Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute back issues from December 2002:
Collective representations and social praxis: local politics in the Norwegian welfare state.
Dec 01, 2002; ... Introduction The Norwegian welfare state, while in some respects offering a model of successful social support for the rest of the developed world, sometimes seems unique and thus not generalizabel because of the small size and homogeneous nature of Norwegian society. In this ...
Anthropological and accounting knowledge in Islamic banking and finance: rethinking critical accounts.
Dec 01, 2002; ... Accounting and the form of anthropological knowledge Scholars across the disciplines seem to agree that it is time for a new accounting of accounting. For sociologists Carruthers and Espeland (1991), accounting is more than mere technique; it has symbolic power as a form of ...
The bones affair: indigenous knowledge practices in contact situations seen from an Amazonian case.
Dec 01, 2002; ... Lavoisier's method was not to read and pray, but to dream that some long and complicated chemical process would have a certain effect, to put into practice with dull patience, after its inevitable failure, to dream that with some modification it would have another result, and to end by ...
Work as cultural production: labour and self-identity among Southwest French wine-growers.
Dec 01, 2002; ... I argue that refiguring the Marxist concept of labour, and work more generally, from an instrumental act of appropriating and transforming nature to one of differentiated cultural production, offers the possibility of grasping important historical, political-economic, and social processes ...
Drum and voice: aesthetics and social process on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea *.
Dec 01, 2002; ... Introduction Nekgini-speaking people living in the hinterland of the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) will often say, 'a garamut is a man'. (1) A garamut - Neo-Melanesian for a slit-gong (Fig. 1), an idiophone (2) made from a hollowed tree trunk -- is said to have a voice ....
The bwili or 'flying tricksters' of Malakula: A critical discussion of recent debates on rock art, ethnography and shamanisms.
Dec 01, 2002; ... Introduction 'Shamanism' has been at the centre of interpretative rock art research for well over a decade. A debate rages between so-called 'shamaniacs', primarily Dowson (e.g. 1998a), Whitley (e.g. 1992), and Lewis-Williams (e.g. 1998), and 'shamanophobes', most vocally ...
More on Greek hoplites: Darwinism and social evolution. (Comment).
Dec 01, 2002 ... Let me pick up the gauntlet that Hallpike threw down to Runciman in a recent issue of this Journal (Runciman & Hallpike 2001). Hallpike asserts that Runciman has failed to answer the critique of Darwinian analyses of human behaviour and socio-cultural systems that he offered in chapter 2 ...
Cannibalism and the colonial world. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... BARKER, FRANCIS, PETER HULME & MARGARET IVERSEN (eds). Cannibalism and the colonial world. xiv, 309 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]13.95 (paper) Is cannibalism dead? No, not exactly. Interest in and ...
The new shape of old island culture: a half century of social change in Micronesia. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HEZEL, FRANCIS X. The new shape of old island culture: a half century of social change in Micronesia. xi, 198 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. Hawaii Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]19.95 (paper) A Micronesian family finishes their meal and tunes into their television ....
The Swahili: the social landscape of a mercantile society. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HORTON, MARK & JOHN MIDDLETON. The Swahili: the social landscape of a mercantile society. 282 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 2000. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth) Mark Horton, an archaeologist, and John Middleton, an anthropologist, both ...
Tradition and transmission: Bantu, Indo-European and Circumpolar great traditions. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... ODNER, KNUT. Tradition and transmission: Bantu, Indo-European and Circumpolar great traditions. xi, 410 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Bergen: Norse Publications, 2000 This study concerns continuity, transmission and change in the cultural history of three separate traditions: ...
The typhoon of war: Micronesian experiences of the Pacific war. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... POYER, LIN, SUZANNE FALGOUT & LAURENCE CRUCCI. The typhoon of war: Micronesian experiences of the Pacific war. xiii, 493 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. Hawaii press, 2000. [pounds sterling]54.00 (cloth) The 'Good War' was, for most, a catastrophe on a scale ...
An Irish working class: explorations in political economy and hegemony. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... SILVERMAN, MARILYN. An Irish working class: explorations in political economy and hegemony, 1800-1950. xiii, 566 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. London, Toronto: Univ. Toronto Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]50.00 (cloth) While the length of this ambitious volume requires a dedicated ...
