bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Injury and therapy: proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
Authors: GRIFFITH DAVID , PIZZINI MANUEL VALDÉS , JOHNSON JEFFREY C.
Published: November 2004

Peasant fishers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean typically combine fishing with wage labor to varying degrees. Certain scholars have interpreted this as a reflection of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence, where contradictions emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production. In this article we investigate the conceptual and political consequences of this process among Puerto Rican fishers. We find that fishers have appropriated the concepts of “class” and “therapy” from their participation in the formal economy and have adapted these concepts to the politics and semantics of artisanal fishing. [fishing, hegemony, semiproletarianization, Puerto Rico]
Fiji Indians and “commoditization of labor”
Authors: KELLY JOHN D.
Published: November 2004

Fiji “Gujaratis,” free emigrant shopkeepers, refuse to commoditize their own labor, unlike the Fiji “Indians,” descendants of indentured laborers. The difference can be explained in relation to two different syntheses of bhakti devotionalism and capitalism, but only after the capitalism in Fiji's colonial history, the capitalism in India's precolonial history, and the relation of capitalism to Europe have been reconsidered. This article seeks to demonstrate the utility of a cultural approach to capitalism. [capitalism, commoditization, labor, Fiji Indians, bhakti]
mass higher education and the religious imagination in contemporary Arab societies
Authors: EICKELMAN DALE F.
Published: November 2004

This article explores the relationship between the recent growth of mass higher education in the Arab Muslim world, particularly in Oman and North Africa, religious activism, and the implications of the “objectified” religious knowledge and authority that modern education encourages. Study of the new ways of knowing and the emerging networks for communication and action produced by mass higher education and contemporary religious activism offers insight into the “political economy” of religious knowledge: the interplay of religion, politics, and national identity. [Islam, Middle East, authority, religion, education]
on scriptural essentialism and ritual variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco
Authors: BOWEN JOHN R.
Published: November 2004

This article examines the contrasting ways in which Muslims in Sumatra and those in Morocco observe the Feast of Sacrifice, and it advances an argument against recent essentialist studies of Islam. Whereas Moroccans publicly reaffirm patriarchy through the ritual, many Gayo men and women in highland Sumatra interpret it in terms of transactions and bilateral family ties. But within each society there are alternative interpretations of the ritual: in Morocco domestic and interstitial rites assert gender complementarity; in Sumatra religious modernists underscore the proper attitude of the sacrifier and deny the possibility of transaction. In each society the multiple ritual forms engage in an internal dialogue, each shaping the other, and are thus “double‐voiced” in Bakhtin's sense. [ritual, sacrifice, gender, Islam, religion, Indonesia, Gayo, Sumatra, Morocco]
the argument of images: historical representation in Solidarity underground postage, 1981–87
Authors: EVANS KRISTI S.
Published: November 2004

This article analyzes the symbolism of unofficial postage stamps minted by underground Solidarity cells in Poland under martial law. These stamps present a view of the history of Poland that is based in a sacrificial religious tradition, and they place Solidarity alongside other uprisings in that tradition. This historical representation not only counters the official history propounded by the Communist government but also portrays Solidarity as a unified mass movement in possession of the truth about Poland. In the 1980s, truth, and especially truth in language, became an important basis for political discourse and opposition in Poland. The claim to truth was significant in Solidarity's claim to authority. [Poland, Solidarity, representation, linguistic alienation, historical consciousness]
high culture, hegemony, and historical causality
Authors: HANDLER RICHARD
Published: November 2004

Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. LAWRENCE W. LEVINE
Domesticity in the federal Indian schools: the power of authority over mind and body
Authors: LOMAWAIMA K. TSIANINA
Published: November 2004

This study of off‐reservation boarding schools for Native Americans illustrates how Indian students contested federal authority. Analyzing domesticity training and notions of proper dress for female students, it sheds light on the relations of power within the schools as the U.S. government tried to train Indians for subservience according to 19th‐century racist theories of their circumscribed physical and mental development. Archival records document federal practice; narratives by alumni of the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Oklahoma provide student perspectives. The bloomer story, an important shared narrative, symbolizes student cooperation within (and competition between) gender‐defined peer groups. [American Indians, education, women, boarding schools, power relations, resistance, ethnicity]
poetics and politics of Tongan laments and eulogies
Authors: KAEPPLER ADRIENNE L.
Published: November 2004

