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March 2006

• Drinking games, karaoke songs, and yangge dances: youth cultural production in rural China (1).
  March 22, 2006; Chau, Adam Yuet

  This article examines the different ways youth in rural Shaanbei, northcentral China participate in cultural production. It explores the media through which young people express themselves and...
• Girl power: young women and the waning of patriarchy in rural north China (1).
  March 22, 2006; Yan, Yunxiang

  Since the early 1950s, several generations of young women in rural north China have responded to social changes brought about by state policies and practices, gradually altering their position...
• Reincarnation, sect unity, and identity among the druze.
  March 22, 2006; Bennett, Anne

  A belief in reincarnation is atypical within Islam, although exceptions exist with a few small sects. This essay analyzes the role that reincarnation plays in maintaining a sense of unity and...
• Sexual magic and money: Miskitu women's strategies in northern Honduras.
  March 22, 2006; Herlihy, Laura Hobson

  This article highlights Afro-indigenous Miskitu women's position and agency on the increasingly cash-oriented Miskitu Coast (northeastern Honduras). While Miskitu men (the main breadwinners)...
• Special money: Ithaca hours and garage sales.
  March 22, 2006; Herrmann, Gretchen M.

  This article explores how special monies are used in two different sites of the alternative economy, the U.S. garage sale and a local barter currency called Ithaca HOURS, and how they are...

January 2006

• Bone and flesh, seed and soil: patriliny by father's brother's daughter marriage.
  January 1, 2006; Altuntek, N. Serpil

  Behind patrilineal descent is an asymmetrical descent structure based on sex, and father's brother's daughter marriage. Because it is a means of constructing the patrilineage, patrilateral ...
• Christianity, identity, power, and employment in an aboriginal settlement.
  January 1, 2006; Schwarz, Carolyn

  This essay examines Aboriginal people's expression of Christian ideologies, values, and behaviors in regard to personhood. Christian practice in Galiwin'ku is a repertoire of individualization...
• Culture and economy: the case of the milk market in The Northern Andes of Ecuador (1).
  January 1, 2006; Ferraro, Emilia

  In a Quichua area of Ecuador milk marketing has traditionally been in the hands of nonindigenous people. In recent years the market has come into the hands of indigenous people, who use their...
• Polygyny, rank, and resources in Northwest Coast foraging societies (1).
  January 1, 2006; Walter, M. Susan

  Polygyny involving high ranking men and women facilitated the mobilization of resources in food, wealth, and labor in Northwest Coast societies. Men were more involved with food procurement and...
• Why spheres of exchange?
  January 1, 2006; Sillitoe, Paul

  Spheres of exchange, a classic anthropological topic, is briefly reviewed. The concept prompts looking at implied spheres of production. All production is not the same; different arrangements...

September 2005

• Fijian males at the crossroads of gender and ethnicity in a Fiji secondary school.
  September 22, 2005; White, Carmen M.

  This article explores how two transgendered Fijian males navigate the intersections of sex, gender, and ethnicity or "race" in a Fiji secondary school. Their experiences illustrate, on the one...
• Generation KU: individualism and China's millennial youth.
  September 22, 2005; Moore, Robert L.

  The People's Republic of China is undergoing dramatic changes, most of which have their roots in the government-initiated reforms of the 1980s. However, many of the current changes are being...
• The sense of tranquility: bodily practice and ethnic classes in Yucatan.
  September 22, 2005; Kray, Christine A.

  While bodily practice has become a major area of investigation in cultural anthropology, its connection to ethnicity remains to be explored. Among the Yucatec Maya, however, one cultural value,...
• The way of the buffaloes: trade and sacrifice in Northern Laos.
  September 22, 2005; Sprenger, Guido

  This article links buffalo sacrifices among Rmeet (Lamet) in Northern Laos to trade. Buffalo sacrifices for house spirits reintegrate ill persons into a socio-cosmic whole consisting of...

June 2005

• Caste, class, and community in India: an ethnographic approach.
  June 22, 2005; Natrajan, Balmurli

  The anthropology of India has been dominated by an emphasis on caste that has inhibited an integrated approach to understanding class in India. Using an ethnographic approach that takes into...
• Ethnographic Atlas xxxi: peoples of easternmost Europe (1).
  June 22, 2005; Bondarenko, Dmitri;Kazankov, Alexander;Khaltourina, Daria;Korotayev, Andrey

  In the current installment of the Ethnographic Atlas, we present formalized data (following Murdock's scheme) on seventeen peoples of the European part of the former Russian Empire and the...
• Patrilateral bias among a traditionally egalitarian people: Ju/'hoansi naming practice.
  June 22, 2005; Draper, Patricia;Haney, Christine

  The Ju/'hoansi (!Kung) of Namibia and Botswana are unusual for the strong norm to name children exclusively for kin and primarily for grandparents. Naming carries important significance by...
• Wolof women, economic liberalization, and the crisis of masculinity in rural Senegal.
  June 22, 2005; Perry, Donna L.

  Among Wolof farmers in Senegal's Peanut Basin, patriarchal control of household dependents has diminished in conjunction with economic liberalization, state disengagement, and the formation of...

March 2005

• Spirits of the hereafter: death, funerary possession, and the afterlife in Chuuk, Micronesia (1).
  March 22, 2005; Dernbach, Katherine Boris

  In Chuuk, Micronesia, recently deceased kin often appear as spirit visitors and may possess female relatives in order to provide comfort and guidance, and to deriver important messages from...

January 2005

• Cosmology, resources, and landscape: agencies of the dead and the living in Duna, Papua New Guinea.
  January 1, 2005; Stewart, Pamela J.;Strathern, Andrew

  Among the Duna people of Papua New Guinea, ideas about the dead and the living are intertwined through cosmological perceptions of, and ritual interactions with, the landscape. These ideas...
• Co-wife conflict and co-operation.(1)
  January 1, 2005; Jankowiak, William;Sudakov, Monika;Wilreker, Benjamin C.

