bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Specialized Studies. PRIMATE LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION
Authors: TUTTLE RUSSELL
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Pan troglodytes (Pongidae). Walking on All Fours. Chimpanzee. By P. LEYHAUSEN

Pan troglodytes (Pongidae). Walking Upright. Chimpanzee. By P. LEYHAUSEN

Homo sapiens (Hominidae). Walking I (boy, aged 11 months). By H. F. R. PRECHTL

Homo sapiens (Hominidae). Walking II (girl, aged 12 months). By H. F. R. PRECHTL

Pan troglodytes (Pongidae). Walking on All Fours II. Chimpanzee. By P. LEYHAUSEN

Gorilla gorilla (Pongidae). Walking on All Fours. Gorilla. By P. LEYHAUSEN

Simia satyrus (Pongidae). Walking on All Fours. Orangutan. By P. LEYHAUSEN

Homo sapiens (Hominidae). Creeping I (boy, aged 10 months). By H. F. R. PRECHTL

Homo sapiens (Hominidae). Creeping II (boy, aged 10 months). By H. F. R. PRECHTL

Homo sapiens (Hominidae). Getting up into a Sitting Position (girl, aged 4 months). By H. F. R. PRECHTL

Homo sapiens (Hominidae). Getting up to a Standing Position (boy, aged 11 months). By H. F. R. PRECHTL
Patriliny Among the Gusii and the Luo of Kenya
Authors: GLICKMAN MAURICE
Published: November 2004

The Nilotic Luo of Kenya, in contrast to the Nuer, experienced considerable land scarcity. They responded with increasing hostility as much to their affines as to the colonial power which had enclosed land. Exclusive local patrilineages emerged, expressing themselves in collective feuding, litigation, and ritual toward immediate ancestors. A similar process seems to have occurred among the sociologically similar neighboring Bantu‐speaking Gusii.
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: MILLER VIRGINIA P.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Mukat's People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California. LOWELL JOHN BEAN

Unwritten History: Life Among the Modocs. JOAQUIN MILLER
Book Reviews: General, Applied and Theoretical
Authors: Reisman Karl
Published: November 2004

Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro‐American Folklore. ALAN DUNDES, ed.

Rappin' and Stylin' Out: Communication in Urban Black America. THOMAS KOCHMAN, ed.
Book Reviews
Authors: SPINDLER LOUISE S.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

General and Theoretical: Culture, Behavior, and Personality. ROBERT A. LEVINE.

General and Theoretical: Culture and Personality: Contemporary Readings. ROBERT A. LEVINE, ed.
Audiovisuals Reviews
Authors: MARKS ANTHONY E.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: The Flint Worker. A film by NORM HOLVE

LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: The Hunter's Edge. A film by NORM HOLVE

LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: Ancient Projectile Points. A film by NORM HOLVE

LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: The Alchemy of Time. A film by NORM HOLVE
Some Implications of Medical Beliefs and Practices for Social Anthropology
Authors: YOUNG ALLAN
Published: November 2004

A people's medical beliefs and practices persist because they answer instrumental and moral imperatives, and they are empirically effective. This is not the same thing as saying that they are effective from the standpoint of Western medical notions or that they always bring the results for which people hope. The empirical effectiveness of these practices has important ontological consequences, since it enables sickness episodes to communicate and confirm ideas about the real world.
AUDIOVISUAL REVIEWS
Authors: Weiner Annette B.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism. 1973. Director and anthropological consultant, Jerry W. Leach.
Context, Meaning, and the Chomskyan Notion of Creativity
Authors: LAVANDERA BEATRIZ
Published: November 2004

Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. Mary Douglas. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. xxi + 325 pp. $23.50 (cloth).

Culture and Communication. The Logic by Which Symbols are Connected: An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology. Edmund Leach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 105 pp. $9.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper).

Meaning. Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. xiv + 246 pp. $12.50 (cloth).
Kinship and Alliance in South India and Australia
Authors: SCHEFFLER HAROLD W.
Published: November 2004

Dravidien et Kariera: l'alliance de marriage dans l'Inde du Sud, et en Australie. Louis Dumont. Textes de sciences sociales 14. Paris & The Hague: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Mouton, 1975. 148 pp. 38 F (paper).

The Adnjamathanha Personal Pronoun and the “Wailpi Kinship System.” R. Schebeck. Perception of Kinship Structure Reflected in the Adnjamathanha Pronouns. Luise A. Hercus and Isobel M. White. Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 6, Pacific Linguistics, Series A, No. 36. Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1973. 74 pp. n.p.

