bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Joking Avoidance: A Korowai Pragmatics of Being Two
Authors: Stasch Rupert
Published: November 2004

Korowai of New Guinea participate in person‐reference partnerships in which two people call each other by a term recalling some past event of mutual and mildly transgressive bodily identification. This genre of person reference is hybrid between personal names and kinterms and between joking and avoidance. Details of the genre's internal organization and links to other person‐ referring expressions provide evidence that Korowai speakers affirm a dyadcentric model of personhood, and that these same speakers affirm an ideology of language according to which words do not only represent persons but also impinge on them causally. This genre of person reference underscores the methodological importance of recognizing reflexive, metarepresentational dimensions of people's use of different person–referring forms. [food, transgression, language ideology, personhood, name avoidance, kinship, New Guinea]
Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.‐Mexico Frontier
Authors: Murphy Kathleen M.
Published: November 2004

Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.‐Mexico Frontier. Pablo Vila. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. vii. 290 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Women and Politics in Uganda
Authors: Mills David
Published: November 2004

Women and Politics in Uganda. Aili Mari Tripp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. xi. 277 pp., tables, maps, photos, appendixes, references, index.
Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia
Authors: McElhinny Bonnie
Published: November 2004

Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. Kathleen M. Adams and Sara Dickey. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 307 pp., index.
Wallbangin': Graffiti and Gangs in L.A.
Authors: Austin Joe
Published: November 2004

Wallbangin': Graffiti and Gangs in L.A. Susan A. Phillips. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix. 383 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, references, index.
The Indians and Brazil
Authors: Fiorini Marcelo
Published: November 2004

The Indians and Brazil. Mercio P. Gomes. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2000. ix. 300 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography.
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America; Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit
Authors: Segal Daniel A.
Published: November 2004

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America. Karen Brodkin New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. ix. 227 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit. John Hartiganjr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xv. 354 pp., notes, index.
A tale of goddesses, money, and other terribly wonderful things: spirit possession, commodity fetishism, and the narrative of capitalism in Rajasthan, India
Authors: Snodgrass Jeffrey G.
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the spiritual possession of a young Indian woman'a member of a community of performers known as Bhats'by her husband's lineage goddess. The events unfold in the Rajasthani town of Udaipur where Bhats now market traditional culture to tourists. Showing how this possession responds to my informants' new exchange relations, I argue for the utility of the Marxist notion of "commodity fetishism." I contend, however, that Marxist accounts, because of their typically insistent condemnation of capitalist transformation, are not able to account fully for the Bhat experience of new money relations. I maintain, instead, that an analysis emphasizing multiple moral narratives more completely illuminates the Bhats' complex encounter with the economic forms of modernity. I further suggest that discourse‐based descriptions of spiritual possession also cannot do full justice to this woman's case, which is as much a failure to communicate as a successfully articulated, if disguised, mode of communication. I thus argue for an appreciation of the way religious forms, and particularly spiritual possessions, represent a form of language and the failure of language, as well as a kind of story and the inability to narrate experience. Overall, I develop an analytical framework that draws out the representational implications of the notion of fetishism' which, according to Marx, describes a situation in which images (such as money), if compelling enough, eclipse their referents (labor)'and that might do more justice to the Bhats', themselves praise singers, own sophisticated engagement with fictions. [India, spirit possession, religion, money, commodity fetishism, capitalism, narrative, discourse, Marxism, poststructuralism]
Book Reviews
Authors: Lyon‐Callo Vincent
Published: November 2004

Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in. Psychiatric Setting. Vilma Santiago‐lrizarry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. ix. 178 pp., notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Melhuus Marit
Published: November 2004

Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality and Nationalism. Heléena Ragoné and France Winddance Twine. eds. New York: Routledge, 2000. ix. 330 pp., bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Krohn‐Hansen Christian
Published: November 2004

Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Patrick Taylor. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. ix. 220 pp., bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Silva Sónia
Published: November 2004

Tne Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone. Mariane C. Ferme. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 287 pp., photographs, figures, notes/ references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Margolis Maxine L.
Published: November 2004

The Transnational Villagers. Peggy Levitt. University of California Press, 2001. ix. 281 pp., maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index.
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash
Authors: Cahn Peter S.
Published: November 2004

Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash. Philip E. Coyle. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. ix. 263 pp., figures, appendix, bibliography, index.
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska
Authors: Nadasdy Paul
Published: November 2004

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. vii. 247 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe
Authors: Lien Marianne E.
Published: November 2004

Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe. Carola Lentz. ed. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. vii. 222 pp., figures, maps, tables, photographs, index.
Persistence of the Gift: Tongan Tradition in Transnational Context
Authors: Small Cathy A.
Published: November 2004

Persistence of the Gift: Tongan Tradition in Transnational Context. Mike Evans. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. ix. 208 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index.
After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
Authors: Byrnes Dolores
Published: November 2004

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Florence E. Babb. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. vii. 304 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Praising His Name in the Dance: Spirit Possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work in Trinidad, West Indies
Authors: Dean Diana Maitland
Published: November 2004

Praising His Name in the Dance: Spirit Possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work in Trinidad, West Indies. Kenneth Anthony Lum. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. ix. 317 pp., tables, appendixes, index.
Moving and Dwelling: Building The Moroccan Ashelhi Homeland
Authors: Hoffman Katherine E.
Published: November 2004

The tamazirt (homeland, countryside, village) has become an organizing symbol for Anti‐Atlas mountain Ishelhin (Tashelhit‐speaking Moroccan Berbers) that helps perpetuate Tashelhit language as an index of ethnic identity. Residents render rural spaces meaningful through gendered material practices and discursive representations. They construct place and gender in the course of their movements between the countryside and the city. I suggest that dislocation may be integral to the cultural process of rendering locations as well as identities meaningful. The subjective connection of Ishelhin to place gives less primacy to place as space than as a location in a nexus of mobile relationships. [anthropology of place, rural‐urban relations, ethnicity, verbal expression, Morocco, Imazighen]
Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas.
Authors: Lerch Patricia Barker
Published: November 2004

An Amazonian Myth and Its History. Peter Gow. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001. ix. 338 pp., plates, maps, appendix, references, index.
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile.
Authors: Hill Sarah
Published: November 2004

Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile. Julia Paley .Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xviii. 255 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Kapi′olani at the brink: Dilemmas of historical ethnography in 19th‐century Hawai'i
Authors: Merry Sally Engle
Published: November 2004

Shifting accounts of the confrontation in 1824 between a Christianized Hawaiian chiefess and the priestess of Pele, the deity of the volcano, illustrate the way the same story changes over time. A comparison of these different versions and of the circumstances of their production provides a way of thinking about how historical ethnographers can use such plural and competing accounts as the basis for writing histories of colonial encounters. It shows how the choice of one or another version of a story has significant implications for the histories we tell and for the way groups understand their pasts. [colonialism, historical anthropology, ethnography, Hawai'i, missionaries]
Dubbing culture: Indonesian gay and lesbi subjectivities and ethnography in an already globalized world
Authors: Boellstorff Tom
Published: November 2004

In this article I explore how Indonesians come to see themselves as lesbi or gay through fragmentary encounters with mainstream mass media (rather than lesbian and gay Westerners or Western lesbian and gay media). By placing this ethnographic material alongside a recent debate on the dubbing of foreign television programs into the Indonesian language, I develop a theoretical framework of "dubbing culture" to critically analyze globalizing processes. [globalization, homosexuality, identity, Indonesia, mass media, nationalism, postcolonial]
AIDS rumors, imaginary enemies, and the body politic in Indonesia
Authors: Kroeger Karen A.
Published: November 2004

Rumors about disease and illness draw on the rich symbolism of the body and are a way for social groups to express concerns about their relationships to the community and state. The Indonesian "AIDS Club" rumors are part of a corpus of contemporary legends about AIDS that have circulated globally. In their local form, however, they speak to particular concerns that urban Indonesians have about modernity and the power of the Indonesian state. [AIDS, rumors, Indonesia, New Order, disease and illness, violence, body politic, somatization]
"This is Ghanaian territory!": Land conflicts on a West African border
Authors: Lentz Carola
Published: November 2004

Most African borders have remained permeable, not least because the colonial and postcolonial states have lacked the necessary resources to enforce them more rigidly, "top‐down." In this article, I analyze the ways in which an African border has been dealt with "from below," partly ignored or subverted and partly appropriated. The border between Ghana and Burkina Faso, drawn up in 1898, was soon adopted by the borderlanders as a political resource, capable of shielding them from colonial tax and forced‐labor requirements. Local networks of kinship and strategies of land use, on the other hand, usually ignored the border. Although the border cut through many earth‐shrine areas, the indigenous institution on which land rights are traditionally based in the region, the shrine custodians continued to exercise their ritual control on both sides of the border. In recent conflicts over land, however, lineal boundaries separating sovereign national territories have been used to usurp traditional land rights. I discuss one such conflict, in which rights to use a fishpond are contested, to explore local perceptions of space and boundaries and how these change in relation to international borders, [international borders, concepts of space, earth shrines, land rights, authochthony, West Africa, Dagara, Sisala]
"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire‐mining town
Authors: Walsh Andrew
Published: November 2004

