attempts to exert a high degree of control over the manner in which local traditions were portrayed to the filmmakers. I focus in particular on how representations of specific local practices figure in the recasting of a contemporary Dayak face, and on questions concerning religious authenticity and authority. I argue that the activists' interest in making a film, and their decisions during its shooting were part of their larger organizational strategies, with potentially far‐reaching political and economic consequences. [Indonesia, Dayaks, religion, identity, tourism, filmmaking]
"Studies in Ethnicity and Change" for Teaching about Indigenous Peoples
Authors: Murphy Julia E.
Published: November 2004

Malaysia and the Original People:. Case Study of the Impact of Development on Indigenous Peoples. Robert Knox Denton. Kirk Endicott. Alberto G. Gomes. and M. B. Hooker. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. xv. 175 pp., references.

Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Surviving Drought and Development in Africa's Arid Lands. Elliot Fratkin. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. ix. 139 pp., figures, photographs, references.

Gaining Ground?: Evenkis, Land and Reform in Southeastern Siberia. Gail A. Fondahl. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xiii. 146 pp., figures, photographs, glossary, appendix, references.

Ethnicity and Culture amidst New "Neighbors": The Runa of Ecuador's Amazon Region. Theodore Macdonald. Jr. Boston: Al lyn and Bacon, 1999. xiv. 160 pp., maps, photographs, references, index.

Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups and the State. David Maybury‐Lewis. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. xii +168 pp., maps, references.

Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Development. Richard Reed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. viii. 135 pp., map, references.
Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936–1939; Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915–1918
Authors: Welsch Robert L.
Published: November 2004

Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Cede, 1936–1939. Gerald Sullivan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. vii. 213 pp., photographs, glossary, notes, references, index.

Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915–1918. Michael W. Young. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. vii. 306 pp., maps, photographs, appendixes, glossary, notes, index.
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Authors: Allen Denise Roth
Published: November 2004

Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific. Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix. 305 pp., illustrations, maps, photographs, index.
Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in Australia
Authors: Dominy Michéle
Published: November 2004

Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas:. Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in Australia. Gillian Cowlishaw. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. ix. 352 pp., maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Ritual Killing, 419, and Fast Wealth: Inequality and the Popular Imagination in Southeastern Nigeria
Authors: Smith Daniel Jordan
Published: November 2004

In this article, I situate a seemingly fantastic series of events in Nigeria in a context that renders them meaningful and acknowledges their intimate connection to everyday issues of wealth, power, and inequality. Focusing on popular stories of the occult circulating in the wake of a widely publicized case of ritual killing, I argue that these stories depict popular discontent over inequality, but also Nigerians' ambivalence about and critical awareness of their own role in maintaining patron‐clientism. [Nigeria, patronage, inequality, witchcraft]
The Consumer Revolution in Urban China; Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers
Authors: Ren Hai
Published: November 2004

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Deborah S. Davis, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiii + 366 pp., illustrations, tables, photographs, bibliography, index.

Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. John McCrcery Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. ix + 278 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index.
Meanings of Violence: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective
Authors: Linger Daniel T.
Published: November 2004

Meanings of Violence: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective. Göran Aijmer and Jon Abbink, eds. Oxford. Berg, 2000. vii + 220 pp., photographs, bibliography, index.
the breath of the devils: memories and places of an experience of terror
Authors: Gordillo Gastón
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine how an indigenous group of the Argentine Chaco remembers experiences of exploitation and terror in terms of devil imageries and how, in turn, these memories shape their current senses of place. My analysis focuses on the Toba of the mid‐Pilcomayo River and their memories of work in a sugar plantation in northwestern Argentina. These narratives hinge on different types of devils and cannibals that made the plantation a place of estrangement, disease, death, and terror. In the 1990s, these memories informed the cultural construction of the bush of the Chaco as a place of resilience, relative autonomy, and healing, [devil imagery, terror, place, memory, Toba, Gran Chaco, Argentina]
Book Reviews
Authors: Winland Daphne
Published: November 2004