Texts on The Social System of the Adnjamathanha People With Grammatical Notes. B. Schebeck. Pacific Linguistics, Series D, No. 21. Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1974. xviii + 278 pp. n.p.
Sex, Status, and Authority in Egalitarian Society
Authors: Begler Elsie B.
Published: November 2004

Disagreement exists concerning the nature of relations between the sexes in foraging societies. The crucial issue concerns the quality of interactions across rather than within sexual boundaries. Approaching the problem in terms of a political analysis allows cross‐cultural comparisons utilizing behavioral data. While all foraging societies are egalitarian within sexual boundaries, not all are egalitarian across sexual boundaries. The analytic usefulness of two subtypes of egalitarian society, the “pure‐egalitarian” and the “semi‐egalitarian,” is suggested. [sexual politics, egalitarian societies, status of women, hunters and gatherers]
Aunts and Mothers: Adaptive Implications of Allomaternal Behavior of Nonhuman Primates
Authors: QUIATT DUANE
Published: November 2004

Explanations of the function of behavior directed toward young primates by conspecifc females other than the mother have emphasized variow outcomes beneficial to “aunts, I‘ mothers, infants, or some combination thereof. There is little evidence, however, that allomothering benefits mothers or infants to any signifcant degree; allomothering is selfish behavior with highly variable consequences roughly predzctable on the basis of genealogical ties between participants. Selective consequences of infant kidnapping and aunting‐to‐death are examined, and a hypothesis is suggested concerning the adaptive significance for mothering of allomothering. [adoption, infant‐stealing, behavioral selection]
The Excavation of American Indian Burial Sites: A Problem in Law and Professional Responsibility
Authors: Rosen Lawrence
Published: November 2004

The excavation of Indian burial sites poses serious ethical problems. Many American Indians regard the excavation of such sites as an affront to their actual and spiritual ancestors, while many archaeologists believe that scientific investigation should take absolute priority. This paper explores the judicial and legislative aspects of this practice in the United States and discusses attempts by professional associations to resolve the conflict. The paper suggests specific guidelines that could be followed by courts and legislators depending on whether the burial site is on reservation or nonreservation property, or whether the physical remains are recent or ancient. [archaeology, applied anthropology, ethics, anthropology and law, anthropology and public policy]
Surnames in the Study of Human Biology
Authors: Lasker Gabriel W.
Published: November 2004

Use of surname analysis in human population biology depends on surnames being inherited like genes. In societies that meet this condition, communities with a few surnames at high frequency are the more inbred ones, and marriages between persons of the same surname can be used to estimate rates of inbreeding. Furthermore, the degree of commonality of the surnames of two communities estimates their biological relationship provided that any two persons of the same surname derived it from a common ancestor and that virilocal and uxorilocal migration is equal. Although the assumptions are only partially met, the surname method yields results which correlate with the amount of marital migration and with geographical and historical features. Rare surnames meet the assumptions better than common ones. Documents, both old and new, yield surnames of large numbers of people which can easily be analyzed to show the cumulative effect of marital migration since the establishment of surnames (in England in the Middle Ages). Surnames thus serve to delineate the breeding structure of some human populations over a longer span of time than is usually possible with pedigrees, over a more definite span of time than in genetic studies, and more easily in broad surveys than alternative methods. [isonymy, surnames, inbreeding, coefficient of relationship, England]
Book Reviews
Authors: Lingenfelter Sherwood
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

General and Theoretical: General and Theoretical: Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach. Sally F. Moore.

General and Theoretical: Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology. Simon Roberts.
Of Maize and Men: A Critique of the Maritime Hypothesis of State Origins on the Coast of Peru
Authors: Wilson David J.
Published: November 2004

The adaptation of preindustrial band and tribal groups to environments subject to aperiodic downturns of long duration can often be understood by reference to limiting factors affecting the productivity of the subsistence system. This paper examines the two alternative hypotheses of the maritime and agricultural foundations of state society on the coast of Peru, and by reference to limiting factors affecting the Peru Coastal Current, argues that coastal maritime groups never advanced beyond an egalitarian tribal stage. Support for the acceptance of the alternative agricultural hypothesis of state origins is provided by an ecological analysis of relevant features of the marine and terrestrial biomes, ethnographic data on marine subsistence villages, and archaeological data for the Late Archaic and Formative periods. [Central Andes, state origins, coastal adaptations, ecological anthropology, limiting factors]
Destruction and Creative Integration of Linguistic Theory
Authors: Friedrich Paul
Published: November 2004

The Said and the Unsaid: Mind, Meaning, and Culture. Stephen A. Tyler. Language, Thought, and Culture: Advances in the Study of Cognition.
Festschrift: Short Shrift?
Authors: Middleton DeWight R.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

From Tzintzuntan to the “Image of Limited Good”: Essays in Honor of George M. Foster. M. Clark, R. Kemper, and C. Nelson.

Essays in Humanistic Anthropology: A Festschrift in Honor of David Bidney. Bruce T. Grindal and Dennis M. Warren.

Cross‐Examinations. P. H. Gulliver.

