Recently added articles from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute:
'An anthropological concept of the concept': reversibility among the Siberian Yukaghirs./Un <<concept anthropologique du concept>>: de la reversibilite chez les Yukaghirs de Siberie.
Sep 01, 2007; ... <Pre> [W]hy should concepts not be ... open to manipulation? Why should it not be a part of their use that the ambiguity of words, the logically illicit transformation of one concept into another (like a spirit appearing in diverse forms) is exploited to the full by the users of ...
Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea./Changement social et agency chez les Kubos de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Our aims in this article are both empirical and theoretical. The empirical focus is with the role of agency in processes of social change among Kubo people who live in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea. In earlier papers we have described social change among Kubo through the years ...
Agency, subordination, and change: a reply to Dwyer and Minnegal.(Comment)(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 01, 2007; ... I thank Dwyer and Minnegal (2007) for their ethnographic contribution concerning the Kubo of Papua New Guinea. In describing a situation they interpret as orthogonal to or at odds with my analysis of the nearby Gebusi, however, they mistake a difference of analytic stance as a ...
A groundwork for West Indian cultural openness./Un travail de terrain sur l'ouverture culturelle dans les Caraibes.
Sep 01, 2007; ... <Pre> For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. John 5: 4 </Pre> Prologue Walk off the city street out of the ...
Building bridges, common ground, and the role of the anthropologist./Passerelles, terrain d'entente et role de l'anthropologue.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Introduction: some late-onset anthropological naivety Rethinking the role of the anthropologist is by no means a new venture, but the issue seems still to be in a state of flux, and I think I have hit upon an approach worth airing in the pages of this journal. The angle arose ...
Ethnicizing the subject: domestic violence and the politics of primordialism in Kazakhstan./Ethnicisation du sujet: violence familiale et politique du primordialisme au Kazakhstan.
Sep 01, 2007; ... When an honoured guest arrives at a Kazakh home, the male head of household, prior to the welcoming feast, performs maldy soyu, the ritual slaughter of a lamb. (1) With a large, freshly sharpened knife, the host makes one quick, deep cut to the animal's throat, being careful not to sever ...
Producing legitimacy: reconciliation and the negotiation of aboriginal rights in Canada./Produire une legitimite: reconciliation et negociation des droits des aborigenes au Canada.
Sep 01, 2007; ... <Pre> This treaty is about reconciliation and renewal ... It demonstrates the maturity of our nation as we move forward with respect for, and in harmony with, the aboriginal people who preceded us in this great land. Robert Nault, Minister of Indian Affairs, Senate Committee on ...
The vernacularization of democracy: political participation and popular politics in North India./Democratie vernaculaire: participation politique et politique populaire dans le nord de l'Inde.
Sep 01, 2007; ... The process of vernacularization of democratic politics Research on democracy and democratization has tended to emphasize macro-level explanations of 'transition' and 'consolidation' which stress the roles played by institutions and elites (e.g. Diamond, Plattner, Chu & Tien ...
India and the Muslim Punjab: a unified approach to South Asian kinship./L'Inde et le Pendjab musulman: une approche unifiee de la parente en Asie du sud.
Sep 01, 2007; ... <Pre> The Desire for the Other (Autrui), which we live in the most ordinary social experience, is the fundamental movement, a pure transport, an absolute orientation, sense. Levinas 1996: 52 </Pre> In the debate about South Asian kinship, the subcontinent's Muslim ...
The kinship system of the Aghria: a case study of peasants in Middle India./Le systeme de parente des Aghria: une etude de cas des paysans du centre de l'Inde.(Case study)
Sep 01, 2007; ... While the structure of the kinship systems in the North Indian/'Indo-Aryan' (1) and South Indian/'Dravidian' system (see Dumont 1966; Good 1991; Karve 1998 [1953]; Trautmann 1995 [1981]; Vatuk 1969) is relatively clear, we know less about kinship in the vast region of Middle India. (2) ...
The limits of commodification in traditional Irish music sessions./Les limites de la marchandisation de la musique traditionnelle irlandaise.
Sep 01, 2007; ... One important consequence of 'globalization'--that is, the accelerated interconnected-ness of far-flung people, places, and things (Hannerz 1996: 17)--is the fact that more and more aspects of social life have come to be defined in terms of their monetary exchange-value instead of their ...
Hotels as sites of power: tourism, status, and politics in Nepal Himalaya./Les hotels comme lieux de pouvoir: tourisme, statut et politique dans l'Himalaya nepalais.
Sep 01, 2007; ... It was the first day of the Tibetan New Year in Langtang. Tashi and his family made their offerings to the gods for their continual protection. He had started a small teashop on a piece of inherited land situated along the village's main path in the early 1990s. Since then, the teashop had ...
Contemporary art and archaeology: reflections on a relationship.(Figuring It Out: The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... RENFREW, COLIN. Figuring it out: the parallel visions of artists and archaeologists. 224 pp., plates, illus., bibliogr. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. [pounds sterling]32.00 (cloth) In the spring of 2007, the British Museum held an extra-ordinary and unusual exhibition: an ...
Everyone eats: understanding food and culture.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ANDERSON, E.N. Everyone eats: understanding food and culture. viii, 294 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, New York: New York Univ. Press, 2005. $65.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper) Everyone eats is an introduction to food and culture studies in anthropology built on Anderson's extensive ...
Jamaican hands across the Atlantic.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... BAUER, ELAINE & PAUL THOMPSON. Jamaican hands across the Atlantic. 233 pp., bibliogr. Kingston, Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2006. $24.95 (paper) This book brings up some of the key issues regarding Caribbean migrants and dispels or at least modifies a number of problematic ...
Palaces and power in the Americas: from Peru to the Northwest coast.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... CHRISTIE, JESSICA JOYCE & PATRICIA JOAN SARRO (eds). Palaces and power in the Americas: from Peru to the Northwest coast. xi, 401 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 2006. [pounds sterling]29.00 (cloth) New World readers, when confronted with the term ...
The education of nomadic peoples: current issues, future prospects.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... DYER, CAROLINE (ed.). The education of nomadic peoples: current issues, future prospects. ix, 278 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. [pounds sterling]27.00 (cloth) The education of nomadic peoples is an edited collection of essays ...
Reflections and mobilizations: dialogues with movements and voluntary organizations.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... GIRI, ANANTA KUMAR. Reflections and mobilizations: dialogues with movements and voluntary organizations. 438 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005. [pounds sterling]35.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) Giri is an activist scholar, ...
Rhythm and timing of movement in performance: drama, dance and ceremony.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... GOODRIDGE, JANET. Rhythm and timing of movement in performance: drama, dance and ceremony. 304 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999. [pounds sterling]17.95 (paper) 'You are standing in the wrong rhythm!', theatre director Bronislav ...
Plausible prejudice.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... GULLESTAD, MARIANNE. Plausible prejudice. 375 pp., bibliogr. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2006. Kr. 349 (cloth) Marianne Gullestad is one of the leading anthropologists in Scandinavia and an important figure in the Norwegian media both as an author and commentator on contemporary ...