An archacology of natural places. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... BRADLEY, RICHARD. An archacology of natural places. xii, 177 pp., illus., figs., diagrs., bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. [pounds sterling]15.99 (paper) Richard Bradley begins by providing a fascinating account -- part ethnography and part historiography -- of ...
Fragmentation in archaeology: people, places and broken objects in the prehistory of south eastern Europe. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... CHAPMAN, JOHN. Fragmentation in archaeology: people, places and broken objects in the prehistory of south eastern Europe. xvii, 296 pp., figs., tables, bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 2000, [pounds sterling]65.00 (cloth) Chapman introduces this volume as the result of ...
Feasts: archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... DIETLER, MICHAEL & BRIAN HAYDEN (eds). Feasts: archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power. xi, 432 pp., maps, diagrs., illus., bibliogrs. London, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. $55.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) This volume brings ...
Cultural evolution: contemporary viewpoints. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... FEINMAN, GARY & LINDA MANZANILLA (cds). Cultural evolution: contemporary viewpoints. xv, 269 pp., maps, diagr., illus., bibliogr. Dordrecht, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002. $67.50 (cloth) This compilation of papers is a tribute to the archaeological ...
Archaeology and world religion. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... INSOLL, TIMOTHY (ed.). Archacology and world religion. x, 226 pp., maps, diagr., illus., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 2001. [pounds sterling]15.99 (paper) The archaeology of world religions -- Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism -- would always have ...
Anasazi America: seventeen centuries on the road from Center Place. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... STUART, DAVID E. Anasazi America: seventeen centuries on the road from Center Place. xvi, 247 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr., Albuquerque: Univ of New Mexico Press, 2000. $29.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper) The book, Anasazi America, is quite different from the usual reconstruction of ...
AIDS, sexuality and gender in Africa: collective strategies and struggles in Tanzania and Zambia. (Book Reviews: Gender).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... BAYLIES, CAROLYN & JANET BUJRA. AIDS, sexuality and gender in Africa: collective strategies and struggles in Tanzania and Zambia. 222 pp., map, bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 2001. [pounds sterling]30.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]12.50 (paper) In stark contrast to the ...
Gender and the politics of rights and democracy in Latin America. (Book Reviews: Gender).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... CRASKE, NIKKI & MAXINE MOLYNEUX (eds). Gender and the politics of rights and democracy in Latin America. xv, 226 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Publishers, 2002. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth) This volume focuses on the way the discourse of rights has ...
Gender and power in pre-hispanic Mesoamerica. (Book Reviews: Gender).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... JOYCE, ROSEMARY A. Gender and power in pre-hispanic Mesoamerica. xvi, 269 pp., map, tables, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 2001. $40.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper) In this study of gender in ancient Meso-America, Joyce takes issue with those who would see gender as the ...
The passion of music and dance: body gender and sexuality. (Book Reviews: Gender).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... WASHABAUGH, WILLIAM (ed.). Thc passion of music and dance: body gender and sexuality x, 201 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 1998. [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) In the introduction to this multifaceted and hybrid book which combines anthropology, ...
A flourishing yin: gender in China's medical history. (Book Reviews: Medical Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... FURTH, CHARLOTTE. A flourishing yin: gender in China's medical history, 960-1665. xiv, 355 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1999. [pounds sterling]35.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]12.95 (paper) Charlotte Furth's A flourshing yin sets a standard of ...
The transmission of Chinese medicine. (Book Reviews: Medical Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HSU, ELISABETH. The transmission of Chinese medicine. x, 296 pp., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1999. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]14.95 (paper) The Chinese system of state-sponsored traditional medicine received enormous publicity when the ...
Theories of sickness and misfortune amongst the Hadandowa Beja: narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. (Book Reviews: Medical Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... JACOBSEN, FRODE F. Theorics of sickness and misfortune amongst the Hadandowa Beja: narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. xiv, 366 PP., maps, illus., bib-liogr. London, New York: Kegan Paul International, 1998. [pounds sterling]55.00 (cloth) In this book ...