Remaking. World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery. Veena Das. Arthur Kleinman. Margaret Lock. Mamphela Ramphele. and Pamela Reynolds. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. vii. 294 pp., index.
Road Mythographies: Space, Mobility, and the Historical Imagination in Postcolonial Niger
Authors: Masquelier Adeline
Published: November 2004

In this article, I explore how some Hausaphone Mawri in postcolonial Niger materialize their experience of modernity. I examine the fundamental role that space plays in local perceptions of modernity by discussing stories people tell about what happens on the road. In particular, I focus on their attention to the road as part of a complex economy of violence, power, and blood. By linking the road and its deadly spirits to the region's history of civil engineering, emergent capitalism, and religious transformation, I show that rather than simply being iconic of modernity, the road is a hybrid space that condenses past histories at the same time that it concretizes the perils and possibilities of modern life for rural Mawri. [space, roads, mobility, modernity, imagination, spirits, Niger]
Planned births, unplanned persons: "Population" in the making of Chinese modernity
Authors: Greenhalgh Susan
Published: November 2004

In this article I suggest that "population" operates as a capacious domain of modern power, with its own imaginaries, discourses, bureaucratic apparatuses, and social effects. Taking China, home to the world's largest population, as my ethnographic case, I examine the role of "birth planning," China's distinctive Marxist‐Leninist‐Maoist approach to population control, in the construction of "Chinese socialist modernity." I trace the historical, political, and bureaucratic process by which the state's planned birth project, designed to create a modern, planned population, produced not only a large group of planned persons but also a huge outcast group of unplanned, "black" persons who, as legal nonpersons, exist on the margins of society, lacking citizenship rights and state benefits. With its gargantuan population and fearsome birth planning program, China offers striking evidence of the social power of governmental projects of population control—to create new classifications of social life, new types of personhood, and new forms of social and political exclusion, [population, modernity, personhood, China]
Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low‐Achieving Students.
Authors: McDermott Ray , Goldman Shelley
Published: November 2004

Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low‐ Achieving Students. Hugh Mehan, Irene Villanueva, Lea Hubbard, and Angela Lintz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 247 pp.
Protean Literacy: Extending the Discourse on Empowerment.
Authors: Andrade Rosi
Published: November 2004

Protean Literacy: Extending the Discourse on Empowerment. Concha Delgado‐Gaitan. Washington, D.C.: Falmer Press, 1996. 151 pp.
Multicultural Education as Social Activism
Authors: Baber M. Yvette
Published: November 2004

Multicultural Education as Social Activism. Christine E. Sleeter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 284 pp.
Online Learning in Sociocultural Context
Authors: Warschauer Mark
Published: November 2004

Proponents of online learning claim that it can transform education by promoting student‐centered communication, collaboration, and inquiry. Yet these claims must be weighed against the actual implementation of online learning, which is influenced by a broad range of sodocultural factors. This study investigates sodocultural factors that helped shape a computer‐based English as a Second Language (ESL) writing course in a conservative Christian college, factors that included a complex relationship between teacher, researcher, and students.
Sailing against the Wind: African Americans and Women in U.S. Education
Authors: Banks Cherry A. McGee
Published: November 2004

Sailing against the Wind: African Americans and Women in U.S. Education. Kofi Lomotey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 186 pp.
A Therapeutic Moment? Identity, Self, and Culture in the Anthropology of Education
Authors: Hoffman Diane M.
Published: November 2004

Identity is a key area for consideration in contemporary educational analysis and in the anthropology of education in particular. This article considers the need for critical inquiry into the notion of identity, suggesting that the field might reconsider the need and value of an approach that moves beyond identity toward consideration of cultural models of self and their implications. The discussion outlines three areas where self appears to be a useful construct (cultural therapy, multiculturalism, and transcultural comparisons of teaching and learning).
Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film
Authors: Higgins Patricia J.
Published: November 2004

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film (book and video). Karl G. Heider. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 347 pp.; 190:58 running time, VHS, color.
Adult Education, Language Change, and Issues of Identity and Authenticity in Kwara'ae (Solomon Islands)
Authors: Gegeo David Welchman , Watson‐Gegeo Karen Ann
Published: November 2004

