bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
questioning Jews
Authors: DOMINGUEZ VIRGINIA R.
Published: November 2004

Storms from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. JONATHAN BOYARIN.

Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz. ARYEI FISHMAN.
the detachability of women: gender and kinship in processes of socioeconomic change among the Gusii of Kenya
Authors: HAKANSSON N. THOMAS
Published: November 2004

This article examines the role of gender and kinship identities in shaping women's access to social and economic resources among the Gusii and Luyia in Kenya. High population densities, cash crop production, market dependency, and wage labor are ubiquitous in the fertile Kenya highlands. However, changes in gender relationships and family forms vary and are not attributable to political‐economic factors alone. The results of these transformations also depend on the content of women's relationships with their natal kin, and on the role of marriage in defining the character of women's social identities. [social change, kinship, gender, marriage, family, East Africa, Gusii, Luyia]
the long haul in Mexican trucking: traversing the borderlands of the north and the south
Authors: ALVAREZ ROBERT R. , COLLIER GEORGE A.
Published: November 2004

Northern Mexican truckers use personal networks, patronage, and trust to organize their long‐haul produce trade, in contrast to more corporative styles and organization of highland Maya truckers in Mexico's south, who also ship to and from Mexico's central produce markets. Yet both groups of entrepreneurs traverse their respective borderlands into alien markets (across the U.S.‐Mexico border into Los Angeles, or into Mexican national markets formerly closed to Mayas). In doing so, both elaborate their distinctive style of trucking as ethnic enterprise, contributing to the ethnic differentiation of borderland zones under contemporary capitalism. [truckers, Mexico, Maya, ethnicity, borderlands, entrepreneurs]
stories from home: first nations, land claims, and Euro‐Canadians
Authors: MENZIES CHARLES R.
Published: November 2004

This article discusses the opposition of Euro‐Canadian fishers to First Nations' land claims in British Columbia, Canada. The author draws upon his personal experience growing up in a fishing family from northern British Columbia to draw out the complexities of this conflict The object of the article is not to convince the reader of the rightness or wrongness of Euro‐Canadian opposition to First Nations' land claims but rather to create a space in which their fear of and their reactions to land claims can be better understood. [Euro‐Canadians, First Nations, Aboriginal rights, fishing, British Columbia, ethnic conflict]
museums and the reformulation of ethnographic practice
Authors: BEAN SUSAN S.
Published: November 2004

Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums. MICHAEL M. AMES.

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. IVAN KARP, CHRISTINE MULLEN KREAMER, and STEVEN D. LAVINE, eds.
negotiating with demons: the uses of magical language
Authors: McCREERY JOHN L.
Published: November 2004

How should we read the language of magic? As speech acts with performative force? As dramatic metaphor with special, emotional powers? As poetic form whose syntatic restrictions embody a special authority? Or, better still, as all three? This article examines the language employed in a Taoist exorcism performed in Taiwan and illustrates the need to attend to the multiple uses of language in magical and other performances.[magic, metaphor, performance, performatives, texts, theory]
the substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood, and relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi
Authors: CARSTEN JANET
Published: November 2004

Malays on the island of Langkawi become complete persons, that is, kin, through living and consuming together in houses. Identity and substance are mutable and fluid. These perceptions suggest a processual view of kinship and personhood. They challenge anthropological definitions of kinship, which focus on procreation and which assume a universal division between the “biological” and the “social.” [Malay, kinship, personhood, feeding, social, biological]
the crisis of presence in Italian Pentecostal conversion
Authors: SAUNDERS GEORGE R.
Published: November 2004

Italian anthropologist Ernest De Martino (1908–1965) devoted much of his writing to the analysis of “the crisis of presence,” an existential dilemma evidenced in a disturbed sense of self and often expressed as illness, emotional distress, or “alienation.” This article describes De Martino's conceptualization of the crisis of presence as a problem of consciousness with moral and emotional dimensions and applies it in interpreting the conversion narratives of three Italian Pentecostal Christians. The resolution of the crisis, for these Christians, entails the construction of a new sense of self, and particularly a new relationship to time and history. [De Martino, Pentecostalism, religion, existential crisis, Italy]
the cultural politics of blackness in Colombia
Authors: WADE PETER
Published: November 2004

Recent political mobilization by blacks in Colombia challenges notions about the “invisibility” of blackness there and the structural difficulties of political mobilization. It also raises issues about the analysis of cultural politics and the deconstruction of cultural “inventions” without thereby invalidating them as a locus of ethnic solidarity. [cultural invention, identity, black culture, politics, Colombia]
“the Vezo are not a kind of people”: identity, difference, and “ethnicity” among a fishing people of western Madagascar
Authors: ASTUTI RITA
Published: November 2004

