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BOOKS REVIEWS
Authors: HELMS MARY W. 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Man in Adaptation: The Biosocial Background. YEHUDI A. COHEN, edGENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Man in Adaptation: The Cultural Present. YEHUDI A. COHEN, edGENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Frame‐work. YEHUDI A. COHEN, edGENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Readings in Introductory Anthropology. Volume One: Evolution, Human Paleontology, Physical Anthropology and the Beginnings o f Culture. Volume Two: Economics, Social and Political Structure, Religion and Magic, Language, Culture and Personality, Culture Change and Applied Anthropology. RICHARD G. EMERICK, ed
BOOKS REVIEWS
Authors: PIA JOSEPH 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:Linguistics: A Grammar of Tera: Transformational Syntax and Texts. PAUL NEWMANLinguistics: Lexique des parlers arabes tchado‐soudanais: An Arabic‐English‐French Lexicon of the Dialects Spoken in the Chad‐Sudan Area. ARLETTE ROTH‐LALY, comp
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: BRAIN JAMES L. 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:Religion: The God of the Matopo Hills: An Essay on the Mwari Cult in Rhodesia. M. L. DANEEL. Foreword by J. F. Holleman. Afrika‐Studiecentrum Communications, 1. The Hague: Mouton, 1970 (publication date, 1972). 95 pp., diagrams, map, plates, notes, references. DG9.00 (paper).Religion: Zionism and Faith‐Healing in Rhodesia: Aspects of African Independent Churches. M. L. DANEEL. V. A. February, trans. Afrika‐Studiecentrum Communications, 2. The Hague: Mouton, 1970 (publication date, 1972). 64 pp., maps, plates, notes, references. DG9.00 (paper).
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: GILMAN ANTONIO 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:Archeology: The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain: An Introduction to the Study of the Funerary Practice and Culture of the Neolithic People of the Third Millennium B.C., PAUL ASHBEE.Archeology: The Chambered Tombs of Scotland. Volume Two. AUDREY SHORE HENSHALL.
An Archaeological Perspective on Shoshonean Bands1
Authors: THOMAS DAVID HURST 
Published: November 2004

The prehistoric archaeology of the Reese River Valley in the central Great Basin strongly indicates that a Shoshonean‐like settlement pattern has existed for approximately 4500 years in this vicinity. A comparison of the prehistoric demography and ecology with similar patterns among modem primitive groups suggests that the post‐marital residence pattern of the prehistoric Shoshoneans was most probably bilateral and rather flexible, as originally suggested by Julian Steward. If this interpretation is correct, then it contradicts Elman Service's 1962 hypothesis of patrilocal bands among the preconlact Shoshoneans. No attempt is made to confront the ideological models of the prehistoric Shoshoneans, for modern scientific archaeology can presently consider only etic phenomena.If archeologists and ethnologists are to overcome the limitations of their observational fields and contribute to the general field of anthropology, they must develop methods which will allow explanatory propositions regarding the operation of cultural systems to be tested by both archeological and ethnographic data. [L. R. Binford 1968a:269]
Audiovisuals Reviews
Authors: FREEMAN L. G. 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: A Tale of Two Rivers. Produced by CLYDE B. SMITH.LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: Lascaux: Cradle of Man's Art. Directed by WILLIAM C. CHAPMAN.LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: Prehistoric Images. 1955. Directed by THOMAS L. ROWE
Book Reviews
Authors: Parsons Lee A. 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:Archaeology: Izapa Sculpture: Album. V. Garth NormanArchaeology: Izapan‐Style Art: A Study of its Form and Meaning. Jacinto QuirarteArchaeology: A Possible Focus of Andean Artistic Influence in Mesoamerica. Mino Badner
From Hindu Kush to Sri Lanka and the State of the Art
Authors: ORANS MARTIN 
Published: November 2004

