bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Authors: Dean Bartholomew
Published: November 2004

Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. Vincent C. Peloso. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 251 pp., maps, figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Recovering From Codependence in Japan
Authors: Borovoy Amy
Published: November 2004

In this article, I explore the appropriation of the notion of "codependence" in Japan, as alcoholism increasingly becomes a subject of social concern. Codependence is pathologized in the 1980's American popular psychology, which regards accommodation to social relationships as a compromise of the self Yet, in Japan, the notion resonates with postwar national ideologies of the normal—that is, of Japanese society as held together through family‐like intimacy and highly cultivated sensitivities to social demands. Japanese women who define themselves as codependent must forge a distinction (blurred by dominant cultural ideology) between socially valued interdependence and "unhealthy" or systematically exploitative forms of asymmetrical ties. Forging this distinction allows women to reject exploitative demands of society while continuing to function within familial and neighborhood communities. To the extent that women can forge distinctions between "dependence" and "codependence," they may be better able to resist state and social demands that come at their expense, [gender, national identity, hegemonic cultural processes, transnationalism, selfhood, addiction, Japan]
In One's Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post‐Reform Rural China
Authors: Kipnis Andrew
Published: November 2004

In One's Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post‐Reform Rural China. Xin Liu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 245 pp., photographs, figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City
Authors: Hartigan John
Published: November 2004

The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New YorkCity. Roger Sanjek. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. ix. 465 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, index.
Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961–1992
Authors: Elyachar Julia
Published: November 2004

Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961–1992. James Toth. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. ix. 265 pp., illustrations, diagrams, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland
Authors: McLean Stuart
Published: November 2004

Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. Marilyn Cohen and Nancy J. Curtin. eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. + 298 pp., notes, references, index.
Folklore, Heritage Politics and Ethnic Diversity: A Festschrift for Barbro Klein
Authors: Coe Cati
Published: November 2004

Folklore, Heritage Politics and Ethnic Diversity:. Festschrift for Barbro Klein. Pertti J. Antonnen. ed. in collaboration with Anna‐Leena Siikala, Stein R. Mathisen, and Leif Magnusson. Botkryka, Sweden: Multicultural Centre, 2000. 278pp., photographs.
Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Imagination
Authors: Worby Eric
Published: November 2004

Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Imagination. Carolyn Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii. 278 pp., map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index.
In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race
Authors: Loewe Ron
Published: November 2004

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race. Melbourne Tapper. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 163 pp., notes, index.
Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain; Carnival Song and Society: Gossip, Sexuality, and Creativity in Andalusia
Authors: Norget Kristin
Published: November 2004

Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain. David D. Cilmore. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ix. 244 pp., photo‐graphs, notes, bibliography, index.

Carnival Song and Society: Gossip, Sexuality, and Creativity in Andalusia. Jerome R. Mintz. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997. ix. 267 pp., maps, index,
Rethinking Households: An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements
Authors: Jacobson David
Published: November 2004

Rethinking Households: An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements. Michel Verdon. London: Routledge, 1998. + 220 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Colonial 'Reformation' in The Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892–1995
Authors: Kipp Rita Smith
Published: November 2004

Colonial 'Reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892–1995. Albert Schrauwers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix. 279 pp., tables, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History
Authors: Brown Keith S.
Published: November 2004

Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. Joel M. Halpern and David A. Kideckel. eds. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. vii. 477 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, references, index.
Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia; Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces
Authors: Graeber David
Published: November 2004

Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia. David Akin and Joel Robbins. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. viii. 284 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces. Patricia Spyer. London: Routledge Press, 1998. vii. 262 pp., illustrations, photographs, index.
“Buy Me a Bride”: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride‐Doll Marriage
Authors: Schattschneider Ellen
Published: November 2004