The aesthetic and political importance of oratory in Tongan laments and eulogies is the focus of this article. A series of historic poetic texts are presented as frames for an interpretation of the politics of prestige and power. These socially realized cultural constructions of emotion illustrate how written texts that are essentially oratorical are interpreted and explained in the oral tradition; how they impose knowledge about social order through an aesthetic medium that helps to create the shared values of the society; and how this essentially aristocratic art form serves as a mechanism for social distancing and control and the elevation of selected chiefly lineages. Spatial, temporal, and sound boundaries are related to social hierarchy, and poetic metaphor is shown to foreground and background the political importance of individuals and society. [poetics, politics, aesthetics, oratory, social structure, lament, eulogy, Tonga, Polynesia]
rival empires: Islam and the religions of spirit possession among the Òyóo‐Yorùbá
Authors: MATORY J. LORAND
Published: November 2004

Possession religions have frequently been treated as women's means to redress their subordination. Like many other religions so discussed, the Òyóo‐Yorùbá worship of Sàngó and Yem⊙ja endures in a predominantly Muslim region. The following discussion will illustrate that such religions, though highly gendered in their symbolism and personnel, need not redress the interests of women or of the deprived alone. For the weak and the strong, they may dramatize a rival construction of collective life. In order to grasp how they do so, we must understand (1) the history of Islam and such possession religions in the particular context and, therefore, (2) the way they constitute each other in that context. As they serve and structure material rivalries in the world, they take on each others' signs and criteria of power. The gendered religious pluralism of the Òyóo‐Yorùbá illustrates a gestalt common across “the Muslim world” and bears implications for the study of possession religions practiced in conjunction with other “world religions” as well. [women's religion, gender, spirit possession, African Islam, religious conflict, symbolism, syncretism]
culture‐making: performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery
Authors: MYERS FRED R.
Published: November 2004

This article presents and analyzes the construction and performance of Australian Aboriginal cultural practice, a sandpainting, at a major art exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. Drawing on an ethnography for which anthropological knowledge is part of the event itself, I examine the multiple constructions of Aboriginal identity in the performance. Such intercultural performances represent an important form of cultural production and constitute salient contexts for the contemporary negotiation and circulation of indigenous peoples' identities. The focus of the analysis is on the unsettled and pragmatic quality of the performance as a form of social action, emphasizing the goals and trajectories of the differing participants and the specificities of context and discourses involved. [Australian Aborigines, performance, intercultural, identity]
the birth of the reservation: making the modern individual among the Lakota
Authors: BIOLSI THOMAS
Published: November 2004

This article traces the means by the which the Lakota people of Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota were internally pacified, that is, penetrated by the state apparatus in the form of the United States of Office of Indian Affairs during the period from 1880 to the mid‐1930s. The focus is on how the state constructed new kinds of bureaucratically knowable and recordable individuals, with new kinds of self‐interests that could be predicted and manipulated by the officials. These new Lakota individuals were made by means of four administrative processes that I call, after Foucault, modes of subjection: property ownership, determination of “competence,” registration of Indian “blood” quanta, and recording of genealogy. [Native Americans, colonialism, internal pacification, Lakota, political economy, subjection]
the spoken house: text, act, and object in eastern Indonesia
Authors: KEANE WEBB
Published: November 2004

Sumbanese descriptions of the “traditional house” as a microcosm and emblem of local identity are neither unproblematic expressions of a cultural totality nor simply objectifications imposed by ethnography or modernity. One way the house is able to serve as a discursive object reflects, in part, specifically Sumbanese models of action and beliefs about language as refracted in changing historical circumstances. In ritual, speakers seek to engage and elicit responses from powerful others, whereas current religious and political developments reframe ritual words as means of describing a cultural world. Both sets of practices draw on the authority of “entextualized” language but interpret it in different ways. Emerging representations of cultural meaning are shaped by long‐standing speech genres and by recent social and cultural transformations, mediated by shifting language ideologies. [culture theory, representation, discourse, ritual speech, language ideology, house, Indonesia]
the sexual division of labor in Kofyar agriculture
Authors: STONE M. PRISCILLA , STONE GLENN DAVIS , NETTING ROBERT McC.
Published: November 2004