Currents in Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Sol Tax. Robert Hinshaw.
Book Review
Authors: Saraydar Stephen
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Cultural/Applied: Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times By Father Joseph François Lafitau. Vol. I. W. N. Fenton and E. L. Moore

Cultural/Applied: Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Time By Father Joseph François Lafitau. Vol. II. W. N. Fenton and E. L. Moore
Winter Temperature as a Constraint to the Migration of Preindustrial Peoples
Authors: WHITING JOHN W. M. , SODERGREN JOHN A. , STIGLER STEPHEN M.
Published: November 2004

The dispersion of preindustrial peoples is strongly related to winter temperature in two surprising respects. Based on a classification of societies by language, we introduce a statistical model for their dispersion and show that (1) the 10°C (50°F) winter temperature isotherm has been an effective constraint to migration and expansion, and (2) the dispersion of language phyla has been remarkably homogeneous in a certain temperature scale, in contrast to the marked heterogeneity in terms of geographical dispersion, [climate, language, migration]
Psychocultural Studies: Has the Time Come?
Authors: LANGNESS L. L.
Published: November 2004

Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Perspectives. Volume 1. Harry C. Triandis and Willliam Wilson Lambert, eds.

Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Methodology. Volume 2. Harry C. Triandis and John W. Berry eds.

Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Basic Processes. Volume 1. Harry C. Triandis and Walter Lonner, eds.

Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Developmental Psychology. Volume 4. Harry C. Triandis and Alastair Heron, eds.

Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Social Psychology. Volume 5. Harry C. Triandis and Richard W. Brislin eds.

Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Psychopathology, Volume 6. Harry C. Triandis and Juris G. Draguns eds.

Cross‐cultural Contributions of Psychology. Lutz H. Echkensberger, Walter J. Lonner and Ype H. Poortinga eds.

Perspectives on Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Anthony J. Marsella. Roland G. Tharp and Thomas J. Ciborowski. eds.

Studies in Cross‐Culturla Psychology. Volume 2. Neil Warren, ed.
Clark Wissler and the Development of Anthropology in the United States
Authors: Freed Stanley A. , Freed Ruth S.
Published: November 2004

Wissler receives scant notice today although he was a major figure in American anthropology. During the decades when the historical particularism of Franz Boas dominated American cultural anthropology, Wissler's theories provided a nomothetic alternative. His theories are in current use in various guises. The importance of Wissler has been obscured to some extent because he is often misclassified as a Boasian. However, he consciously worked outside of Boas's influence.
From Council to Legislature: Democracy, Parliamentarianism, and the San Blas Cuna
Authors: Moore Alexander
Published: November 2004

An exposition of the Cuna general congress's procedures, compared to local congress's and the Panamanian legislature's, discloses a tendency toward Western parliamentarianism, a folk conflict model originating in England. Anthropologists have good models for conflict; political scientists have other models for consent. Panama's assembly is shown to be a support structure rather than a demand one. Finally, recommendations are made for using formalization to safeguard indigenous democracy.
“O Rose thou art sick!” A Rejoinder to Weiner, Schwartz, Holmes, Shore, and Silverman1
Authors: FREEMAN DEREK
Published: November 2004

Derek Freeman (Ph.D. Cantab. 1953) is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University, and the Foundation Professor of Anthropology and Academic Pro‐Chancellor of the University of Samoa. He has specialized in Samoan studies for over forty years, has worked in all parts of the Samoan archipelago, and during six different visits to Samoa has spent over six years in residence there between 1940 and 1984. He has also carried out intensive field research among the Iban of western Borneo.
Book Review
Authors: Martin Paul S.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Archeology: Archaeology as Human Ecology. Karl W. Butzer

Archeology: Environmental Archaeology. Myra Shackley
Environmental Productivity, Population Regulation, and Carrying Capacity
Authors: Dewar Robert E.
Published: November 2004

Carrying capacity, as used by anthropologists, is a label for two different concepts: a measure of environmental productivity, and a description of equilibrial population density. Additionally, carrying capacity is sometimes defined by reference to the preservation of the balance of nature. The confusion surrounding these ideas conceals some common but dubious axioms of human ecology, which are isolated here for consideration.

ROBERT E. DEWAR is Associate Professor. Department of Anthropology. University of Connecticut, Storrs. CT 06268.
Book Reviews
Authors: Brant Charles
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Cultural/Ethnology: Chinese Village Close‐Up.

Cultural/Ethnology: Toward a People's Anthropology.
The Measuring, Mapping, and Meaning of Pots
Authors: Kaplan Flora S.
Published: November 2004

The Folk Classification of Ceramics: A Study of Cognitive Prototypes. Willett Kempton. New York: Academic Press, 1981. xvi + 237 pp. $24.50 (cloth).
Film Reviews
Authors: Groce Nora
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Style Wars

Electric Boogie
Book Review
Authors: Lerner Shereen
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Archeology: The Politics of Archaeology. Philip Speser, Kathleen Reinburg, Audrey Porsche, Susan Arter, and Paula Bienenfeld.

Archeology: The Procurement of Archaeology. Philip Speser, Kathleen Reinburg, and Audrey Porsche.