In the northern Japanese memorial practice of “bride‐doll marriage/” which emerged during World War II, the soul of a dead child is married to a spirit spouse embodied in a consecrated figurine. These marriages stimulate limited exchange relationships between the living and dead by building on old and new modes of gifting and circulation, including the prestation of Bodhisattva statues, affinity, transmigration, and the abstraction of social relations made possible by modern commodity forms. Motivated by a strong sense of unfulfilled obligation toward the deceased, these restricted acts of exchange culminate in the cessation of exchange transactions between the living and specific dead persons. In this respect, spirit marriage is profoundly unlike conventional marriage among the living, which leads to ramifying exchange relations between a growing number of persons over time. [Japan, memorialization, mortuary ritual, commodities, Buddhism]
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in Yucatán
Authors: Juárez Ana M.
Published: November 2004

Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in Yucatán Peter Hervik. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. xi + 214 pp., figures, maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index.
Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality
Authors: Miyazaki Hirokazu
Published: November 2004

Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality. David Scott. Princeton, Nj: Princeton University Press, 1999. 233 pp., index.
Re‐Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China
Authors: Hsu Carolyn L.
Published: November 2004

Re‐Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China. Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix + 344 pp., glossary, references, index.
Even in Sweden: Racism, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination.
Authors: Linke Uli
Published: November 2004

Even in Sweden: Racism, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination. Allan Pred. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xi + 321 pp., bibliography, index.
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica
Authors: Hill Donald
Published: November 2004

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica. Norman C. Stolzoff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. xi 298 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Antler on the Sea: The Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East
Authors: Gray Patty A.
Published: November 2004

Antler on the Sea: The Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East. Anna M. Kerttula. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix + 180 pp., notes, glossary, references, index.
goods, names, and selves: rethinking the Tsimshian potlatch
Authors: Roth Christopher F.
Published: November 2004

I reexamine the Tsimshian (Northwest Coast) potlatch as a ritual circulation of wealth in which successors to vacated name‐titles assume political and social agency. At mortuary potlatches the payment of witnesses with household articles monetarily indexes the value of territorial and heraldic privileges thereby recognized as retained by the host lineage. This ritual equation of alienable and inalienable wealth is the crucible of the reproduction of Tsimshian society as a hierarchy of embodied names. [Northwest Coast, potlatch, social reproduction, exchange, agency, inalienable wealth, naming practices]
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives.
Authors: Doolittle Amity
Published: November 2004

Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives. Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, and Alan Bicker, eds. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. vii + 356 pp., maps, plates, tables, index.
Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War.
Authors: Park Heh‐Rahn
Published: November 2004

Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War. Roy Richard Grinker. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ix + 316 pp., tables, photographs, notes, references, index.
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
Authors: Holmes Douglas R.
Published: November 2004

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Dipesh Chakrabaity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 301 pp., notes, index
Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point.
Authors: Venbrux Eric
Published: November 2004

Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point. John B. Haviland, with Roger Hart. ashington, DC: Smithsonian Institution ress, 1998. ix + 226 pp., photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, index.
Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization
Authors: Tomlinson Matt
Published: November 2004

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. vii. 243 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
Authors: McCall John C.
Published: November 2004

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater. Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 485 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo
Authors: Dell Heather
Published: November 2004

Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo. Alejandro Lugo and Bill Maurer. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ix. 252 pp., index.
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Authors: Fabian Johannes
Published: November 2004

Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. Lyn Schumaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 376 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Russia and Soul
Authors: Brown Andrew J.
Published: November 2004

Russia and Soul. Dale Pesmen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. vii. 364 pp., bibliography
Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting
Authors: Gremillion Helen
Published: November 2004

Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting. Mimi Nichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix. 263 pp., appendixes, notes, index.
Cosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion: For Those Unborn
Authors: Chernela Janet
Published: November 2004

Cosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion: For Those Unborn. Robin M. Wright Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xi. 314 pp., maps, figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
The Network Inside Out
Authors: Kelly John D.
Published: November 2004

The Network Inside Out. Annelise Riles Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ix. 242 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, references, index.
The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography
Authors: Samuels David
Published: November 2004

The Power of Kiowa Song:. Collaborative Ethnography. Luke E. Lassiter. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. ix. 266 pp., illustrations, tables, photographs, appendixes, notes, references, index.
More than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces
Authors: Lem Winnie
Published: November 2004

