bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Outclassed by Former Outcasts: Petty Trading in Varna
Authors: Konstantinov Yulian , Kressel Gideon M. , Thuen Trond
Published: January 2005

People caught in circumstances of social upheaval differ in the ways in which they adjust to instability and change. Occasionally individuals at less privileged socioeconomic levels engage in socially devalued practices such as the small‐scale trading enterprises that have been degraded ideologically during 45 years of communist rule in Bulgaria. In this article we explore the ways in which people adjust to change by examining ethnographically the practice of trader tourism in Bulgaria. We argue that such an examination supports a rethinking of the concept of boundaries, if boundaries are fluid sets of constraints that individuals negotiate when reacting to monumental stress. Specifically, we consider the reactions of population groups within Bulgaria to the post‐1989 economic crisis. We also suggest that members of each group react in group‐specific strategies of temporary inclusion, permanent inclusion, and exclusion, [economic anthropology, survival strategies, markets and trader tourism, capitalism con. communism, Roma/Indo‐Roma/Gypsies, Eastern Europe/Balkan/Bulgaria, transition/boundaries]
Weaving identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
Authors: Femenías Blenda
Published: January 2005

Weaving identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town. CAROL HENDRICKSON. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xvi + 245 pp., tables, figures, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis
Authors: Marcus George E.
Published: January 2005

Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis. MICHAEL HERZFELD. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. viii + 333 pp., figures, notes, references, index.
The Myth of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working‐Class Life in a Basque Town
Authors: Valle Teresa Del
Published: January 2005

The Myth of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working‐Class Life in a Basque Town. SHARRYN KASMIR. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996 xvi + 243 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, works cited, index.
The Story of a Marriage: The Letters of Bronislaw Mallnowski and Elsie Masson, vol. 1/The Story of a Marriage; The Letters of Bronislaw Mallnowski and Elsie Masson, vol. 2
Authors: Bauer Janet
Published: January 2005

The Story of a Marriage: The Letters of Bronislaw Mallnowski and Elsie Masson, vol. 1. 1916 ‐ 1920. HELENA WAYNE. London: Routledge, 1995. xviii + 196 pp., illustrations, map, chronology, notes, index.

The Story of a Marriage; The Letters of Bronislaw Mallnowski and Elsie Masson, vol. 2. 1920 – 1935 HELENA WAYNE. London: Routledge, 1995. viii + 261 pp., illustrations, map, chronology, notes, index.
The Rulings of the Night An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Authors: Fisher William F.
Published: January 2005

The Rulings of the Night An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. GREGORY G. MASKARINEC. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi + 276 pp., illustrations, figures, map, glossary, references, index.
Mapping Power: Disputing Claims to Kipat Lands in Northeastern Nepal
Authors: Forbes Ann Armbrecht
Published: January 2005

Through a close reading of a land dispute in northeastern Nepal, I examine broader shifts in local‐national political relations as Nepal is transformed from a kingdom to a nation‐state. In addition to documenting the shift from a customary to a private system of tenure, this case raises broader questions about the relationship between identity, politics, and place, and the impact of globalization on these relations. [land tenure, identity and place, narrative, national/local relations, globalization, Himalaya]
Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation at the Northwest Borders of Greece
Authors: Hart Laurie Kain
Published: January 2005

The collapse of the Communist regime in Albania after 1990 led to overt tensions between Greece and Albania as a result, on the one hand, of massive illegal Albanian immigration to Greece and, on the other, new questions concerning the status and security of the Greek minority in southern Albania. During the 20th century, nation‐construction across the Greek‐Albanian border involved the reciprocal differentiation of heterogeneous populations into bipolar Greek and Albanian nationalities. In this article, I consider the public rhetoric and diplomatic processes involved in distinguishing Greek and Albanian populations. I suggest that through attention to border history, segmentary models of cultural identity can be usefully married to the theory of nationalism at the scale of the state. The Greek‐Albanian case demonstrates both the centra lily of the border to the legitimation of the state and the marginality of actual border populations who persistently generate conditions of social heterogeneity. [Greece, Albania, nationalism, ethnicity, border, stereotype]
The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction In Ceaufeşcu's Romania
Authors: Bucur Maria
Published: January 2005

The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction In Ceaufeşcu's Romania. GAIL KLIGMAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xv. 358 pp., photographs, figures, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index.
Medical Mimesis: Healing Signs of a Cosmopolitan "Quack"
Authors: Langford Jean M.
Published: January 2005