Archeology: Federal Archaeology Legislation: A Compendium. Philip Speser and Kathleen Reinburg.
Book Review
Authors: Mitchell William P.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Social/Cultural Anthropology: Etnografia e Historia del Mundo Andino: Continuidad y Cambio. Shozo Masuda

Social/Cultural Anthropology: Anthropological History of Andean Polities. John V. Murra, Nathan Wachtel, and Jacques Revel
“The Importance of a Rose”: Evaluating the Cultural Significance of Plants in Thompson and Lillooet Interior Salish
Authors: Turner Nancy J.
Published: November 2004

The evaluation of the cultural significance of plants in ethnobotanical studies is an essential step in various types of investigations, including research on lexical retention of plant names in diverging languages, on trade and material exchange between groups, on subsistence strategies, and on folk classification. An index of cultural significance was developed, based on ethnobotanical data on Thompson and Lillooet, two Interior Salish groups of British Columbia. For a given plant taxon, the index is a composite of a wide variety of potential applications of a plant, ranked according to the contribution of each separate application to survival in traditional cultures, together with estimates of intensity and exclusivity of use for each. Example calculations of the derivation of the index are provided, as well as a summary of calculations for more than 500 plant species from Thompson and Lillooet territories. The index has some limitations, but overall it seems to provide a meaningful and valid assessment of the relative importance of a plant taxon in Thompson and Lillooet.
Poetic Duels and Political Change in the Gayo Highlands of Sumatra
Authors: BOWEN JOHN R.
Published: November 2004

Discourse, and particularly discourse in dialogue form, recently has been proposed as a privileged arena for the interaction of language and society. This article examines the process by which performances of public dialogue have been structured and restructured in Gayo society, Indonesia, from 1900 to 1945. I trace changes in the formal, semantic, and contextual features of Gayo poetic duels. The integration of Gayo society into colonial and postcolonial sociopolitical frameworks is shown to have opened up performance to competing political voices, in Bakhtin's sense. Implications are drawn for current research on dialogues as models for social relations.
Film Reviews
Authors: Mull Dorothy S. , Mull J. Dennis
Published: November 2004

Amir. 1985. Directed by John Baily

Lessons from Gulam. 1986. Directed by John Baily
Modern Human Origins in the Levant and Western Asia: The Fossil and Archeological Evidence
Authors: Clark G. A. , Lindly J. M.
Published: November 2004

Upper Pleistocene human fossil and archeological evidence from the Levant and western Asia indicates continuity over the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition and the transition from archaic to modern Homo sapiens. It also indicates that these transitions did not coincide with each other in time. Both data sets are examined in light of recent claims from molecular biology invoked by replacement advocates in support of the position that morphologically modern humans develop (or arrive) first in the Levant, coexist with archaic Homo sapiens, and then displace or extirpate archaic Homo sapiens. Replacement models that assume no admixture are not supported by the archeological or the human paleontological evidence. Those who would argue for replacement without gene flow must show how it could have occurred without leaving traces of disjunction in the typological and technological aspects of Levantine archeological assemblages, in those aspects of the archeofaunal record that monitor subsistence, and in the evidence from settlement pattern studies.
Book Reviews
Authors: Damas David
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

General/Theoretical Anthropology: Hunters and Gatherers, Volume 1: History, Evolution and Social Change. Tim Ingold, David Riches, and James Woodbum, eds.

General/Theoretical Anthropology: Hunters and Gatherers, Volume 2: Property, Power and Ideology. Tim Ingold, David Riches, and James Woodburn, eds.
Wording, Meaning, and Linguistic Ideology
Authors: Rumsey Alan
Published: November 2004

Two seemingly disparate areas of English language structure—the grammar of reported speech and of textual cohesion—are functionally related in that both entail a distinction between “wording” and “meaning.” This is consistent with the Western ideological disjunction between language and reality, talk and action. Neither these language structures nor this linguistic ideology are found among the Ngarinyin people of northwestern Australia, suggesting a Whorfian hypothesis about their possible interrelationship.
Distinguished Lecture: Facing Power—Old Insights, New Questions
Authors: Wolf Eric R.
Published: November 2004

This essay was delivered as the Distinguished Lecture at the 88th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 19, 1989, in Washington, D.C.
Human Adaptive Strategies in Amazonian Blackwater Ecosystems
Authors: Moran Emilio F.
Published: November 2004

Blackwater ecosystems of Amazonia represent extreme nutrient‐poor conditions that differ from those found in other regions of the Amazon. The tendency to contrast mainly the floodplain (várzea) and the upland forests (terra firme) has made it possible to overlook significant differences present within the Amazonian terra firme. These differences can be important in understanding human adaptation, particularly at the extremes of the nutrient‐poorl‐rich gradient. Human populations inhabiting blackwater areas have adjusted to the low productivity of the environment through complex forms of exchange and subsistence specialization, inherited and hierarchical control over the more productive fisheries, segmentary lineage organization, very small settlements at considerable distances from each other, and dependence on bitter manioc for the bulk of their calories. Analytical recognition of ecosystem heterogeneity in Amazonia is likely to lead to reinterpretations of several human/environment processes that have interested anthropologists, such as the protein debate and the role of environmental characteristics on the development of culture.
Reflections on a Monument to a Monument: A Review of Tikal Report 14
Authors: Fash William L.
Published: November 2004