Less endangered than other languages discussed in this issue, Kwara'ae provides a useful illustration of the early stages of language erosion and the importance of language to cultural survival. We argue that the foundation of a people's identity and cultural authenticity is their culturally shared indigenous epistemology, embodied in and expressed through their heritage language. We examine these points in nonformal adult education workshops aimed at rural villagers.
Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills
Authors: Chin Elaine
Published: November 2004

Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills. Glynda Hull, ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 392 pp.
Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models
Authors: Matusov Eugene , Lowery Patricia , Bergeron Valerie , Hayes Renée , Letts William , McKinney Michelle
Published: November 2004

Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models. Lois Holzman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. xi + 152 pp.
Paths to Success: Beating the Odds in American Society
Authors: Shannon Charles L.
Published: November 2004

Paths to Success: Beating the Odds in American Society. Charles C. Harrington and Susan K. Boardman, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 238 pp.
Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community
Authors: Lee Stacey J.
Published: November 2004

Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998. 266 pp.
Inward Gaze and Activism as Moral Next Steps in Inquiry
Authors: Brantlinger Ellen A.
Published: November 2004

When researchers get to know situations through studies, they are likely to form opinions about the legitimacy of certain practices. Yet, in local studies, if they divulge their findings and express opinions openly, the comfortable distance between professional career and private life disappears. In this article I explore the nature of praxis and its impact on scholars' status in community and university. In spite of recognizing the stress of engaging in praxis, I still recommend that researchers endorse standards consistent with Enlightenment, modernist goals and engage in democratically transformative activism in conjunction with their scholarly careers.
Taking Back Control: African Canadian Women Teachers' Lives and Practice.
Authors: Fox Christine
Published: November 2004

Taking Back Control: African Canadian Women Teachers' Lives and Practice. Annette Henry. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 211 pp.
Educating beyond the Borders of Schooling
Authors: Fine Michelle , Weis Lois , Centrie Craig , Roberts Rosemarie
Published: November 2004

In our recent interviews with 154 poor and working‐class young adults, male and female, across racial and ethnic groups, we hear whispers of hope amid the narratives of despair. In both jersey City and Buffalo, we have wandered through communities that have been ravaged by deindustrialization and a withering of the public sphere. Here we turn our attention to what Boyte and Evans call ‘free spaces’—those spaces in which hope is nourished in spite of impoverished material circumstances. Offering a wider theoretical frame for understanding the social psychology of these spaces than has been offered in previous work, we provide two examples from ethnographic investigations (of an arts community and a spiritual community) as emblems of pluralistic sites. Our goal here is to deepen the theoretical lenses through which we assess such spaces as community‐based educational sites, offering ethnographic data drawn from two sites situated in urban areas.
Questioning Identity: The Case of One Second‐Language Learner
Authors: Rymes Betsy , Pash Diana
Published: November 2004

With the goal of illuminating how identity and cognition are in tension in classroom activity, we examine how one second‐language learner answers questions in a mainstream second‐grade classroom. To understand this learner's participation, we analyze two conflicting “language games.” We find the second‐language learner often is adept at “passing” as knowing, but that he achieves this identity‐preserving expertise at the expense of an understanding of classroom lessons.
Absorption of CIS Immigrants into Israeli Schools: A Semipermeable Enclave Model
Authors: Resnik Julia , Sabar Naama , Shoham Edna , Shapira Rina
Published: November 2004

National ideology, institutional arrangements, and immigrant community self‐image should be taken into account in order to understand the way immigrant students insert themselves into their host society. We found that immigrant students from the CIS (the former Soviet Union) adopted a “semipermeable enclave” mode of integration into the Israeli education system in the 1990s. CIS immigrants' high self‐esteem along with the schools' so‐called “pluralistic ideology” and ineffective arrangements to apply the official assimilationist national ideology produced this new absorption pattern. Because immigrant children's integration into schools is a dynamic and dialectic process resulting from the interaction between immigrants and the host society, its analysis must take into consideration not only educational policies, but also social conditions such as power relations between different ethnic groups, as well as the characteristics of the specific immigrant community.
Becoming “One Who Treats”: A Case Study of a Luo Healer and Her Grandson in Western Kenya
Authors: Prince Ruth , Geissler P. Wenzel
Published: November 2004

