Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute back issues from March 2003:
Places of transformation: building monuments from water and stone in the Neolithic of the Irish Sea.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Introduction: places of water and stone Megalithic monuments dating from the Neolithic period (c.4,000-2,400 BC) are found all along the coasts of the Irish Sea. There is evidence that people in the Irish Sea zone were in contact with one another during the Neolithic period ....
Eating with your favourite mother: time and sociality in a Brazilian Amerindian community.(family relationships in the Caboclo-Indian community)
Mar 01, 2003; ... <Pre> The Kid has changed the world and myself. Not in the beginning But bit by bit, As I became attached to him Andrei Tai-kovskij, The sacrifice </Pre> At the beginning of Andrei Tarkovskij's film, The sacrifice, a father tells a story to his child, who is dumb, in which ...
Interpreting images: diagnostic skill in the genetics clinic.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Introduction Claims about the potential of the so-called 'new' genetics (Weatherall 1985: 1) to transform medical practice (see e.g. Bell 1998) have been accompanied by increasing social science and clinical interest in the implications of the use of molecular genetic ...
The virtual moment.(demonstration of the theory of virtualism)
Mar 01, 2003; ... It is perhaps not surprising that anthropology is increasingly involved in the study of audit, partly, one imagines, as a reaction to the degree to which anthropologists find themselves increasingly subject to audit of their own teaching and research and respond by trying to objectify this ...
Conscripts and Christians: representing kinship and affinity in the Carnian Alps.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Introduction This article is about rituals which celebrate kin ties and courtship links within the village community. The data is drawn from my own fieldwork carried out between 1989 and 1991 in the Carnian Alps in northeast Italy, not far from the Austrian and Slovenian ...
Custom in the courtroom, law in the village: legal transformations in Papua New Guinea.
Mar 01, 2003; ... It is by now a truism that in Papua New Guinea (PNG) the 'problem' of legal pluralism is an especially vexing one for lawyers and anthropologists alike (Aleck 1993; Donne 1987; Goddard 2000; Westermark 1986). The country's internal diversity is notable both for its magnitude and its ...
Name rituals and acts of feeling among the Kayapo (Mebengokre).
Mar 01, 2003; ... Ritual form and performance carry meanings about commitment to a certain order, and the temporal qualities of that order are at least partly established through ritual itself. In this article I argue that Rappaport's (1999) ideas about the ritual production of temporal orders, prefigured ...
On space as a capacity.(space and social relationships)
Mar 01, 2003; ... What happens when people's identity is not land-related? When a land holds no values, no memories, no history for the people that inhabit it? In the city of Antofagasta, Chile, people say that they live in a 'moment of fugue'. They refer to the city as a campamento minero, a mining ...
The art of forgetting. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Aesthetics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... FORTY, ADRIAN & SUSANNE KUCHLER (eds). The art of forgetting. xiv, 216 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 1999. [pounds sterling] 42.00 (cloth) In Western societies, so the editors of this volume argue, material objects are generally assumed to play a ...
Beyond aesthetics: art and the technologies of enchantment. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Aesthetics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... PINNEY, CHRISTOPHER & NICHOLAS THOMAS (eds). Beyond aesthetics: art and the technologies of enchantment. vii, 288 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2001. [pounds sterling]42.99 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) At the time of Alfred Gell's untimely ...
Folk art potters of Japan: beyond an anthropology of aesthetics. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Aesthetics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MOERAN, BRIAN. Folk art potters of Japan: beyond an anthropology of aesthetics. xiv, 272 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Richmond, Sy.: Curzon, 1997. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper) There has been a great need in the anthropology of art and ...
The shadows and lights of Waco: millennialism today. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(a study of the results of the United States government attack on the compound of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas)(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... FABUION, JAMES D. The shadows and lights of Waco: millennialism today. xvii, 242 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]37.95 (cloth), [pounds sterling]15.95 (paper) Paranoid, gun-toting, drug-using, fornicating, often-divorced, ...
Qing colonial enterprise: ethnography and cartography in early modern China. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... HOSTETLER, LAURA, Qing colonial enterprise: ethnography and cartography in early modern China. xx, 257 pp., maps, figs., tables, plates, bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]22.50 (cloth) Historians of China have tended to shy away from attempts ...
Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... LIENHARDT, PETER: AHMED AL-SHAHI (ed.). Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia. xx, 257 pp., map, figs., illus., bibliogr. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave, with St Antony's College, Oxford, 2001. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth) This is an anthropological gem. It is a work whose ...
Recovering history, constructing race: the Indian, Black and White roots of Mexican Americans. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MENCHACA, MARTHA. Recovering history, constructing race: the Indian. Black and [4/hire roots of Mexican Americans. xi, 375 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 2001 Unravelling the long and complex developments of the racial make-up of the Mexican American ...
Human evolutionary psychology. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Psychology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... BARRETT, LOUISE, ROBIN DUNBAR & JOHN LYCETT. Human evolutionary psychology. xiv, 434 pp., figs., tables, bibliogr. London, New York: Palgrave, 2002. [pounds sterling]17.99 (paper) This is an enormously rich book, summarizing and explaining just about every recent controversy in ...
Power and the self. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Psychology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MAGEO, JEANNETTE (ed.). Power and the self xi, 221 pp., bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2002. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]15.95 (paper) Almost a decade ago I briefly reviewed an excellent book entitled New directions in psychological anthropology by ...
Dreaming equality: color, race, and racism in urban Brazil. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Psychology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SHERIFF, ROBIN E. Dreaming equality: color, race, and racism in urban Brazil. x, 264 pp., bibliogr. London, New Jersey: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2001. $60.00 (cloth), $22.00 (paper) In Dreaming equality, Robin E. Sheriff advances a compassionate and detailed ethnographic account of ...
Anthropological approaches to psychological medicine: crossing bridges. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & Psychology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SKULTANS, VIEDA & JOHN Cox (eds). Anthropological approaches to psychological medicine: crossing bridges. 303 pp.' bibliogrs. London, Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000. [pounds sterling]14.95 (paper) This set of essays explores different sorts of relationships ...
Moche art and archaeology in ancient Peru. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... PILLSBURY, JOANNE (ed.), Moche art and archaeology in ancient Peru. 343 pp., maps, tables, plates, illus., bibliogrs. London, New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth) This handsome volume contains fifteen papers given by leading Peruvian and North ...
Uruk Mesopotamia and its neighbors: cross-cultural interactions in the era of state formation. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... ROTHMAN, MITCHELL S. (ed.). Unik Mesopotamia and its neighbors: cross-cultural interactions in the era of state formation. xxi, 556 pp., maps, figs., tables, diagrs., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: James Currey/Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2002. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth), ...
The Nasca. (Archaeology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SILVERMAN, HELAINE & DONALD A. PROULX. The Nasca. xix, 339 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. [pounds sterling]55.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]19.99 (paper) Andeanists should welcome this addition to the series devoted to ...
Human paleobiology. (Book Reviews: Biological Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... ECKHARDT, ROBERT B. Human paleobiology. xiii, 350 pp., tables, diagrs., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2000. [pounds sterling]52.50 (cloth) Robert B. Eckhardt wastes no time in setting a daunting challenge for himself in Human paleobiology: the 'reconstruction of earlier ...
The evolution and genetics of Latin American populations. (Book Reviews: Biological Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SALZANO, FRANCISCO M. & MARIA CATIRA BORTOLINI. The evolution and genetics of Latin American populations. xvi, 512 pp., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]60.00 (cloth) This is a useful volume that provides a wealth of data on the history, ...
Turkish region: state, market and social identities on the East Black Sea coast. (Book Reviews: General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... BELLER-HANN, ILDIKO & CHRIS HANN. Turkish region: state, market and social identities on the East Black Sea coast. xii, 244 PP., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: James Currey; Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]16.95 (paper) ...
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... CONNOR, LINDA H. & GEOFFREY SAMUEL (eds). Healing powers and modernity: traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies. x, 283 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogrs. London, Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 2001. [pounds sterling]58.95 (cloth) This intriguing and ...
Cyberpl@y: communicating online. (Book Reviews: General).(this book is an attempt at presenting an ethnography of playful communication on the internet)(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... DANET, BRENDA. Cyberpl@y: communicating online. xviii, 418 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2001. [pounds sterling]42.99 (cloth), [pounds sterling15.99 (paper) This book is an attempt at presenting an ethnography of playful communication on the ...