More than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces. Ann E. Kingsolver. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. ix. 222 pp., index.
Transgenderism, Locality, and the Miss Galaxy beauty pageant in Tonga
Authors: Besnier Niko
Published: November 2004

The Miss Galaxy beauty pageant held annually in Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, is, at first glance, a show of transgendered glamour, but it is equally a display of translocality. Through the performance of an exotic otherness (through costumes, names, dances, etc.), the socially marginalized contestants claim to define the local, in ways that may oppose the received order, in which the difference between locality and nonlocality is controlled by the privileged. The juxtaposition of gender transformation and translocality in the same event reinforces their stereotypical linking in the eyes of both transgendered and mainstream Tongans. For transgendered persons, this linking provides an escape route from local dynamics of social exclusion and poverty, but it also potentially offers mainstream persons a pretext to marginalize transgendered persons from their local groundings. Privileged transgendered persons are less vulnerable to these dynamics of exclusion and use tokens of translocality to assert their social standing vis‐à‐vis both underprivileged transgendered persons and society at large. [transgenderism, beauty pageants, locality, globalization, resistance, language use, Tonga]
Nationalism in hybrid spaces: the production of impurity out of purity
Authors: Munasinghe Viranjini
Published: November 2004

In this article, I reflect on the symbolic position assigned to Indo‐Trinidadians within national narratives of homogenization in Trinidad. By contrasting the Trinidadian case to Western European modular forms, I explore how historical particularities of this New World region have resulted in novel and creative ways of imagining a national community'namely, by foregrounding impurity or hybridity'that run counter to master narratives of nationalism as these are cast in Western Europe. Trinidadians simultaneously celebrate hybridity (mixture) and their plural society, but, in the final instance, like all nationalist narratives, the Trinidadian narrative remains a logic of exclusion. [nationalism, homogenization, hybridity, creolization, postcolonial, Caribbean, Trinidad]
Book Reviews
Authors: Koshy Susan
Published: November 2004

The Karma of Brown Folk. Vijay Prashad. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. vii. 251 pp., photographs, notes, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Constable Nicole
Published: November 2004

White Love and Other Events in Filipino History. Vincente L. Rafael. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. xi. 286 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Penny H. Glenn
Published: November 2004

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward. More Inclusive History of Anthropology. Richard Handler. ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 315 pp., index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Ferzacca Steven
Published: November 2004

Healing in Community: Medicine, Contested Terrains, and Cultural Encounters Among the Tuareg. Susan Rasmussen. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press, 2001. vii. 247pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Bolin Inge
Published: November 2004

The Nature and Function of Rituals'Fire from Heaven. Ruth‐Inge Heinze. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2000. vii. 308 pp., photographs, illustrations, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Berman Judith
Published: November 2004

Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology. Ralph Maud. Burnaby, British Columbia: Talonbooks, 2000. 174 pp., appendixes, bibliography.
In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown
Authors: Haller Dieter
Published: November 2004

In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in. Frontier Boomtown. David A. McMurray Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 203 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras
Authors: Armbrust Walter
Published: November 2004

Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. Jonah Blank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. vii. 408 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America
Authors: Forand Nancy
Published: November 2004

Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America. lames W. Dow and Alan R. Sandstrom. eds. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001. vii. 298 pp., tables, figures, index.
Remaking The Working Class: Experience, Class Consciousness, and the Industrial Adjustment Process
Authors: Dunk Thomas
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the interrelationships between experience, class consciousness, and unemployment counseling in displaced workers' narratives about the process of industrial adjustment Focusing on the rhetoric of unemployment counselors and trainers, I argue that the hegemony of neoconservative and neoliberal interpretations of industrial restructuring and economic change are secured—to the extent they are—through a microphysics of power that operates through the agents and agencies of assistance made available to displaced workers. [male working‐class culture, deindustrialization, Canada, discourse, experience, power]
Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality
Authors: Ferguson James , Gupta Akhil
Published: November 2004