Drawing on recent insights into mimesis, I address the question of authenticity in indigenous medicine through an ethnography of an Ayurvedic pulse reader. I trace the conflicting rhetorics of authenticity spun by the doctor, the colleagues who consider him a quack, and myself. Ultimately I question the rituals of signification by which distinctions are drawn between medicine and placebo, doctor and quack, expertise and gimmickry, and between authentic cultural object and consumeroriented copy, [medicine, mimesis, semiotics, Ayurveda, India, quackery]
The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
Authors: Piot Charles
Published: January 2005

The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. PETER GESCHIERE. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xiv. 311 pp., index, bibliography, notes, map.
Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia
Authors: Kelly John D.
Published: January 2005

Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia. STANLEY J. TAMBIAH. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. + 395 pp., figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community
Authors: Peletz Michael G.
Published: January 2005

The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in. Malay Fishing Community. JANET CARSTEN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ix. 314 pp., figures, maps, bibliography, index.
After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
Authors: Bunzl Matti
Published: January 2005

After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology. ALLISON JAMES. JENNY HOCKEY. and ANDREW DAWSON. eds. London: Routledge, 1997. + 273 pp., contributors, figures, notes, references, indexes.
The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives
Authors: Flores Richard R.
Published: January 2005

The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives. TIMOTHY M. MATOVINA. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xii. 146 pp., figures, bibliography, index, illustrations.
Language, Identity, and Marglnality In Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Authors: Palmer Gary
Published: January 2005

Language, Identity, and Marglnality In Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba. Joel C. Kuipers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii. 183 pp., plates, figures, tables, appendix, references, Index.
Women, Family, and Child Care In India: A World in Transition
Authors: Moore Erin P.
Published: January 2005

Women, Family, and Child Care In India:. World in Transition. Susan C. Seymour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii. 323 pp., illustrations, tables, figures, notes, references, index.
Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa
Authors: Hollos Marida
Published: January 2005

Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa. Robert A. Levine. Suzanne Dixon. Sarah Levine. Amy Richman. P. Herbert Leiderman. Constance H. Keefer. and T. Berry Brazelton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxx. 346 pp., tables, figures, appendixes, notes, references, Index.
The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History
Authors: Wilmsen Edwin N.
Published: January 2005

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History. Ellen Beasley. Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1996. ix. 170 pp., photographs, tables, appendixes, notes, Illustration credits, Index.
The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons
Authors: Warry Wayne
Published: January 2005

The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons. James B. Waldram. Orchard Park, NY. Broadview Press, 1997. xvi. 233 pp., references, index.
Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics
Authors: Ebron Paulla A.
Published: January 2005

In this article, I ask how a site of history gets made into a successful tourist destination of a remembered past. I focus on a U.S. corporate‐sponsored homeland tour to Senegal and the Gambia (the region of Roots) aimed toward commemorating sites especially momentous for African American tourists. Through the lens of global "scapes," I analyze the multiple aspects necessary to create and sustain this place of meaning. Of interest are the ways in which culture can be produced as a commodified object and, in the process, made available for ritual framing and reappropriation. [commodity culture, tourism, pilgrimage, identity formation ritual]
Of Enemies and Pets: Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia
Authors: Fausto Carlos
Published: January 2005

Indigenous warfare in tropical South America, frequently involving cannibalism and trophy hunting, has been a recurrent theme in Americanist literature. Since the 16th century, conquerors, missionaries, chroniclers, and more recently anthropologists have striven to make sense of the phenomenon. In this article, I propose a model of social reproduction that subsumes warfare and shamanism within a generalized economy. I show the existence of a dialectic operating between two relational forms, predation and familiarization. This dialectic functions as a general schema of the mode for producing persons and groups in the region, [warfare, shamanism, ritual, exchange theory, animal familiarization, Amazonian Indians]
The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia
Authors: Hurtig Janise
Published: January 2005

The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia. Aurolyn Luykx. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xiii. 399 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Global Capitalism: What's Race Got to Do With It?
Authors: Brodkin Karen
Published: January 2005

This article addresses the relationship between nationalist projects of subject making and capitalist political economy. Using the United States as an illustrative case, I suggest that the capitalist project of labor‐force creation articulates with nationalist projects in the ethnoracial construction of workers and national subjects. Taking the situations of U.S. Jews and women as my main window, I propose that anthropologists should think of race as a relationship to the means of production and racial constructions of manhood and womanhood as the corporeal embodiments of that relationship.[race, nationalism, class, gender, Jews, capitalism]
Custom, Courts, and Class Formation: Constructing the Hegemonic Process Through the Petty Sessions of a Southeastern Irish Parish, 1828‐1884
Authors: Silverman Marilyn
Published: January 2005