The Hill of Flutes: Life, Love and Poetry in Tribal India. W. G. Archer. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.Structural Approaches to South India Studies. Harry M. Buck and Glenn E. Yocum, eds. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Wilson Books, 1974.Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush. Robert Leroy Canfield. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 50. 1973.Elite Politics in Rural India: Political Stratification and Alliances in Western Maharashtra. Anthony Carter. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 9. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. Richard I. Cashman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
The Logic of Misplaced Concreteness: Paiela Body Counting and the Nature of the Primitive Mind
Authors: Biersack Aletta 
Published: November 2004

The paper has two goals: to demonstrate ethnographically the connection between “structure” and communication, which Lévi‐Strauss has consistently alleged to exist, and to challenge the thesis of Hallpike's book, The Foundations of Primitive Thought, that primitive thought reflects an “incomplete,” unsophisticated logic.The paper focuses on the counting system of the Paiela, a highland Papua New Guinea group. It argues that Paiela counting behavior is best analyzed as an element in a complex communication process. The logic of Paiela counting behavior is then the logic of the encompassing process: a communicational logic founded on concepts such as information and pattern. According to some theorists, the relationship between this logic and the logic that informs Western science is metalogical and dualistic. Paiela thought is thus revealed to be based on a complete and sophisticated alternative logic, a science among sciences. [Papua New Guinea, counting behavior, communication]
Some New Audiovisual Catalogues
Authors: Allen Peter S. 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:Films, The Visualization of Anthropology. Lori A. Baldwin, M. Kathleen Duttro, and Geza Teleki, eds.The World of Islam, Images and Echoes: A Critical Guide to Films and Recordings. Ellen‐Fairbanks Bodman, gen ed.Media Log. A Guide to Television, Film and Radio Programs Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lilian Jimenez, Mara Mayor, and Virginia Schofield, eds.Encyclopaedia Cinematographica: Cultural Anthropology Catalog. Richard Lytle and John K. Mallory, compilers.Films from D.E.R. Toby Alice VolkmanNative Americans on Film and Video. Elizabeth Weatherford, ed.
Good Enough for Government Work? A Study in “Grey Archeology”
Authors: Brose David S. 
Published: November 2004

Archaeological Salvage Excavations at Patoka Lake, Indiana: Prehistoric Occupations of the Upper Patoka River Valley. Cheryl Ann Munson, ed. Glen A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology Research Reports, No. 6. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1980. xxvii + 829 pp. $15.00 (paper).Colonization and Conquest: The 1980 Archaeological Excavations at Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson, Alabama. Gregory A. Waselkov, Brian M. Wood, and Joseph M. Herbert. Auburn University Archaeological Monograph No. 4. Montgomery, AL: Auburn University, 1982. xxix + 399 pp. $11.00 (paper).The Kellogg Village Site Investigations: Clay County, Mississippi. James R. Atkinson, John C. Phillips, and Richard Walling. A Report of work undertaken in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, in fulfillment of Modification Three to Contract DACW 01–77–0015. Starkville: Mississippi State University, 1980. x + 345 pp. n.p. (paper).Parkin: The 1978–1979 Archaeological Investigations of a Cross County, Arkansas Site. Phyllis A. Morse. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, No. 13. Fay‐etteville: University of Arkansas, 1981. 110 pp. $6.00 (paper).The Shallow Lake Site (3Un9/52) and Its Place in Regional Prehistory. Martha A. Rolingson and Frank F. Schambach. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, No. 12. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 1981. 240 pp. $10.00 (paper).Yellow Creek Archaeological Project: Volume 1. Robert M. Thome, Bettye J. Broyles, and Jay K. Johnson. Archaeological Papers of the Center for Archaeological Research, No. 1. Chattanooga: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1981. 354 pp. $13.00 (paper).Yellow Creek Archaeological Project: Volume 2. Jay K. Johnson. Archaeological Papers of the Center for Archaeological Research, No. 2. Chattanooga: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1981. 347 pp. $13.00 (paper).
The Last Sixty Years: Toward a Social History of Americanist Archeology in the United States
Authors: Patterson Thomas C. 
Published: November 2004