Poverty in Burkina Faso: representations and realities. (Book Reviews: General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... HAGBERG, STEN. Poverty in Burkina Faso: representations and realities. ix, 116 pp., maps, plates, bibliogr. Uppsala: ULRicA, 2001. SEK85, $7.99, [euro]8.75 (paper) Hagberg's book is a concise study of representations and realities of poverty in Burkina Faso. This includes an ...
The animals came dancing: native American sacred ecology and animal kinship. .(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... HARROD, HOWARD L. The animals came dancing: native American sacred ecology and animal kinship. xxv, 171 pp., map, bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2000. $17.95 (paper), $35.00 (cloth) Concerned that wild animals will not survive the twenty-first century, professor of ...
A place apart: an anthropological study of the Icelandic world. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... HASTRUP, KIRSTEN. A place apart: an anthropological study of the Icelandic world. xii, 227 pp. map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 This book opens with a story of Hastrup's problems with collecting cows for the evening milking at a farm in the south of Iceland ....
Will the time ever come? A Tlingit source book. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... HOPE III, ANDREW & THOMAS F. THORNTON (eds). Will the time ever come? A Tlingit source book. 159 pp., illus. Fairbanks: Univ. Alaska, 2001. [pounds sterling]10.95 (paper) This book grew out of the first Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans in 1993 in southeast Alaska. As ...
Traditionalism and modernity in the music and dance of Oceania: essays in honour of Barbara B. Smith. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... LAWRENCE, HELEN REEVES & DON NILES (eds). Traditionalism and modernity in the music and dance of Oceania: essays in honour of Barbara B. Smith. xviii, 267 pp., maps, illus., musical notation, bibliogrs. Sydney: Univ. Sydney, 2001. $40.00 (paper) The pioneering ethnomusicologist ...
Sex, sexuality and the anthropologist. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MARKOWITZ, FRAN & MICHAEL ASHKENAZI (eds). Sex, sexuality and the anthropologist. viii, 230 pp., bibliogr. Urbana: Univ. Illinois Press, 1999. $34.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) Sex, sexuality and the anthropologist is the latest book to look at the role of sexual experience during ...
Callaloo or tossed salad? East Indians and the cultural politics of identity in Trinidad. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MUNASINGHE, VIRANJINI. Callaloo or tossed salad? East Indians and the cultural politics of identity in Trinidad. xv, 315 pp., maps, bibliogr. New York: Cornell Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]30.50 (cloth), [pounds sterling]13.50 (paper) Callaloo is a vegetable stew common ...
Disability and the life course: global perspectives. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... PRIESTLEY, MARK (ed.). Disability and the life course: global perspectives. xix, 252 pp., figs., tables, bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2001. [pound sterling]40.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.95 (paper) This is a welcome and timely publication. There has been for some time ...
Staying local in the global village: Bali in the twentieth century. (General).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... RUBINSTEIN, RAECHELLE & LINDA H. CONNOR (eds). Staying local in the global village: Bali in the twentieth century. xiv, 352 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1999. $47.00 (cloth) This interesting collection of papers by experts on Bali from ...
Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance: problems in comparative linguistics. (Language & Linguistics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... AIKHENVALD, ALEXANDRA Y. & R.M.W DIXON (eds). Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance: problems in comparative linguistics. xvi, 453 pp., maps, figs., tables, bibliogrs. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]60.00 (cloth) This invaluable volume contains revisions of ...
Linguistic diversity. (Language & Linguistics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... NETTLE, DANIEL. Linguistic diversity. xii. 1 68 pp.. map, tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 1999. [pounds sterling]35.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]12.99 (paper) Daniel Nettle is a linguist (with field experience in collecting the first appreciable body of data on ...
Growing up with Tok Pisin: contact, creolization, and change in Papua New Guinea's national language. (Language & Linguistics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SMITH, GEOFF P. Growing up with Tok Pisin: contact, creolization, and change in Papua New Guinea's national language. xi, 244 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Battlebridge Publications, 2002. [pounds sterling]18.00 (paper) Melanesia is an area which reportedly has ...
Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: exploring ethnic identity on Curacao. (Language & Linguistics).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... BENJAMIN, ALAN F. Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: exploring ethnic identity on Curacao. xii, 200 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 2002 [pounds sterling]50.00 (cloth) Ethnic identity is an important concern in anthropology and the Caribbean is a ...