This exploration of hegemony, law, and politics attempts to expand recent anthropological approaches to hegemony and the law both topically and temporally. Specifically, I try to insert notions of coercion, class formation, agency, and political process into what have largely been cultural approaches to hegemony; I do so by exploring the workings of a local court through time. This court, in the context of a colonial state, brought together numerous agents (landlords, laborers, farmers, and retailers) who had conflicting and also sometimes converging economic and political interests and understandings. Through their interaction, the court became a theater, forum, and arena while, over time, it proved simultaneously to be both a civilizing device and a way of reproducing local class experience.[hegemony, historical anthropology, political‐legal anthropology, class formation, courts, Ireland, colonialism]
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
Authors: Bowen John R.
Published: January 2005

Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines. Fenella Cannell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxvi. 312 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration
Authors: Holtzman Jon
Published: January 2005

States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration. Donald Martin Carter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ix. 274 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
The Play of Mirrors: The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
Authors: Ramos Alcida Rita
Published: January 2005

The Play of Mirrors: The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xx. 177 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo
Authors: Ferzacca Steve
Published: January 2005

Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo. Jay Bernstein. Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener Publishers, Inc., 1997. xiv. 209 pp., figures, preface, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index.
Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Authors: Sharma Mimi
Published: January 2005

Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. Lata Mani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ix. 246 pp., illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Bautizados en fuego: Protestantes, discursos de conversión y política en Guatemala (1989‐1993)
Authors: Gooren Henri
Published: January 2005

Bautizados en fuego: Protestantes, discursos de conversión. política en Guatemala (1989‐1993). Manuela Cantón Delgado. South Woodstock, VT: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1998. xviii. 340 pp., notes, references, index.
Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925
Authors: Davison Patricia
Published: January 2005

Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925. Robert J. Gordon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. xiii. 208 pp., figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800‐1950
Authors: Mwaniki Nyaga
Published: January 2005

Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800‐1950. Bill Bravman. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. xiv. 283 pp., illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index.
Indigenous Architecture in Borneo: Traditional Patterns and New Developments
Authors: Johnson Norris Brok
Published: January 2005

Indigenous Architecture in Borneo: Traditional Patterns and New Developments. Roberts. Winzeler ., ed. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council, Inc., 1998. No. 5, The Borneo Research Council Proceedings Series, ix. 234 pp., illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, map.
Linking Separate Worlds: Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru
Authors: Martinez Samuel
Published: January 2005

Linking Separate Worlds: Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru. Karsten Paerregaard. New York: New York University Press, 1997. xi. 292 pp., figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Singing and Silences: Transformations of Power through Javanese Seduction Scenarios
Authors: Cooper Nancy I.
Published: January 2005

Glamorous women singers (waranggana) in rural central Java appear ordinary in their everyday lives, but become exemplars of extraordinary femininity in performances where flirtatious interactions may occur between them and male musicians. Although the obvious interpretation suggests sexual promiscuity, my research shows that these "seduction scenarios'' are ways in which women, through their attractive power, help men transform their exuberant power into constructive spiritual potency. More superficially, men use these seduction scenarios to position themselves in a masculine prestige hierarchy.
Although women can and do activate their own power through daily activities or, in the case of waranggana, through singing, they more often suppress the signs of their embodied power in favor of men's spiritual and social potency, in keeping with a highly valued ideology of social harmony shared by both. Hence, through singing and silences, waranggana preserve men's prestige and together with them participate in a social construction that usually keeps the peace at local levels, [gender, power, prestige, performance, gamelan, Javanese, Indonesia]
Re‐Territorializing Transnationalism: Chinese Americans and the Chinese motherland
Authors: Louie Andrea
Published: January 2005

A youth festival sponsored by the Chinese (P.R.C.) government for overseas Chinese youth (hua yi) who visit China represents a political ritual of the Chinese state that draws upon a long history of invoking discourses of Chinese culture to create connections to the Chinese abroad. Though framed in a context of continuity, the festival ironically produces new knowledges about different ways of being Chinese, exposing the fissures within the assumed nexus of race, culture, and nation, and thus complicating notions of what constitutes a transnational community. [China, Chinese diaspora, transnationalism, identity, race and culture, modernity].
A Fish Story: Rethinking Globalization on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Authors: Maurer Bill
Published: January 2005