This paper provides an overview of the development of Americanist archeology in the United States.Since the 1920s, there have been two, and sometimes more, interpretive communities among Americanist archeologists in the United States.These reflect and are related to the development of U.S. society. One articulates the concerns of national capital and its allies; the other, the interests ofinternational capital and its allies. They are grounded in different theoretical traditions. The discourses produced by their proponents resonate withparticular world views that reflect different relations to power.
On Cultural Psychology
Authors: Cole Michael 
Published: November 2004

Acts of Meaning. Jerome Bruner. Jerusalem‐Harvard Lectures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. 200 pp. $19.95 (cloth).Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development. James W. Stigler, Richard A. Shweder, and Gilbert Herdt, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 636 pp. $59.50 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross‐Cultural Psychology. Marshall H. Segall, Pierre R. Dasen, John W. Berry, and Ype H. Poortinga. Pergamon General Psychology Series, 160. New York: Pergamon Press. 458 pp. $48.50 (cloth), $24.50 (paper).
Tokenism
Authors: Michalowski Piotr 
Published: November 2004

Before Writing, Volume 1: From Counting to Cuneiform. Denise Schmandt‐Besserat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. 288 pp.Before Writing, Volume 2: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. Denise Schmandt‐Besserat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. 452 pp.
Film Reviews
Authors: Ruby Jay 
Published: November 2004

Book reviewed in this article:Chang, 1927, 70 minutes, black and white, a film by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.Grass, 1925, 70 minutes, black and white, a film by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison.In the Land of the War Canoes, 1914, 47 minutes, black and white, a film by Edward C. Curtis.The Silent Enemy, 1930, 84 minutes, black and white with original color tints, a film by H. P. Carver.Simba: The King of Beasts, 1928, 83 minutes, black and white, a film by Martin Johnson and Osa Johnson.90° South, 1933, 72 minutes, black and white, a film by Herbert G. Ponting.Tabu, 1931, 82 minutes, black and white, a film by F. W. Murnau.With Byrd at the South Pole, 1930, 82 minutes, black and white, a film by Willard Van der Veer and Joseph Rocker.
American Anthropology as Foreign Policy
Authors: Borneman John 
Published: November 2004

AbstractsIn the United States, the discipline of English literature and language has cohered around modeling domestic policy, while anthropology has cohered around modeling foreign policy. This is illustrated by way of anthropology's relation to the conceptual apparatus created in United States Indian policy as part of a global strategy in mapping foreignness. The author suggests an alternative outline for a history and calls for an expanded and self‐conscious (re)vision of anthropology's role in constituting international order.
The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco‐Politics
Authors: CONKLIN BETH A. , GRAHAM LAURA R. 
Published: November 2004

AbstractsOver the past decade in Brazil, the convergence between international environmentalism and indigenous cultural survival concerns led to an unprecedented internationalization of local A native struggles. The Indian‐environmentalist alliance has benefited both parties, but recent events suggest that it may be unstable and may pose political risks for native people. The limitations of transnational symbolic politics as a vehicle for indigenous activism reflect tensions and contradictions in outsiders' symbolic constructions of Indian identity.
Above and Below: Toward a Social Geometry of Header
Authors: Gilmore David D. 
Published: November 2004

For modem common sense, hierarchy is a ladder ofcommandin which the lower rungs are encompassed in the higher ones in regular succession.It is significant that we say that something is “high” or “superior”‐or conversely “base” or “inferior”‐without considering why what we most praise (goodness, strength, and so on) must be located high.
The Racialization of a Debate: TheCharreada asTradition or Torture
Authors: Nájera‐Ramírez Olga 
Published: November 2004

ABSTRACTSThis essay examines the debate concerning the treatment of animals in the charreada, or Mexican rodeo. Focusing on the language used in reporting the event, the author demonstrates how this debate has become racialized in the English‐language media because of the tendency to identify the issue of animal abuse in rodeos as an exclusively Mexican practice.
The Cutting Edge and the History of Anthropology
Authors: Durrenberger E. Paul 
Published: November 2004