Previous models of the sexual division of labor in agriculture have suggested that men and women universally have distinctive work routines and differential access to agricultural labor. This article argues that these generalizations will not always hold true and illustrates this point with the particular example of intensive agriculture dependent on manual labor. An analysis of detailed labor data from the Nigerian Kofyar support this contention. [sexual division of labor, agriculture, agricultural intensification, control and access to labor, Nigeria]
power, resistance, and the cult of Muslim saints in a northern Egyptian town
Authors: REEVES EDWARD B.
Published: November 2004

Practice theory is employed to analyze the cult of Muslim saints. Unlike much of the previous work by anthropologists on this topic, the present study has an urban, rather than rural and tribal, ethnographic locus. A major finding is that privileged as well as nonprivileged individuals use the cult for ideological discourse and dramaturgy. This has seminal implications for understanding the relation of power to resistance. An unobtrusive form of power that does not inspire resistance appears to match Bourdieu's concept of “symbolic power.” In contrast with the Weberian and Marxist zero‐sum views of power, symbolic power appears to be a positive‐sum phenomenon. [power, resistance, discourse, practice theory, Muslim saint cult, urban Egypt]
white settler assertions of native status
Authors: DOMINY MICHÉLE D.
Published: November 2004

The anthropology of postcolonialism has tended to neglect or homogenize the varied expressions of cultural and national identity of British settler descendants. Against the backdrop of research with white settler descendants who farm large Crown pastoral lease properties in the South Island high country of New Zealand, this article examines evidence they presented before the Waitangi Tribunal about their attachment to land as a politicized expression of belonging, of one set of Pakeha voices. It analyzes how high country runholders speak about and symbolically construct belonging and suggests that the high country landscape is a central metaphor in the conceptual systems of its inhabitants, providing them with a way of thinking about their cultural distinctiveness within the arena of contestations in the meanings of cultural identities defined by the Waitangi Tribunal. [postcolonial settler identity, New Zealand high country, land claims, sheep station life, anthropology of place]
blood, oil, honey, and water: symbolism in spirit possession sects in northeastern Brazil
Authors: SHAPIRO DOLORES J.
Published: November 2004

In this article I propose to document a symbolic system in northeastern Brazil in which different spirit possession group types assign various meanings to four symbols—blood, oil, honey, and water—that all these groups engage in their religious beliefs or ritual practices. All the groups rely on these symbols either to represent or to disavow an ideology that is in turn correlated with a distinct “racial” identity. Participation in and recruitment into these groups are described and analyzed in terms of the meanings attributed to the symbols by the leaders and members of Candomblé, Giro, and Mesa Branca groups. These meanings, while stable when analyzed from an intragroup perspective, are often transformed in the intergroup context in dramatic and subtle ways. Once transformed, the same symbol can be, and often is, used by each of the groups to evaluate and characterize the others in ways that help it to maintain its own coherence and appeal. The analysis of the symbols as a system partially explains multiple use, and stability as well as changes in affiliation, by religious actors over time. Thus the intergroup symbolic domain is characterized by temporal, evaluative, and transformative aspects that provide a framework for understanding contemporary religious affiliation and behavior in a socially inequitable, racially complex, urban setting.
erotic anthropology: “ritualized homosexuality” in Melanesia and beyond
Authors: ELLISTON DEBORAH A.
Published: November 2004

In this article I critique anthropological uses of the construct of “ritualized homosexuality” in Melanesia and examine related theoretical problems in the cross‐cultural study of sexualities, homosexualities, and erotics. I argue that identifying as “ritualized homosexuality” the semen practices through which boys are made into men in some Melanesian societies engages and relies on Western ideas about sexuality that obscure the indigenous meanings of these practices. By comparing three Melanesian societies, I argue that age and gender hierarchies and a substance‐based model for the constitution of social identities together comprise a more useful and accurate framework for understanding boys' initiatory practices in Melanesia. Exploring emerging frameworks for understanding erotics crossculturally, I seek to demonstrate the need for a more self‐critical and self‐aware stance as well as a more refined theoretical apparatus for the larger project of theorizing sexualities cross‐culturally.
conversion by affiliation: the history of the Karo Batak Protestant Church
Authors: KIPP RITA SMITH
Published: November 2004