Using a case study of a healer and her grandson, this article shows how learning to heal is embedded in the close relationship of reciprocity and care between grandmother and grandchild in Luo society. Through shared daily life with his grandmother, the child develops social sense, respect, and compassion for people, as well as practical skills. By showing that learning to heal is not only embedded in everyday practice and in social relations, but is also a moral and emotional process, this article contributes to sociocultural theories of learning and to ethnographic accounts of childhood in Africa.
What Madness Prompts, Reason Writes: New York City September 11–October 2, 2001
Authors: Henry Jeanne
Published: November 2004

This personal narrative describes the use of ethnographic data collection as a means for its author, a New York City resident, to take stock of local reaction and response to the events of September 11 by documenting arid analyzing the writing New Yorkers posted in public spaces during the three weeks following the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Contesting the Politics of Culture, Rewriting the Boundaries of Inclusion: Working for Social Justice with Muslim and Arab Communities
Authors: El‐Haj Thea R. Abu
Published: November 2004

This article calls on anthropologists of education to assert a more public voice attacking the ideological purposes to which the concept of “culture” has been deployed following the September 11 attacks. We must support schools, communities, and the media to address the power and politics of race and religion in contemporary social and political contexts, rather than focus primarily on multicultural education about Islamic and Arab “culture.” Finally, this article urges us to expand our knowledge of the processes of social incorporation for Muslim and Arab immigrant youth to include a deeper understanding of how global politics contribute to young people's sense of emerging identities.
Newcomers and Old‐Timers: Educational Philosophies‐in‐Action of Parent Volunteers in a Community of Learners School
Authors: Matusov Eugene , Rogoff Barbara
Published: November 2004

Contrasting educational philosophies‐in‐action were used by 45 parent volunteers working with children in a school organized as a community of learners. Newcomers were more likely to employ a one‐sided philosophy‐in‐action (with either adult‐directed or child‐directed organization), whereas parents with several years of experience were more likely to use a collaborative philosophy‐in‐action, consistent with the philosophy of a community of learners. A pedagogical implication is that adults need opportunities to learn new educational philosophies as they work with children.
“I Wasn't Scared of Them, They Were Scared of Me”: Constructions of Self/Other in a Midwestern Hair Salon
Authors: Majors Yolanda J.
Published: November 2004

This article describes how a group of black women read culture, class, and other social relations, analyzing the process and skill of reading linguistic and paralinguistic cues in allowing individuals to navigate across multiple discourses. I draw from one ethnographic study of talk in a Midwestern hair salon. Such research seeks to strengthen ties between the disciplines of anthropology and education, and relatedly between those who work within universities, classrooms, and everyday settings.
Tickets to the Opera: A Negotiation of Western Knowledge—Beyond Resistance or Reproduction
Authors: El‐Or Tamar
Published: November 2004

What are the prices of “must knowledges?” Does the study of English impose Anglocentric control on its learners or can English as an icon for “must knowledge” enable disempowered populations to empower themselves? This article examines these questions through an ethnographic study of middle‐/lower‐class Orthodox and Sephardic Jewish women in an adult education course. The women did not resist “Western knowledge,” yet its potential for empowerment was not realized. This study offers anthropologists of education an opportunity to reexamine the relations between local cultural systems and external knowledges beyond the binary prism of resistance versus reproduction.
Native Language Teachers in a Struggle for Language and Cultural Survival
Authors: SUINA JOSEPH H.
Published: November 2004

Language shift among New Mexico Pueblo Indians threatens the loss of their oral‐based cultures. Language revival for many Pueblos has resulted in school programs in which students are easily accessible and teachers are accountable to tribes rather than the state. Finding “Pueblo space” for the Native language in school, where it was previously targeted for extinction, poses unique challenges. Personal histories and ethnographic interviews provide language teacher perspectives on teaching in four separate school programs.
Archaeology and Meaning
Authors: Leone Mark P.
Published: November 2004