Recent discussions of globalization leave the nature of movement and of the moving objects in transnational flows relatively unexamined. Incorporating historical and ethnographic material from the British Virgin Islands, I use the analogy of the critique of the study of kinship, which highlights the assumptions of person and relation built into kinship theory, to shed light on the assumptions of property and the metaphysics of movement built into globalization research, [globalization, property, kinship theory, capitalism, Caribbean]
The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology
Authors: Risjord Mark
Published: January 2005

The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology. William Y. Adams. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1998. vii. 466 pp., bibliography, index.
Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology
Authors: Thornton Russell
Published: January 2005

Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology. Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman. eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. + 226 pp., contributors, index.
Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
Authors: Gibson Jane W.
Published: January 2005

Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Marc Edelman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. vii. 308 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, references cited, index.
Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Public Life in Dublin
Authors: O'Reilly Camille C.
Published: January 2005

Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Public Life in Dublin. Elizabeth A. Throop. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. ix +168 pp., references, index.
Construction Workers, U.S.A
Authors: Mihelich John
Published: January 2005

Construction Workers, U.S.A. Herbert Apple‐baum. Westport,CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. ix. 212 pp., photographs, appendix, bibliog‐graphy, index.
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan
Authors: Kirejczyk Marta
Published: January 2005

Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Helen Hardacre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxii. 310 pp., plans, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Learning about Power: Development and Marginality in an Adult Literacy Center for Farm Workers in Zimbabwe
Authors: Rutherford Blair , Nyamuda Rinse
Published: January 2005

In this article, we critically examine the rise and fall of an adult literacy center that we helped establish for farm workers during the course offieldwork on a commercial farm in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe. We raise questions about the emerging conventional wisdom in the anthropology of development and postcoloniality more broadly that characterizes development primarily as a mechanism to impose Western agendas and control targeted peoples. Our tale of the "Night School" suggests that anthropologists and social scientists need to pay attention to the power relations of development and the varied hierarchies and arrangements "in the margins" of development that cross‐cut wider interventions and relations of rule. [development, discourse, power, Zimbabwe, postcolonialism, gender, race, ethnography]
Three weddings and a performance: marriage, households, and development in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Authors: Schrauwers Albert
Published: January 2005

To Pamona couples are generally married in three ceremonies: traditional, church, and civil. Here, I treat each ceremony as a performative genre that constitutes the household differently. Both church and state actors see themselves as modernist reformers of tradition, which they view as a hindrance to development. I argue, however, that the traditional household form is the product of the modernizing efforts of church and state and hence points to a process of the development of underdevelopment. The wedding has become a key site of cultural contestation in which the constitution of the household is the outcome affecting livelihoods and the distribution of resources. The flows of performative elements from one genre of wedding ceremony to another are thus attempts to assert and resist hegemony. [wedding ceremony, development, household, gender inequality, performance]
The Marital Project: Beyond the Exchange of Men in Minangkabau Marriage
Authors: Krier Jennifer
Published: January 2005

Previous discussions of Minangkabau marriage focus on how the "exchange of men" poses an exception to Lévi‐Strauss's theory that marriage can be universally described as the exchange of women, whom he views as the most supreme of social and natural valuables in all societies (1969:65). In keeping with these discussions, I show that in some cases of Minangkabau marriage it appears that men are exchanged as bearers of social value. I also move beyond the focus on marriage as the transaction and subjugation of value. Instead, I describe marriage as a process of social production in which husbands and wives engage in strategic projects to secure social value over time—in the form of claims to rank. Viewing marriage as a project or ongoing process of production leads to a reappraisal of both Minangkabau gender relations and anthropological notions about the nature and role of exchange. Minangkabau husbands are not objects of value but empowered agents who, along with their wives, struggle to create and manage rank differentiation within their wives lineages. Rather than enhancing lineage cohesion, as Lévi‐Strauss's exchange theory would suggest, the exchange of men and the production of value in Minangkabau marriage lead to lineage fragmentation. [marriage, exchange, matriliny, gender, Minangkabau]
Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero)
Authors: Lewis Laura A.
Published: January 2005