  Conventional wisdom holds that the polygynous family system is as sexually and emotionally satisfying as a monogamous one. Ethnographic accounts of 69 polygynous systems, however, provide...
• Race and the politics of identity in Nepal (1).(Mongols and Aryans)
  January 1, 2005; Hangen, Susan

  While many anthropological studies on race have focused on dominant uses of race, race can be a powerful form of oppositional identity. Subaltern people may assert racial identities for...
• Temple-building and heritage in China (1).(Wong Tai Sin (Immortal))
  January 1, 2005; Chan, Selina Ching

  Building Huang Da Xian temples in Jinhua, in the Lower Yangtze Delta, is a "heritage" process, an interpretation, manipulation, and invention of the past for present and future interests....
• The articulation of culture, agriculture, and the environment of Chinese in Northern Thailand (1).
  January 1, 2005; Shu-min, Huang

  The Yunnan Chinese who settled in northern Thailand's Golden Triangle after 1964 used their traditional knowledge of hill farming and crop diversity, plus their extensive ethnic networks based...
• Walking streets, talking history: the making of Odessa.
  January 1, 2005; Richardson, Tanya

  Through walking streets and talking history, the members of the My Odessa club sense their city as place. History is encountered in buildings, ruins, monuments, and stories as both a diffuse...

September 2004

• Interpretations of elder suicide, stress, and dependency among rural Japanese.
  September 22, 2004; Traphagan, John W.

  This article explores ideas expressed by older, rural Japanese to explain suicide among their age peers. It also looks at how older Japanese conceptualize residing with children and...
• Muchongolo dance contests: deep play in the South African lowveld (1).
  September 22, 2004; Niehaus, Isak;Stadler, Jonathan

  This article argues that Geertz's concern with cultural performances as "stories people tell themselves about themselves" continues to be a valid focus of anthropological inquiry. Like...
• Prickly pear cactus and pastoralism in Southwest Madagascar.
  September 22, 2004; Kaufmann, Jeffrey C.

  Madagascar's Mahafale cattle raisers have adopted several species of the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) into their subsistence patterns. Their use of Opuntia has had the economic effects of both...
• The aesthetics of spiritual practice and the creation of moral and musical subjectivities in Aleppo, Syria (1).(dhikr (the invocation of God through prayer, song, and movement))
  September 22, 2004; Shannon, Jonathan H.

  This essay analyzes the performance of dhikr (the invocation of God through prayer, song, and movement) in Aleppo, Syria, as an embodied practice mediated by specific repertoires of aesthetic...
• The Angola prison rodeo: inmate cowboys and institutional tourism.
  September 22, 2004; Schrift, Melissa

  This article examines the Angola prison rodeo as a form of tourist performance and ritual. It argues that the rodeo capitalizes on the public's fascination with criminality through the...
• Wealth items in the Western Highlands of West Papua (1).
  September 22, 2004; Ploeg, Anton

  This article compares the distinctive uses of wealth items among Grand Valley Dani, Western Dani, and Me, the largest ethnic groups in West Papua. The time period covered is primarily from...

June 2004

• Battlefield pilgrims at Gettysburg National Military Park (1).
  June 22, 2004; Gatewood, John B.;Cameron, Catherine M.

  Historic battlefields provoke a broad range of responses from visitors. This article reports on the reasons people give for visiting Gettysburg National Military Park and the perceptions and...
• Genesis in Buli: Christianity, blood, and vernacular modernity on an Indonesian island.
  June 22, 2004; Bubandt, Nils

  Christianity and local ontology in the North Malukan village of Buff intersect in surprising ways that upset conventional ideas about tradition and modernity. The poetics and cultural politics...
• Scattering ashes of the family dead: memorial activity among the bereaved in contemporary Japan (1).
  June 22, 2004; Kawano, Satsuki

  Challenging the normative practice of interment, scattering ashes emerged as a new ritual in Japan during the 1990s. Both sensational and controversial, the practice has met with cries of...
• The defense of Maiquillahue Bay: knowledge, faith, and identity in an environmental conflict (1).
  June 22, 2004; Skewes, Juan Carlos;Guerra, Debbie

  After two years of active resistance, in 1998, the people of Mehuin in southern Chile succeeded in stopping the construction of a pipeline that would have spewed industrial waste from the...
• Walking in the spirit of blood: moral identity among born-again christians.
  June 22, 2004; Bielo, James S.

  The proliferation of small groups within American Protestantism, in particular those devoted to Bible study, raises questions about the collective construction of meaning in congregational...

March 2004

• Discourse shopping in a dispute over land in rural Indonesia (1).
  March 22, 2004; Biezeveld, Renske

  In Indonesia, since the time of colonial government, the main source for the determination of land rights has been local, indigenous law. Nonetheless, the state has always attempted to...
• Domestic space, habitus, and Xhosa ritual beer-drinking (1).
  March 22, 2004; McAllister, Patrick

  Xhosa beer-drinking rituals are structured according to several principles, among which the spatial order of domestic settings features prominently. An analysis of beer-drink rituals, however,...
• Money that burns like oil: a Sri Lankan cultural logic of morality and agency (1).
  March 22, 2004; Gamburd, Michele Ruth

  New labor opportunities have drawn Sri Lankan women to work as domestic servants in the Middle East. Many migrants complain that their remittances "burn like oil," disappearing without a trace....
• Nagotooh(gahni): the bonding between mother and child in Shoshoni tradition (1).
  March 22, 2004; Gould, Drusilla;Glowacka, Maria

  This essay discusses a traditional model of the maternal nurturing of newborn babies in the Shoshoni tradition from a native-language perspective. It examines the 30-day period of confinement...
• Pre-funerals in contemporary Japan: the making of a new ceremony of later life among aging Japanese (1).
  March 22, 2004; Kawano, Satsuki

  Managing an increasingly negative view of old age as the time of decline, older persons in Japan have shaped pre-funerals as ceremonies of later life celebrating their agency, self-sufficiency,...
• The people of the Lower Arafundi: tropical foragers of the New Guinea rainforest (1).
  March 22, 2004; Roscoe, Paul;Telban, Borut

  Ethnographic work in the Sepik Basin of New Guinea has been heavily biased toward the region's more dense and culturally elaborated communities. This article uses archival documentation and the...