Theories of conversion have often stressed either psychological or sociological factors, but viewing conversion as the public declaration of a new identity and incorporating the element of time afford a way to synthesize these approaches. Although conversions to Christianity in the Karo Protestant Church, legacy of a Dutch Reformed mission, were often prompted by political or pragmatic considerations and reinforced an ethnic identity in contrast to a Muslim majority, religious life for many Karo has been transformed over the long run.
beads and money: notes toward a theory of wealth and power
Authors: GRAEBER DAVID
Published: November 2004

Why have so many societies adopted beads or other objects of adornment as currencies of trade? The question opens up a series of other questions about the nature of exchange, visibility and invisibility, and the relation of exchange both to conceptions of the human person and ways of exercising power over others.
Mosadi Tshwene: the construction of gender and the consumption of alcohol in Botswana
Authors: SUGGS DAVID N.
Published: November 2004

The capitalist economy of Botswana has made alcohol a commodity and thereby altered the cultural meaning of its consumption. Where it was formerly a key symbol of cooperative and familial agricultural production, as well as of the patriarchal and gerontocratic control of labor, today it is more symbolic of competition and individual success in a cash economy. Within the changed economic context, however, both men and women connect current drinking behaviors to “traditional” gender roles, even if they sometimes do so in different ways. Men continue to view drinking as an ascribed right associated with their gender. Women continue to see it as a privilege earned by demonstrated competence. That the BaTswana present today's drinking as continuous with that of the past underscores the malleability of “tradition” as a symbol. [Botswana, alcohol, gender roles, acculturation, aging]
Lévi‐Strauss in wonderland: playing chess with unusual cats
Authors: YALMAN NUR
Published: November 2004

The Story of Lynx. CLAUDE LÉVI‐STRAUSS. CATHERINE TIHANYI, trans.
The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice
Authors: Boyer Dominic C.
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. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xiv. 338 pp., notes, references, contributors, index.
The Two Miipas of Chan Kom: A Study of Socioeconomlc and Political Transformation In a Maya Community
Authors: Seligmann Linda J.
Published: November 2004

The Two Miipas of Chan Kom:. Study of Socioeconomlc and Political Transformation In. Maya Community. Alicia Re Cruz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xii. 203 pp., figures, tables, references, notes, index
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
Authors: Stewart Charles
Published: November 2004

Religion:. Humanist Interpretation. Raymond Firth. London: Routledge, 1996. + 243 pp., notes, references, Index.
New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racism and Multiculture In Young Lives
Authors: Wulff Helena
Published: November 2004

New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racism and Multiculture In Young Lives. Les Back. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. xii. 288 pp., figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index.
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Authors: Zimdars‐Swartz Sandra L.
Published: November 2004

Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics. Lawrence J. Taylor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. xv. 282 pp., index, references, notes, figures.
Gender and Genre In the Folklore of Middle India
Authors: Raheja Gloria Goodwin
Published: November 2004

Gender and Genre In the Folklore of Middle India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xxiii. 332 pp., illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography, index.
Reading National Geographic
Authors: Goldstein Judith L.
Published: November 2004

Reading National Geographic. Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. Chicago, IL: University nof Chicago Press, 1993. xvii. 309 pp., figures, photographs, appendix, references, index.
Social Body and Icon of the Person: A Symbolic Analysis of Shell Money Among the Wodani, Western Highlands of Irian Jaya
Authors: Breton Stéphane
Published: November 2004

The Wodani of Irian Jaya describe shell money as an immortal person, endowed with a human anatomy. In the context of matrimonial and homicide compensations, shell money pays for the different parts and organs of the person, thus symbolically transforming the bride or the victim into a composite body. Each part is ascribed to one or the other parent's procreative agency. The patrilineal organs are compensated for with the most valued shells. By fragmenting the person into hierarchized elements, the payment does not produce individual pieces but social components, distributed among patrilineal clan members in monetary form. In payments, shells are said to be eaten by their recipients, so that the clan depleted by the loss of a daughter or a son is symbolically reconstituted. The clan is represented by payments as a totality made out of persons' parts, as a pool of patrilineal organs. Deconstructing persons to form a social whole and recycling elements of this whole to produce the person, shell money is an instrument of social reproduction at the same time as it is the symbol of the perpetuity of the clan body. [shell money, bridewealth, symbolic exchange, Irian Jaya, New Guinea]
The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality In a Chinese Village/China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society
Authors: Carstens Sharon A.
Published: November 2004

The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality In. Chinese Village. Jun Jing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. vili. 217 pp., notes, references, character list, index.