The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence. Robert R. Alford. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.168 pp.. History of Anthropological Theory. Paul Erickson with Liam D. Murphy. Calgary, Alberta: Broadview Press, 1998. 254 pp.An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Robert Layton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.242 pp.
She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety.; Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India.; Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition.
Authors: Miller Barbara D. 
Published: November 2004

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety. Srimati Basu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 306 pp.Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 286 pp.Women, Family, and Child Care in India:. World in Transition. Susan C. Seymour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.323 pp.
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory.; Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene.
Authors: Smith Daved M. 
Published: November 2004

The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Julie Cruikshank. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 211 pp.Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene. Robert Jarvenpa. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1998. 210 pp.
Baseball as America/Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game.
Authors: Gmelch Sharon Bohn 
Published: November 2004

Baseball as America. National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum and Library, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. March 16‐August 18, 2002, traveling exhibition.Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. National Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. 330 pp.
Why Read about the Old Masters?
Authors: Andriolo Karin 
Published: November 2004

Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. N. J. Allen. Methodology and History in Anthropology, vol. 6. David Parkin, series ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 172 pp.Durkheim Reconsidered. Susan Stedman Jones. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 288 pp.
After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua.; Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism.
Authors: Hauser Ewa Krystyna 
Published: November 2004

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Florence E. Babb. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 304 pp.Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 443 pp.
Gerhard Heberer (1901–1973) Sein Beitrag zur Biologe im 20. Jahrhundert.; Evolutionsbiologie von Darwin bis heute.; Die Entdeckung der Evolution. Eine revolutionare Theorie und ihre Geschichte.
Authors: Schafft Gretchene E. 
Published: November 2004

Gerhard Heberer (1901‐1973) Sein Beitrag zur Biologe im 20. Jahrhundert. Uwe Hossfeld. Berlin: VWB—Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1997. 209 pp.Evolutionsbiologie von Darwin bis heute. Rainer Brömer. Uwe Hossfeld. and Nicolaas A. Rupke. eds. Berlin: VWB. Verlag flir Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000. 425 pp.Die Entdeckung der Evolution. Eine revolutionare Theorie und ihre Geschichte. Thomas Junker and Uwe Hossfeld. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001. 264 pp.
Social Learning and the Maintenance of Cultural Variation: An Evolutionary Model and Data from East Africa
Authors: MCELREATH RICHARD 
Published: November 2004

ABSTRACTHuman societies maintain between‐group variation despite mixing of people and ideas. In order for variation to remain, migrants or their children must preferentially adopt local norms, customs, and beliefs. Yet the details of how cultural variation is maintained, despite mixing, remain unknown. This article addresses this problem by using a simple model of the evolution of cultural learning to interpret the results of a study of cultural variation in a small region of East Africa. I argue that the manner in which migrants of two diverse regions adapt to local beliefs and behavior depends on the costs and accuracy of learning in each domain. Observational studies are never definitive tests of any hypothesis, but these results suggest that conclusions about the significance of cultural learning for understanding individual attitudes and behavior depend strongly upon the domain of investigation.
Southern Trauma: Revisiting Caste and Class in the Mississippi Delta
Authors: ADAMS JANE , GORTON D. 
Published: November 2004

ABSTRACTTwo classic ethnographies, Hortense Powdermaker'sAfter Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep Southand John Dollard'sCaste and Class in a Southern Town, contributed to a “master narrative” of the Mississippi Delta and the South that viewed class largely through the lens of race. Their work contributed to the community studies and culture and personality traditions and became part of the public discourse of race in the United States. This article examines the institutional and theoretical frameworks within which they worked. We focus on three aspects of their work: (1) their definition of class that left race as the only salient social divide; (2) their portrayal of middle‐ and upper‐class statements as normative; and (3) their uncritical use of data from elsewhere in the South to interpret their Indianola data. We report the events at the Yale Institute of Human Relations that led Dollard to publish before Powdermaker.
Buryat Shamanism: Home and Hearth — A Territorialism of the Spirit
Authors: Fridman Eva Jane Neumann 
Published: November 2004