In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolas Tolentino, a village located on the Costa Chica, a historically black region of the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero. Outsiders characterize San Nicolas's residents as black, but in Mexico, national ideologies, anthropologies, and histories have traditionally worked to exclude or ignore blackness. Instead, the Spanish and Indian mestizo has been constituted as the quintessential Mexican, even as the Mexican past is tied to a romanticized and ideologically powerful Indian foundation. Ethnographic evidence suggests that San Nicolas's "black" residents in fact see themselves as morenos, a term that signifies their common descent with Indians, whom they consider to be central to Mexicanness. As morenos interweave their identities, experiences, and descent with Indians, they also anchor themselves through Indians to the nation. These identity issues are complicated by the recent introduction to the coast of Africanness in the context of new national and scholarly projects reformulating the components of a new Mexican multicultural identity. In part, local morenos see Africanness as an outside imposition that conflicts with their sense of themselves as Mexican while it reinforces their political and economic marginality. [Mexico, Guerrero, blackness, race, identity, ethnicity, nationalism]
Derision, Exorcism, and the Ritual Production of Power
Authors: Holmberg David
Published: January 2005

In this article, I address theoretical constructions of ritually produced symbolic power in Tamang communities of Nepal. I relate dance‐skits deriding dominant classes and violent exorcisms to the social production of this power. This symbolic power is an elementary form of power produced in the activity of ritual itself. The ritual analyzed could be characterized as defiant, and thus I address larger questions of ritual and resistance. [ritual, power, resistance, Tamang, Nepal, South Asia]
Reading Rio from Bangkok: an Asianist Perspective on Brazil's Male Homosexual Cultures
Authors: Jackson Peter A.
Published: January 2005

Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Richard Parker. New York: Routledge Press, 1998. xvi. 288 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index.

Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Don Kuhck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi. 269 pp., notes, references, index.

Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth‐Century Brazil. James N. Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii+408pp.,illustrations,photographs,notes, bibliography, index.
On Holiday: A History of Vacationing
Authors: Aron Cindy S.
Published: January 2005

On Holiday:. History of Vacationing. Orvar Lofgren. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ix. 320 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals and Contested Identities among Laujé of Indonesia
Authors: Forth Gregory
Published: January 2005

Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals and Contested Identities among Laujé of Indonesia. Jennifer W. Nourse. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. vii. 308 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, references, index.
The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights/Power, Ethics and Human Rights: Anthropological Studies of Refugee Research and Action
Authors: Schirmer Jennifer
Published: January 2005

The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights. Leigh Binford. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xix. 263 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, references, index.

Power, Ethics and Human Rights: Anthropological Studies of Refugee Research and Action. Ruth M. Krelfeld and Jeffrey L. Macdonald. eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Inc., 1998. vii. 203 pp., index, contributors.
A Tale of Two Cities: Warner and Marquand in Newburyport
Authors: Ingersoll Daniel W.
Published: January 2005

Once upon a time, an ethnographer and a novelist happened to seek out the same city, walk the same streets, and encounter the same people. Each wrote a book depicting life as he saw it. What would the two portraits look like? What would each author succeed in capturing, from that "once upon a time"? More than half a century ago, ethnographer Lloyd Warner and novelist John Marquand frequented Yankee City, alias Clyde, alias Yankee Persepolis, alias Newburyport, Massachusetts. In Marquand's novel, protagonist banker and ethnographer meet. This article will explore the outcome of that chance meeting of fiction and social science.
Finding the Way
Authors: Richardson Miles
Published: January 2005

Douglas E. Foley. The Heartland Chronicles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. + 228 pp.
After Returning to Some Places
Authors: George Kenneth M.
Published: January 2005

Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso. eds. Senses of Place. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996. viii. 293 pp., illustrations, index, contributors.
Language Contests in the Hill‐Thomas Hearings
Authors: Chock Phyllis Pease
Published: January 2005

Sandra L. Ragan. Dianne G. Bystrom. Lynda Lee Kaid. and Christina S. Beck. eds. The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill‐Thomas Hearings. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xxiii. 293 pp.
The Birth of Girl into Woman and Edie Turner, an Anthropologist of a Different Kind
Authors: Richman Karen E.
Published: January 2005

Edith Turner. Girl into Woman, 1985. Anthropology and Humanism 10(2):27‐32.
Public Spaces for National Commemoration: The Case of Emlotheni Memorial, Port Elizabeth
Authors: Hansen Birthe Rytter
Published: January 2005