In this exploratory article, we ask how states come to be understood as entities with particular spatial characteristics, and how changing relations between practices of government and national territories may be challenging long‐established modes of state spatiality. In the first part of this article, we seek to identify two principles that are key to state spatialization: vertically (the state is "above"society) and encompassment (the state "encompasses" its localities). We use ethnographic evidence from a maternal health project in India to illustrate our argument that perceptions of verticality and encompassment are produced through routine bureaucratic practices. In the second part, we develop a concept of transnational governmentality as a way of grasping how new practices of government and new forms of "grassroots" politics may call into question the principles of vertical ity and encompassment that have long helped to legitimate and naturalize states' authority over "the local." [states, space, governmentality, globalization, neoliberalism, India, Africa]
Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita.
Authors: Dubois Lindsay
Published: November 2004

Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita. Javier Auyero .Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix. 257 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation.
Authors: Chari Sharad
Published: November 2004

Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790‐1900. Alice Bullard .Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 290 pp., appendix, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice.
Authors: Lyons Barry
Published: November 2004

Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice. Edward F. Fischer. Austin: University of Texas Press,2001. xii. 287 pp., figures, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier.
Authors: Balée William
Published: November 2004

Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. William H. Fisher. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. viii. 222 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism.
Authors: Stack Trevor
Published: November 2004

Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism. Claudio Lomnitz. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 354 pp., notes, references, index.
Shadow House: Interpretations of Northwest Coast Art.
Authors: Roth Christopher F.
Published: November 2004

Shadow House: Interpretations of Northwest Coast Art. Jonathan Meuli. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers,2001. vii. 394 pp., figures, photographs, appendixes, bibliography, index.
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo.
Authors: Weiss Brad
Published: November 2004

Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo. Susan Ossman .Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. vii. 204 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas.
Authors: Schull Natasha D.
Published: November 2004

The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis,eds. Berkeley: University of California Press,2002. 388 pp., index.
"In our own hands": Lynching, justice, and the law in Bolivia
Authors: Goldstein Daniel M.
Published: November 2004

Vigilantes in the marginal communities of a Bolivian city take the law into their own hands both to police their communities against crime and as a way of expressing their dissatisfaction with the state and its official policing and justice systems. In this article, I examine an incident of vigilante violence (lynching) in one such Bolivian barrio to explore the ways in which vigilantism acts as a moral complaint against state inadequacy, challenging state legitimacy and redefining ideas about justice, citizenship, and law in the process. I also analyze the range of discourses that surrounds lynching in contemporary Bolivian society, exploring the interpretive conflict that results as barrio residents attempt to counter official representations of the meaning of vigilantism in their community. [violence, vigilantism, legal anthropology, citizenship, Bolivia, the Andes]
Darker than midnight: Fear, vulnerability, and terror making in urban Burma (Myanmar)
Authors: Skidmore Monique
Published: November 2004

The Burmese military State constructs fear and vulnerability among its citizenry through the strategic use of political violence. Fear is inherently temporal and, unlike despair, requires that one have the ability to envisage alternatives to a future of complete domination. Burmese people strive not to express fear, and the anthropologist's articulation of fear contrasts with the silence that fear engenders among them. In this article I reflect on strategies for the ethical collection of experiences of fear in situations where suppressing or denying fear is the most common survival strategy. [Burma, Myanmar, violence, fear, state construction of affect, vulnerability, time]
Ambiguous numbers: Trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets
Authors: Zaloom Caitlin
Published: November 2004

Financial markets and information technologies are key issues for contemporary social theory and the anthropology of globalization. Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago and London, I examine the interplay between processes of technological rationalization and the situated actions of traders in two financial futures markets—one that operates on open‐outcry pit technology and the other process online. Both technologies represent the market in numbers. Traders use these symbols to read and interpret the market. Yet each technology configures numbers differently. The technologies influence traders' practices by shaping this basic unit of financial knowledge, [finance, globalization, knowledge, numbers, technology, United States, England]
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self‐Fashioning in Israeli Society.; Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I.
Authors: Smith Kimbra L.
Published: November 2004

Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self‐Fashioning in Israeli Society. Nadia Abu El‐Haj .Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. vii. 352 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.

Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I. Donald Malcolm Reid .Reid. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2002. ix. 409 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People.
Authors: Ebron Paulla A.
Published: November 2004

Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of. People. Arlene Davila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 302 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.
Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development.
Authors: Hoffman Barbara G.
Published: November 2004

Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Dorothy L. Hodgson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. ix. 333 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster.
Authors: Doughty Paul L.
Published: November 2004

Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver‐Smith. eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2002. xi. 312 pp., figures, tables, references, index.
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand.
Authors: Nieuwenhuys O.
Published: November 2004

Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand. Heather Montgomery. New York: Berghahn Books.2001. xi. 194 pp., tables, bibliography, index.
Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation, and Rule in India
Authors: Subramanian Ajantha
Published: November 2004

Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation, and Rule in India. Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. vii. 316 pp., tables, bibliography, contributors, index.
Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur
Authors: Heimarck Brita
Published: November 2004

Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur. Michael B. Bakan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix. 384 pp., plates, figures, compact disc, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformations and Popular Belief
Authors: Cravalho Mark A.
Published: November 2004

Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformations and Popular Belief. Paul Clough and Jon P. Mitchell eds. Oxford: Berghahn, 2002. 256 pp., illustrations, index.
Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community
Authors: Mcgranahan Carole
Published: November 2004

Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of. Tibetan Refugee Community. Keila Diehl. University of California Press, 2002. ix. 312 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids
Authors: Fletcher Peri L.
Published: November 2004

The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids. Michele Ruth Gamburd. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix. 275 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index.
Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay
Authors: Ghosh Anjan
Published: November 2004

Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Thomas Blom Hansen Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. vii. 269 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: November 2004

Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria. James D. Le Sueur Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix. 342 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Post‐Socialist Peasant? Rural and Urban Constructions of Identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the Former Soviet Union
Authors: Buechler Hans
Published: November 2004

Post‐Socialist Peasant? Rural and Urban Constructions of Identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the Former Soviet Union. Pamela Leonard and Deema Kaneff. eds. New York: Palgrave, 2002. vi +225 pp., index.
Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory
Authors: Mintz Sidney
Published: November 2004

Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. David E. Sutton. Oxford: Berg, 2001. ix. 211 pp., photographs, references, index.
Music, Race and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia
Authors: Berrian Brenda F.
Published: November 2004

Music, Race and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia. Peter Wade. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. vii. 323 pp., appendixes, notes, reference, index.
Other People's Children: An Intimate Account of the Dilemmas Facing Middle‐Class Parents and the Women They Hire to Raise Their Children
Authors: Graue Elizabeth
Published: November 2004

Other People's Children: An Intimate Account of the Dilemmas Facing Middle‐Class Parents and the Women They Hire to Raise Their Children. Julia Wrigley New York: Basic Books, 1995. 177 pp.
An Elementary School in Holland: Experiment in Educational Practice
Authors: Taylor Sharon M.
Published: November 2004

An Elementary School in Holland: Experiment in Educational Practice. Loren S. Barritt Utrecht, the Netherlands: International Books (Chicago: LPC Logan Group), 1996. 256 pp.
The Leaning Ivory Tower: Latino Professors in American Universities
Authors: Gándara Patricia
Published: November 2004

The Leaning Ivory Tower: Latino Professors in American Universities. Raymond V. Padilla and Rudolfo Chávez Chávez, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 217 pp.
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America
Authors: O'Donnell James
Published: November 2004

The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America. Steven Fraser, ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1995. 216 pp.
Questions in Lessons: Activity Settings in the Homes and School of Two Puerto Rican Kindergartners
Authors: Volk Dinah
Published: November 2004

This ethnographic study describes continuities and discontinuities between a bilingual kindergarten and the homes of two Spanish‐dominant Puerto Rican children. The concept of activity setting was used to explore the relation of culture to question use in lessons taught in both settings. Findings highlight a complex web of continuities and discontinuities and the importance of the joint construction of a culture of teaching and learning by parents, teachers, and children.
Context and Cognition: Implications for Educational Innovators and Anthropologists
Authors: Jacob Evelyn
Published: November 2004

