Article: Chinese kinship; contemporary anthropological perspectives.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological ...
Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ);  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... demographic features of each region, styles of contemporary anthropological inquiry, and what might be called the ... book. Indeed, a major lacuna in the contemporary anthropological understanding of Central Asia is a thoroughgoing ...

Article: Logical and moral dilemmas of postmodernism.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... by the blizzard of references to literary scholars, rhetoricians and French philosophers which inundate contemporary anthropological publications. Theoreticians of more orthodox bent have tried to hold the fort against the rising storm ...

Article: Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... but this chapter is so much more. What she accomplishes here is a rethinking of the conjunction between contemporary anthropological theory and demography. In this sense, the introduction situates anthropology as well as fertility. The ...

Article: Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts: Contributions from the ...
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... differentiation. Carroll reviews the history of biblical scholarship on popular religion in Israel, drawing upon contemporary anthropological studies of popular Catholicism in Latin America to construct a methodological lens for examining allusions ...

Article: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Anthropological Quarterly;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... semiotic, and cybernetic communications theory and draws upon, in addition to very many classical and contemporary anthropological and sociological theorists, the works of select philosophers and theologians such as Pierce, Vico, Austin ...

Article: Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders. (book review)
Sing Out!;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... First, non-academic readers will have to skip some sections, as Simonett situates her investigation in contemporary anthropological and historical theory, using language that is incomprehensible to those of us untrained in the field ...

Article: Invisible genealogies: a history of Americanist anthropology
Anthropologica;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... it is a nuanced, layered and critical analysis of the Americanist tradition and its continuity with contemporary anthropological practice. For example, Darnell points out that the two theoretically central Boasian concepts, the ...