This article examines how commemorative projects try to deal with the past in the present in order to make possible the imagination of a united South African nation. It looks at how one commemorative site, Emlotheni Memorial, was intended to act as part of the larger nation‐building project in South Africa. Taking up issues of ancestral belief, social space, and recognition, this article examines how residents experienced the memorial as exclusive rather than inclusive. The article argues that the memorial site, rather than providing an opportunity for local residents and other South Africans to participate in building a shared history and identity, instead ended up reproducing the segregated past of South Africa.
Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town
Authors: Jackson Shannon M.
Published: January 2005

The postapartheid transition has led to changes in the shape and meaning of urban space in South Africa. Cape Town is being described as a postmodern city where planning strategies and new development have begun to fragment and privatize space to the point of de‐territorializing it. This has contributed to the effort by a local group, referred to as “Coloureds,” to reterritorialize Cape Town, to reinscribe history and meaning back into the urban landscape. In the process of reterritorializing the city, Coloureds arenegotiating their own identities but are doing so in ways that both challenge racial boundaries and assert them. This article will explore the nature and history of the urban space being reclaimed as well as the way in which the meaning it inspires contributes to the contradictory and ambiguous quality of the boundaries of Coloured identity.
“Drinking the Hot Blood of Humans”: Witchcraft Confessions in a South African Pentecostal Church
Authors: Badstuebner Jennifer
Published: January 2005

Giant cats flying to America and cities under the sea off Cape Town are part of a cascade of imagery brought forth in the confessions ofbom‐again witches. Now Christian, these exwitches confess stories of murder and bloodshed to packed audiences in townships in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces of South Africa. The confessions reveal occult realms in deep engagement with the particular experiences of young, poor, black women in South Africa. These confessions are performances of risky agency in a country in which acts of witchcraft are severely punished. This article explores the possible motivations of these young, disenfranchised women who take up witchcraft and Christianity as one way to negotiate conditions of extreme violence and dislocation in the sprawling urban townships.
Being in the Field: Reflections on a Mi'kmaq Kekunit Ceremony
Authors: Hornborg Anne‐Christine
Published: January 2005

This article has a threefold purpose. First, it seeks to show how modern rituals among Mi'kmaq traditionalists in eastern Canada are anchored in and derive their rationale from modern reserve existence. Two rituals are described, a kekunit godparent ceremony for a 14‐year‐old girl and a sweat lodge ceremony later the same evening.

Second, the article also provides an example of the paradoxes of “participant observation” by showing how engagement in fieldwork may turn the fieldworker's preconceived beliefs and attitudes on their head. The effect of some words from a young girl illustrates how being‐in‐the‐field in an instant can shatter the most comfortable distinctions between a rational Self and a superstitious Other. Being‐in‐the‐field entails a continuous oscillation between close engagement in people's lifeworlds and distanced observations of human behavior. In the third part of the article, I reinterpret the ritual—a painful process for me, albeit necessary. As for the participants themselves, their pain is as diffuse and enduring as their lives.
A Gift of Words, a Gift of Truth: A Chipewyan Story of a Hard Winter
Authors: Smith David M.
Published: January 2005

This article focuses on a poignant story told by an elderly Chipewyan or Dené woman—Mrs. Nataway—about the hardest winter of her life. She wished to tell me this story to counter any excessively romantic apperception I might have attained of the traditional caribou‐hunting and fishing life in the northern Canadian transitional forest and barrenlands. In traditional Dené culture, storytelling, or giving gifts of words, is a holy activity that is a part of a broader system of reciprocity whereby knowledge/power cycles and the cosmos is prevented from reverting to chaos. In the manner of all elderly storytellers, Mrs. Nataway was concerned that my account of her words be true, since stories are inspired by the animals and inaccuracy can lead to being “out of luck” or having “bad luck” if they are offended. But a more basic concern is that knowledge cannot be empowering if it is not true. The truth is a central consideration in Chipewyan cosmology, wherein the universe is a moral not a mechanistic system. Mrs. Nataway was concerned with didactic, practical, and moral truth, and with the broader emotional truth that tends to be beyond explication. Her story could only be empowering to the extent that the listener could actually feel what the times of hardship were like when she was young, a time when nearly all of the Dené lived year‐round in the bush.
Interpreting the Legacy by Interpreting the Relationship: The Creation of an American Epic by Engaging in Native‐American Kinship
Authors: Bucko Raymond A.
Published: January 2005

Brian R. Holloway. Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. xiv. 220 pp.
A New Era for Irrigation
Authors: Guillet David
Published: January 2005