The dismal track record of educational innovations in “everyday” classrooms can be understood, at least in part, by the separation of context and cognition in the development, dissemination, and implementation of such efforts. Recent work in the cultural‐historical tradition, which elaborates aspects of context in relation to cognition, provides a way for both educational innovators and educational anthropologists to develop approaches to educational innovation that explicitly take context into account.
Talking with Benny: Suppressing or Supporting Learner Themes and Learner Worlds?
Authors: Bean Martha S.
Published: November 2004

A third‐grade Mexican American boy, failing in school, proved to be an apt and avid reader‐learner when instructional talk was related to recurrent themes in his daily life. However, classroom discourse failed to support his attempts at sharing his cultural “take” on everyday occurrences. The study suggests that instructional talk can be modified in ways that invite and involve learners' lives, thus informing teachers and allowing them to engage learners more fully in school and learning.
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
Authors: Peele Tryphenia B.
Published: November 2004

The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children. Gloria Ladson‐Billings. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass Publishers, 1994. 187 pp.
Minority Status and Schooling in Canada
Authors: Cummins Jim
Published: November 2004

To what extent can we account for the educational achievement data of minority francophone, aboriginal, and African Canadian students using Ogbu's (1978, 1992) distinction between voluntary and involuntary minorities? While Ogbu's distinction is useful in highlighting the impact of status and power relations on student achievement, a more flexible and inclusive framework is needed to account for the variability of academic outcomes and to plan educational interventions that will challenge the way school failure is constructed. Academic growth among subordinated‐group students will result only from educator‐student interactions that actively promote collaborative relations of power and contest the still pervasive influence of coercive relations of power.
Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy: An Interactionist Perspective
Authors: Gallimore Ronald
Published: November 2004

Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy: An Interactionist Perspective Vera John‐Steiner Carolyn P. Panofsky, and Larry W. Smith, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 402 pp.
L'école et le territoire: nouveaux espaces, nouveaux enjeux [School and Territory: New Spaces, New Issues].
Authors: Beriss David
Published: November 2004

L'école et le territoire: nouveaux espaces, nouveaux enjeux [School and Territory: New Spaces, New Issues]. Bernard Charlot, ed. Paris: Armand Colin, 1994. 223 pp.
Structural Functionalism as a Heuristic Device
Authors: Chilcott John H.
Published: November 2004

The purpose of this article is to argue that structural functionalism as a method for conducting fieldwork and as a format for analysis of ethnographic data remains a powerful model. Because of its mechanical nature, structural functionalism is easily understood by professional educators and useful in solving their problems. As a heuristic device, functionalist theory can provide aid in the solution of a problem that is otherwise incapable of theoretical justification.
Natives and Newcomers: Gaining Access to Literacy in a Classroom for Deaf Children
Authors: Ramsey Claire , Padden Carol
Published: November 2004

This article describes a residential school classroom for deaf third‐graders. A critical school skill, the ability to engage in literacy activities, grows from the ability to exploit American Sign Language‐based (ASL) literacy practices. These practices are indigenous to the culture of signing Deaf people and are critical for literacy learning when ASL is the medium of instruction.
The Schooling of Puerto Ricans: Philadelphia's Most Impoverished Community
Authors: Tapia Javier
Published: November 2004

Educational research relying on macrolevel variables shows a relationship between a group's economic status and its academic achievement. These findings are often used to provide a uniform, psychological description for a whole population, but they do not explain intragroup differences and the specific linkages between economic conditions and educational practices. This article reports on work conducted in poor Puerto Rican households in Philadelphia. It shows the complex relationship between household members' survival strategies, residential mobility, home‐school connections, and students' learning. This study reports that household stability, which is influenced by economic stability, is the strongest factor affecting students' learning. Educational reform programs need to consider the economic conditions of these households even more than linguistic and cultural factors.
The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice
Authors: Montero‐Sieburth Martha
Published: November 2004

The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice. Bradley A. Levinson, Douglas E. Foley, and Dorothy C. Holland, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 338 pp.
Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High
Authors: Alvermann Donna E.
Published: November 2004

Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. Margaret J. Finders. New York Teachers College Press, 1997. 145 pp.
Language, Culture, and Power: Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education
Authors: Olmedo Irma M.
Published: November 2004

Language, Culture, and Power Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education. Lourdes Diaz Soto. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 170 pp.
Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner
Authors: Masingila Joanna O.
Published: November 2004

Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner. Ethel Tobach, Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Mary Brown Parlee, Laura M. W. Martin, and Aggie Scribner Kapelman, eds. New York Cambridge University Press, 1997. 425 pp.
The Issue of “Authenticity” in California Language Restoration
Authors: Hinton Leanne , Ahlers Jocelyn
Published: November 2004

Two language revitalization programs in California are described here with a focus on how new words can be developed in a way authentic to a given language which reflects traditional values and thoughts. The importance of combining classroom approaches with community‐based programs is also discussed.
Kuleana: The Right, Responsibility, and Authority of Indigenous Peoples to Speak and Make Decisions for Themselves in Language and Cultural Revitalization
Authors: Warner Sam L. No'eau
Published: November 2004

The recent movement to revitalize the Hawaiian language and culture through the Kula Kaiapuni, or the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program, has grown over the past 11 years to include almost 1,600 students during the 1998–99 school year. During this period, the field of Hawaiian language has become highly politicized by nonindigenous Hawaiian language educators attempting to colonize the field and control resources purported to redress wrongs to the native people including loss of language and culture.
The Minority Voice in Educational Reform: An Analysis by Minority and Women College of Education Deans
Authors: Banks Cherry A. McGee
Published: November 2004

The Minority Voice in Educational Reform: An Analysis by Minority and Women College of Education Deans. Louis A. Castenell and Jill M. Tarule, eds. Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1997. 170 pp.
Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School: A Cultural Analysis.
Authors: Baguilat Candy A.
Published: November 2004

Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School:. Cultural Analysis. Patrick James McQuillan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 243 pp.
Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
Authors: Rich Grant Jewell
Published: November 2004

Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race, 6th edition. Ashley Montagu. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1997. 699 pp.
Secular and Religious Nationalism among Young Turkish Women in Belgium: Education May Make the Difference
Authors: Timmerman Christiane
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the role that education plays in influencing Turkish immigrant girls' choice between a more secular and a more religious nationalism. Their choice can be linked to the existence of strong forms of nationalism within their country of origin and to the concrete reality of the immigrant context. Education proves to play a decisive role for immigrant girls in defining their places within a specific nationalistic worldview and, as a result, within Western society.
Making Their Way: Four Books on Youth, Culture, and Identity
Authors: Mickelson Roslyn Arun
Published: November 2004

Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 257 pp.

Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Ralph Cintron. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 264 pp.

Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers. Niobe Way. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 310 pp.

At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Tobias Hecht. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 267 pp.
Theorizing Pedagogic Practices in the Contexts of Marketization and of September 11, 2001, and Its Aftermath
Authors: Canaan Joyce E.
Published: November 2004

Reflecting on a social theory course taught during autumn 2001,1 argue that progressive educators should theorize pedagogic practices in the contexts of the marketizing of higher education and the events of September 11. Such theorizing can demonstrate the limits of marketizing forces and can provide space where critical thought can help create alternatives to both marketizing forces and to the post–September 11 intensification of Third World rage and First World aggression and repression.
Reconstructing Rituals: Expressions of Autonomy and Resistance in a Sino‐Indonesian School
Authors: Bjork Christopher
Published: November 2004

This article examines the role that rituals enacted in an Indonesian school for Chinese play in shaping behavior, inculcating values, and sustaining a learning community. The analysis draws from research suggesting that school rituals may promote the interests of the dominant culture, but can also function counterhegemonically, creating opportunities for subordinate groups to promote their own interests. In the hands of teachers at St. Timothy's Junior High, activities designed to venerate national cohesion were revised to highlight the school's independence from the central government and the dominant culture. This evidence adds to recent literature suggesting that hegemony is not always unidirectionally imposed on students, and reveals formations of resistance that diverge from the common student versus school model.
Negotiating Individualist and Collectivist Futures: Emerging Subjectivities and Social Forms in Papua New Guinean High Schools
Authors: Demerath Peter
Published: November 2004