January 2004

• A permissive zone for prostitution in the Middle Atlas of Morocco (1).
  January 1, 2004; Venema, Bernhard;Bakker, Jogien

  Muslim women are said to live in a male-dominated society with rigid sexual stratification: the seclusion and control of the sexual practices of a woman increase a man's status and power. This...
• Development and the life story of a Thai farmer leader (1).
  January 1, 2004; Delcore, Henry D.

  In the anthropology of development, the contributions of poststructuralist theory have been marred by tendencies toward discursive determinism and an inadequate theorizing of agency. The life ...
• Ethnographic Atlas XXX: peoples of Siberia (1).
  January 1, 2004; Korotayev, Andrey;Kazankov, Alexander;Borinskaya, Svetlana;Khaltourina, Daria;Bondarenko, Dmitri

  One of the most famous and important enterprises undertaken by the journal Ethnology was the publication of George Peter Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas. This started with the first issues of...
• Many ways of becoming a woman: the case of unmarried Israeli-Palestinian "girls".
  January 1, 2004; Sa'ar, Amalia

  Unmarried Israeli-Palestinian women are normatively expected to remain virgins and social juniors, yet in practice their handling of their sexuality, and by extension their femininity, produces...
• Social and emotional, contexts of weaning among Bofi farmers and foragers (1).
  January 1, 2004; Fouts, Hillary N.

  Weaning is a topic of much theoretical interest in anthropology, psychology, and public health. Several specific images about weaning are ubiquitous throughout the scholarly literature, but...
• The raw and the rotten: punk cuisine (1).
  January 1, 2004; Clark, Dylan

  This article investigates the ideological content of punk cuisine, a subcultural food system with its own grammar, logic, exclusions, and symbolism. As a shared system of praxis, punk cuisine...

September 2003

• Adolescent ambiguities and the negotiations of belonging in the Andes.
  September 22, 2003; Van Vleet, Krista E.

  Although typically marginal to conceptions of citizenship, children also negotiate their belonging to the nation. This article explores the ways adolescent girls in a rural region of Bolivia...
• Correction.(Correction Notice)
  September 22, 2003

  In the bibliography of John W. Traphagan's article, "Older Women as Caregivers and Ancestral Protection in Rural Japan" (vol. 42 no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 127-39), two entries by John W....
• Domesticating the immigrant other: Japanese media images of nikkeijin return migrants.
  September 22, 2003; Tsuda, Takeyuki

  The return migration of Latin American nikkeijin to Japan is unprecedented in the country's history. Never has Japan been faced with so many returning Japanese who are so culturally different....
• Imagining modernity in rural Fiji (1).
  September 22, 2003; Brison, Karen J.

  Understanding ethnic identity in Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific requires looking at the ways that individuals draw on ideologies to make sense of the particular circumstances of their lives....
• The mixed economy of the South Indian Kurumbas.
  September 22, 2003; Tharakan, C George

  This article reports on the Kurumbas, forager-horticulturists of Attappady, India. The concern here is with the relationship between the subsistence economy and social organization in an...
• Untangling conversion: religious change and identity among the forest Tobelo of Indonesia (1).
  September 22, 2003; Duncan, Christopher R.

  In the late 1980s, after decades of refusal, the Forest Tobelo foragers of northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia, converted to Christianity. The version of Christianity they accepted was not the...
• When is a divorce a divorce? determining intention in Zanzibar's Islamic courts.
  September 22, 2003; Stiles, Erin E.

  Establishing intention in legal acts is a crucial element of judicial reasoning in Zanzibar's Islamic courts. This article explores how Islamic judges determine the validity of divorce-related ...

June 2003

• Culture, practice, and the semantics of Xhosa beer-drinking.
  June 22, 2003; McAllister, Patrick

  Rural Xhosa beer-drinking is associated with a specialized lexicon related to producing, distributing, and ritually consuming maize beer in communal settings. Understanding this provides...
• Gestational surrogacy: nature and culture in kinship.
  June 22, 2003; Levine, Hal B.

  Anthropological writing about the new reproductive technologies has focused on how they undermine presumed links between nature and culture in kinship. Surrogate motherhood in particular is...
• Is Buddha a couple? Gender-unitary perspectives from the Lahu of southwest China (1).
  June 22, 2003; Du, Shanshan

  This article explores the dynamic processes by which the Lahu people negotiate Buddhist gender ideologies according to their cosmology of gender unity. It focuses on the contesting gender...
• Latino naming practices of small-town businesses in rural Southern Florida (1).
  June 22, 2003; Bletzer, Keith V.

  This article examines naming practices of Latino grocery stores and restaurants in an eighteen-county area of southern Florida. Business names denote cultural affinity and personal whims, and,...
• Negotiating culture: conflict and consensus in U.S. garage-sale bargaining (1).
  June 22, 2003; Herrmann, Gretchen M.

  Although bargaining is often used in the purchase of high-priced items, Americans are ambivalent about the practice of haggling. The U.S. garage sale is one of the few venues where numbers of...