Everyday spirits and medical interventions: ethnographic and historical notes on therapeutic conventions in Zanzibar Town. (Book Reviews: Medical Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... NISULA, TAPIO, Everyday spirits and medical interventions: ethnographic and historical notes on therapeutic conventions in Zanzibar Town. 521 pp., bibliogr. Helsinki: Finnish Anthropological Association, 1999 This is an ambitious book. In Everyday spirits and medical ...
Ties that bind: youth and drugs in a black community. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... DEI, KOJO A. Ties that bind: youth and drugs in a black community. xiii, 178 pp., bibliogr. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 2002. $12.95 (paper) If making public policy is the job at hand, it is an article of faith that if one starts with the wrong formulation of a ...
Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HARRELL STEVAN (ed.). Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. xi, 321 pp., tables, maps figs., bibliogr. London, Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]36.50 (cloth); [pounds sterling]14.50 (paper) With nearly 7 million members, the Yi people constitute one ...
Never stand alone: a study of Borneo sociality. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HELLIWELL, CHRISTINE. Never stand alone: a study of Borneo sociality. xiv, 279 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Phillips, Maine: Borneo Research Council Inc., 2001. $35.00 (cloth) Ever since Derek Freeman's extraordinarily influential study of the characteristics of the Iban ...
Kindreds of the earth: Badaga household structure and demography. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HOCKINGS, PAUL. Kindreds of the earth: Badaga household structure and demography. 302 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999 Paul Hockings has a long history of research among various groups in south India, including most importantly the ...
Scandal in a small town: understanding modern Hungary through the stories of three families and The testimony of lives: narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... HOLLOS, MARIDA. Scandal in a small town: understanding modern Hungary through the stories of three families. xiii, 214 pp., maps, figs., tables, bibliogr. London, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. $49.95 (cloth) SKULTANS, VIEDA. The testimony of lives: narrative and memory in ...
Children of the blood: society, reproduction and cosmology in New Guinea. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... JUILLERAT, BERNARD. Children of the blood: society, reproduction and cosmology in New Guinea. xxx, 601., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 1996. [pounds sterling]49.95 (cloth) In this work, the culmination of twenty-five years of research with ...
The empire of things: regimes of value and material culture. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... MYERS, FRED R. (ed.). The empire of things: regimes of value and material culture. ix, 353 pp., figs., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: James Currey; Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001 $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Appadurai's The social life of things appeared around ...
Incroyance et paternites. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... PRADELLES DE LATOUR, CHARLES-HENRY. Incroyance et paternites. 232 pp., figs., bibliogr. Paris: EPEL, 2001. [pounds sterling]27.44 (paper) This ambitious, innovative, somewhat puzzling, and very French book aims systematically to relate, within a single analytical framework, ...
Amities: anthropologie et histoire. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... RAVIS-GIORDANI, GEORGES (ed.). Amities: anthropologie et histoire. 480 pp., tables, diagr., bibliogrs. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 1999. FF 300,00 (paper) As the editiors of a recent English-language volume on the anthropology of friendship argue, ...
Masculinity, motherhood and mockery: psychoanalyzing culture and the Iatmul Naven rite in New Guinea. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... SILVERMAN, ERIC KLINE. Masculinity, motherhood and mockery: psychoanalyzing culture and the Iatmul Naven rite in New Guinea. xiii, 243 pp., map, illus., diagr., bibliogr. Ann Arbor: Univ. Michigan Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]36.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]14.50 (paper) For ...
Playing host to deity: festival religion in the South Indian tradition. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... YOUNGER, PAUL. Playing host to deity: festival religion in the South Indian tradition. vii, 189 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth) Playing host to deity provides us with a comparative account of fourteen festival celebrations in the ...
Biotechnology and culture: bodies, anxieties, ethics. (Book Reviews: The Body).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... BRODWIN, PAUL. E. (ed.). Biotechnology and culture: bodies, anxieties, ethics. vi, 296 pp., bibliogrs. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]35.50 (cloth); [pounds sterling]17.95 (paper) Part of the interest of this book is its sheer breadth. Brodwin, whose ...
