Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute back issues from March 1999:
The place of counterfeits in regimes of value: an anthropological approach.
Mar 01, 1999; ... In this article I consider the values ascribed to prestige valuables in terms of the social regulation and manipulation of two distinct properties: charisma and sacredness. I do this by considering four separate 'regimes of value' (Appadurai 1986: 15) in which copies and counterfeits of ...
Children in-between: constructing identities in the bicultural family.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Mass movements of individuals around the world have increased throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Between 1800 and 1914, net migration from Europe was estimated to be somewhere in the region of 50 million (Standing 1984: 15). In 1984 alone, more than half a million legal ...
Financial worship: the Quranic injunction to almsgiving.
Mar 01, 1999; ... 'Those who interpret the Quran without knowledge will have their place prepared for them in the fire of hell'; so runs a statement attributed to the Prophet Muhammad.(1) My excuse for taking the risk is that little has been published in Western scholarship on Islamic traditions of ...
Anticipating individuals: modes of vision and their social consequences in a Papua New Guinean prison.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Since Foucault wrote Discipline and punish (1977), discussions of incarceration and its technologies of surveillance have been at the forefront of the poststructuralist project to decentre the modern subject: the notion of a sovereign, authorial individual, who looks inwards for motivation ...
Marriage by capture.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Marriage by capture has a long lineage in anthropological writing and speculation and still appears frequently in modern ethnographic contexts. It was central to John F. McLennan's theory of the origin of exogamy, which linked totemism, female infanticide, exogamy, marriage by capture and ...
Familiar forms: homologues, culture and gender in northern Australia.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Imagine two objects placed upon a table: a soft string 'dilly bag'(1) and a large wooden boomerang. Imagine that you could ask anyone in the world which of the objects was more 'male' and which more 'female'. A significant majority would probably define the dilly bag as female and the ...
From mission to movement: the impact of Christianity on patterns on political association in Papua New Guinea.(response to Harry Whitehouse, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol 4, 1998)
Mar 01, 1999; ... In a recent contribution Harvey Whitehouse suggests that studies of Christianity in Melanesia are in sorry shape. Scholars have, by and large, 'bought' an old missionary argument that the missionization of Melanesia helped to transform tribal fragmentation and localism through the dogma ...
Arts of Vanuatu.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BONNEMAISON, JOEL, KIRK HUFFMAN, CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN & DARRELL TRYON (eds). vi, 338 pp., illus., col. plates, maps, bibliogr. Bathurst: Crawford House, 1996 This beautifully produced book was prepared to accompany an exhibition which travelled to Vanuatu and New Caledonia in ...
Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... OTTENBERG, SIMON. xvi, 216 pp., illus., map, tables, bibliogr., discogr. Seattle, London: Univ. of Washington Press, 1996. $35.00 The three musicians in question are Sayo Kamara, Marehu Mansaray and Muctaru Mansaray, players of the kututeng (the 'thumb piano') in the Wara Wara ...
Maori Art and Culture.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... STARZECKA, D.C. (ed.). 168 pp., illus., col. plates, maps, bibliogr. London: British Museum Press, 1996. [pounds]14.99 (paper) Edited by the Assistant Keeper of the Oceanic collections at the British Museum, Maori art and culture provides an excellent introduction to the ...
The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... STUEMPFLE, STEPHEN. xx, 287 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press; London: Academic & Univ. Publishing Group, 1996. [pounds]36.95 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper) This thoughtful and well researched book is a welcome addition to the growing ...
Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... SUGARMAN, JANE, C. (Chic. Stud. Ethnomusicol.). xx, 395 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr., CD, 1997. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997 Engendering song, another excellent volume in the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series, uses weddings (and especially the ...
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Human Brain.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... DEACON, TERRENCE. 527 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1997. [pounds]20.00 The failure of primates to develop anything even remotely language-like forms the point of departure in Deacon's magnificent book. For Deacon, the explanations are ...
Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... LARSEN, CLARK SPENCER. (Camb. Stud. biol. Anthrop. 21). xii, 458 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]55.00 Reconstructing biocultural dimensions of human societies from osteological human remains has a long and rich tradition within biological ...
The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Religion and Science.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... MITHEN, STEVEN. 288 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. [pounds]16.95 In this book Steven Mithen takes a simple cognitive phenomenon - modularity - and runs a surprisingly long way with it. Modularity is the assumption that the brain is comprised of a set ...
The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... MORBECK, MARY ELLEN, ALISON GALLOWAY & ADRIENNE L. ZIHLMAN (eds). xx, 332 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]48.00 (cloth), [pounds]19.95 (paper) At birth the human infant is undeveloped, both physically and cognitively. In the months and years ...
Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... RUSSON, ANNE, KIM A. BARD & SUE TAYLOR PARKER (eds). xii, 464 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1996. [pounds]55.00 Primatologists who describe themselves as such implicitly assert that there is something special about primates that separates them ...
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... WAAL, FRANS DE & FRANS LANTING. xiv, 210 pp., illus., col. plates, bibliogr. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1997. $39.95 This impressive coffee-table catalogue of bonobo life is worth the purchase price for Frans Lanting's remarkable photographs alone. However, ...
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... ALLAN, SARAH. (SUNY Ser. Chin. Phil. Cult.). xiv, 181 pp., illus., bibliogr. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1997. $17.95 (paper) In this book, Sarah Allan argues that water and plants provided what she calls 'root metaphors' of early Chinese philosophical thought. Water, ...
How We Think They Are: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BLOCH, MAURICE E.F. x, 205 pp., illus., map, bibliogr. Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. [pounds]37.95 (cloth) Maurice Bloch describes the workings of sociocultural milieux with great clarity. His clarifying, however, can seem at the same time mystification. In ...
Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociological Aspects of Native American Pidgin.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... DRECHSEL, EMANUEL J. (Oxf. Stud. Lang. Contact). xx, 392 pp., map, tables, bibliogr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]55.00 Readers who lack training in linguistics will find this a difficult book. Its level of detail is intense, repetition (albeit with further ...
Linguistic Anthropology.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... DURANTI, ALESSANDRO. (Camb. Txtbk Ling.). xxii, 398 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]45.00 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper) This is an important work, by one of linguistic anthropology's most innovative and inspired practitioners. Duranti has ...
Color and Cognition on Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... MACLAURY, ROBERT E. xxviii, 616 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1997. $85.00 Anthropologists have been intrigued by the 'problem of colour' at least since the turn of the century when the famous Torres Straits Expedition discovered that colourful ...
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture Through its Discourses.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... SHERZER, JOEL. 281 pp., bibliogr. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1998. $19.95 (paper) The Kuna of San Blas, Panama, are famous among collectors of 'native art' for their molas, patterned appliqueed blouses. Their verbal artistry is considerably less well known. In this ...
Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... SMALL, JOCELYN PENNY. xx, 377 pp., bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 1997. [pounds]50.00 In this scholarly book, Jocelyn Penny Small explores technical problems presented to Classical Greeks and Romans by the advent of the written word: how specific uses of memory as a ...
The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... URTON, GARY; with the collaboration of Primitivo Nine Llanos. xvi, 267 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1997. $35.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paper) Mathematics is not a Platonic description of timeless objective realities, as Frege argued. Numeracy is a ...
Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... CHATTY, DAWN. xviii, 230 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1997 Wilfred Thesiger's famous journeys into the Empty Quarter, Dhofar and Hadramawt, led him to claim that only the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Aborigines of Australia led a life of such ...
In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... DESCOLA, PHILIPPE; translated ... by Nora Scott (Camb. Pap. social cult. Anthrop. 93). xviii, 372 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1996. 50.00 (cloth), [pounds]17.95 (paper) Between 1976 and 1978, Descola spent two years in southeastern Ecuador among ...
If Rain Doesn't Come: An Anthropological Study of Drought and Human Ecology in Western Rajasthan.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... FISHER, R.J. (Publ. Sydn. Ass. Stud. Soc. Cult. 14). xviii, 234 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Manohar: Sydney Studies, 1997. [pounds]A 40.00 The That desert and savannah of western India remain one of the most densely populated, yet traditionally used, arid and semi-arid ...
The Role of Law in Natural Resource Management.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... SPIERTZ, JOEP, & MELANIE G. WIBER (eds). iv, 186 pp., map, bibliogrs. s'Gravenhage: Vuga; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, distributors, 1996. $29.95 Focusing on case studies of various kinds of resource regimes in different parts of the world, this volume combines ...
Uncommon Ground: Culture Landscapes and Environmental Values.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... STRANG, VERONICA. (Explor. Anthrop.). xiv, 309 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg 1997. [pounds]34.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) Uncommon ground begins with 'Landscapes of the past', a history of exploration and settlement - discovery voyages, missions, ...
Beauty and Power: Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... JOHNSON, MARK. (Explor. Anthrop. Ser.). x, 264 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]34.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) This impressive ethnography takes the reader immediately into the 'Super Gay Model' competition held in a town in the southern ...
Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... MANDERSON, LENORE & MARGARET JOLLY (eds). xii, 367 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997. [pounds]43.25 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper) These ten original (and one previously published) essays by diverse scholars 'query both an easy universalism and ...
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... PINK, SARAH. (Mediterranea Ser.). viii, 233 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]34.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) In Women and bullfighting Sarah Pink traces the contested success of the female bullfighter Cristina Sanchez and what it reveals about ...
The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... TUZIN, DONALD. xiv, 256 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997. [pounds]35.95 (cloth), [pounds]15.25 (paper) Gender theorists will be especially grateful for this flawed but interesting book, developing a sorely needed genre: ethnographies of ...
Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... ANGROSINO, MICHAEL V. 287 pp., bibliogr. Walnut Creek, London: Altamira Press, 1998. [pounds]16.50 (paper) This book has two principal themes. The first is to answer the questions 'What does it feel like to be "mentally retarded?" What does the term mean in terms of ...
The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BARRETT, ROB. (Stud. social Comm. Psychiatr.). xx, 337 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]45.00 Rob Barrett, psychiatrist and anthropologist, uses anthropological training and a privileged clinical position to write a rich and provocative ethnography of an ...
Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BECKER, GAY. xii, 264 pp., bibliogr. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1997. $27.50 We achieve our personal identities and self-concept through the use of the narrative configuration, and make our existence into a whole by understanding it as an expression of a single ...
Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... JUSTICE, CHRISTOPHER. xxii, 268 pp., illus., map, bibliogr. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1997 Western death studies concentrate on premature deaths, particularly from cancer, the main concern of the hospice and palliative care movements. The elderly are disengaged from ...
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... RASMUSSEN, SUSAN J. xx, 188 pp., illus., bibliogr. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1997 This volume on Tuareg aging constitutes a good complementary monograph to Rasmussen's already published Spirit possession and personhood among the Kel Ewee Tuareg (1995). While ...
Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropologists.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BIOLSI, THOMAS & LARRY J. ZIMMERMAN (eds). x, 226 pp., bibliogrs. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1997. $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper) Most North American anthropologists trained after 1969 have benefited from Vine Deloria Jr's critique of social science's invasion into Indian ...
Some Things are not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BLAINE, MARTHA ROYCE. xviii, 274 pp., illus., map, table, bibliogr. Lincoln, NE, London: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1997. [pounds]47.50 Since their earliest dealings with U.S. federal government agents who were imperfectly enforcing unreasonable policies intended to either ...
The Potlach Papers: A Colonial Case History.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... Bracken, Christopher. xii, 276 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997. [pounds]31.95 (cloth), [pounds]13.50 (paper) The potlatch has never ceased to fascinate outsiders, who for more than a century have produced a huge literature which dwarfs ...
Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... DONALD, LELAND. xvi, 379 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1997 Donald, a long-time scholar of the Northwest Coast culture area, has painstakingly assembled a great mass of material in order to present the first comprehensive consideration ...
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... HAUGERUD, ANGELIQUE. (Afr. Stud. 84). xvi, 266 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]15.95 (paper) Once in a while I open a book on an area which seems familiar to me to discover an exciting sense of enlightenment and insight. This was my experience ...
Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... HEFNER, ROBERT W. & PATRICIA HORVATICH (eds). 327 pp., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 1997 For anyone looking - for themselves or for students - for an up-to date account of what it is to be a Muslim in Southeast Asia today and how issues arising from the ...
Images of Malay-Indonesian Identity.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... HITCHCOCK, MICHAEL & VICTOR T. KING (eds). (S.E. Asian social Science Monogr.). xviii, 282 pp., illus., tables, bibliogrs. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford Univ. Press/OUP South East Asia, 1997. [pounds]25.00 (cloth) The editors have done an excellent - and eloquent - job of organizing and ...
White Settlers: The Impact of Rural Repopulation in Scotland.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... JEDREJ, CHARLES & MARK NUTTALL. viii, 195 pp., bibliogr. Luxembourg: Harwood Academic; Reading International Publishers, distributors, 1996. [pounds]34.00 (cloth), [pounds]12.99 (paper) Charles Jedrej's and Mark Nuttall's White settlers is a welcome addition to the literature on ...
The Temple of Memories: History, Power and Morality in a Chinese Village.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... JING, JUN. xii, 217 pp, illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press; Cambridge: Univ. Press, distributors, 1996. [pounds]25.00 This book is a very significant contribution to the anthropology of social memory, to the ethnography of China and also to our understanding of that high ...