In Ambondromifehy, a sapphire‐mining town in northern Madagascar, young men earn and spend a great deal of what some call "hot money." Rather than invest their earnings with long‐term intentions considered responsible and proper by some around them, they consume "daringly" by spending money to fulfill immediate desires. I argue that such "daring consumption" might be understood as the active response of young men who refuse the passive roles allotted them by both the sapphire trade and traditional systems of social organization. [Madagascar, consumption, money, risk, sapphire mining, masculinity]
Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal.
Authors: Liechty Mark
Published: November 2004

Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal. Laura M. Ahearn .Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,2001. vii. 295 pp., photographs, tables, notes, references, index.
Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow‐Wow.
Authors: Kozak David
Published: November 2004

Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow‐Wow. Tara Browner .Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ix. 163 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
Authors: Mines Diane P.
Published: November 2004

Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Nicholas Dirks .Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. ix. 372 pp., notes, index.
Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences.
Authors: Perinbanayagam R. S.
Published: November 2004

Missing Persons:. Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi. 223 pp., figures, tatiles, bibliography, index.
Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line.
Authors: Gregory Steven
Published: November 2004

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line. Paul Gilray. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 406 pp., bibliography, index.
In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan.
Authors: Rupp Stephanie
Published: November 2004

In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan. Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar .Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ix. 403 pp., appendix, notes, glossary, references, index.
Global Noise: Rap and Hip‐Hop outside the USA.
Authors: Zemke‐White Kirsten
Published: November 2004

Global Noise: Rap and Hip‐Hop outside the USA. Daniel Miller. ed. Oxford: Berg, Wesleyan University Press, 2001. ix. 336 pp., photographs, index.
Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building.
Authors: Anderson Jeffrey
Published: November 2004

Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building. Ronald Niezen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xi. 256 pp., figures, photographs, references, index.
Trees and seas of information: Alien kinship and the biopolitics of gene transfer in marine biology and biotechnology
Authors: Helmreich Stefan
Published: November 2004

Examining discussions of "lateral gene transfer" in marine biology and biotechnology, I maintain that "natural" bonds between genealogy and classification in biology may be dissolving. I argue that marine microbial biology is good to think about with the rise of new kinships and biopolitics organized less around practices of "sex" than politics of "transfer." I draw on fieldwork among academic and industry marine biologists to explore implications of rhizomatic, informatic, watery articulations of "bare life." [biopolitics, kinship, gene transfer, anthropology of science, maritime anthropology, biotechnology]
The cognitive machinery of power: Reflections on Valeri's The Forest of Taboos
Authors: Lansing J. Stephen
Published: November 2004

As Judith Butler has emphasized, for Michel Foucault power is both external to the subject and the very venue of the subject, intrinsic to the formation of the self. Valerio Valeri's studies of the Huaulu, an egalitarian society of forest dwellers on a remote Indonesian island, help to disentangle these two aspects of power. Foucault often cautioned that his analysis of the history of European systems of thought made no claims to universality, but scholars working in the Foucauldian tradition have seldom ventured outside Europe. Valeri's analysis of Huaulu taboo clarifies and contextualizes Foucault's insights into the formative nature of power and offers new insights into the cognitive foundations of consumer capitalism, [cosmologies of capitalism, repressive regimes, taboo, potlatch, subject formation, consumer society, Frankfurt School, commodity fetishism]
Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala; Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History
Authors: Hawkins John P.
Published: November 2004

Fear as. Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala. Linda Green. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xx. 229 pp. glossary, bibliography, index.

Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History. Victor Montejo. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xvi. 287 pp. notes, bibliography, index.
Managing Reproductive Life: Cross‐Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Authors: Sargent Carolyn
Published: November 2004

Managing Reproductive Life: Cross‐Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality. Soraya Tremayne. ed. New York: Berghahn Books. 2001. vii. 286 pp., figures, bibliography, index.
Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools, An Ethnographic Portrait
Authors: Tapia Javier
Published: November 2004

Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools, An Ethnographic Portrait Guadalupe Valdés New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 237 pp.
Using Gender to Preserve Tracking's Status Hierarchy: The Defensive Strategy of Entrenched Teachers
Authors: Datnow Amanda
Published: November 2004

In a case study of a racially mixed high school undertaking detrucking, gender politics among the teachers emerged as a shaping force in the reform effort. This paper examines the politics of representation among two factions of teachers at the school. The reform, led by a party of female teachers, was derailed as a coalition of male teachers employed a gender discourse to successfully capture the dominant mode of representing what “school” means. The entrenched male teachers' efforts at maintaining a culture of patriarchy was part of their larger movement to maintain tracking's status hierarchy among students.
Ethnicity and Educational Performance in the United Kingdom: Racism, Ethnicity, and Variability in Achievement
Authors: Gillborn David
Published: November 2004

This article examines recent research on the variability of educational performance in Britain. The composition of Britain's minority population is reviewed, followed by a discussion of differences in attainment. The bulk of the article explores some of the social processes that lie behind the statistics, especially concerning teacher racism and student adaptations. The possibilities for improvement at the school level are considered briefly within the context of national reforms that prioritize market principles and marginalize equality concerns.
The Educational Experience and Performance of Immigrant and Minority Students in Israel
Authors: Eisikovits Rivka A.
Published: November 2004

The educational needs of Jewish and Arab primary and secondary school‐age student populations are provided by two separate and parallel educational systems. The immigrant context is discussed first, then educational issues pertaining to the Arab minority are examined. Emphasis is placed on emerging trends in the educational treatment of immigrant children as well as on shifts in educational policy and practice in the Arab sector. The educational experience and performance of immigrant students and Israeli Arab students are discussed within this broader context.
Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City.
Authors: Sleeter Christine E.
Published: November 2004

Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City. Judith Goode and Jo Anne Schneider. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 282 pp.
Education Reform in Democratic Spain.
Authors: Brook Diane L.
Published: November 2004

Education Reform in Democratic Spain. Oliver Boyd‐Barrett and Pamela O'Malley, eds. New York: Routledge, 1995. 265 pp.
Bilingual Education: A Dialogue with the Bakhtin Circle.
Authors: Rueda Robert
Published: November 2004

Bilingual Education: A Dialogue with the Bakhtin Circle. Marcia Moraes. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 159 pp.
Growing Up African American in Catholic Schools.
Authors: Schneider Jo Anne
Published: November 2004

Growing Up African American in Catholic Schools. Jacqueline Jordan Irvine and Michele Foster, eds. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Anti‐Racism Education: Theory and Practice.
Authors: Macias José
Published: November 2004

Anti‐Racism Education: Theory and Practice. George J. Sefa Dei. Halifax, Canada: Fernwood Publishing, 1996. 160 pp.
Children and Families “At Promise”: Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk
Authors: Lempert Michael P.
Published: November 2004

Children and Families “At Promise”: Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk. Beth Blue Swadener and Sally Lubeck, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 288 pp.
An Introduction to Vygotsky.
Authors: Beizer Laura
Published: November 2004

An Introduction to Vygotsky. Harry Daniels, ed. New York: Routledge, 1996. 290 pp.
Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children
Authors: Sano Toshiyuki
Published: November 2004

Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children. Gail R. Benjamin. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 262 pp.
Ethnicity and Ethnically “Mixed” Identity in Belize: A Study of Primary School‐Age Children
Authors: Haug Sarah Woodbury
Published: November 2004

This article focuses on the ehtnic identity of children in Belize. Belizean nationalism, as taught in the primary schools, is both pan‐ethnic and multiethnic. However, because the increasingly widespread practice of ethnic mixing is unacknowledged, there is a discrepancy between what is taught in school and the daily life of children. This has resulted in a paradox. Whereas the overt intent is to recognize and celebrate difference, the result has been to silence children's voices.
Un‐Separate and Still Unequal? Three Books about American Education and Race at the End of the Liberal Century
Authors: Hess G. Alfred
Published: November 2004

Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. James Banks, ed. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 352 pp.

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. Lisa Delpit. New York: The New Press, 1995. 206 pp.