China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society. Richard Madsen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii. 183 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities, and the Gaelic Renaissance
Authors: Edwards Bridget
Published: November 2004

Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities, and the Gaelic Renaissance. Sharon MacDonald. Oxford: Berg, 1997. xix. 297 pp., illustrations, bibliography, author index, subject index.
Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape/Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light
Authors: Conklin Alice L.
Published: November 2004

Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape. Bennetta Jules‐Rosette. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii. 253 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index.

Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Tyler Stovall. Boston: Mariner Books, 1996. xvi. 336 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
Authors: Werner Cynthia
Published: November 2004

Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. Laurel Kendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi. 259 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index.
Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization
Authors: Sutton Susan Buck
Published: November 2004

Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization. Deborah Pellow. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996. viii. 243 pp., index, references, notes, figures, contributors.
The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
Authors: Strauss Claudia
Published: November 2004

The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire. Charles W. Nuckolls. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. xliv. 306 pp., illustrations, photographs, references, index.
Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
Authors: Jacobson David
Published: November 2004

Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society. Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv. 512 pp., appendix, notes, references, index.
The Cultures of Globalization
Authors: Stade Ronald
Published: November 2004

The Cultures of Globalization. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. xvii. 393 pp., contributors, index.
Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That is, Was, and Will Be
Authors: Goodale Jane
Published: November 2004

Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin:. World That Is, Was, and Will Be. Diane Bell. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998. + 688 pp., photographs, maps, notes, chronology, bibliography, permissions, index.
Indian Giver or Nobel Savage: Duping, Assumptions of Identity, and Other Double Entendres in Rigoberta Menchú Turn's Stoll/En Past
Authors: Nelson Diane M.
Published: November 2004

I address the emotional debate over David Stoll's claims that parts of Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Turn's testimonial are untrue. Rather than arguing for or against either "side", I negotiate the double entendre of "Indian giver" and the assumptions that structure the arguments that make up the debate. I track how such assumptions of identity involve a detour through gendered, ethnic, and transnational difference. Transactions such as gifting, joking, and stereotyping are ecstatic and pleasurable, and vacillate with threatening to suggest that the vacillation itself, the exchange, is essential to identification and that the empiricist promise of being "nonduped" is an error. [identity, violence, globalization, consciousness, Mayan organizing, gender, U.S. anthropology]
New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence
Authors: Grant Bruce
Published: November 2004

In the 1990s, the Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli triggered a furor over the millions of tax dollars the Moscow city government paid him for his monumental art installations around the Russian capital. Critics have assailed such gross expenditure in a period of economic privation, questioned the propriety of Tsereteli's ties to power, and ridiculed his often cartoon‐like aesthetics. In the embattled new Russian state, this infantilization of public space through government‐sponsored art reprises a familiar discourse of timeless innocence in the service of state power. [Russia, Moscow, monuments, state power, time, art]
At the Margins of Death: Ritual Space and the Politics of Location in an Indo‐Himalayan Border Village
Authors: Aggarwal Ravina
Published: November 2004

I base this article on an event that transpired during a funeral ceremony in the village of Achinathang in Ladakh, India. This incident, which coincided with a period of interreligious conflicts between Muslim and Buddhist communities, led me to question the manner in which margins become sites for the definition and contestation of citizenship and power. Here, I analyze the construction of margins in multiple contexts: in negotiating boundaries between death and rebirth, in coping with and challenging the control exerted by town‐based political reform movements over rural space, and finally, in locating the position of the ethnographer in histories and spaces of domination. [death rituals, social space, politics of location, Buddhism, South Asia]
A Clash of Vulnerabilities: Citizenship, Labor, and Expatriacy in the Cayman Islands
Authors: Amit Vered
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the stalemates produced in the Cayman Islands, a major center for offshore finance and tourism, by globalizing processes that have encouraged the valorization of transnational mobility, commodification of labor, and exclusivity of citizenship. I argue that globalization takes form in the Cayman Islands through the channels carved out for it by local state interests and regulation that have defined citizenship as a terrain for competing entitlements between expatriate workers and enfranchised permanent residents. Caymanians struggling to retain local political control over their labor market only further its incorporation into the global economy while expatriates can find their exit from Cayman stymied by the localization of labor markets elsewhere, [citizenship, transnational, labor, offshore finance, tourism]
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity.
Authors: Hantman Jeffrey L.
Published: November 2004

Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. David Hurst Thomas. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xiii. 326 pp., endnotes, bibliography, index.
Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context
Authors: Fenigsen Janina
Published: November 2004

Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context. William F. Hanks. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. 325 pp., tables, figures, index.
Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology
Authors: Khare R. S.
Published: November 2004

Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology. Peter Pels and Oscar Salemink, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. vii. 364 pp., index.
The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society
Authors: Adelman Madelaine
Published: November 2004

The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society. Edna Lomsky‐Feder and Eyal Ben‐Ari. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 323 pp., index.
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
Authors: Raj Dhooleka Sarhadi
Published: November 2004

The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India. Thomas Blom Hansen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 293 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Şalat
Authors: Mahmood Saba
Published: November 2004

In the anthropology of ritual, one productive area of debate has focused on how the formal and conventional character of ritualized behavior is linked to, or distinct from, informal, routine, and pragmatic activity. In this article, I engage and extend this debate by analyzing various understandings of the Muslim act of prayer (şalat) among a women's piety movement in contemporary Cairo, Egypt. Rather than assume a priori that conventional gestures and behaviors necessarily accomplish the same goals, I inquire into the variable relationships assigned to rule‐governed behavior within different conceptions of the self under particular regimes of truth, power, and authority. In the second half of the article, I link my analysis of ritual to issues of embodiment, emotions, and individual autonomy, examining parallel conceptions of salat that coexist in some tension in contemporary Egypt, [ritual, embodiment, emotions, discipline, subject formation, Islam]
Gelebte Grenze Gibraltar: Transnationalismus, Lokalitaet und Identitaet in kuluranthropologischer Perspektive
Authors: Borneman John
Published: November 2004

Celebte Grenze Gibraltar: Transnationalismus, Lokalitaet und Identitaet in kuluranthropologischer Perspektive. Dieter Haller. Wiesbaden, Germany: Deutscher Universitaets‐Verlag, 2000. xii + 393 pp., glossary, references, index
Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China
Authors: Greenhalgh Susan
Published: November 2004

Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. MayfairMei‐hui Yang, ed. Minneapolis: University oi Minnesota Press, 1999. vii + 375 pp., photographs, bibliography, index.
Chapungu: The Bird That Never Drops a Feather. Male and Female Identities in an African Society
Authors: Snyder Katherine A.
Published: November 2004

Chapungu: The Bird That Never Drops a Feather. Male and Female Identities in an African Society. Anita Jacobson‐Widding. Stockholm: Elanders Gotab, 2000. 525 pp., maps, photographs, glossary, appendixes, index.
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference.
Authors: Bashkow Ira
Published: November 2004

Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference. Deborah B. Cewertz and Frederick K. Errington. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii + 179 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, references, index.
New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere.
Authors: Larkin Brian
Published: November 2004

New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. vii + 213 pp., photographs, illustrations, glossary, contributors, index.
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
Authors: Nugent David
Published: November 2004

Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis. Eric R. Wolf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi + 339 pp., notes, references, index.
Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan.
Authors: Kawano Satsuki
Published: November 2004

Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. John K. Nelson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. vii + 324 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, glossary, index
Constructing “Korean” Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State‐Formation Theories
Authors: Oppenheim Robert
Published: November 2004

Constructing “Korean” Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Rascial Myth in Korean State‐Formation Theories. Hyung ll Pai Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2000. xv + 543 PP., figures, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, glossary, index.
Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier.
Authors: Konaka Shinya
Published: November 2004

Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier. Michael L. Fleisher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 198 pp., illustrations, tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, index.
The Transmission of Chinese Medicine.
Authors: Shao Jing
Published: November 2004

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine. Elisabeth Hsu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii + 296 pp., tables, appendix, glossary, references, indexes.
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things; White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India.
Authors: Freidenberg Judith Noemí
Published: November 2004

White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body m North India. Sarah Lamb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. vii + 306 pp., illustrations, tables, maps, figures, notes, glossary, references, index.