This article presents a model of identity and difference alternative to ethnicity. It describes how the Vezo of western Madagascar construe their identity by transcending descent or descent‐based features of the person. To be a Vezo is to have learned Vezo‐ness, and to perform it; identity is an activity rather than a state of being. Difference is construed by an analogous process of identification: others are different because they have acquired and perform another identity. To the Vezo, neither identity nor difference is inherent in people; both are performative. [identity, difference, ethnicity, Madagascar, Vezo]
gender ideology and nationalism in the culture and politics of Iceland
Authors: KOESTER DAVID
Published: November 2004

In this article I examine the role of gender in nationalist discourse in terms both of how nations represent themselves and of how national identity is created. Specifically, I describe the centrality of notions of “the feminine” and Iceland‐as‐mother in Icelandic nationalist discourse, examine the historical contexts in which these notions were forged, and illustrate the significance of their symbolic elaboration in the political arena. [gender, nationalism, ideology, Iceland, Europe]
equilibrium and extraction: dual organization in the Andes
Authors: GELLES PAUL H.
Published: November 2004

The division of society and space into halves or “moieties” has been an important feature of Andean culture for centuries. Contemporary moieties are often regarded as the result of either an impervious pre‐Columbian conceptual model that has resisted Spanish influence or of marriage preferences. In this article I challenge these views, arguing that the ubiquity of moiety organization today can best be understood as the result of an indigenous imperial model of domination, the extractive uses of which continued into the Spanish Colonial and Republican periods. Based on a case study from the southern Peruvian Andes, I demonstrate that the continued use of moieties in Andean communities must also be understood in terms of the role that dualism plays in ritual action and other conceptual and social domains. I also explore the relationship between equilibrium and extractive ideologies, and between historical models and contemporary social process.
Mexico: cultural globalization in a disintegrating city
Authors: CANCLINI NÉSTOR GARCÍA
Published: November 2004

Based on research exploring cultural processes in Mexico City, this article compares styles of study in sociology, anthropology, and communications studies. How can these three perspectives be combined to explain the complexity of a megacity as well as the multiplicity of groups and sectors into which it is fragmented? This article also analyzes the role of local traditions in the globalization of urban life, and the reformulation of the anthropological discourse that is necessary in order to speak of the Other in cities torn by multiculturalism. Relating to this point, some differences between postmodern urban thought in the U.S.‐European metropolis and in Latin America are suggested.
women's rights are human rights: the merging of feminine and feminist interests among El Salvador's mothers of the disappeared (CO‐MADRES)
Authors: STEPHEN LYNN
Published: November 2004

Using a detailed ethnographic analysis of El Salvador's mother's of the disappeared (CO‐MADRES), I suggest that to look at multiple facets of women's identities and the ways in which they both accommodate and resist dominant ideologies of gender hierarchy and national security best explains their political activity. I propose this approach as an alternative to dichotomies such as feminine versus feminist movements. Personal narratives and testimonies document how the CO‐MADRES have incorporated issues of state repression, domestic inequality, and women's sexuality into a new discourse on human rights.
the hexis of interpretation: Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
Authors: STARRETT GREGORY
Published: November 2004

This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a functionalist discourse that reads bodily postures and movements as natural manifestations of social, ideological, and cosmological structures. Starting from Bourdieu's notion of hexis, the literal embodiment of ideology, the article examines how Egyptians—and anthropologists—extract meaning from ritual behavior.
mon Japon: the revue theater as a technology of Japanese imperialism
Authors: ROBERTSON JENNIFER
Published: November 2004

In this article I examine the role of the montage‐like revue theater in dramatizing and aestheticizing Japanese imperial ideology in the first half of this century. The all‐female Takarazuka Revue serves as an organizing framework for exploring the general pattern of theater‐state relations during this time. I review intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and nationalism on and off the revue stage together with the specific Japanese orientalism informing the imperialist project and the formation of national identity. As a technology of imperialism, the revue theater helped to bridge the gap between perceptions of colonized others and actual colonial encounters; it was one way of linking imperialist fantasies and colonial realities.
the Mekeo “man of sorrow”: sorcery and the individuation of the self
Authors: STEPHEN MICHELE
Published: November 2004