Excavations in the North Acropolis, North Terrace, and Great Plaza of Tikal. William R. Coe.
Shared Spaces, Separate Lives
Authors: Gable Eric
Published: November 2004

The Valentine Museum. Gregg Kimball and Barbara Batson
Floraculture and the Sensorium
Authors: Tyler Stephen A.
Published: November 2004

The Culture of Flowers. Jack Goody

Scents Appeal: The Silent Persuasion of Aromatic Encounters. Gabrielle J. Dorland
The Ambiguity of Hunting
Authors: Landau Misia
Published: November 2004

A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History. Matt Cartmill
Global Echoes in the Caribbean Playground
Authors: Mintz Sidney W.
Published: November 2004

Becoming West Indian: Culture, Self and Nation in St. Vincent. Virginia Heyer Young

Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro‐Caribbean Community of Nevis. Karen Fog Olivig

Us and Them in Modern Societies. Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Women and Change in the Caribbean. Janet H. Momsen, ed.
Scientific Habits of Mind
Authors: Aveni Anthony
Published: November 2004

Paradigms and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs. Howard Margolis
Biosocial Anthropology in Britain
Authors: Steegmann A. Theodore
Published: November 2004

Social and Biological Aspects of Ethnicity. Malcolm Chapman, ed.

The Anthropology of Disease. C. G. N. Mascie‐Taylor, ed.
Uncommon Ground
Authors: Freidel David A.
Published: November 2004

Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Dorie Reents‐Budet.
The Right to Survive in North America
Authors: Bond‐Maupin Lisa J. , Maupin James R.
Published: November 2004

Surviving as Indians: The Challenge of Self‐Government. Menno Boldt.

“Retained by the People”: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights. John R. Wunder.
Saami Society through Time
Authors: Hansen Lars Ivar
Published: November 2004

The End of Drum‐Time. Håkan Rydving.

The Varanger Saami: Habitation and Economy A.D. 1200–1900. Knut Odner.
The Jamaican Body Social
Authors: Homiak John
Published: November 2004

One Blood: The Jamaican Body. Elaine J. Sobo.
Exhibit Review Essays
Authors: Myers Fred R.
Published: November 2004

The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History. James E. Young, curator.

The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History. James E. Young, ed.
Book Review Essays
Authors: Leiber Justin
Published: November 2004

Apes, Signs, and Syntax: Aping Language. Joel Wallman.

Apes, Signs, and Syntax: The Beginning and Meaning of Culture: The Cerebral Activity Underlying It. Antonio Santangelo.
The Perils of ‘Positivism’ in Cultural Anthropology
Authors: ROSCOE PAUL B.
Published: November 2004

‘Positivism,’ it seems, is a movement that cultural anthropology can do without. But what is positivism, who are these positivists, and what precisely are their sins? Notwithstanding appearances to the contrary, the image of positivism in cultural anthropology is comparatively coherent and the criticism directed at it relatively well founded. What is dubious is the conclusion to which many critics think it leads: that the methods of the natural sciences are inappropriate to the study of human culture and society.
Book Review Essays
Authors: Schiller Anne
Published: November 2004

Images of the Other (Side): On the Anthropology of Death: Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life. Jack Santino, ed.

Images of the Other (Side): On the Anthropology of Death: Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies. Jon Davies, ed.
Book Review Essays
Authors: Gottlieb Aima
Published: November 2004

Possibilities and Pitfalls of Narrative Ethnography: Genii of the River Niger. Jean‐Marie Gibbal.

Possibilities and Pitfalls of Narrative Ethnography: Bambo Jordan: An Anthropological Narrative. Bruce T. Williams.
Book Review Essays
Authors: Beaudry Mary C.
Published: November 2004

Exploring Gender Relations in Historical America: The Archaeology of Gender: Separating the Spheres in Urban America. Diana diZerega Wall.

Exploring Gender Relations in Historical America: Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical Archaeology. Elizabeth M. Scott, ed.
Fear of Setting in the American Cultural Imaginary or “You Are Never Alone with a Clone”
Authors: Battaglia Debbora
Published: November 2004

Abstracts

Recently the New York Times reported that scientists had “cloned” a human embryo. The alarmed response of journalists, bioethicists, and the general public focused a spotlight on the ethics of human embryo research. The popular debate reiterated the critiques of cultural theorists that humans not be figured as (marketable) products. But the debate's attribution of an unproblematic value for individual personhood illustrates the importance of a more powerful engagement by anthropology.
Multiple Black Identities
Authors: Ray Ella M.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, DC. Portia James, curator.
Crafting Exhibitions
Authors: Dominguez Virginia R. , Desmond Jane C.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Crafting Exhibitions: Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

Crafting Exhibitions: Reflections of the Weavers' World: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum.
Toward an Anthropology of Old Age
Authors: Rubinstein Robert L.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Margaret Lock.

Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions. Haim Hazan.

Old Age in Global Perspective: Cross‐Cultural and Cross‐National Views. Steven M. Albert and Maria G. Cattell.
Southwestern Archaeological Thought
Authors: Gilman Patricia A.
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:

Themes in Southwest Prehistory. George J. Gumerman, ed.

The Ancient Southwestern Community: Models and Methods for the Study of Prehistoric Social Organization. W. H. Wills and Robert D. Leonard, eds.
Patrolling the Border: Experiments in Poetics
Authors: Fernandez James W.
Published: November 2004

The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding. Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican‐American South Texas. José E. Limón. Madison
Reconstructing the House in Anthropology
Authors: Grinker Roy Richard
Published: November 2004

About the House: Lévi‐Strauss and Beyond. Janet Carsten and Stephen Hugh‐Jones

African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender. Labelle Prussin, with Amina Adan, Peter A. Andrews, Arlene Fullerton, Anders Grum, and Uta Holter
Sex and Violence
Authors: Luttrell Wendy
Published: November 2004

Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World. Richard G. Parker and John H. Gagnon

Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow
Mapping the Perverse
Authors: Roscoe Will
Published: November 2004

The Geography of Perversion: Male‐to‐Male Sexual Behavior outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750‐1918. Rudi C. Bleys.

Sex and Conquest: Gender Construction and Political Order at the Time of the European Conquest of the Americas. Richard C. Trexler
This Is Not an Island
Authors: Jonsson Hjörleifur
Published: November 2004

Images of Contemporary Iceland: Everyday Lives and Global Contexts. Gísli Pálsson and E. Paul Durrenberger

Icelandic Essays: Explorations in the Anthropology of Modern Life. E. Paul Durrenberger. San Francisco

The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn. Gísli Pálsson
Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic: Modern (Re)Constructions of the Cave Man
Authors: Berman Judith C.
Published: November 2004

Although we have never seen Paleolithic humans in the flesh, we recognize them immediately in illustrations, art, cartoons, and museum displays. The familiar iconography of the "Cave Man" often depicts our early human ancestors with longish, unkempt hair. However, this conventionalized image is not congruent with available archaeological data on the appearance of Upper Paleolithic humans. The lengthy iconographic history of representations of our prehistoric humans is rather a palimpsest of beliefs about the origins of humans, "natural man," human nature, primitive humans, and the savage "Other": a history of discourses about human evolution, human language, and the place of humans in the natural world. These images are traced in their anthropological, evolutionary, and philosophical contexts from medieval art through recent scientific illustrations, art, cartoons, and murals, and their influence on the scientific interpretation of our ancestors is assessed. [Cave Man, Paleolithic, evolution, primitive, illustration]
Museum Anthropology Reviews
Authors: Wise Karen
Published: November 2004

Beyond Beauty: Antiquities as Evidence. The Getty Center. Los Angeles, December 16, 1997 to January 17, 1999.
Imaging the Arctic.
Authors: Krech III Shepard
Published: November 2004

Imaging the Arctic. J. C. H. King and Henrietta Lidchi. eds. London: British Museum Press, 1998. (Also Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998; Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998.) 256 pages.
Ya baramb tenga
Authors: Baerends Els A.
Published: November 2004

Ya baramb tenga (Our Ancestors' Earth:. Mossi Village in Burkina Faso). 1997. 47 minutes, color. video by Beate Engelbrecht. For more information contact the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Nonnenstieg 72, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.
Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena.
Authors: Sluka Jeff
Published: November 2004

Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena. Hastings Donnan and Graham McFarlane. eds. Belfast, Ireland: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. 242 pp.
Constructing Tibetan Culture: Contemporary Perspectives.
Authors: Rodseth Lars
Published: November 2004

Constructing Tibetan Culture: Contemporary Perspectives. Frank J. Korom. ed. St‐Hyacinthe, Quebec: World Heritage Press, 1997. 230 pp.
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History.
Authors: Griffith David
Published: November 2004

Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History. Bonnie J. McCay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. 246 pp.
The Scramble for Art in Central Africa.
Authors: Bay Edna G.
Published: November 2004

The Scramble for Art in Central Africa. Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 258 pp.
The Stone Tool Technology of Ishi and the Yana of North Central California: Inferences for Hunter‐Gatherer Cultural Identity in Historic California
Authors: Shackley M. Steven
Published: November 2004