March 2003

• Cocaine in Miskitu villages (1).
  March 22, 2003; Dennis, Philip A.

  During the 1990s, Miskitu people in the coastal villages north of Puerto Cabezas began finding cocaine washed up on the beach and on the Miskitu Keys just off the coast. Drug runners carrying...
• Nationalism in Indonesia: building imagined and intentional communities through transmigration.
  March 22, 2003; Hoey, Brian A.

  Transmigration settlements are planned according to Indonesian government priorities, which intend them to help build an imagined community, a unified nation. They are also places where...
• Older women as caregivers and ancestral protection in rural Japan (1).
  March 22, 2003; Traphagan, John W.

  Ancestral appearance in the dreams of older women is closely related to Japanese tendencies to center responsibilities for taking care of family health and well-being on women. Two points...
• The new silk road: mediators and tourism development in Central Asia.
  March 22, 2003; Werner, Cynthia

  Within the past century, international tourists have increasingly sought exotic destinations in their pursuit of relaxation, escape, and adventure. Recognizing the opportunity to earn valuable...
• The War of the Eggs: event, archive, and history in Yucatan's independent union movement, 1990 (1).
  March 22, 2003; Eiss, Paul

  In 1990, a strike of national significance took place at large-scale egg- and poultry-raising facilities in Yucatan, Mexico. This article relates the history of the struggle of Maya-speaking...

January 2003

• Irish farming households in Eastern Canada: domestic production and family size (1).
  January 1, 2003; Hedican, Edward J.

  Irish farming households in Eastern Canada during the postfamine period (1861-1871) are used as the basis for a theoretical discussion of domestic production and family size. The purpose here...
• Kinship and marriage among the Omaha, 1886-1902 (1).
  January 1, 2003; Ensor, Bradley E.

  "Omaha" kinship is a major model for patrilineal kinship and marital exchanges. However, some authors have suggested that kinship rules and unilineal descent are merely theoretical constructs...
• Ritual, knowledge, and the politics of identity in Andean festivities (1).
  January 1, 2003; Corr, Rachel

  As anthropologists criticize the essentialist descriptions of South American indigenous peoples as anachronistic guardians of ancient traditions, some indigenous peoples are promoting just such...
• Seeking numinous experiences in the unremembered past (1).(survey suggests Americans visit heritage sites for spiritual reasons)
  January 1, 2003; Cameron, Catherine M.;Gatewood, John B.

  While increasing numbers of people are visiting historical sites and museums, the reasons for those visits are not well understood. An exploratory survey concerning what Americans want from...
• Weeping in a Taiwanese Buddhist charismatic movement (1).
  January 1, 2003; Huang, C. Julia

  Emotion can be a locus of interpretation and a motor for religious commitment. This is illustrated with the thick description of uncontrolled weeping that recurred with the followers of a...

September 2002

• A woman's vapor: Yupik bodily powers in southwest Alaska.
  September 22, 2002; Morrow, Phyllis

  Menstrual pollution is represented as a repressive ideology that particularly restricts women. Menstrual traditions among Yupik Eskimos of southwest Alaska challenge this model. Here, menstrual...
• Afterword (1).
  September 22, 2002; Gottlieb, Alma

  In scholarly time, the relatively short span of two decades can produce startling changes. In 1982, when Thomas Buckley and I began working on Blood Magic, a volume of essays on the cultural...
• Ambiguous bleeding: purity and sacrifice in Bali (1).
  September 22, 2002; Pedersen, Lene

  Menstrual beliefs and practices in Bali defy simple classification. Menstruation may be relegated to the dump, as when a woman had to undergo a rite on a street midden when her monthly period...
• Ingesting menstrual blood: notions of health and bodily fluids in Bengal.
  September 22, 2002; Hanssen, Kristin

  Ideas about seed in food, mantras, music, and bodily emissions are important to Vaishnava Bauls. Among these, menstrual blood is central, the wellspring of emotional and mental activity. When...
• Introduction: blood mysteries: beyond menstruation as pollution.
  September 22, 2002; Hoskins, Janet

  A survey of the most innovative approaches in cultural anthropology over the past decades would probably take special note of ways in which discussions of the body and sexuality have been...
• Power and placement in blood practices.
  September 22, 2002; Stewart, Pamela J.;Strathern, Andrew

  Anthropologists writing on the Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea have stressed the variable importance of ideas of menstrual pollution as markers of gender relations. This article...
• The menstrual hut and the witch's lair in two eastern Indonesian societies.
  September 22, 2002; Hoskins, Janet

  Menstrual huts are associated with ideas of pollution, misogyny, and intersexual tension in the literature, but in Huaulu, Seram, I found an ambivalently charged but not necessarily negative...

June 2002

• Bodies, heat, and taboos: conceptualizing modern personhood in the South African lowveld (1).
  June 22, 2002; Niehaus, Isak

  The meta-narrative of modernity often posits an inevitable shift from "dividual" to "individual" modalities of personhood. This presumes that with growing commodificatiion, persons are no...
• Cultural models of gender in Sri Lanka and the United States.
  June 22, 2002; de Munck, Victor C.;Dudley, Nicole;Cardinale, Joseph

  Sri Lankan cultural models of gender are compared with those in the United States. Nineteen questions were given to samples of Sinhala Buddhists, Sri Lankan Muslims, and U.S. residents. Most...
• Kinds of Plains Cree culture (1).(The Nehiyanak)
  June 22, 2002; Braroe, Niels Winther

  The Nehiyanak, a Canadian Plains Cree band, is renegotiating an imposed identity as morally inferior to an estimable ethnic segment of local society. Evidence includes Nehiyanak assertiveness...
• Ownership of sea-shrimp production and perceptions of economic opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu village (1).
  June 22, 2002; Jamieson, Mark

  This article on the catching and processing of sea shrimp investigates the relationship between differing degrees of access to the means of production and the generation of economic...
• The culture of marginality: the Teenek portrayal of social difference (1).
  June 22, 2002; de Vidas, Anath Ariel

  The marginality of the Teenek Indians of Mexico gives rise to discourses among this group that serve to justify its relegation to the fringes of modern life. Those discourses reflect a...