Beyond Desegregation: The Politics of Quality in African American Schooling. Mwalimu J. Shujaa, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1996. 268 pp.
Democracy, Multiculturalism, and the Community College: A Critical Perspective
Authors: James Deborah
Published: November 2004

Democracy, Multiculturalism, and the Community College: A Critical Perspective. Robert A. Rhoads and James R. Valadez. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 231 pp.
Making Meaning of Whiteness: Exploring Racial Identity with White Teachers
Authors: Glazier Jocelyn
Published: November 2004

Making Meaning of Whiteness: Exploring Racial Identity with White Teachers. Alice Mclntyre. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 193 pp.
The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions
Authors: Vasquez Miguel
Published: November 2004

The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions. Conrad Phillip Kottak, Jane J. White, Richard H. Furlow, and Patricia C. Rice. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1997. 381 pp.
Transforming Cultural Practices: Illustrations from Children's Game Play
Authors: Guberman Steven R. , Rahm Jrene , Menk Debra W.
Published: November 2004

Analyses of children's participation in cultural practices typically focus on the ways in which dimensions of activities shape the nature of children's participation and learning. In contrast, our concern in this article is to understand how children, in their participation, transform cultural practices. We use Saxe's (1991) emergent goals framework to illustrate how the mathematical problems that emerge in children's play of Monopoly are interwoven with children's developing competencies and social interactions.
Mexican Educational Ethnography and the Work of the DIE: Crossing the Border and Finding the Historical Everyday
Authors: Levinson Bradley A.
Published: November 2004

La escuela cotidiana. Elsie Rockwell, ed. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1995. 238 pp.
Collaborative Research Stories: Whakawhanaungatanga
Authors: Warner Linda Sue
Published: November 2004

Collaborative Research Stories: Whakawhanaungatanga. Russell Bishop. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press, 1996. 273 pp.
Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach
Authors: Pitman Mary Anne
Published: November 2004

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. Joseph A. Maxwell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. 155 pp.
Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy
Authors: Fisherkeller JoEllen
Published: November 2004

Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy. Anne Haas Dyson. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. 250 pp.
Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood
Authors: Wright Jan
Published: November 2004

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 270 pp.
Authenticity and Identity: Lessons from Indigenous Language Education
Authors: Henze Rosemary , Davis Kathryn A.
Published: November 2004

This essay introduces this theme issue, which examines how notions of identity and authenticity are defined and negotiated in different contexts of indigenous language education in Alaska, California, Hawai'i, and the Solomon Islands. The introductory article situates these case studies within the larger context of other language/culture‐minority groups who are attempting to maintain or revitalize their heritage languages, language varieties, and cultural practices through educational endeavors.
“Our Hands Will Know”: The Development of Tactile Diagnostic Skill—Teaching, Learning, and Situated Cognition in a Physical Therapy Program
Authors: Rose Mike
Published: November 2004

Relying on observational and interview data from a clinical practice class in a graduate physical therapy program, I examine, within a situated cognition framework, the teaching and learning of a concept in biomechanics, the manual techniques and tactile discrimination skills that accompany it, and the diagnostic frame of mind that informs concept, technique, and skill. In examining this complex set of practices, I hope to add to and qualify the literature on working knowledge, participation and competence, and situated learning and pedagogy.
Pedagogy as View Sequence: Popular Culture, Education, and Travel
Authors: Casella Ronnie
Published: November 2004

This article examines the economic and cultural construction of Latin America as an educational site, using analysis of brochures advertising educational tours, fieldwork in an educational tour organization, and interviews with educational travelers in the United States and Mexico. Representations are manipulated to define Latin America as colorful, exotic, and pristine and U.S. travelers as omniscient, sophisticated, and invisible.
Discourse, Learning, and Schooling
Authors: Bencich Carole Beeghly
Published: November 2004

Discourse, Learning, and Schooling. Deborah Hicks, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 282 pp.
Puerto Rican High Achievers: An Example of Ethnic and Academic Identity Compatibility
Authors: Flores‐González Nilda
Published: November 2004

Although research finds that members of some involuntary minority ethnic groups tend to develop oppositional identities, Puerto Rican students studied in this research project at an urban high school did not associate school success with “whiteness.” These students were academically successful while still maintaining their ethnic identity. They were not accused of acting white, did not mask their academic accomplishments, and did not assume raceless personas. Different conceptualizations of ethnicity, sociohistorical context, and class may account for their maintenance of ethnic identity while achieving success in school.
Representation and the Text: Reframing the Narrative Voice
Authors: Wood Diane R.
Published: November 2004

Representation and the Text: Reframing the Narrative Voice. William G. Tierney and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 321 pp.
From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican‐American Culture
Authors: Macias José
Published: November 2004

From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican‐American Culture. 2nd edition. James Diego Vigil. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1998. 324 pp.
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
Authors: Marker Michael
Published: November 2004