The pervasiveness of sorcery and witchcraft beliefs in Melanesia is well documented. Recent discussions of Melanesian concepts of person and self, emphasizing their “divisibility” and lack of boundedness, help to explain why Melanesians feel so vulnerable to intrusions and invasions by other, more powerful selves. This article explores the process whereby a man assumes the role of sorcerer, or “man of sorrow,” in Mekeo society. In describing how the vulnerable, open, and divisible self of an ordinary Mekeo person is gradually transformed into one believed capable of annihilating others, this article challenges the assumption that self‐differentiation is a concern only of Western cultures.
the importance of proper names: language and “national” identity in colonial Karoland
Authors: STEEDLY MARY MARGARET
Published: November 2004

The seemingly natural association of language and local identity is one of anthropology's most durable and perhaps necessary assumptions. This article interrogates that association through an examination of the linguistic policies and vernacular education program of the Dutch Missionary Society among the Karo Bataks of colonial East Sumatra. I argue that the politically inflected “coalition of Protestantism and print‐capitalism” (B. Anderson 1991[1983]:40) in East Sumatra contributed to the formation of bounded collective and individual political subjects at the level both of local “nationalities” (i.e., ethnic groups) and of the grander national community‐in‐the‐making of Indonesia. Although missionaries cannot be credited with the “invention” of Karo identity, their programs of linguistic standardization, vernacular education, and Bible translation nevertheless produced around that identity a set of linguistic resources for rule and resistance. [Indonesia, Karo Bataks, colonialism, missions, nationalism, language]
a Chewa cosmology of the body
Authors: KASPIN DEBORAH
Published: November 2004

For the Chewa peasantry of Malawi, conceptions of the body are based on agricultural metaphors, drawn from the routines of farm life and formalized as cosmology and physiology by rainmakers and midwives. In this article I describe Chewa body symbolism, focusing first on the agrarian lifestyle and then on the cross‐referencing symbolisms of body and terrain in rainmaking ritual and in domestic practice. Menstruation and pregnancy are especially susceptible to cosmological schematizations. [Chewa, Malawi, body, reproduction, rainmaking, cosmology]
violent politics and the politics of violence: the dissolution of the Somali nation‐state
Authors: BESTEMAN CATHERINE
Published: November 2004

Somalia was one of the first states to crumble in the post‐cold war era. This article undresses the image of Somalia as the one true nation‐state in Africa, arguing that the political economy of class and regional dynamics underscored the dissolution of the Somali nation‐state and that the cultural construction of racial stratification configured the patterning of violence. Explaining Somalia's dissolution is a contribution to the anthropological project of theorizing the global disintegration of nation‐states. [violence, nation‐states, class, race, segmentary lineages, Somalia]
islands in the Pacific: Darwinian biogeography and British anthropology
Authors: KUKLICK HENRIKA
Published: November 2004

The intellectual lineage of the island model particularly associated with British functionalism is traced to Darwinian biogeography, from which it was abstracted in the 1920s; at that time both the patronage structure and the intellectual ecology of the discipline altered fundamentally. Darwinian biogeography itself is grounded in its sociohistorical context—in the problem of acclimatization raised by human population movements, particularly those associated with colonialism. [evolutionism, functionalism, Darwinism, biogeography, isolation, speciation, diffusionism, Britain]
reconstructing self and society: Javanese Muslim women and “the veil”
Authors: BRENNER SUZANNE
Published: November 2004

In Java the growing trend among women toward wearing Islamic clothing (“veiling”) challenges local traditions as well as Western models of modernity. Analysis of Javanese women's narratives of “conversion” to veiling against the background of the contemporary Islamic movement reveals that veiling represents both a new historical consciousness and a process of subjective transformation that is tied to larger processes of social change in Indonesia. In producing themselves as modern Muslims, veiled women simultaneously produce a vision of a society that distances itself from the past as it embarks upon a new modernity. [Islam, modernity, social transformation, veiling, women, Indonesia]
patterns of reinterpretation: trader‐tourism in the Balkans (Bulgaria) as a picaresque metaphorical enactment of post‐totalitarianism
Authors: KONSTANTINOV YULIAN
Published: November 2004

Trader‐tourism is a massive survival strategy practiced in East European countries, in this case Bulgaria. “Trader‐tourists” import Turkish goods that are sold at Bulgarian open‐air markets. Profit is made by circumventing customs control through the bribing of officials—a loophole facilitated by widespread corruption and engendered “from above” by the more powerful transitional actors. The picaresque role that former state employees have adopted as present‐day tradertourists accentuates a deficit of legitimacy and absence of normative institutional support. Trader‐tourists attempt to overcome this deficit of authority through imaginative treatment (poetization) of entrepreneurial materials in order to attain a reinterpreted form of the previous stability, normativeness, and order. [economic anthropology, trader‐tourism, Bulgaria, Balkans, transition]
the office of reason: on the politics of language and agency in a shelter for “the homeless mentally ill”
Authors: DESJARLAIS ROBERT
Published: November 2004