March 2002

• Confirming unilocal residence in native North America (1).
  March 22, 2002; Moore, John H.;Campbell, Janis E.

  Some scientists have been reluctant to cite the coded entries of the Human Relations Area Files, especially concerning marriage and residence, because the codes are largely based on normative...
• Fast food and intergenerational commensality in Japan: new styles and old patterns (1).
  March 22, 2002; Traphagan, John W.;Brown, L. Keith

  The introduction of McDonald's and indigenous fast-food restaurants reflects changes in the Japanese diet, eating behaviors, and social patterns. But these changes are not the expression of...
• Modern cows and exotic trees: identity, personhood, and exchange among the Iraqw of Tanzania (1).
  March 22, 2002; Snyder, Katherine A.

  This article examines forms of personhood and identity among the Iraqw of Tanzania. It explores how ideas of personhood have changed from the precolonial era to the present as the Iraqw have...
• Poetic dialogues: performance and politics in the Tuscan Contrasto.
  March 22, 2002; Pagliai, Valentina

  Performance can represent politics in a way that empowers the audience, transforming the context from one only marginally political into one in which relevant political decisions may be taken....
• The vitality of local political institutions in the Middle Atlas, Morocco.
  March 22, 2002; Venema, Bernhard;Mguild, A.

  In the Middle Atlas, Morocco, growing government bureaucracy has not undermined the informal village council and the legitimacy of local functionaries such as shaykh or muqaddam. Although...

January 2002

• Best of friends and worst of enemies: competition and collaboration in polygyny (1).
  January 1, 2002; Madhavan, Sangeetha

  Much of the scholarship on polygyny portrays it as harmful to women, noting in particular that it pits co-wives against each other. Some feminists have used this characterization to associate...
• Bugis migration and modes of adaptation to local situations.
  January 1, 2002; Ammarell, Gene

  Bugis migrants from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, have been at the center of several recent regional conflicts. In order to explain their role in these conflicts, historic and ethnographic...
• From true Dorobo to Mukogodo Maasai: contested ethnicity in Kenya (1).
  January 1, 2002; Cronk, Lee

  Between 1925 and 1936, the Mukogodo of Kenya changed from Cushitic-speaking foragers to Maa-speaking pastoralists. This rapid transition took place in the midst of competing views of Mukogodo...
• Managing infidelity: a cross-cultural perspective (1).
  January 1, 2002; Jankowiak, William;Nell, M. Diane;Buckmaster, Anne

  Anthropologists have not systematically examined extramarital affairs. Our cross-cultural study found that within every culture men and women actively resort to mate-guarding tactics to control...
• Nature regimes in Southern Mexico: a history of power and environment (1).
  January 1, 2002; Haenn, Nora

  This article explores the popularized history of a state-peasant conservation alliance in southern Mexico. Following poststructural calls, it treats this history as a locally constructed...

September 2001

• Constructing identity through ceremonial language in rural Fiji.(anthropological research)
  September 22, 2001; Brison, Karen J.

  This article re-examines the sevusevu, a ceremonial presentation of kava in Fiji, in light of recent literature on globalization. Scholars have traced the sevusevu to Fijian assumptions about...
• In the rustic kitchen: real talk and reciprocity (1).(Orgosolo Sardinia, Italy)
  September 22, 2001; Heatherington, Tracey

  The evaluation of social communication in the town of Orgosolo is implicitly engaged with definitively "Sardinian" and "traditional" practices of hospitality. Sensually rooted in meaningful...
• Joking, gender, power, and professionalism among Japanese inn workers (1).(anthropological research)
  September 22, 2001; Yoshida, Mitsuhiro

  Female workers at a Japanese inn express their identity and pride through joking about their work experience and private lives. Their joking is a discourse that reflects yet resists their...
• Negotiating the "good death": Japanese ambivalence about new ways to die (1).(ethnographic research)
  September 22, 2001; Long, Susan Orpett

  New technologies and new interpretations of the relation between the individual and society in postindustrial countries have led to an expanded set of options for how to die, including hospice,...
• Rethinking cousin marriage in rural China (1).(anthropological research)
  September 22, 2001; Zhaoxiong, Qin

  This article considers cousin marriage rules among affines in rural Chinese culture, based on research in Hubei Province. After close evaluation of some of the existing studies, it concludes...
• Social and cultural conditions of religious conversion in colonial Southwest Tanzania, 1891-1939.(anthropological research)
  September 22, 2001; Gabbert, Wolfgang

  Starting from a discussion of theoretical approaches to conversion to Christianity, this article discusses the mission of the Protestant Moravian Church among the Nyakyusa of southwestern...

June 2001

• Changes in family and marriage in a Yangzi Delta farming community, 1930-1990 (1).
  June 22, 2001; Murphy, Eugene T.