Imperial bodies: the physical experience of the Raj c.1800-1947. (Book Reviews: The Body).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... COLLINGHAM, E.M. Imperial bodies: the physical experience of the Raj c.1800-1947. xiii, 273 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity; Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. [pounds sterling]50.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]15.99 (paper) The tendency in studies of colonialism and ...
Reading the body: representations and remains in the archaeological record. (Book Reviews: The Body).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... RAUTMAN, ALISON E. (ed.). Reading the body: representations and remains in the archaeological record. viii, 283 pp., tables, figs., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2000. As Lynn Meskell points out in her theoretical overview within this book, the body has ...
A history of anthropology. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... ERIKSEN, THOMAS HYLLAND & FINN SIVERT NIELSEN. A history of anthropology. viii, 207 pp., bibliogr. London: Pluto Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) When I was a graduate student in American Civilization in the late 1950s, the ageing ...
Development sociology: actor perspectives. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... LONG, NORMAN. Development sociology: actor perspectives, xiii, 294 pp., figs., bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 2001. [pounds sterling]50.00 (cloth); [pounds sterling]16.99 (paper) Norman Long's work has for many years occupied an important place on the boundary between ...
My dear Spencer: the letters of F. J. Gillen to Baldwin Spencer. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... MULVANEY, JOHN, HOWARD MORPHY & ALISON PETCH (eds). My dear Spencer: the letters of F. J. Gillen to Baldwin Spencer. xvi, 554 pp., illus., plates, bibliogr. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1997. [pounds sterling]29.00 (cloth) It is not an overstatement that The native tribes of Central ...
A social history of anthropology in the United States. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... PATTERSON, THOMAS C. A social history of anthropology in the United States. x, 212 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2001. [pounds sterling]42.99 (cloth); [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) The writing of the history of anthropology has reached a crisis-point where ...
Being humans: anthropological universality and particularity in trans-disciplinary perspectives. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... ROUGHLEY, NEIL (ed.). Being humans: anthropological universality and particularity in trans-disciplinary perspectives. ix, 426 pp., bibliogr. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000. DM 128 (cloth) Drawing on a range of disciplinary expertise (philosophical, sociological, psychological, ...
The origin of human social institutions. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... RUNCIMAN, W.G. (ed.). The origin of human social institutions. 259 Pp., maps, figs., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]29.50 (cloth) Was the evolution of Homo sapiens a purely gradual process? Or did it culminate in a relatively sudden ...
Understanding culture: an introduction to anthropological theory. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... SALZMAN, PHILIP CARL. Understanding culture: an introduction to anthropological theory. ix, 173 pp., bibliogr. Illinois: Waveland Press, 2001. $11.95 (paper) Philip Carl Salzman has written a useful and accessible introduction to theory in anthropology. This brief volume (only ...
The science of man in ancient Greece. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... SASSI, MARIA MICHELA (transl. Paul Tucker). The science of man in ancient Greece. xxx, 224 PP., plates, bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]21.50 (cloth) The interest of anthropologists should be aroused by the title of this book, which looks ...
Schools of thought: twenty-five years of interpretive social science. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... SCOTT, JOAN W. & DEBRA KEATES (eds). Schools of thought: twenty-five years of interpretive social science. vii, 401 PP., tables, bibliogrs. Oxford, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]17.95 (paper) This volume is occasioned by a conference held at the ...
Delimiting anthropology: occasional inquiries and reflections. (Book Reviews: Theory).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... STOCKING, GEORGE W. JR. Delimiting anthropology: occasional inquiries and reflections. xi, 404 pp., table, bibliogr. Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press, 2002 George Stocking is, without doubt, the greatest historian of our discipline. His special interests of British social ...
Books received.(Bibliography)
Dec 01, 2002 ... ALAGOA, E.J. Okpu: ancestral houses in Nembe and European antiquities on the Brass and Nun rivers of the Niger delta. viii, 96 pp., tables, figs., illus. Lagos: Onyoma Research Publications, 2001. [pounds sterling]12.95 (paper) ARGYROU, VASSOS. Anthropology and the will to ...