Ian Hodder. ed.The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression. London: Unwin Hyman. 1989. xxvii. 265 pp. cloth. $49.95 (cloth).
Apache Cosmovision
Authors: Perry Richard J.
Published: November 2004

Claire R. Farrer Living Life's Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmovision. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991, xiii. 274 pp. $24.95 (Cloth).
Of Cowries and Crying: A Beng Guide to Managing Colic
Authors: Gottlieb Alma
Published: November 2004

In this piece I pose what appears to be perhaps the simplest of questions having to do with the experience of infancy: What do caregivers do when the seemingly healthy babies for whom they are responsible simply will not stop crying?
A Family Mourns Its Past
Authors: Hermer Carol
Published: November 2004

Richard Werbner. Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xi. 211 pp.
Trance and Violence in Urban Brazil
Authors: Lewis J.Lowell
Published: November 2004

James Wafer. The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xii. 219 pp. (Winner of the Victor Turner prize for Ethnography, 1992.)

Daniel Touro Linger. Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in. Brazilian City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. + 289 pp.
Eric Michaels: Pitfalls of Originality
Authors: Cowlishaw Gillian , Deg/er Jennifer
Published: November 2004

Eric Michaels. Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons. Theory Out of Bounds, 3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xiix. 240 pp.
Humanistic Anthropology and Science
Authors: Applebaum Herbert
Published: November 2004

Stan Wilk. Humanistic Anthropology. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. xii. 148 pp.
Visible and Invisible Realms
Authors: Weix Gretchen
Published: November 2004

Margaret Wiener Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic and Colonial Conquest in Bali. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1995. 445 pp., illustrations. (Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing.)
The Power of Cross‐Cultural Metadiscourse
Authors: Oakdale Suzanne
Published: November 2004

Jonathan D. Hill. Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. xix. 245 pp.
The Politics of Identity
Authors: Kelley Heidi
Published: November 2004

George C. Rosenwald and Richard L. Ochberg. eds. Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self‐Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. ix. 304 pp.

Kenneth Jacobson. Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. + 358 pp.
Images of Difference: Deaf and Hearing in the United States
Authors: Fjord Laura Lakshmi
Published: November 2004

Deaf people and hearing people in the United States pose unusually difficult referencing problems for each other despite the fact that most deaf people are born into hearing families. Because the deaf and the hearing do not readily or easily share a language, communication issues are at the center of a larger social debate about whether the deaf are a separate culture, and whether they have a medical disability. This article looks at threads of history that have shaped this cultural debate, including the American egalitarianism that has led to the creation and standardization of separate categories of people such as the Deaf.
Dancing with the Devil
Authors: Savigliano Marta E.
Published: November 2004

José Limón. Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican‐American South Texas. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. xii. 240 pp. (Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Competition for Ethnographic Writing, 1995.)
New Voices in Native Literature and Native Lit‐Crit
Authors: Mills Antonia
Published: November 2004

Arnold Krupat, ed. New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, xxv. 555 pp.

Greg Sarris.Keeping Slug Woman Alive:. Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 214 pp.

Thomas King.Green Grass, Running Water. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 360 pp. (cloth). Toronto: Harper Perennial, 1993 (paper).
Nurturing Doubt
Authors: Sarraméa Adriana
Published: November 2004

Elmer S. Miller.Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 225 pp.
Fieldwork in the Postcommunity
Authors: Ortner Sherry B.
Published: November 2004

This article considers the place of fieldwork in the anthropology of the United States on several levels. First, it traces how I decided to use my high school graduating class in Newark, New Jersey as the ethnographic population for an ethnohistorical research project. The article considers the time/space trajectory of the group—that is, the fact that the group had been part of an actual on‐the‐ground community in the past, and is spread all over the United States in the present. This mobile formation seemed more true to the shape of the contemporary world, as represented in earlier discussions of modernity and more recent discussions ofpostmodernity. The article goes on to show how this radically delocalized fieldwork produced what seemed to be a perverse effect—a strong sense of the endurance of "community" among the members of the group, albeit in fascinatingly altered forms.
Representations of Anthropology and History in Oceania
Authors: Marshall Mac
Published: November 2004