An ethnographic study of the words and actions common to a shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill shows how distinct forms of reasoning and personal agency relate to a set of practical concerns and political exigencies. Whereas the shelter's staff rely on and promote a referential language and direct, active forms of agency, its residents depend on tactical, persuasive uses of language and oblique, reactive forms of agency. Yet because the staff have the upper hand politically, their orientations to language, thought, and action take a more central role in encouraging people to act in sincere and reasonable ways. The residents draw on ideas of sincerity, reason, and personal accountability, but in makeshift ways, with the result that the ideas are caught up in the rhetoric of self‐presentation. The article's findings underscore the need for anthropologists to attend to the diverse means, and political, linguistic, and cultural grounds, of human reason and agency. [agency, reason, language, power, mental illness, homelessness]
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Authors: Gero Joan M.
Published: November 2004

Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture. Christopher Knight. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1995. + 581 pp., charts, figures, references, index.
Historische Anthropologle: Eine Einfuehrung
Authors: De Soto Hermine G.
Published: November 2004

Historische Anthropologle: Eine Einfuehrung. Gert Dressel. Vienna: Bohlau Vertag, 1996. 324 pp., notes, bibliography.
Mistrusting Refugees/Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning: Refugee Identity, Gender, and Cultural Change
Authors: McGovern Michael
Published: November 2004

Mistrusting Refugees. E. Valentine Daniel and John Chr. Knudsen. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xl. 286 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, contributors, Index.

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning: Refugee Identity, Gender, and Cultural Change. Linda A. Camino and Ruth M. Krulfeld. eds. Basel, Switzerland: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1994. xvii. 253 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, contributors.
Bodytime: On the Interaction of Body, Identity, and Society
Authors: Rivkin‐Fish Michele
Published: November 2004

Bodytime: On the Interaction of Body, Identity, and Society. Susanne Lundin and Lynne Akesson. eds. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1996. 196 pp., notes, references.
The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence
Authors: Barnard Alan
Published: November 2004

The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence. Thomas N. Headland. ed. Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association Scholarly Series, 28. Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association, 1992. xi. 255 pp., figures, notes, tables, references, index.
Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avantgarde
Authors: Lopes Paul D.
Published: November 2004

Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avantgarde. Georgina Born. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xvi. 390 pp., figures, photographs, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, Index.
Tango and the Political Economy of Passion
Authors: Royce Anya Peterson
Published: November 2004

Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. Marta E. Savigliano. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. 289 pp., Index, illustrations.
Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century
Authors: Handler Richard
Published: November 2004

Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century. James Clifford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 408 pp., figures, notes, references, sources, Index.
Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe
Authors: Gordon Joel
Published: November 2004

Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe. Barbara Daly Metcalf. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xix. 264 pp., Illustrations, notes, works cited, contributors, Index.
The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age
Authors: Newman Deena
Published: November 2004

The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Michael F. Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 236 pp., notes, references, Index.
European Readings of American Popular Culture
Authors: Fjellman Stephen M.
Published: November 2004

European Readings of American Popular Culture. Jean Dean and Jean‐Paul Gabilliet. eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. iii. 236 pp., notes, references, contributors, index.
Pueblos Indigenas ante ei derecho
Authors: Hirsch Silvia María
Published: November 2004

Pueblos Indigenas ante ei derecho. Victoria Chenaut and Maria Teresa Sierra. eds. Tlalpan, Mexico: Centra de Investigaciones. Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico: Centra Frances de Estudios Mexicanos. Centroamericanos, 1995. 370 pp., notes, bibliography, contributors.
Neoliberalism. Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacan, Mexico
Authors: Roseberry William
Published: November 2004

Neoliberalism. Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty:. Case Study of Michoacan, Mexico. John Gledhill. Boulder, CO. Westview Press, 1995. xi. 243 pp., figures, tables, references, index.
Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity In the High Provinces of Southern Peru
Authors: Femenías Blenda
Published: November 2004

Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity In the High Provinces of Southern Peru. Deborah Poole. ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. + 285 pp., contributors, figures, tables, notes, bibliography.
How Real People Ought to Live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru
Authors: Chernela Janet M.
Published: November 2004