A New Era for IrrigationNational Research Council. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996.
New Spaces in Accra: transnational houses
Authors: Pellow Deborah
Published: January 2005

Accra has been Ghana's primate city since the British moved their administrative headquarters there in 1877. The city took shape under British site planning and like many colonial cities, it developed a spatial layout that distinguished different neighborhoods, such as the old core, the European section, and the Muslim zongo or stranger area. Accra's Sabon Zongo (”new zongo”) was founded in the first decade of the 20th century, as a refuge for migrant Hausa who had been living in the original zongo in the city's core. House ownership continues to confer status in the community but there is little room left for building. Hausa transmigrants from Sabon Zongo have been going abroad and remitting money back home, largely to build homes in the new peri‐urban margins of Accra. This paper focuses upon the latter phenomenon – the new styles of houses they are building, the process this involves, and how these styles may accommodate worldview, lifestyle and behaviors different from those with which these men were raised in Sabon Zongo. [transmigration, housing, Ghana]
From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village.
Authors: Beeman William O.
Published: January 2005

From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in. Western Samoan Village. Alessandro Duranti. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 208 pp.
Hospital Trash: Cleaners Speak of Their Role in Disease Prevention
Authors: Messing Karen
Published: January 2005

Feminist researchers have contrasted the caring provided by women in hospitals with a more fragmented "curing" approach, which they identify with the predominantly male professions of medicine and surgery. The author spoke with hospital cleaners about their jobs and their health. Several themes emerged: the invisibility of the cleaning function, lack of respect for cleaners, representations of cleaning as undemanding, and assumptions that women s work in cleaning is particularly easy. Cleaners use various strategies to combat these stereotypes but receive little help from administrators or fellow employees. There is a hierarchy in the status of Quebec hospital workers with curing (doctors) at the top, followed by caring and healing (nurses, therapists, and attendants), and hygiene (cleaners, sterilizers, and launderers) at the bottom. Authority hierarchies in health care are not related to gender in a simple way, although there is discrimination against women cleaners. The fact that cleaning, especially cleaning performed by women, is invisible to managers, other hospital personnel, and patients has important consequences for cleaners' and for patients' health. [cleaning, health, hierarchy, hospital workers, gender]
Science, Nature, and Tradition: The Mass‐Marketing of Natural Medicine in Urban Ecuador
Authors: Miles Ann
Published: January 2005

In the past 15 years, "natural" medicine has become increasingly popular in the southern Ecuadoran city of Cuenca. Natural medicine products, which are distinct from traditional herbal remedies, are commercially packaged and processed and sold in a number of retail outlets in the central shopping district. This article discusses the results of field research to determine the client base of natural medicine and the reasons for its growing popularity among the poorer classes in Ecuador. Using an interpretative framework that posits that medical products carry symbolic messages, I discuss the ways in which important themes of modern life in Ecuador are played out in the packaging and marketing of these products. This research supports the growing body of literature that argues against a medical‐systems approach to analyzing medical plurality by highlighting the multiple ideologies found in Ecuadoran beliefs about commercial natural medicine. [alternative medicine, Ecuador, selfmedication]
Caida de Mollera among Children of Mexican Migrant Workers: Implications for the Study of Folk Illnesses
Authors: Baer Roberta D. , Bustillo Marta
Published: January 2005

Information about the folk illness caida de mollera was collected from Mexican and Mexican American migrant mothers who had treated their children for the illness, and from physicians in a clinic that served this population. These physicians believed that the vast majority of the sets of symptoms were worthy of medical attention and could be life threatening if not treated. This research report concurs with other studies that suggest that although Mexican folk illnesses are conceptualized to have folk‐social and psychological causes, they are also seen to have biological causes and physiological symptoms that can be treated by biomedical methods. This report outlines a model for understanding aspects of folk illnesses that includes folk vs. biomedical ideas about disease, causes vs. symptoms, and psychological vs. physiological aspects of sickness. It also suggests that the kinds of questions anthropologists ask about these illnesses may need to be modified—shifting away from questions about treatments of causes and refocusing on those about the treatment of physiological symptoms—if we are to more fully understand home approaches to the management of these illnesses, [folk illnesses, Mexican, Mexican American, farmworkers]
Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS/Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer
Authors: Hess David J.
Published: January 2005

Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Emily Martin. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994 (cloth and paper), xxiii. 320 pp.