  This article explores how marriage patterns and practices changed over the course of 60 years in Willow Pond Village (a pseudonym), a rice-farming community on the Yangzi Delta, 50 km west of...
• Creating the moral body: missionaries and the technology of power in early Papua New Guinea (1).
  June 22, 2001; Fife, Wayne

  British missionaries went to Papua New Guinea in order to create a new moral body: a Christian character that would fit into Great Britain's colonial world. Education by missionaries became, in...
• Perceptions of nature and responses to environmental degradation in New Caledonia (1).
  June 22, 2001; Horowitz, Leah Sophie

  The history of the Kanak is inscribed in their landscape's features, which commemorate the passage and adventures of human and spiritual ancestors. Kanak speak of their natural surroundings as ...
• Pig men and women, big men and women: gender and production in the New Guinea Highlands.
  June 22, 2001; Sillitoe, Paul

  The work of herding pigs falls mainly to women in the New Guinea Highlands. Yet men control the disposal of animals, commonly in sociopolitical exchange events that earn them prestige. Some ...
• Sharing, hoarding, and theft: exchange and resistance in forager-farmer relations (1).
  June 22, 2001; Fortier, Jana

  South Asian foragers (a.k.a. scheduled tribes and adivasi) have been depicted as passive, primitive, and naive in their relations with surrounding sedentary populations of agriculturalists....

March 2001

• BEAN-CURD CONSUMPTION IN HONG KONG.(use and history of soybean products)
  March 22, 2001; Mintz, Sidney W.

  This article examines soybean curd and kindred byproducts in Hong Kong, where an ethnographic survey revealed that traditional forms of soy products have been supplemented with new consumption...
• INTRODUCED WRITING AND CHRISTIANITY: DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS TO RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE ASABANO(1).(native tribe on Papua New Guinea)
  March 22, 2001; Lohmann, Roger Ivar

  Among the precontact Asabano of Duranmin, Papua New Guinea, older men kept secret myths revealed during initiations. Their religious knowledge gave them moral authority and privilege as...
• JEWISH CUISINE.(Jewish food preparation and usage)
  March 22, 2001; Apfelbaum, David

  Editor's Preface: During the mid-November 2000 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (held in San Francisco, California), Sidney Mintz and I had lunch at David's...
• RECONSTRUCTING ETHNICITY: RECORDED AND REMEMBERED IDENTITY IN TAIWAN(1).(Statistical Data Included)
  March 22, 2001; Brown, Melissa J.

  Ethnic identity can have a different basis locally than it does at the level of the larger society or ethnic group. This point is illustrated with a reconstruction of the early...
• ROMANCE, PARENTHOOD, AND GENDER IN A MODERN AFRICAN SOCIETY(1).
  March 22, 2001; Smith, Daniel Jordan

  Young Igbo men and women in Nigeria increasingly insist on choosing their marriage partners, and ideas about love are shaping Igbo constructions of marriage. But the viability of marriage still...
• SPECTACULAR QUETZALS, ECOTOURISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES IN MONTE VERDE, COSTA RICA(1).
  March 22, 2001; Vivanco, Luis A.

  Monte Verde, Costa Rica, has recently become a popular tourist destination among North American, European, and Costa Rican ecotourists desiring to experience rain and cloud forests. The...

January 2001

• "THE DEMON SUPERSTITION": ABOMINABLE TWINS AND MISSION CULTURE IN ONITSHA HISTORY(1).(twin killing)
  January 1, 2001; Bastian, Misty L.

  The representation of Igbo peoples as practitioners of twin abomination is very much part of a historical process in which missionary and colonial interest in twin killing as a sign of African ...
• POWERS, PROBLEMS, AND PARADOXES OF TWINSHIP IN NIGER.
  January 1, 2001; Masquelier, Adeline

  Among Hausaphone Mawri communities of Niger, twins are powerful yet dangerous beings endowed from birth with extraordinary abilities. While they are welcomed by parents who interpret multiple...
• REVIEWING TWINSHIP IN AFRICA.(introduction to the existing literature on twinship in African contexts)
  January 1, 2001; Renne, Elisha P.

  This article serves as an introduction to the existing literature on twinship in African contexts, as well as an introduction to the articles in this special issue of Ethnology. The authors...
• TWINSHIP AND JUVENILE POWER: THE ORDINARINESS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY(1).(power of twins and children in the Cameroon Grassfields)
  January 1, 2001; Diduk, Susan

  Much anthropological literature for sub-Saharan Africa has explored twinship as culturally exceptional and paradoxical. This essay suggests that although twins represent a surfeit of fertility...
• TWINSHIP IN AN EKITI YORUBA TOWN(1).
  January 1, 2001; Renne, Elisha P.

  Attitudes toward twins in Ekiti Yoruba society have remained remarkably consistent over the past hundred years even while the outward signs of their treatment have radically changed. Twins were...

September 2000

• CULTURAL MEANING, EXPLANATIONS OF ILLNESS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORKS.(anthropology research)
  September 22, 2000; Garro, Linda C.

  Starting with the cultural domain of illness and considering the issue of cross-cultural comparisons at the level of meaning, this article discusses the cognitive anthropological approach taken...
• CULTURAL UNITS IN CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH.
  September 22, 2000; de Munck, Victor

  In 1889, Galton argued that often traits diffuse across cultures and therefore we could never really know if cultural traits arose independently as adaptive responses or were a result of...
• DISTRIBUTIONAL INSTABILITY AND THE UNITS OF CULTURE(1).
  September 22, 2000; Gatewood, John B.

  The analytical approach is familiar, powerful, and compelling, but not all scientific understanding builds upon discrete elemental units and their combinatorics. The question this essay...
• INTRODUCTION: UNITS FOR DESCRIBING AND ANALYZING CULTURE AND SOCIETY.
  September 22, 2000; de Munck, Victor

  Cross-cultural research currently has a refugee status in anthropology. I explain why this is so by briefly tracing the history of cross-cultural research from the time of Tylor to the present....
• PARALLEL-COUSIN (FBD) MARRIAGE, ISLAMIZATION, AND ARABIZATION.(anthropology research)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  September 22, 2000; Korotayev, Andrey

  Islamization, along with an area's inclusion in the eighth-century Arab-Islamic Khalifate (and its persistence within the Islamic world) is a strong and significant predictor of parallel-cousin...
• TESTING THEORY AND WHY THE "UNITS OF ANALYSIS" PROBLEM IS NOT A PROBLEM.(anthropology cross-cultural research methodology)
  September 22, 2000; Ember, Melvin

  This article discusses why cross-cultural comparison is possible and why theory needs to be tested universally. It discusses why worldwide cross-cultural results are likely to be more generally...
• WRITING CULTURE RELIABLY: THE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-CONCORDANCE CODES.(ethnography, anthropology research)
  September 22, 2000; Chick, Garry

  Although ethnography has traditionally been regarded as high in validity, the assessment of reliability in anthropological field research is very difficult. Fortunately, forms of systematic...