How Real People Ought to Live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru. Kenneth M. Kensinger. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1995. vi. 305 pp., figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.
Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power In an Amazonian Society
Authors: Glass‐Coffin Bonnie
Published: November 2004

Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power In an Amazonian Society. Jonathan D. Hill. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. xix. 245 pp., index, bibliography, notes, glossary, figures.
Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy
Authors: Dean Bartholomew
Published: November 2004

Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy. Stephen Nugent. Providence, Rl, and Oxford: Berg, 1993. xxiii. 277 pp., bibliography, maps, index.
Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Authors: Mayer Enrique
Published: November 2004

Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán. Ricardo Valderrama Fernandez and Carmen Escalante Gutierrez. eds. Paul H. Gelles and Gabwela Martinez Escobar. trans. Austin. University of Texas Press, 1997. xii. 199 pp., photographs, glossary, references, index.
Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients In Northern Peru
Authors: Dean Bartholomew
Published: November 2004

Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients In Northern Peru. Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, 1993. + 306 pp., figures, glossary, tables, notes, references, index.
Kalithea: Männer und Frauen In einem griechischen Dorf
Authors: De Soto Hermine G.
Published: November 2004

Kalithea: Männer und Frauen In einem griechischen Dorf. Ulrike Krasberg. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag, 1996. 256 pp., map, notes, photographs, bibliography.
Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research In the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragón
Authors: Valle Teresa Del
Published: November 2004

Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research In the Fagor CooperativeGroup of Mondragón. Davydd J. Greenwood and Jose Luis Gonzalez Santos. eds. Maastricht, Netherlands: Van Gorcum and Stockholm, Sweden: Arbetsiivscentrum, 1991. + 194 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Peasant and French: Cultural Contact In Rural France during the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Reed‐Danahay Deborah E.
Published: November 2004

Peasant and French: Cultural Contact In Rural France during the Nineteenth Century. James R. Lehning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii. 239 pp., figures, tables, references, index.
Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism
Authors: Ingold Tim
Published: November 2004

Herds of the Tundra:. Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism. Robert Paine. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. xiv. 242 pp., 46 black and white photographs, 24 line illustrations, appendixes, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage In the Lives of West African Muslims In Sudan
Authors: D'Alisera Joann
Published: November 2004

Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage In the Lives of West African Muslims In Sudan. C. Bawa Yamba. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. xiv. 237 pp., illustrations, appendixes, glossary, notes, references, index.
Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Authors: Owens Bruce McCoy
Published: November 2004

Contested Hierarchies:. Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. David N. Gellner and Declan Quigley. eds. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1995. xiv. 364 pp., contributors, figures, plates, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index.
Lesîles ou dansent les enfants défunts: Age, sexe et pouvoir chez les BIjago de Gulnée‐Bissau
Authors: Gable Eric
Published: November 2004

Les îes ou dansent les enfants défunts: Age, sexe et pouvoir chez les BIjago de Gulnée‐Bissau. Christine Henry. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1994. 214 pp., illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography, index.
Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society among the Jains
Authors: Good Anthony
Published: November 2004

Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society among the Jains. James Laidlaw. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. vi. 436 pp., figures, plates, notes, glossary, references, index.
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time
Authors: Watson James L.
Published: November 2004

Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time. Emiko Ohnuki‐Tierney. Berkeley, CA, and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. xi. 184 pp., photographs, tables, notes, references, index.
Women, Media, and Consumption In Japan
Authors: Park Heh‐Rahn
Published: November 2004

Women, Media, and Consumption In Japan. Lise Skov and Brian Moeran. eds. Richmond, VA, and Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1995. + 318 pp., figures, notes, references, index.
Zwischen Himmel und Erde: Riten und Brauchtum In Nordwestchlna
Authors: Leutner Mechthild
Published: November 2004

Zwischen Himmel und Erde: Riten und Brauchtum In Nordwestchlna. Johann Frick. Collected essays, edited and with an introduction by Anton Quack. Sankt Augustin, Germany. Academie Verlag, 1995. 310 pp., bibliography.
The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange
Authors: Spyer Patricia
Published: November 2004

The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange. Janet Hoskins Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xx. 414 pp., photographs, tables, references, index.
The Crucible of Cultural Politics: Reworking "Development" in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands
Authors: Moore Donald S.
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the cultural politics of development in a Zimbabwean resettlement scheme, situating state interventions in the deep histories of colonial efforts to discipline rural livelihoods. Popular memories of resistance to colonial conservation, shaped by transnational circuits and constitutive of Zimbabwean nationalism, animate the cultural idioms of entitlement and state power in the 1990s. The contingent micro‐politics of agrarian struggle counter a recent tendency toward discursive determinism in anthropological perspectives on development. [development, cultural politics, practice, nationalism, spatiality, governmentality, southern Africa]
Witchcraft, Grief, and the Ambivalence of Emotions
Authors: Stephen Michele
Published: November 2004