The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Julie Cruikshank Lincoln: of Nebraska Press, 1998. 211 pp.
The Gender Politics of Educational Change.
Authors: Finnan Christine
Published: November 2004

The Gender Politics of Educational Change. Amanda Datnow. Washington, DC: Falmer Press, 1998. 161 pages.
Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper Middle Class Youth Culture.
Authors: Wallace‐Cowell Susan M.
Published: November 2004

Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper Middle Class Youth Culture. Amira Proweller. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 284 pp.
The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working‐Class Young Adults.
Authors: Emihovich Catherine
Published: November 2004

The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working‐Class Young Adults. Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. 342 pp.
Creating Learning Opportunities in Strange or Familiar Contexts: A Response to Gerald R. Fast's “'Africa, My Teacher!'”
Authors: Schwille Sharon A.
Published: November 2004

Having had the opportunity to observe in classrooms throughout Zimbabwe as an external examiner about ten years ago and having spent time in other African countries since then, I found myself closely connecting to Fast's stories of living and teaching in Zimbabwe. If readers have not had the opportunity to immerse themselves in a foreign culture, Fast's stories may, on the surface, appear intriguing but distant from their own lives and ways of functioning. From these appealing stories, however, there is much for any reader to contemplate and better understand about teaching and learning in any culture. In my response, I will explore Fast's two main themes and highlight the need for similar learning opportunities for teachers even when they cannot travel to foreign countries or visit unfamiliar cultures.
Narratives from Latina Professors in Higher Education
Authors: Medina Catherine , Luna Gaye
Published: November 2004

This article shares the lives of three Latina faculty members teaching in state colleges of education. Interviews revealed that the personal and professional experiences they encountered on a daily basis reflected tokenism in the academy, varying levels of support, and perceived burdens and expectations. All three women saw knowledge as contextual and often relied on feelings and intuition to describe and assess their lives in the academy. Recommendations for change within the academy are offered.
The Averted Gaze
Authors: Wisniewski Richard
Published: November 2004

The literature of higher education and campus rhetoric convey the impression that academic change is rampant. Organizational gridlock and exceptionally limited change are more apt characterizations of campus life. Ethnographic studies of change in the academy would help to determine the validity of both assertions. The qualitative research community, however, appears to avoid studies of the academy. Reasons for a collective “averted gaze” are here examined.
Lona's Links: Postoppositional Identity Work of Urban Youths
Authors: Hemmings Annette
Published: November 2004

The postoppositional identity work of urban high school students is described. The youths had engaged in oppositional identity work that led to breakages with their worlds. Lona was a central figure who forged symbolic and social links that enabled the youths to construct “true” selves and to express identities in ethical relation to others. Lona's links engendered a politics of reconciliation that empowered marginalized youths to resituate their selves within, and transform, their worlds.
Bilingual Education Policy and Practice in the Andes:Ideological Paradox and Intercultural Possibility
Authors: Hornberger Nancy H.
Published: November 2004

Recent developments in language policy and education reform in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, paralleling similar developments in the United States and elsewhere, have opened up new possibilities for indigenous languages and their speakers through bilingual intercultural education. Examining the use and meanings of the term interculturality in policy documents and short practitioner narratives, this article explores the ideological paradox inherent in transforming a standardizing education into a diversifying one and in constructing a national identity that is also multilingual and multicultural. It concludes with implications for educational practice in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms.
One‐Way Ticket: A Story of an Innovative Teacher in Mainland China
Authors: Ouyang Huhua
Published: November 2004

This article is based on a true story about a Chinese teacher who applied an innovative pedagogy in her rural hometown in mainland China. It unfolds the highly complex and often dangerous remaking of ideologies and power relations inherent in pedagogical reform as a microcosm of other concomitant changes in the society at large. It also reflects the inadequacy of teacher education in preparing teachers to survive the micropolitics of the seemingly neutral or beneficial‐to‐all education reform.
“In the Clique”: Popular Culture, Constructions of Place, and the Everyday Lives of Urban Youth
Authors: Dimitriadis Greg
Published: November 2004

This study focuses on two teens, Tony and Rufus, and how they used key popular texts to construct a sense of place in the small city where this research was conducted. These two teens mobilized these popular texts in very specific ways, both finding specific thematic links between and across them and also using them to index their relationships with biological and extended family in this city and “down South.” This study highlights the complex, emergent, and messy relationships many young people have with popular culture.
“Now, like Real Israelis, Let's Stand Up and Sing”: Teaching the National Language to Russian Newcomers in Israel
Authors: Golden Deborah
Published: November 2004