Class Struggles or Family Struggle? The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... KIM, SEUNG YUNG. xxiv, 296 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]35.00 Fieldwork for this volume spanned the momentous mouths of 1987 when the eruption of massive street demonstrations in South Korea forced a relaxation of coercive political ...
Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities and the Gaelic Renaissance.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... MACDONALD, SHARON. (Ethnicity & Identity Ser.). xx, 297 pp, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]34.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) A new ethnography of the Scottish Hebrides has been long overdue, following Susan Parman's excellent but now very dated ...
Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... McGREGOR, RUSSELL. xiv, 313 pp., plates, bibliogr. Melbourne: Univ. Press, 1997 Imagined destinies is a history of ideas regarding Australian Aborigines and the once commonly held notion that they were doomed to extinction. The author traces the descent of the 'doomed race ...
A Different Kind of War Story.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... NORDSTROM, CAROLYN. xviii, 254 pp, illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. [pounds]38.00 (cloth), [pounds]17.50 (paper) This book is offered as an 'experimental ethnography' (p. 36) of Mozambique's post-independence war, revolving around a topic and a ...
Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... RYAN, JAMES R. (Picturing History Ser.). 272 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Reaktion Books, 1997. [pounds]25.00 While Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore was photographing a charging rhinoceros in British East Africa in 1908, he himself was photographed, eye to the viewfinder of an ...
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... WADE, PETER. (Crit. Stud. Lat. Am. Ser.). viii, 152 pp., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Pluto Press, 1997. [pounds]35.00 (cloth), [pounds]10.99 (paper) Students of 'race' or 'ethnicity' know that the Latin American context raises empirical questions and points in theoretical ...
Ritual Dramas in the Duke of York Islands: An Exploration of Cultural Imagery.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... AIJMER, GORAN. x, 370 pp, illus., plates, maps, bibliogr. Goteborg: IASSA, 1997 There is a pervasive pedantic quality to this analysis of ritual symbolism - hardly surprising as the volume originated as a teaching project which developed into a five-year seminar. The original ...
Contemporary American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... BECKER, PENNY EDGELL & NANCY L. EIESLAND (eds). 272 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Walnut Creek, London, Delhi: Altamira, 1997. [pounds]19.99 (paper) The contributors to this collection aim to show how a specifically ethnographic approach can be used to reassess old theories and pose ...
Shunters at Work: Creating a World in a Railway Yard.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... EDELMAN, BIRGITTA. (Stockh. Stud. social Anthrop. 37). x, 336 pp, illus., bibliogr. Stockholm: Dept of Social Anthropology, Univ. of Stockholm, 1997 Birgitta Edelman's book deals with the shunters in one specific Swedish railway yard in Stockholm, where she herself has worked ....
Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... GUPTA, AKHIL & JAMES FERGUSON (eds). viii, 361 pp., bibliogr. Durham, NC, London: Duke Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]52.50 (cloth), [pounds]16.95 (paper) This is a collection of papers that explores how anthropologists can conceive of people's lives 'after culture'; that is, at a ...
International Migration, Immobility and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... HAMMAR, TOMAS et al. (eds). x, 316 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]39.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) With a book of this type I had better make my own prejudices clear at the start. In my own work on migration many years ago, I very soon ...
Shamanic Performances on the Urban Scene: Neo-Shamanism in Contemporary Sweden.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... LINDQUIST, GALINA. (Stock. Stud. social Anthrop. 39). x, 315 pp., bibliogr. Stockholm: Dept of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University 1997 Lindquist's book presents an interesting example of a social-scientific phenomenon that is likely to increase in frequency: the ...
The Theory of Shopping.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... MILLER, DANIEL. x, 180 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 1998 [pounds]39.50 (cloth), [pounds]11.95 (paper) Miller turns out work at a rate that easily depresses the onlooker. The most recent instance is A theory of shopping. Concerned with the most mundane of activities, ...
The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... ORLOVE, BENJAMIN (ed.). (Linking Levels of Analysis Ser.). x, 226 pp., tables, bibliogr. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997. $42.50 This volume, a collaborative effort of anthropologists and historians, takes issue with studies of Latin America which focus on exports to ...
The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... PARKIN, ROBERT. x, 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic; Reading: International Publishers, distributors, 1996 Ever since E.E. Evans-Pritchard began his programme of translating 'the writings of the Annie sociologique school in the nineteen-fifties, there has ...
Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... REED-DANAHAY, DEBORAH (ed.). (Explor. Anthrop.). xiv, 277 pp, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]34.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) Genres of anthropology are becoming increasingly diverse and boundaries continue to be blurred. The ethnographic enterprise ...