In this article, I argue that Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theory of mourning can shed new light on an old anthropological topic: witchcraft and sorcery. Beginning with sociocentric analyses of sorcery and witchcraft, and linking these beliefs to the experiential context of grief and bereavement, I focus on two ethnographic case studies—Balinese witchcraft and Mekeo sorcery. I use Klein's theory of mourning to extend Freud's concept of the ambivalence of emotions in order to show how unresolved childhood fears and images of (he destructive mother give rise to persecutory fears at the death of a loved person. From this perspective, several problems left hanging by sociocentric and structuralist approaches to witchcraft and sorcery can be answered in new ways, [ambivalence, grief, Melanie Klein, mourning, sorcery, witchcraft]
Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians
Authors: Askew Kelly
Published: November 2004

Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians. Simon Ottenberg. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. xv. 216 pp., illustrations, references, discography, index.
Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory
Authors: Kapchan Deborah
Published: November 2004

Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from. Moroccan Space of Memory. Stefania Pandolfo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xi. 389 pp., notes, index.
Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico
Authors: Hernandez‐Castillo Aida
Published: November 2004

Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico. Jeffrey W. Rubin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. xii. 316 pp., figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure/Gender, Family and Work in Naples
Authors: Schneider Jane
Published: November 2004

Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure. Italo Pardo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvi. 232 pp., maps, notes, references, index.

Gender, Family and Work in Naples. Victoria A. Goddard. Oxford: Berg, 1996. + 264 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index.
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Authors: Shahrani M. Nazif
Published: November 2004

Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. David B. Edwards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvii. 307 pp., maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy
Authors: Engeström Yrjö
Published: November 2004

How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Maurice Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. + 205 pp., notes, references, index.
Islam In an Era of Nation‐States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia
Authors: Mahmoud Mohamed
Published: November 2004

Islam In an Era of Nation‐States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia. Robert W. Hefner and Patricia Horvatich. eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997. viii. 327 pp., notes, references, contributors, index.
Performances
Authors: Kratz Corinne A.
Published: November 2004

Performances. Greg Dening. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi. 296 pp., illustrations, references, glossary, index.
Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos
Authors: Babb Florence E.
Published: November 2004

Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos. Annick Prieur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xv. 293 pp., figures, bibliography, index.
Longslowburn: Sexuality and Social Science
Authors: Kane Stephanie C.
Published: November 2004

Longslowburn: sexuality and social science. Kath Weston. New York: Routledge Press, 1998. 265 pp., notes, references, index.
Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs
Authors: Evans Mike
Published: November 2004

Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. Cathy A. Small. Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press, 1997. xi. 252 pp., maps, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
Authors: Glazier Stephen D.
Published: November 2004

Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Diane J. Austin‐Broos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii. 304 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society
Authors: Arno Andrew
Published: November 2004

Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society. Webb Keane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxix. 297 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
Authors: Johnston Barbara Rose
Published: November 2004

The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest. Wendy Nelson Espeland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi. 281 pp., illustrations, references, abbreviations, primary documents and printed sources, secondary sources, index.
Beyond boundaries: Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants
Authors: Cohen Jeffrey H.
Published: November 2004

Beyond boundaries: selected papers on refugees and immigrants, vol. 5. Diane Baxtor and Ruth Krufeld. eds. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association, 1997. + 247 pp., list of contributors.
Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland
Authors: Vaughan Theresa A.
Published: November 2004

Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland. Begoña Aretxaga. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv. 211 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Negotiating Identity: Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Social Drama in Northern Ireland
Authors: Jenkins Richard
Published: November 2004

Negotiating identity: Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Social Drama in Northern Ireland. Anthony D. Buckley and Mary C. Kenny. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. + 270 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology
Authors: Helmreich Stefan
Published: November 2004

Making PCR:. Story of Biotechnology. Paul Rabinow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. vitt. 190 pp., notes, bibliography.
Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age
Authors: Halpern Joel M.
Published: November 2004

Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age. David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv. 408 pp., contributors, figures, tables, notes, references, index.
Sorcery of Construction and Socialist Modernization: Ways of Understanding Power in Postcolonial Mozambique
Authors: West Harry
Published: November 2004