Recent developments in the Ishi “saga” have generated tremendous media attention, as well as opinions offered by a number of academics. Few of these opinion pieces have been based on much empirical data or historical evidence. An examination of Ishi's stone tool technology, particularly projectile point production, his physical morphology, and regional ethnohistoric oral history suggest a very different persona and cultural history for Ishi than previously reported. Rarely in archaeological or ethnographic contexts do we have an observable relationship between ethnicity, acculturation, and prehistoric technology. In the case of Ishi's short five‐year stay at the Museum of Anthropology, University of California, all of these important elements converge. The data analysis here and resulting inferences have definite ramifications for the current debate surrounding projectile point style and cultural identity, as well as the long term effects of marginalization by invading and hostile non‐Yana societies. [Ishi, projectile point technology, style and information, Native California, cultural identity]
ADHD‐Type Behavior and Harmful Dysfunction in Childhood: A Cross‐Cultural Model
Authors: Brewis Alexandra , Schmidt Karen L. , Meyer Mary
Published: November 2004

Cross‐cultural studies of psychiatric phenomena allow testing of assumptions of biological consistency and improved understanding of how disorders are culturally formulated. We used a comparative approach to test for population variation in degrees of harmful academic and social dysfunction associated with children's display of behaviors considered symptomatic of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Teacher ratings on psychometric scales described behavior and functioning in population‐representative samples of Colombian and United States schoolchildren. Mean levels of the behaviors were similar across populations, including a constant gender difference. A multiple regression model showed remarkably consistent relationships of hyperactivity and inattention to harmful dysfunction across populations and genders. Increasing inattention was associated with increasing harmful dysfunction. Increased hyperactivity was associated with improved functioning to a uniform threshold, beyond which more hyperactivity was associated with greater harmful dysfunction. Patterns of relationships between ADHD‐associated behaviors and their consequences may prove useful as a basis for cross‐cultural investigation of ADHD. The idea of ADHD as psychiatric disease concept or construct with some cross‐cultural (external) validity is supported by these data, [cross‐cultural psychology, ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), child behavioral disorders, Colombia]
Other Perspectives on the Kennewick Man Controversy
Authors: Walker Deward E. , Jones Peter N.
Published: November 2004

Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Identity. David Hurst Thomas. New York: Basic Books, 2000. 326 pp.

Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man. Roger Downey. New York: Copernicus, 2000. 202 pp.
Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory.
Authors: Bednarik Robert G.
Published: November 2004

Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory. Steven Mithen. ed. New York: Routledge, 1998. 300 pp.
The Prehistory of Missouri.
Authors: Green William
Published: November 2004

The Prehistory of Missouri. Michael J. O'Brien and W. Raymond Wood. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. 418 pp.
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory.
Authors: Giacomo Susan M. Di
Published: November 2004

Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Bambi B. Schieffelin. Kathryn A. Woolard. and Paul V. Kroskrity. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 338 pp.
Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture.
Authors: Kasfir Sidney L.
Published: November 2004

Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture. Johannes Fabian. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 172 pp.
Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story.
Authors: Anderson David G.
Published: November 2004

Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story. Andrei V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 176 pp.
Innovation and Individuality in African Development: Changing Production Strategies in Rural Mali.
Authors: Şaul Mahir
Published: November 2004

Innovation and Individuality in African Development: Changing Production Strategies in Rural Mali. Dolores Koenig. Tiéman Diarra. and Moussa Sow. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 279 pp.
The Study of Social Structure.
Authors: Sharma Satya
Published: November 2004

The Study of Social Structure. M. G. Smith. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man, 1998. 246 pp.
The Anthropology in American Historical Archaeology
Authors: Orser Charles E.
Published: November 2004

Since its infancy, American historical archaeology has maintained a relationship, albeit often a tenuous one, with its anthropological parentage. Given both the history of the field and its practitioners' often‐tortured efforts to define their intentions, goals, and perspectives, it is not surprising, perhaps, that many anthropologists may not recognize the important contributions historical archaeology can make to the anthropological project. A multifaceted and wide‐ranging examination of the post‐Columbian world gives historical archaeology a special ability to investigate modern history and to provide insights into the historical circumstances of today's world, [historical archaeology, post‐Columbian archaeology, history of American archaeology]
Food and Social Relations at Nina Plantation
Authors: Scott Elizabeth M.
Published: November 2004

In this article I use animal food remains from an archaeological plantation site to discuss relations between the groups of people who lived on the plantation. First owned by a French Creole family, Nina Plantation, a sugar and cotton plantation in central Louisiana, was sold in 1857 to an Anglo‐American family from Philadelphia. Comparisons are made among French, Anglo‐American, and African American diets and between pre‐Emancipation and post‐Emancipation African American diets. The evidence demonstrates the relations of power that existed on the plantation as well as the ways in which ethnicity and economic class affected diet, [plantation archaeology, diet, ethnicity, zooarchaeology]
The Agency of Welfare Workers: Negotiating Devolution, Privatization, and the Meaning of Self‐Sufficiency
Authors: Morgen Sandra
Published: November 2004

