Anthropological Quarterly back issues from October 2003:
Iran and the United States: Postmodern culture conflict in action1
Oct 01, 2003; ... The Cultural Discourse of Conflict Fifty years ago the study of culture conflict for anthropologists was limited to peoples who lived in close proximity to each other. The most frequent subjects of study were factions of the same society. Even in more recent times, studies of conflict ...
Outcome-based tyranny: Teaching compliance while testing like a state
Oct 01, 2003; ... "The idea of measuring the progress of millions of individual students by subjecting them to standardized tests is absurd. This does not measure the progress made by the student; it measures the progress made by the system. Our schools are really factories of mass production where the object ...
The music of the Bahian Caboclos
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract: The Caboclos are a pantheon of deities worshipped in the Candombles of Bahia and throughout Brazil. They are Brazilian cowboys and Indians feted at public parties and private ceremonies and invoked by devotees to work on earth. The incorporation of this pantheon was enabled by the ...
Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption In Morocco
Oct 01, 2003; ... Jamila Bargach. Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption In Morocco. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. pp. 304 "Ethnography," writes Jamila Bargach in her introduction to Orphans of tlslam "becomes ...the art of evocation" (p. 13). And indeed, the ethnography that follows ...
The great Kanto earthquake and the massacre of Koreans in 1923: Notes on Japan's modern national sovereignty
Oct 01, 2003; ... About thirty years ago, when I was a student at a Korean middle school in T city, Tokyo's suburb, the best place to hang around with my classmates after school was the local library. We would lounge around and, disregarding the frowning eyes of Japanese users because of our loud giggles and ...
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Oct 01, 2003; ... Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider. Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. pp. 339 Reversible Destiny is about the Sicilian mafia, and about the antimafia struggle in Palermo that radically unsettled the cold war ...
Fear of a black nation: Local rappers, transnational crossings, and state power in contemporary Cuba
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract: This essay analyzes the relationships between culture, power, and politics in contemporary Cuba through the lens of hip-hop. In particular, I look at the interactions between Cuban rappers, the Cuban socialist state, and diverse transnational networks in a moment of economic crisis, ...
Isms and schisms: Interpreting religion in the Americas
Oct 01, 2003; ... Cultural Conundrums In the "New World" that comprises the post-contact Americas, an abiding emphasis on newness-the novel, the innovative-has long shaped construction of the character, and therefore the meaning and significance, of this region. It is conventionally approached as the site ...
The social life of nature
Oct 01, 2003; ... This set of extraordinary case studies by authors from several countries and disciplines explores historically the politics of nature in particular local contexts through environmental projects, movements, and associated discourses. Environmental discourses vary with the particular context, ...
Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century
Oct 01, 2003; ... Catherine Lutz. Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. pp. 328 The "Military City" of the subtitle is Fayetteville, North Carolina, location of Fort Bragg, one of the nation's largest military installations and home to the 82nd Airborne ...
Jennifer Cole. Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
Oct 01, 2003; ... Jennifer Cole. Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2001. pp. 361 Forget Colonialism? offers a sound and thoughtful treatment of the intricacies of ritual sacrifice in eastern Madagascar, with ...
An ambitious counter-interpretive tale: Class and American late capitalism
Oct 01, 2003; ... In this review essay we are particularly intrigued by the New Jersey m Dreaming's theoretical and historical arguments in relation to its mode of ethnographic representation and writing. We admire the book's enormous ambition-to sketch the history of class in the second half of the twentieth ...
Rereading Sex and Temperament: Margaret Mead's Sepik triptych and its ethnographic critics
Oct 01, 2003; ... In her autobiography, Blackberry Winter, Margaret Mead (1972) recalled the goal of her well-known project in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935/1963). She wrote there that she had wanted to show "the different ways in which cultures patterned the expected behavior of males ...
As Plato duly warned: Music, politics, and social change in coastal East Africa
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract: This essay explores the significance of art in political and social change by way of evidence from the Swahili coast of East Africa. Analysis of two musical genres, ngoma and dansi (typically glossed as "traditional dance" and "urban jazz"), exposes common aesthetic principles ...
Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest
Oct 01, 2003; ... Janice Harper. Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. pp. 273 The African island of Madagascar is known to the world more for its natural wonders, its plant and animal life, than for its human cultural ...