In this article I examine how rural Mozambicans in the Mueda plateau region experienced the socialist modernization policies of FRELIMO, the anti‐colonial guerrilla movement that eventually took power over the postindependence Mozambican state. In interpreting and engaging with the dramatic transformations brought on by FRELIMO socialism, Muedans often drew on the familiar language of sorcery, notwithstanding FRELIMO attempts to banish sorcery‐related beliefs and practices. While Muedans sometimes resisted the modernization agenda and sometimes embraced it, they could not make systematic instrumental use of sorcery discourse to pursue strategic ends. Rather, sorcery served them more broadly as a social diagnostics of power relations —one that preserved ways of understanding power that are saturated with ambivalence, [power, postcolonial Africa, sorcery, surveillance, guerrilla war, villagization, modernization]
Migration and Privatization of Space and Power in Late Socialist China
Authors: Zhang Li
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the informal privatization of space and power occurring within China's "floating population" under late socialism. Focusing on a prominent unofficial migrant community in Beijing, I analyze the ways migrant leaders build up their power through the control of housing and market spaces and by mobilizing traditional social networks. By revealing the complexity and uncertainties within the culturally specific reconfiguration of power and social relations in post‐Mao China, I challenge the metanarrative of postsocialist transformations as a teleological move toward liberal capitalism and democracy, and I articulate the dialectical relationship between space and power, [space, power, migration, social network, state‐society dynamic, socialism and postsocialism, China]
Paying a School Fee is a Father's Duty: Critical Citizenship in Central New Ireland
Authors: Sykes Karen
Published: November 2004

The analysis of citizenship often neglects descriptions of what people think about participating in routine civic duties, instead making valuable criticisms of the processes that exclude or restrict them from political involvement. Here, I describe how residents of central New Ireland reason about their debts as citizens in relation to the mundane work of arranging secondary school fees. The singular act of paying the school fee evokes multiple contexts: of the modern state, codified matrilineal traditions, and eclipsed cultural practices— thereby establishing the terms by which residents of New Ireland assess their experiences of inequality. I analyze their own explanations for the multiple relationships that obligate a father to pay school fees. These explanations suggest that civic obligations can be discharged as acts of critical citizenship with the potential to alter political relations in the near future, [postcolonial ity, citizenship, modernity, tradition, exchange, matrilineality, Papua New Guinea]
Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservation
Authors: Samuels David
Published: November 2004

In this article, I explore the inherent ambiguity of cultural identities through a discussion of placenames around the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona. The Western Apache residents of San Carlos live in a colonized landscape. Residents maintain an attachment to Apache history and cultural sovereignty, not only by preserving and maintaining placenames in the Western Apache language, but through the performance arenas of speech play, verbal art, and code‐switching puns. In this article, I concentrate on the placenames compiled by Britton Goode (1911–81), a Western Apache linguist and historian. These language practices problematize the question of identity by reading culture into and through the contingencies of everyday experience, [placenames, verbal art, identity, Western Apache, language and culture]
Law and the Pragmatics of Inclusion: Governing Domestic Violence in Trinidad and Tobago
Authors: Lazarus‐Black Mindie
Published: November 2004

In this article, I demonstrate some of the complexities of the "pragmatics of inclusion" that ensue when subordinated people first struggle to gain access to hegemonic institutions and then challenge those institutions to maintain their inclusion. In presenting these findings, I reconsider the meaning of agency for persons seeking legal redress from domestic abuse in Trinidad and reassess the power and limitations of domestic violence law as a symbol and instrument for social change, [domestic violence law, agency, legal processes, kinship and gender ideologies, Caribbean]
The Virtual Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in the New World Order
Authors: Gusterson Hugh
Published: November 2004

Following the nuclear test ban treaty, weapons scientists in U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories are developing virtual technologies to simulate nuclear testing. Their interpretations of these technologies are incommensurable with the interpretations of anti nuclear activists and conservatives in part because knowledge based on simulations is hyperconstructible. Introducing the notion of "securityscape," I connect the debate on simulations in nuclear science to the emergent literature on global structures, which has tended to ignore inter‐state military relations, [anthropology of science, globalization, nuclear weapons, physics, war, U.S. culture, and activism]
The Uses of Butterflies
Authors: Raffles Hugh
Published: November 2004

In this article, I examine the life and career of Henry Walter Bates, both for its intrinsic interest and in an effort to understand some of the scale‐making activities through which Amazonia became a region. Bates, a distinguished entomologist who spent the years 1848–59 in the Amazon basin, returned to Britain to write the most famous of the 19th‐century accounts of regional life. Examining Bates's intellectual and philosophical formations, his fieldwork experience in the context of a turbulent Amazonian politics, and his relationships with metropolitan and colonial natural scientific institutions, I offer a thick history of practice as a strategy for analyzing the complex productivities of Victorian traveling science. [Amazonia, collecting, colonialism, fieldwork, natural science, region, space]
Deterritorialization and workplace culture
Authors: Collins Jane L.
Published: November 2004