In the regeneration of shamanism in Buryatia, kinship and locale play a significant and, indeed, determining role. Shamans, as representatives of their clans and kinship lines, are the intermediaries between people and the sacred, between people and the spirits in nature, in particular spirits of a specific locale which is linked historically to a clan and to the ancestors who have been buried there. It is to these ancestral spirits as well as to the spirits of place that the clan shaman makes entreaties and asks for blessings and protection from ill fortune.The historical relationship of the Buryat tribes to the present land of Buryatia and Ust‐Orda region and the kinship structure of these tribes as existent prior to the Soviet period is shown to have parallels with traditional spiritual territorial cults of Buryats. There is a clear‐cut link between Buryat social organization into hierarchical units of kinship structures along patrilineal descent lines and their conceptions of deities according to locality, that is, they traditionally conceived of protective deities as associated with wider or narrower territorial groupings which corresponded to the social groups of tribes, clans, villages, and families.Several cases of renewal of home and hearth through appeal to ancestral and local spirits by the clan shaman are presented.
De‐Constructed Ethnographies
Authors: Varenne Hervé 
Published: November 2004

Dan Rose. Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. 123 pp. $19.95 (cloth).John D. Dorst. The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii. 220 pp. $19.95 (paper).
Birthday Parties: A Study of Developmental Change in American Culture
Authors: Klein Janice 
Published: November 2004

The complex interrelationships among ritual, life course transitions, and altered states of consciousness (ASCs) are examined on a theoretical level. ASCs are an important and relatively new concept in anthropological studies of transition and change. Hypersuggestibility, a characteristic of ASCs, is the key element of this analysis.Birthday parties are analyzed as a life course ritual. Their efficacy in facilitating transition is evaluated in light of the issue of the potential of a series of less intense rituals versus the potential of one major ritual for effecting change. Stress is a crucial element of this problem. A symbolic analysis of those elements of birthday parties relevant to the main thesis supports the conclusion that birthday parties are a significant life course ritual in American culture.
THE SOCIAL FORMATION OF CHILDBIRTH
Authors: Browner Carole 
Published: November 2004

A Review of Recent Research: The First Birth: A Family Turning Point. Doris R. Entwisle and Susan G. Doering.A Review of Recent Research: Anthropology of Human Birth. Margarita Artschwager Kay, ed.A Review of Recent Research: Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. Carol P. MacCormack, ed.A Review of Recent Research: Childbirth: Alternatives to Medical Control. Shelly Romalis, ed.
Chinese Medicine and the Anthropology of Menstruation in Contemporary Taiwan
Authors: Furth Charlotte , Shu‐yueh Ch'en 
Published: November 2004

Structured interviews with 54 Taiwanese women reveal three frameworks used in interpreting menstruation: biomedicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and popular Buddhist teachings concerning menstrual pollution. Age and class influence women's preferences in ways that only partially reflect traditional‐modern dualisms. Although it does not challenge the prestige of biomedicine, Chinese medicine provides an alternative to Western‐style medicalization of menstruation, while pollution beliefs are positioned within a discourse on social decency, seen as religious piety or symbolic cleanliness. Although most women did not criticize the negative images of female gender embedded in any approach, they interpreted them to serve their convenience and protect their sense of dignity. They represented themselves as making choices as individuals.These findings modify models of Chinese women as simple victims of the culture's symbolic construction of menstruation as polluting, as well as questioning stereotypes of biomedicine as an unproblematic force for their liberation. Chinese medicine emerges as a symbolically multidimensional contributor to Taiwanese Chinese menstrual beliefs and practices.
Book Reviews
Authors: Dobres Marcia‐Anne 
Published: November 2004

The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves. J. Clottes and D. Lewis‐Williams. 1998, Harry N. Abrams, NY; French edition, 1996 Seuil, Paris.Journey Through the Ice Age. P. Bahn and J. Vertut. 1997, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.