This article addresses the links between nationalism, national identity, and the socialization of migrants through an ethnographic account of an encounter between an Israeli teacher of Hebrew and adult newcomers from the former Soviet Union at a state‐sponsored Hebrew language class (ulpan) in Israel. A close look at the axes around which learning was organized, as well as the modes of instruction, reveals a particular conceptualization of learning to belong to Israeli society, one which the newcomers themselves appeared to contest.
Why Doesn't the Creed Read “Always Be Critical”? An Examination of a Liberal Curriculum
Authors: Longwell‐Grice Hope , Letts William J.
Published: November 2004

Using ethnographic data collected in a second grade classroom over the course of a school year, this paper describes the ways in which one school's discourse of liberalism is deleteriously deployed. We view the school's discipline creed as emblematic of the school's liberal curriculum, and interrogate the effects on four African American boys in the classroom when the school enacts this creed. Despite the agency that these boys obviously had, they were unable to control the ways in which they were placed at a structural disadvantage and manipulated by a system far more powerful than they were. The results were that these four boys suffered. Not only did the intended liberal curriculum fail to be translated fully into the enacted curriculum, the liberal underpinnings of this curriculum precluded teachers and students from taking any critical stance.
La Ronda in a Spanish Kindergarten Classroom with a Cross‐Cultural Comparison to Sharing Time in the U.S.A.
Authors: Poveda David
Published: November 2004

This article examines a common speech event in Spanish schools known as la ronda, in which children present oral narratives of their out‐of‐school experiences. I argue that the goal of this event is to allow the children and the teacher to build a sense of themselves as a moral community. Despite parallels in organization and content between la ronda and sharing time as described in the U.S. literature, there are important cross‐cultural differences that also are discussed and interpreted here.
The Silencing of Latino Student “Voice”: Puerto Rican and Mexican Narratives in Eighth Grade and High School
Authors: Quiroz Pamela Anne
Published: November 2004

Narratives of 27 Puerto Rican and Mexican students, written first in eighth grade then again as juniors in high school, address the important question of “Who am I?” and illustrate school‐sponsored silencing, with students' critiques of their educational experience ignored by both the elementary and the high school. The narratives also provide a window into the high dropout rates of Latino children, the reasons behind students' academic decisions, and interventions needed to change negative schooling processes and outcomes. By giving witness to these voices, we as readers help ensure that through their writing, these Latino adolescents do not just speak but that they are heard.
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Modernity and Tradition in Islamic Education in Indonesia
Authors: Lukens‐Bull Ronald A.
Published: November 2004

This article explores one way in which the Classical Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, seeks to negotiate modernization and globalization through the interface of an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) and higher education. This negotiation requires imagining and (reinventing both modernity and tradition. By examining how the leadership of a particular pesantren for university students engages these processes in their curricular goals and practices, this article expands theoretical considerations of education in translocal processes such as Islamization and globalization.
Muslim Youth in Canadian Schools: Education and the Politics of Religious Identity
Authors: Zine Jasmin
Published: November 2004

This article provides an ethnographic analysis of the schooling experiences of Muslim youth in Canada who are committed to maintaining an Islamic lifestyle despite the pressures of conformity to the dominant culture. Little attention has been paid to how religious identity intersects with other forms of social difference, such as race and gender in the schooling experiences of minoritized youth. Using a case study often Muslim students and parents, this article demonstrates how Muslim students were able to negotiate and maintain their religious identities within secular public schools. The participants' narratives address the challenges of peer pressure, racism, and Islamophobia. Their stories reveal how Muslim students are located at the nexus of social difference based on their race, gender, and religious identity. The discussion further explores the dynamics through which these youth were able to negotiate the continuity of their Islamic identity and practices within schools despite the challenges that they faced. Building upon existing theories of identity maintenance and construction, this research demonstrates how the interplay of the core factors of ambivalence, role performance, and interaction and isolation are implicated in the way Muslim students negotiate the politics of religious identity in their schooling experiences.
Articulating School Countercultures
Authors: Kipnis Andrew
Published: November 2004

Starting from the observation that writings about student subcultures and antischool countercultures are much more common for wealthy English‐speaking nations than elsewhere, this article develops the concept of “articulation” to help clarify the counterculture concept and differentiate fully developed countercultures from other forms of student resistance. Using examples from many nations, especially East Asia, I hope to contribute to an ethnology of schooling by exploring the social and cultural forces that promote and impede the articulation of school subcultures and countercultures.
The School Classroom as Frontier
Authors: Wax Murray L.
Published: November 2004