Crafting Science:. Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer. Joan Fujimura. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. xii. 322 pp.
American Medicine: The Quest for Competence
Authors: Notman Mark
Published: January 2005

American Medicine: The Quest for Competence. Mary‐Jo DelVecchio Good. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. xiii. 265.
Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self/Body Thoughts
Authors: Sobo Elisa J.
Published: January 2005

Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Thomas J. Csordas. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (cloth and paper), xi. 294 pp.

Body Thoughts. Andrew J. Strathern. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. vii. 222 pp.
On the Medicalization of Medical Anthropology
Authors: Browner C. H.
Published: January 2005

The following address was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), November 21,1997, Washington, DC, by outgoing SMA president Carole Browner. It has been edited slightly for publication.
The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs: Performance and Participation of Hospitalized Older People
Authors: Latimer Joanna
Published: January 2005

Like all social actors, older people draw on cultural meanings to perform identity. However, when advanced aging brings loss of status as full persons, particularly when it is associated with sickness and dependency, older people can be deemed unsuitable for active medical treatment and care. In addition, loss of status may make it difficult for older people to influence how they and their needs and wants are identified, and how their future life (or death) is conceived. This article discusses how some older people who are admitted to hospital as acute medical emergencies participate in staffs discursive practices to establish a positive clinical identity. By lying low and effacing their distinctiveness as individuals and as social beings, some older people are able to maintain their inclusion in positive medical categories. The article argues that older people are committed to their inclusion in the medical domain because their association with positive medical categories helps them keep at bay the inchoate, the dark at the bottom of the stairs, [extension, nurses, older people, participation, performance, quality space]
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Women with Breast Cancer
Authors: Adler Shelley R.
Published: January 2005

The legacy of 19th‐century social theories applied to the study of nonmainstream treatment use continues to affect contemporary research into complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Quantitatively based studies of CAM use have been hindered by the lack of an adequate lexicon, inaccurate characterizations of the people who use CAM, and underestimates of the prevalence of usage. Results from a qualitative prospective cohort study challenge previous stereotypes by indicating that CAM usage does not increase dramatically with the initial diagnosis of cancer and that younger women are more likely to use CAM than older women. Qualitative research methods are uniquely appropriate for obtaining accurate information about health practices that, despite growing acceptance in some areas of society, are still viewed as outside of the mainstream, [complementary and alternative medicine, breast cancer, qualitative health research]
The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons
Authors: Graham Susan Brandt
Published: January 2005

The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons. Pearl Katz. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. xii. 251 pp.
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
Authors: Brown Susan Love
Published: January 2005

Thomas Szasz. Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1989.
Using High-Intensity Care Management to Integrate Acute and Long-Term Care Services: Substitute for Large Scale System Reform?
Authors: Applebaum Robert , Straker Jane , Mehdizadeh Shahla , Warshaw Gregg , Gothelf Elizabeth
Published: January 2005

This study evaluates a demonstration that used high intensity care management to improve integration between the acute and long-term care service systems. The demonstration intervention included the use of clinical nurse care manager, supervised by a geriatrician, to supplement an existing in-home care management system. Chronically disabled home care clients age 60 and over were randomly assigned (N = 308) to receive enhanced clinical services plus traditional care management, or to the control group, to receive the normal care management services provided. Treatment group members were expected to experience lower use of hospitals and nursing homes and lower overall health and long-term care costs. Research subjects were followed for up to 18 months using Medicare records and mortality data. A sub-sample (N = 150) also received in-person interviews to cover a range of health and social outcomes anticipated as a result of the intervention. Although there was some variation in health use and cost across treatment and control groups over the 18 month time period, the overall conclusion is that there were no differences between groups on any of the outcome variables examined. Efforts to integrate the acute and long-term care systems have proven to be difficult. This intervention, which attempted to create integration through high intensity care managers, but without financial or regulatory incentives, was simply unable to create enough change in the care system to produce significant change for the clients served.
A Functioning Profile of Medicaid Waiver Participants in Michigan: Does the Program Admit the High Functioning?
Authors: Li Lydia , Zullo Roland
Published: January 2005

Michigan’s home and community-based Medicaid Waiver program (MIChoice) has been criticized for enrolling people who are relatively high functioning. This study examined the physical and cognitive function of a 2000-2001 cohort of MIChoice enrollees and found that about 10% can be considered high functioning, 32% medium functioning, and 58% low functioning. Much of the controversy over MIChoice can be traced to contradictions inherent in the payment system and the fundamental premise that drives the program.