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Lawrence Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxiv + 367pp., illustrations, notes, glossary, references, index.
Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology.
Authors: Giesler Patric V.
Published: November 2004

Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. Susan Greenwood Oxford: Berg, 2000. ix + 236 pp., bibliography, index.
Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State.
Authors: Roopnaraine Terry
Published: November 2004

Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. Lesley Gill. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. ix + 222 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.
Violence and Subjectivity
Authors: Ring Laura
Published: November 2004

Violence and Subjectivity. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Reynolds, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix + 379 pp., tables, index
Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood
Authors: Modell Judith S.
Published: November 2004

Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Child‐hood. Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 429 pp., photographs, index.
New Ethnicities, Old Racisms
Authors: Fenton Steve
Published: November 2004

New Ethnicities, Old Racisms. Phil Cohen, ed. New York: St. Martins Press, 1999. vii + 243 pp., tables, figures, appendix, index.
Bonds and Boundaries in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso.
Authors: Behrends Andrea
Published: November 2004

Bonds and Boundaries in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso. Sten Hagbergand Alexis B. Tengan, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Elanders Gotab, 2000. 197 pp., photographs, illustrations, tables.
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community.
Authors: Plaice Evie
Published: November 2004

The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community. Elizabeth Furniss. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1999. vii + 237 pp., notes, references, index
States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity
Authors: Alexander Claire
Published: November 2004

States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity. Keya Ganguly. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 214 pp., notes, index.
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
Authors: Angel‐Ajani Asale
Published: November 2004

Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities. Jean Muteba Rahier ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. ix. 264 pp., figures, photographs, bibliography, index.
Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation
Authors: Bao Wurlig
Published: November 2004

Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation. Susan D. Blum. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. xi. 234 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Life, Death, and In‐Between on the U.S.‐Mexico Border: Asi es la vida
Authors: Kiefer Christie W.
Published: November 2004

Life, Death, and In‐Between on the U.S.‐Mexico Border: Asi es la vida. Martha Oehmke Loustaunau and Mary S´nchez‐Bane. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press, 1999. ix. 236 pp., tables, index.
Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921‐1991
Authors: Bossen Laurel
Published: November 2004

Cadres and Kin: Making. Socialist Village in West China, 1921‐1991. Gregory A. Ruf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi. 249 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, work cited, index.
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937‐1988
Authors: Putsche Laura
Published: November 2004

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937‐1988. Seth Garfield. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 316 pp., maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Women Traders in Cross–Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares
Authors: Clarke‐Ekong Sheilah
Published: November 2004

Women Traders in Cross–Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares. Linda J. Seligmann. ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ix. 308 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.
The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender; Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity
Authors: Mackey Eva
Published: November 2004

The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender. Himani Bannerji Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000. viii +182 pp., notes, bibliography.

Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. Richard J. F. Day Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xi. 263 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Language Ideological Debates
Authors: Eisenlohr Patrick
Published: November 2004

Language Ideological Debates. Jan Blommaert. ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. viii. 447 pp., photographs, index.
"Don't be lazy, don't lie, don't steal": Community justice in the neoliberal Andes
Authors: Colloredo‐Mansfeld Rudi
Published: November 2004

Two processes have reshaped many Latin American indigenous societies: the rise of native movements and the transnationalization of rural economies. Although the connections between these two processes remain sharply debated, both critics and defenders of indigenous movements assume that ethnic unity and economic differentiation must work against each other. I argue otherwise, demonstrating that the territorial consequences of economic change'due chiefly to migration, stratification, and consumerism'invigorate local indigenous politics even as they fragment cultural values. By examining community justice in Otavalo, Ecuador, I show how indigenous people create politically effective unities while they simultaneously produce hierarchical relationships among places and cultural orientations through their activism. [indigenous peoples, grassroots politics, economic change, community justice, Andes, Ecuador]
Book Reviews
Authors: Hastings Julie
Published: November 2004

The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. Ellen Gruenbaum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 242 pp., appendix, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Lund Sarah
Published: November 2004