Nicholas Thomas In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xvi. 269 pp.
Call to Home
Authors: Griffin Farah Jasmine
Published: November 2004

Carol Stack Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the South. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 226 pp. (Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1996)
Discourse and Dreams
Authors: Brady Ivan
Published: November 2004

Laura R. Graham Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xiv. 290 pp., illustrations. (Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1996)
Taxonomy and the Music of Failure
Authors: Flores Toni
Published: November 2004

Making parenthood the central, organizing category forces us to examine what we are actually doing and to look at the categories by and under which we (largely Western, predominantly white, professional‐class people who style ourselves anthropologists) are operating. Examining my "failures' in the field through that perspective, I am led to consider the taxonomy of everyday life (for example, such distinctions as personal professional or home‐career), the ways in which we have defined the field of anthropology —often forgetting that the field is not the whole field—and the poetry proper to both.
They Spoke It First, a Long Time Ago
Authors: Ridington Robin
Published: November 2004

Keith H. Basso. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Xviii. 171 pp. (Winner, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1997)
In the Kadhi's Court
Authors: Launay Robert
Published: November 2004

Susan F. Hirsch. Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiii. 360 pp.
Lifelines
Authors: Mitchell Don
Published: November 2004

Toni Flores. In Place. Geneva, NY: Hobart and William Smith College Press, 1999. iv. 70 pp.
When Anthropology Fails: Stories from the Ethnographic Front
Authors: Erem Suzan , Durrenberger E. Paul
Published: November 2004

This is the story of he prices people pay for knowledge and what happens when they are too high. It is the story of some of the gratifications and frustrations of a collaborative project that relied equally on inside and outside views and called heavily on each of us.
"Blind(ing) Spots"
Authors: Anderson Myrdene
Published: November 2004

"Blind(ing) Spots". William Rasch and Cary Wolfe. eds. Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. vii. 308 pp.
Anthropology According to Mark Augé's The War of Dreams: Studies in Ethno Fiction
Authors: Urbanowicz Charles F.
Published: November 2004

Anthropology According to Mark Auge's The War of Dreams: Studies in Ethno Fiction. Mark Auge. The War of Dreams: Studies in Ethno Fiction. Liz Heron, trans. London: Pluto, 1999.136 pp.
The Eternal Romantic
Authors: Beeman William O.
Published: November 2004

The Eternal Romantic. Marianna Torgovnick. Primitive Passions: Men, Women and the Quest for Ecstasy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. vii. 270 pp.
Through a Lens Darkly
Authors: Tannenbaum Nicola
Published: November 2004

Rosalind C. Morris. In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. + 380 pp.
Being a Widow and Other Life Stories: The Interplay between Lives and Words
Authors: Lamb Sarah
Published: November 2004

This article looks at life stories, not just as tales about the past but as creative acts of self‐making and culture making. It explores life stories told by older women in West Bengal, India, focusing on one told by a childless widow. Previous scholars have made the important distinction between life as represented (through telling a story) and life as (actually) lived and experienced. This article suggests a somewhat different track: telling a life story—like other forms of talk or communication—is part of life as lived because, of course, it is lived and experienced, at least during the moments of telling.
New Perspectives on Female Circumcision
Authors: Michrina Barry P.
Published: November 2004

Ellen Gruenbaum. The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 242 pp.
Variability in Hunter‐Gatherer Seasonal Mobility in the Southern Levant: From the Mousterian to the Natufian
Authors: Lieberman Daniel E.
Published: November 2004

Evidence for the season of occupation of several deeply stratified cave sites from the Levant demonstrate that there have been major changes in hunter‐gatherer mobility patterns between the Middle Palaeolithic and the Natufian. Models of hunter‐gatherer mobility and resource acquisition strategies based on the current distribution of plant, animal, and technological resources in the southern Levant are tested using seasonal data on gazelle exploitation derived from cementum increment analysis. The strategy of seasonal mobility from habitat to habitat appears to be a quintessential behavior for modern human hunter‐gatherers throughout the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic and until the end of the Epipalaeolithic. This pattern contrasts with the less mobile strategy associated with archaic humans.
Lithic and Organic Hunting Technology in the French Upper Palaeolithic
Authors: Peterkin Gail Larsen
Published: November 2004