Culture and rights: anthropological perspectives. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... COWAN, JANE K., MARIE-BENEDICTE DEMBOUR & RICHARD A. WILSON (eds). Culture and rights: anthropological perspectives. xiv, 258 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2001. [pounds]45.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]15.95 (paper) This is a serious book that addresses ...
Shelter blues: sanity and selfhood among the homeless. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... DESJARLAIS, ROBERT, Shelter blues: sanity and selfhood among the homeless, x, 307 pp., illus., bib-liogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 1997. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]18.95 (paper) There are really two books twined together in this one volume ....
Silicon second nature: culturing artificial life in a digital world. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... HELMREICH, STEFAN. Silicon second nature: culturing artificial life in a digital world. xii, 314 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1998. $29.95 (cloth) Silicon second nature is a critical ethnography of the ways and beliefs of a group of ...
Natural enemies: people-wildlife conflicts in anthropological perspective. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... KNIGHT, JOHN (ed.). Natural enemies: people-wildlife conflicts in anthropological perspective. ix, 254 pp., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. [pounds sterling]15.99 (paper) The sub-field of environmental anthropology--as this has been developing within European ...
Changing masters: spirit possession and identity construction among slave descendants and other subordinates in the Sudan. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MAKRIS, G.P. Changing masters: spirit possession and identity construction among slave descendants and other subordinates in the Sudan. xiii, 432 pp., bibliogr. Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 2000. $75.00 (cloth) Changing masters represents an important contribution to ...
Ghosts and shadows: construction of identity and community in an African diaspora. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MATSUOKA, ATSUKO & JOHN SORENSON. Ghosts and shadows: construction of identity and community in an African diaspora. xiv, 261 pp., map, bibliogr. London, Toronto: Univ. Toronto Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]35.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.00 (paper) In Ghosts and shadows, ...
Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft and die occult in postcolonial Africa. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... MOORE, HENRIETTA L. & TODD SANDERS (eds). Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft and die occult in postcolonial Africa. xiii, 253 pp.' illus., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 2001. [pounds sterling]16.99 (paper) Magical interpretations ...
Post-Soviet chaos: violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... NAZPARY, JOMA. Post-Soviet chaos: violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan. ix, 217 pp., tables, bibliogr. London: Pluto Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]18.99 (paper) This is a welcome addition to the sparse anthropological literature on Central ...
Breaking the watch: the meanings of retirement in America. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SAVISHINSKY, JOEL S. Breaking the watch: the meanings of retirement in America. 281 pp., bibliogr. London, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2000. [pounds sterling]1 6.95 (cloth) This superb book will be of great interest to those who study ageing, the life course, and the ...
Religion and the dramatisation of life: spirit beliefs and rituals in southern and central Malawi. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... SCHOFFELEERS, MATHEW. Religion and the dramatisation of life: spirit beliefs and rituals in southern and central Malawi. 166 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Blantyre, Malawi: CLAIM, 2000. [pounds sterling]7.95 (paper) This is a timely collection of six important and representative ...
Cholas and pishtacos: stories of race and sex in the Andes. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... WEISMANTEL, MARY. Cholas and pishtacos: stories of race and sex in the Andes. xlii, 326 pp., maps, plates, bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]38.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.50 (paper) This book explores how race and sex interact in Andean ...
Arguments and icons: divergent modes of religiosity. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... EHITEHOUSE, HARVEY. Arguments and icons: divergent modes of religiosity. x, 204 pp., maps, diagr., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2000. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]17.99 (paper) This is a clearly written text with a seemingly convincing argument. However, by ...
Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia. (Social Anthropology).(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Wu, DAVID Y.H. & TAN CHEE-BENG (eds). Changing Chinesc foodways in Asia. xiii, 286 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Hong Kong: The Chinese Univ. Press, 2001. HK$250.00 (cloth) This is the latest addition to the growing number of anthropological publications on food consumption in Asia, ...
Books received.
Mar 01, 2003 ... BARGACH, JAMILA. Orphans of Islam: family, abandonment, and secret adoption in Morocco. xvii, 290 pp., tables. Oxford, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. (paper) BAUMGARTEN, ALBERT I. (ed.). Sacrifice in religious experience. 329 pp., bibliogrs. Leiden: Brill, 2002 ....