In this article I examine how the neoliberal agenda of downsizing the state and minimizing its role in regulating the market has shaped welfare policy and the work of welfare provision. Using a study of welfare reform in Oregon, I explore how the enactment of welfare‐to‐work policies positions workers to negotiate the ideological terrain of welfare reform and the conflicts that privatization and devolution generate in a social welfare context. Self‐sufficiency, the professed goal of welfareto‐ work programs, is a complex concept, saturated with ideological meaning. Examination of the work of welfare provision provides an opportunity to analyze how workers give meaning to self‐sufficiency and construct their work as positive for the families they serve. However, high caseloads, unrealistic agency expectations, and conflicting mandates bear down hard on workers, creating disenchantment with agency policy and undermining workers' ability to meet clients' needs, [welfare, ideology, work, the United States, neoliberalism]
How to Not Exhibit Ethnographic Art
Authors: Sturtevant William C.
Published: November 2004

Marc Couturier. "Secrets." Musée national des arts d'Afrique etd'Océanie, Paris, April 25–July 16, 2001.
Poverty and Downward Mobility in the Land of Opportunity
Authors: Kingfisher Catherine
Published: November 2004

Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence. Katherine S. Newman. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1999. 328 pp.

"So You Think. Drive. Cadillac?": Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform. Karen Seccombe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. 246 PP.

Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness. Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 132 pp.
Extinct Humans
Authors: McKee Jeffrey K.
Published: November 2004

Extinct Humans. Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. 256 pp.
Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond; New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere
Authors: Hatt Doyle
Published: November 2004

Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond. Walter Armbrust. ed. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2000. 378 pp.

New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. Dale Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 213 pp.
The Elusive Embryo: How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies
Authors: Ragoné Heléna
Published: November 2004

The Elusive Embryo: How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies. Gay Becker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 320 pp.
Irish America
Authors: Silverman Marilyn
Published: November 2004

Irish America. Reginald Byron. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 317 pp.
Two Sisters and Their Mother: The Anthropology of Incest
Authors: Hendrix Lewellyn
Published: November 2004

Two Sisters and Their Mother: The Anthropology of Incest. Françoise Héritier. Jeanine Herman. trans. New York: Zone Books, 1999. 341pp.
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
Authors: Thompson Julia
Published: November 2004

White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Sarah Lamb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 306 pp.
Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers
Authors: Chin Elizabeth
Published: November 2004

Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers. Helena Wulff. New York: Berg, 1998. 185 pp.
The Praxis of Indigenism and Alaska Native Timber Politics
Authors: Dombrowski Kirk
Published: November 2004

This article addresses the most recent discourse on indigenism in Southeast Alaska that has emerged around the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 and its subsequent revisions. It argues that one must consider the "politics of recognition" in Southeast Alaska in terms of the larger political dynamics that shape state and industry access to resources, especially commercially valuable stands of timber. In Southeast Alaska, recognition of Native claims has allowed industrial timber and pulp producers to, in effect, circumvent environmental laws aimed at curbing production, thus allowing them to continue devastating the living conditions of many Natives. Among the local responses to the manipulation of Native claims and identity, the all–Native, radical Christian churches that have taken a strong stance against the recent, corporate–sponsored, cultural revitalization are unique in their resistance to indigenist politics. [Keywords: indigenism, Alaska Natives, development, Pentecostalism]
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture.
Authors: Miller Daniel
Published: November 2004

Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture. Elizabeth Chin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 272 pp.
Bike Lust: Harleys, Women and American Society.
Authors: Bolin Anne
Published: November 2004

Bike Lust: Harleys, Women and American Society. Barbara Joans. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 264 pp.
"Galton's Asset" and "Flower's Problem Cultural Networks and Cultural Units in Cross‐Cultural Research Ml (Or, Male Genital Mutilations and Polygyny in Cross‐Cultural Perspective)
Authors: Korotayev Andrey , Munck Victor De
Published: November 2004

Edward Tylor had envisioned anthropology to be comprised of ethnology and ethnography in equal parts, but today ethnography dominates the field. In this paper, we examine two reasons for the refugee status of ethnology. First, we look at the notorious "Galton effect." Second, we examine the problem of defining and using cultural units, particularly when positivistic and static theories and methods of culture have been largely discredited by anthropology. We argue against any formulaic solutions to these problems and show that for each research question one needs to reconsider the criteria for how to construct cultural units and how to ensure that the cultures under study are not merely replicas of one another. We show that previous solutions to these issues are limited because they fail to appreciate the contingent and multidimensional nature of culture. We also argue that, instead of a "Galton problem," there is actually a "Galton asset," which can be used to study historical and emergent communicative networks. [Keywords: cross–cultural research, Galton problem, cultural units, methods and theory]
Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals.
Authors: Good Anthony
Published: November 2004

Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Nabokov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 230 pp.
Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting.
Authors: Chavez Leo R.
Published: November 2004

Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in. Psychiatric Setting. Vilma Santiago‐Irizarry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.178 pp.
In the Shadow of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995.
Authors: Silverman Marilyn
Published: November 2004

In the Shadow of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995. Steve Striffler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 242 pp.
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan.
Authors: Kawano Satsuki
Published: November 2004

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 266 pp.
An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades
Authors: Kurchin Bernice
Published: November 2004

An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades. Cyprian Broodbank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 434 pp.