June 2000

• NEW MYTHS AND MEANINGS IN JEWISH NEW MOON RITUALS(1).(Rosh Chodesh)
  June 22, 2000; Rosen, David M.;Rosen, Victoria P.

  In recent years new rituals linking women to the traditional festival of the new moon, Rosh Chodesh, have become an important part of Jewish life. A central element of these rituals is the...
• POETICS AND POLITICS OF NEWLY INVENTED TRADITIONS IN THE GULF: CAMEL RACING IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES(1).
  June 22, 2000; Khalaf, Sulayman

  This article provides ethnographic documentation and analysis of the poetry and politics of heritage revival displayed in the invented tradition of camel racing in the oil-rich United Arab...
• STORIES FROM THE FIELD, HANDICRAFT PRODUCTION, AND MEXICAN NATIONAL PATRIMONY: A LESSON IN TRANSLOCALITY FROM B. TRAVEN(1).
  June 22, 2000; Wood, W. Warner

  The well-known woolen textiles sold at vacation spots throughout Mexico and the American Southwest are commonly described as being made by Zapotec artisans in the home workshops of Teotitlan...
• THE EVOLUTION OF MARKET NICHES IN OAXACAN WOODCARVING.
  June 22, 2000; Chibnik, Michael

  Economic anthropologists studying craft commercialization have typically focused on changes in work organization associated with new international commodity chains linking artisans, development...
• THE USE OF HUMAN IMAGES IN YORUBA MEDICINES(1).
  June 22, 2000; Wolff, Norma H.

  Indigenous healers among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria regularly utilize small carved and molded three-dimensional human figures in their medicines. These figures are used by individuals...

March 2000

• CULTURAL REVITALIZATION AND TOURISM AT THE MORERIA NIMA' K'ICHE'.(Guatemala)
  March 22, 2000; Krystal, Matthew

  A moreria is a small business that fabricates and rents the costumes, props, and masks used in traditional dance-dramas. An effort that bridged ethnic divisions and involved both local and...
• FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION, HOUSEHOLDS, AND FIELDWORK: MULTISITED ZAPOTEC WEAVERS IN THE ERA OF LATE CAPITALISM(1).
  March 22, 2000; Wood, W. Warner

  Like other crafters catering to tourists and international ethnic art markets, Zapotec weavers have become more closely tied to international capital and to increasingly flexible and dispersed...
• GLOBAL INTEGRATION AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF CULTURE.
  March 22, 2000; Nash, June

  When political scientists of the nineteenth century envisioned the commodification of what they called "natural economies" with the advance of capitalism, they could never have imagined the...
• HOME AS A PLACE OF EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE: MAYAN HOUSEHOLD TRANSFORMATIONS IN GUATEMALA(1).
  March 22, 2000; Little, Walter E.

  Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the town of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala, has been incorporated into transnational movements of people, commodities, and ideas through ...
• PROTEST, TREE ORDINATION, AND THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF POLITICAL RITUAL(1).(Thailand)
  March 22, 2000; Tannenbaum, Nicola

  This article discusses a successful political protest in a village in northwestern Thailand and the community's tree ordination to further protect its forest from development. The protest and...
• VOLUNTEERING AS A LIFESTYLE CHOICE: NEGOTIATING SELF-IDENTITIES IN JAPAN(1).(Japan)
  March 22, 2000; Nakano, Lynne Y.

  This article considers how people in Japan create themselves from a range of available identities. Decisions to adopt particular identities are channeled by the institutions of society,...

January 2000

• "YOU CAN BUY ALMOST ANYTHING WITH POTATOES": AN EXAMINATION OF BARTER DURING ECONOMIC CRISIS IN BULGARIA.
  January 1, 2000; Cellarius, Barbara A.

  This article investigates bartering practices in rural Bulgaria during 1997, an exceptionally bad year in the nation's economy. First, it describes the types of barter transactions observed in...
• ACTING BRAZILIAN IN JAPAN: ETHNIC RESISTANCE AMONG RETURN MIGRANTS.
  January 1, 2000; Tsuda, Takeyuki (Gaku)

  This article examines the performative enactment of a Brazilian nationalist identity among Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan as a form of autonomous ethnic resistance against Japanese...
• ALMS, ELDERS, AND ANCESTORS: THE SPIRIT OF THE GIFT AMONG THE TUAREG(1).(Niger)
  January 1, 2000; Rasmussen, Susan J.

  Throughout much anthropological literature, there are debates concerning the nature of social relationships in gift-giving (Mauss 1925; Parry 1986; Parry and Bloch 1989; Godelier 1999). There...
• NATIVE EVANGELISM IN CENTRAL MEXICO.(Brief Article)
  January 1, 2000; Nutini, Hugo G.

  As part of ongoing research on Protestant evangelism in Central Mexico, this Article focuses on two native evangelical congregations in the Cordoba-Orizaba region in the state of Veracruz: one...
• THE CULTURAL BASIS OF A REGIONAL ECONOMY: THE VEGA BAJA DEL SEGURA IN SPAIN(1).
  January 1, 2000; Narotzky, Susana

  The Vega Baja del Segura is a region in southeastern Spain with a long history of combining commercial agriculture and labor-intensive manufacturing (producing footwear, wooden boxes, fishing...