In this article, I ask what happens to the moral economies and rhetorical frameworks that govern employment relations when labor markets become global. In particular, I examine the argument that globalization undermines the institutions and practices that govern local labor markets—eroding “locality.” I present the results offieldwork in knitwear firms in southern Virginia and Mexico and argue that globalization eroded the old ways that workers could make claims on the firm, while also undermining new bases for claims making. I suggest that these developments are part of a process of deterritorialization of workplace communities, even though the workers themselves do not move, [labor, unionism, apparel industry, textile industry, southern United States, Mexico]
The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá Revisited.
Authors: Harris Mark
Published: November 2004

The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá Revisited. Richard Pace. Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 1998. ix + 235 pp., illustrations, photographs, glossary, references, index.
Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism.
Authors: Apte Mahadev
Published: November 2004

Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism. Joseph S. Alter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ix + 207 pp., glossary, notes, references, index.
Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas.
Authors: Stoeltje Beverly
Published: November 2004

Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas. Michaele Thurgood Haynes. London: Berg, 1998. x + 180 pp., photographs, appendix, bibliography, index.
Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland.
Authors: Linde‐Laursen Anders
Published: November 2004

Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland. Steven D. Hoelscher. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xi + 327 pp., illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Headless ghosts and roving women: specters of modernity in Papua New Guinea
Authors: Wardlow Holly
Published: November 2004

By juxtaposing a contemporary myth with an exegesis of Huli “passenger woman” (physically and sexually mobile women), I address the gendered nature of modernity. Huli women are expected to enact tradition, both through their consumption practices and through participation in the bridewealth system. Passenger women become modern through their repudiation of these roles. An analysis of women's experiences suggests that modern forms of identity can emerge in response to the shifting meanings and practices of social reproduction, [modernity, bridewealth, social reproduction, sexuality, myth]
Writing empire, underwriting nation: discursive histories of Kabyle Berber oral texts
Authors: Goodman Jane E.
Published: November 2004

In this article, I explore how colonial, nationalist, and media interests converge around the collection of oral texts. Moving from the French colonial project of collecting native lore to the nationalist project to recover indigenous heritage to the embedding of village songs in contemporary world music, I examine how oral texts from Algeria's Kabyle Berber region have been variously configured as signs through which social differences are imagined and hierarchically ordered. I foreground the history of intertextual penetration between North African poetic productions and Western aesthetic categories, [genre, intertextuality, oral text, colonialism, world music, Algeria]
Ethnography After Globalism: Migration And Emplacement In Malawi
Authors: Englund Harri
Published: November 2004

Sites and places present analytical problems to ethnographers who acknowledge the reality of global flows but doubt their I iberatory potential. In this article, I suggest that ethnographers move beyond the rhetoric and organizing assumptions of globalism not simply by discarding the local–global distinction but also by interrogating the analytical tendency to disconnect culture from place. Such a tendency appears to contribute to the resilience of constructivism in ethnographic analysis. A perspective of emplacement builds on insights into global flows while providing a focus on embodied and situated presence. I develop this perspective with the aid of ethnography on conflicts between migrants and original inhabitants in an impoverished area of Malawi's capital. The occult powers of a secret society partly account for migrants' emplacement, challenging migrants' globalist imagination that draws on the liberal rhetoric of economic and political reform and on spiritual protection afforded by world religions. The perspective of emplacement reaches beyond globalism by showing how all phenomena in global circulations are at once both particular and capable of spreading widely as elements of the globalist imagination, [ethnography, globalism, migration, emplacement, embodiment, the occult, African urbanism]
Rationalizing Sex: Family Planning And The Making Of Modern Lovers In Urban Greece
Authors: Paxson Heather
Published: November 2004

Family planning has been imported to Greece as a means of encouraging individuals to become modern adults by rationalizing their sexual relations and fertility‐control efforts. But family‐planning discourse neglects how such factors as emotion and so‐alled traditional belief—including gender norms— guide people's reasonable actions. In this article, I examine how the purported gender neutrality of family‐planning advocacy and its reliance on riskmanagement models fails to speak to women's experiences and undermines family planners' goals for women's autonomy, [family planning, abortion, gender, sexuality, modernity, risk, Greece]