This article explains the academic disengagement of a critical mass of high school students in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, as resulting in part from emerging personal subjectivities and new social networks. Based on a year of ethnographic research in 1994–95, the article describes the authority these young people attributed to their own perceptions of the limited opportunity structures facing them and to the idealized village‐based egalitarian student identity being circulated through peer networks. As such, it illuminates the educational implications of youth culture, and demonstrates how local and global processes are mediated through the social fields of high schools.
Legendary Birds in the Physical Landscape of the Yup'ik Eskimos
Authors: Pratt Kenneth L.
Published: November 2004

This account describes a unique research problem experienced by the author in the summer of 1985 conducting fieldwork on a federal, cultural resource management project in southwestern Alaska. The discussion the complex roleofthe anthropologist in the implementation of one specific component of Alaska Native Land Claims legislation, and testifies to the continued vitality of the oral tradition in contemporary Central Yup'ik Eskimo life.
Some Notes on Animal Symbolism in African Religion and Culture
Authors: Olupona Jacob Kehinde
Published: November 2004

The relationship between the sacred and nature has lately received considerable attention in the study of indigenous traditions. Drawing upon my fieldwork, my own life situation as a twin in the Yoruba community of Nigeria, and several ethnographic sources, the article examines the religious and symbolic significance of animals in African society and culture. Animals feature prominently in cosmogonic myths by conveying the sacred power and messages with which the primordial chaos was transformed into the habitable cosmos. As shown in totemic ideas and practices, animals play key roles in identity construction of individuals, clans, and ethnic groups. The role of cattle in the religious thought and practices of pastoralists is examined. Cattle are seen as an extension of the human family and they represent several ideals that the human community espouses. The ideology and rituals of sacred kingship portray animal symbols. From the ancient Ashanti kingdom in Ghana to the Dande villages in Zimbabwe, animal metaphors convey the power of the king and royal ancestors. Animal images in artistic traditions, especially those that show aesthetic qualities of leadership and that relate to rituals, are also discussed.
Ritualizing the Play of Politics
Authors: Martin Randy
Published: November 2004

Richard Schechner The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance. London: Routledge, 1993. + 283 pp.

Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen‐Cruz. eds. Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism. London: Routledge, 1994. + 245 pp.
The Ethnography of the Senses
Authors: Polotnicov Leonard
Published: November 2004

Paul Stoller. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xv. 182 pp.

Paul Stoller. Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xxii. 244 pp.
Postmodern Anthropology, Science, and Humanism
Authors: Durrenberger E. Paul
Published: November 2004

Melford Spiro. Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother: Studies in Cultural Analysis. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992. xx. 250 pp.
Suspending Disbelief: An Encounter with the Occult in Brittany
Authors: Badone Ellen
Published: November 2004

Ethnographers commonly distance themselves from active engagement with the beliefs or practices of Others by temporarily "suspending disbelief." In Europe, where the boundaries dividing ethnographer and Other become blurred, such distancing mechanisms can break down. This essay reflexively explores this process in the context offieldworkon alternative healing in Brittany, France, highlighting the reinterpretation of my role by one specific healer from the role of a disinterested researcher to that of a patient or client needing advice. This article addresses the paradox inherent in participant‐ observation fieldwork focusing on phenomena such as the occult that the ethnographer might reject or avoid "at home."
Apache Mythic Present
Authors: Mills Antonia
Published: November 2004

Claire Farrer. Thunder Rides. Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1994. 113 pp.
Michael Jackson: At Home with the Word
Authors: Benson Paul
Published: November 2004

Michael Jackson. At Home in the World. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. + 189 pp.
Experiencing Meaning
Authors: Sharp Henry Stephen
Published: November 2004

This article presumes that contrasting cultural meanings are fundamental elements in the construction of the physical universe that humans occupy. The paper proceeds to explore the impact of exposure to the contrast between meanings generated when one cultural set of meanings intrudes upon another.