With this article, AEQ introduces a new feature section, Reflections on the Field. Here, CAE's first President and 1998 Spindler Awardee Murray L. Wax examines the development of applied social research during the mid–20th century, out of which grew his landmark study, with Rosalie H. Wax and Robert V. Dumont, Jr., of schooling and children's peer society among the Oglala Sioux. Murray Wax concludes with a critique of a science of culture and a call for an educational anthropology oriented toward fieldwork.
Prospects for the Survival of the Navajo Language: A Reconsideration
Authors: Spolsky Bernard
Published: November 2004

What is the role of schools in the loss of indigenous languages? A study 25 years ago of prospects for the survival of Navajo placed most of the blame for the spread of English on increasing access to schools. Reconsidering that evidence and recent developments, the central role of the introduction of Western schooling is seen still to be highly relevant. But other factors have worked through the school, the major effect of which has been the ideological acceptance of English. Vernacular literacy, traditional or introduced religion, and political structure all have failed to establish a counterforce. Economic changes also led to new living patterns that, together with improved communication, broke down isolation and supported the threat to the survival of language. This study confirms the importance of seeing language and education in the full social, cultural, religious, and political context recognized by educational anthropology.
Through the Eyes of the Institution: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Decision Making in Two Special Education Meetings
Authors: Rogers Rebecca
Published: November 2004

In this article, I present a critical discourse analysis of two Committee on Special Education meetings for one adolescent girl. Drawing on two years of ethnographic data, I look across the two meetings and demonstrate that the second‐year CSE meeting is wrought with three contradictions. This article suggests the need to look to institutional discourses and cases of subjective experiences in order to understand the process of social reproduction in the anthropology of disability.
From Neologisms to Social Practice: An Analysis of the Wanding of America
Authors: Sarroub Loukia K.
Published: November 2004

In this article I discuss how individuals and communities in the United States re–present themselves in the context of the September 11 tragedy and its complex aftermath. My aim is to explore the “American” discourse on inclusion and discrimination by examining the neologisms and social practices that were amplified by the attack in local and national debates.
Terrorism in Native America: Interrogating the Past, Examining the Present, and Constructing a Liberatory Future
Authors: Writer Jeanette Haynes
Published: November 2004

Drawing on Critical Race Theory, I examine the concept and practice of terrorism as it has been imposed on Native Americans by the United States government and its agents, and provide two concrete examples of terrorism. For anthropologists, this article amplifies the “voice” of the historical Other, describing terrorism from an emic perspective. For educators and educational anthropologists, I argue that we must critically examine issues of power and media portrayals of terrorism and terrorists in order to engage students in liberatory education.
Elaborating Ethnonational Awareness via Academic Literacy: Palestinian Israeli Women at the University
Authors: Erdreich Lauren , Rapoport Tamar
Published: November 2004

Building on a poststructuralist theory of literacy, we delve into the "black box" of Palestinian Israeli women's encounters with academic knowledge. Through interviews and observations, we disclose practices the women used to unearth the construction of dominant Jewish Israeli knowledge and to reconstruct gender in the Palestinian Israeli ethnonational discourse. Our study takes a new angle on the New Literacy Studies by looking at unprogrammed literacy from within dominant institutions, and how subjugated populations utilize it to change discourses. Our qualitative record contributes to feminist poststructuralist pedagogy by revealing how liberal participation in literacy can be an empowering tool in reconstructing conceptions of women in ethnonational discourse. These insights should guide educators to understand that students' reactions to knowledge and classroom practices may hold different meanings when interpreted from within the framework of nondominant classroom discourses.
Reshaping Conflict through School Ceremonial Events in Israeli Palestinian–Jewish Coeducation
Authors: Bekerman Zvi
Published: November 2004

This article on the joint Hanukkah/Id'l Fitter/Christmas celebration examines Arab‐Jewish coeducation aimed at encouraging each group to take pride in their cultural heritage while experiencing and respecting the heritage of the other. The study is an attempt to better understand the ways in which bilingual/multicultural efforts can shape individual and group perspectives and help overcome intergroup tensions and conflict, inquiring into the potential of ritual events to support this endeavor. The article aims to assist teacher educators in (redesigning new or existing multicultural education programs for conflict‐ridden areas, and to illuminate the dynamic interaction between the declared expectations of those programs and the conflictual contexts that constrain them.