The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. John Torpey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ix. 211 pp., notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Leshkowich Ann Marie
Published: November 2004

Fragments of the Present: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South. Philip Taylor. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. vi. 237 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index,
Book Reviews
Authors: Babb Florence E.
Published: November 2004

Lost Visions and New Uncertainties: Sandinista Profesionales in Northern Nicaragua. Inger Lundgren. Stockholm: Elanders Gotab, 2000. xi +258 pp., references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Pérez Ramona L.
Published: November 2004

Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca. Jeffrey H. Cohen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. viii. 208 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Hardacre Helen
Published: November 2004

The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan. Marc L. Moskowitz. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. vii. 206 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Book Reviews
Authors: Davis Coralynn V.
Published: November 2004

Embroidering Lives: Women's Work and Skill in the Lucknow Embroidery Industry. Clare M. Wilkinson‐Weber. Albany: State University of New York, 1999. vii. 239 pp., tables, maps, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande
Authors: Barber Karin
Published: November 2004

Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande. Barbara G. Hoffman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix. 298 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
Authors: Frechione John
Published: November 2004

Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. Candace Slater. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.332 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, references, index.
Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
Authors: Silvio Teri
Published: November 2004

Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Christine R. Yano. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ix. 255 pp.,tables,figures, appendixes, notes, references, index,
Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
Authors: Haley Brian
Published: November 2004

Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. Martha Menchaca. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xi. 375 pp., maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption among Urban Chinese Muslims; Muslims in the Diaspora: The Somali Communities of London and Toronto
Authors: D'Alisera Joann
Published: November 2004

Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption among Urban Chinese Muslims. Maris Boyd Gillette. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xii. 279 pp., illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index.

Muslims in the Diaspora: The Somali Communities of London and Toronto. Rimas Berns McGown. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 302 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
Authors: Barriga Miguel Diaz
Published: November 2004

Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca. Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. ix. 312 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico
Authors: Fischer Edward F.
Published: November 2004

Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico. R. Aída Hernández Castillo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xix. 295 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
Authors: Barker Joshua
Published: November 2004

City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo. Teresa P. R. Caldeira. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xi. 487pp., maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, references, index.
The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture
Authors: Hoskins Janet
Published: November 2004

The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Fred Myers. ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001. ix. 353 pp., illustrations, references, index.
Integral Europe: Fast‐Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism
Authors: Boyer Dominic
Published: November 2004

Integral Europe: Fast‐Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism. Douglas R. Holmes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii. 253 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China
Authors: Walsh Eileen
Published: November 2004

. Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China. Cai Hua. New York: Urzone, 2001. 505 pp., figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
I Am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands
Authors: Attinasi John
Published: November 2004

. Am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands. Norma González. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xxii. 220 pp., notes, references, index.
Predatory Voyeurs: Tourists and "Tribal Violence" in Remote Indonesia
Authors: Hoskins Janet
Published: November 2004

Tourism has been theorized in a new ethnography of modernity, stressing the museumization of the premodern and its production as spectacle. In this article, I explore the voice and perspective of the "tribal culture" recently exposed to a new type of gaze. Tourists are perceived as predatory voyeurs on Sumba, a once remote area now receiving increasing numbers of foreign visitors. An idiom of visual consumption encodes a critical awareness of global inequities in access to and use of technology, and a history of changing selfperceptions. The cameras that every tourist brings to capture images of headhunters and primitive violence become the very emblems of the exotic violence that they are designed to capture. [tourism, photography, cultural identity, Eastern Indonesia, violence, headhunting.]
The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition.
Authors: Kahn Miriam
Published: November 2004

The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in. Photographic Exhibition. Corinne A. Kratz .Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. vii. 307 pp., illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index.
Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures.
Authors: Fine‐Dare Kathleen S.
Published: November 2004

Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer. eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. ix. 279 pp., photographs, index.
Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization.
Authors: Adams Abigail E.
Published: November 2004

Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization. June C. Nash. New York: Routledge, 2001 xi. 303 pp., maps, photographs, notes, references, index.
Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia.
Authors: Lowe Celia
Published: November 2004

Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Dee Mack Williams. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xi. 251 pp., notes, bibliography, index.