The application of multivariate statistical techniques to the analysis of lithic and organic (bone, antler, and ivory) weapon armatures from the French Upper Palaeolithic has demonstrated that the traditional typological classification systems are underlain by broad, morpho‐functional classes of artifacts which transcend cultural and temporal boundaries. These morpho‐functional classes enable the examination of isochrestic variability in hunting technology across time and space. Further analysis suggests that morphofunctionaJ classes are related to other aspects of hunting, including the exploitation of preferred prey species and the use of appropriate hunting strategies and techniques.
The Development of Prehistoric Complex Societies: Amazonia, A Tropical Forest
Authors: Roosevelt Anna C.
Published: November 2004

Early research in Amazonia suggested the possibility that prehistoric complex societies had developed in several regions, despite assumptions that humid tropical conditions would prevent such developments. Under the rubric of cultural ecology, various processes have been hypothesized for the development of these societies: invasion and subsequent devolution of groups from expanding states in temperate regions outside Amazonia, social and ecological interactions among regions within Amazonia, and social adaptation to local ecological variation. The hypotheses differ, but researchers generally employed ecological determinist and functionalist assumptions of causality: from environment to subsistence and population and thence to social adaptation. Recent thinking on complex society has distilled the concept of heterarchy as an alternative to cultural materialist explanations for the processes of formation and functioning of a range of complex societies. This chapter examines the accumulated data on complex societies in two Amazonian regions—Marajo Island at the mouth of the Amazon and the Santarem‐Monte Alegre region in the Lower Amazon—in light of the theoretical issues about the formation and functioning of complex societies worldwide. Results of the comparison tend to accord more with heterarchical hypotheses than with the earlier cultural ecological hypotheses. In Amazonia, non‐state societies appear to have organized large, dense populations, intensive subsistence adaptations, large systems of earthworks, production of elaborate artworks and architecture for considerable periods of time. The more centralized and hierarchical of these societies had developed more ritual and material culture related to conflict, and had a heavier impact on their environments. The patterns of social development in Amazonia can still be causally related to environmental patterns through cultural ecological theory, but the new data suggests the need to envision a more mutualistic, variable, and complex causal nexus.
Chapter 12. Spatial Narratives of Death, Memory, and Transcendence
Authors: Cannon Aubrey
Published: November 2004

Analysis of the spatial and historical dimensions of mortuary expressions, and explicit recognition of their basis in personal, social, and symbolic memory, are the foundations of an emerging approach to the archaeology of death. Spatial representations of death are viewed in this perspective as elements in the ritual creation and maintenance of personal and social memories of the dead to serve the needs and interests of the living. Examination of a wide range of case studies shows that the scale and form of mortuary expressions are a function of the social and political scale for which memories are relevant and the circumstances in which their representation remains meaningful and effective. The growth and transformation of these expressions over time can therefore be read as a historical narrative of individual choices made in response to spatial representations of the immediate past and perceptions of current and anticipated social and political circumstances.
Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Authors: Ambrose Stanley H.
Published: November 2004

Backed microliths made on small flakes and blades are considered the hallmark of Later Stone Age (LSA) industries of sub‐Saharan Africa. However, some early LSA microlithic industries lack backed tools, others have extremely large ones, and some Middle Stone Age (MSA) industries also have high frequencies of blades and large backed “microliths.” The invention of blades, backed microliths, and microlithization were thus separate phenomena in sub‐Saharan Africa. Given this diversity and complexity, a “one size fits all” model may neither satisfactorily characterize nor explain the origin of blade‐based technologies, large backed tools in the MSA, and microlithic industries in the LSA. This chapter will briefly summarize the evidence for early backed tool and microlithic industries and then evaluate several hypotheses for microlithization and backed tool production, including the invention of composite hafted tools, punch blade technology, hunting with bow and arrow in closed habitats, invention of poisons for projectiles, increased access to fine‐grained raw materials, increased mobility, conservation of scarce materials, giving gifts of backed microliths made on fine‐grained exotic raw materials, and manufacture of more effective specialized toolkits when increased information sharing permitted reliable anticipation of tasks. If microlithic and backed blade–based industries were invented in Africa, then understanding their origin may provide insight into the evolution of modern human behavior and the dispersal of modern humans and modern human technology out of Africa.
Extreme Case Comparison: Housing Provision and the State
Authors: Smart Alan
Published: November 2004

Recent comparative efforts have made major contributions to our understanding of the processes of housing provision in Europe and Latin America. By extending the comparison to include Hong Kong and comparing each of the works to the other, limitations of each study can be identified. In order to understand the dynamics of housing provision, the role of states must be more adequately conceptualized, as the case of Hong Kong demonstrates that states must be seen as having their own independent dynamic, based upon their particular interests, [housing, Hong Kong, state, comparative method]
If You're Not Black You're White: A History of Ethnic Relations in St. Louis
Authors: Bourgois Philippe
Published: November 2004

Ethnicity in st.louis is polarized around a white‐versus‐black antagonism that melts non‐blacks into the category of whites. Discrimination against blacks in St. Louis is best understood in regional historical context as the political‐ economic and cultural confrontation of three societies—southern plantation, western rural, and northern industrial. This historical case study—from Indian conquest through black slavery and the Civil War to a 1917 industrial race riot and finally today's "rust belt" decay—reveals how ideologies generated around ethnicity interact with political structures to drive social processes in as important a manner as do more strictly material or economic forces. [African‐ Americans, ethnic discrimination, Midwest urban U.S., history of race relations, St. Louis]
Japanese‐Americans in St. Louis: From Internees to Professionals
Authors: Inoue Miyako
Published: November 2004

This article deals with aspects of the resettlement processes of Japanese‐ Americans in St. Louis. Having gone mere from internment camps in the 1940s, they have experienced rapid upward mobility in a city highly polarized along white/black lines. Several factors in the migrants themselves and in the socioeconomic and ethnic structure of the city help explain how local Japanese‐ Americans were accepted as honorary whites. The article also explores deep personal tensions and denial patterns arising out of their experiences in internment camps and their rapid assimilation into white society in St. Louis. Data is drawn from Setsuko Matsunaga's 1944 master's thesis on Japanese in St. Louis and from an ethnographic research project carried out between September 1987 and February 7988. [Japanese‐Americans, St. Louis, ethnicity, assimilation]
Work and Play: An Urban Lifestyle Ideally Portrayed
Authors: Plotnicov Leonard
Published: November 2004

AN IDEALIZED PORTRAYAL of the lifestyle and values of the new urban middle class is abstracted from a Pittsburgh promotional film that is extensively used by corporations to recruit young professionals and executives. The film provides an excellent resource for the ethnography of this population with its distinct class culture and consumer habits. The ethos relating work and play and the metaphorical centrality of the central business district are salient major themes, [manager‐professionals'lifestyle, urban symbolism, thematic analysis, contemporary urban structure]
Generative and Regulative Issues in Urbanizationto Plan or Not to Plan
Authors: Rees Martha W. , Murphy Arthur D.
Published: November 2004

This Introduces a Set of six articles discussing propositions about two kinds of planning, labeled by Douglas Uzzell "generative planning" and "regulative planning.” Governmentally sponsored Third World planners have for years promoted urbanization, and now many developing countries have more urban population than can be absorbed by industrial growth. These people attempt to meet their needs through informal economic activity and generative planning. The articles in this issue report on situations in Peru, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and Hong Kong, [planning, urbanization, economy, informal sector]
The Wave Theory of American Social Movements
Authors: Brown Jerald B.
Published: November 2004

THE WAVE THEORY of social movements explains the cyclical alternation of human‐rights and property–rights eras throughout American history. This article applies anthropological concepts from the study of history, society, and ecology to develop a theory of social change in American culture, [political anthropology, social movements, American society]