September 1999

• CAJUN MARDI GRAS: CULTURAL OBJECTIFICATION AND SYMBOLIC APPROPRIATION IN A FRENCH TRADITION(1).
  September 22, 1999; Sexton, Rocky L.

  Rural Louisiana Mardi Gras is viewed as a Cajun-French custom although it was once shared by a diverse Louisiana French population. This transformation occurred during a late-twentieth-century...
• CARNIVAL ON THE CLIPBOARD: AN ETHNOLOGICAL STUDY OF NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS(1).(Statistical Data Included)
  September 22, 1999; Jankowiak, William;White, C. Todd

  Ethnological methods determined that New Orleans Mardi Gras is a time for socializing with friends and family, as opposed to an opportunity to engage strangers in acts of fellowship or...
• KIMONO AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDERED AND CULTURAL, IDENTITIES(1).
  September 22, 1999; Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra

  This article argues that the distinction between Japanese and Western attire is a part of the process of the construction of gendered and cultural identities in modern Japan. Kimono in modern...
• STREET TACTICS: CATHOLIC RITUAL AND THE SENSES OF THE PAST IN CENTRAL SARDINIA(1).
  September 22, 1999; Heatherington, Tracey

  Contesting versions of local history in a small Sardinian town are made to seem real, natural, and legitimate through appeals to the senses. Catholic ritual processions fill the streets of...
• TOLAI SORCERY AND CHANGE.
  September 22, 1999; Epstein, A. L.

  Despite the considerable literature on the Tolai that has been produced by modern anthropologists as well as earlier ethnographers, we still lack a contemporary account of their notions of...
• WARFARE, POLITICAL, LEADERSHIP, AND STATE FORMATION: THE CASE OF THE ZULU KINGDOM, 1808-1879(1).
  September 22, 1999; Deflem, Mathieu

  The origin and evolution of the nineteenth-century Zulu Kingdom are used to examine two competing state formation theories: Robert Carneiro's circumscription theory and Elman Service's theory ...

September 1998

• Becoming sinners: Christianity and desire among the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea.
  September 22, 1998; Robbins, Joel

  This article considers the way Christianity has transformed notions of desire among the Urapmin of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. While Melanesian cargo cults have...
• Contesting the transition to old age in Japan.
  September 22, 1998; Traphagan, John W.

  This article examines how Japanese contest the transition from middle to old age in a small town. In contesting the transition to old age, people resist entrance into a period that...
• Life-cycle rituals in Dongyang County: time, affinity, and exchange in rural China.
  September 22, 1998; Cooper, Gene

  This article analyzes materials on the life-cycle rituals of Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province, for what they reveal about Chinese concepts of time and the conduct of relations...
• Moroccan Hassidism: the Chavrei Habakuk community and its veneration of saints. (Israel)
  September 22, 1998; Daryn, Gil

  This article investigates an ethnically mixed, nonterritorial community centered around a rabbi of Moroccan origin. Through exploring the unusual stages of this rabbi's...
• The institution of woman-marriage in Africa: a cross-cultural analysis.
  September 22, 1998; Greene, Beth

  Woman-marriage, the legal marriage between two women, included the roles of husband and wife. A comparison of these roles within and between the Igbo, Fon, and Lovedu cultures...
• Whales, chiefs, and giants: an exploration into Nuu-chah-nulth political thought. (Vancouver Island)
  September 22, 1998; Harkin, Michael

  The Nuu-chah-nulth of the Northwest Coast attained a high degree of political organization. Hereditary chiefs had great power and influence often extending beyond their own...

June 1998

• Aztec human sacrifice: cross-cultural assessments of the ecological hypothesis.
  June 22, 1998; Winkelman, Michael

  Ecological, religious, and social predictors of institutionalized human sacrifice are assessed through cross-cultural analysis. While human sacrifice has no significant correlations with measures...
• Group identities and the construction of the 1943 rescue of the Danish Jews.
  June 22, 1998; Buckser, Andrew

  The rescue of the Danish Jews from the Nazi roundups of 1943 has become the defining image of Judaism in Denmark, both within the country and to the world outside. This article examines the way...
• History and social structure: a study of the Sefwi residential system (Ghana).
  June 22, 1998; Boni, Stefano

  The article reviews studies concerning the Akan (Ghana) residential system with particular reference to Fortes's Time and Social Structure. Fortes's work is criticized for its lack of historical ...
• Rulers and rainmakers in precolonial South Pare, Tanzania: exchange and ritual experts in political centralization.
  June 22, 1998; Hakansson, N. Thomas

  This article applies Bourdieu's notion of symbolic capital to an analysis of political processes in the small chiefdoms of South Pare Mountain in northeastern Tanzania between 1700 and 1900....
• The Maasai ornithorium: tropic flights of avian imagination in Africa.
  June 22, 1998; Galaty, John G.

  During the transition following ritual circumcision, Maasai boys kill, stuff, and mount decorative birds and wear the pelt rack as a headpiece. Recalling Evans-Pritchard's question of why Nuer...

March 1998

• Converting difference: metaculture, missionaries, and the politics of locality.(Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives)
  March 22, 1998; Orta, Andrew

  In recent years, Catholic missionaries have initiated a set of pastoral reforms in Aymara-speaking communities of Bolivia, predicated upon an evangelical equivalence between Aymara identity and...
• Introduction: a new time and place for bolivian popular politics.(Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives)
  March 22, 1998; Albro, Robert

  The Bolivian national project, provisionally underway with the founding of the Republic in 1825, has been redirected several times in the latter half of the twentieth century. Arguably the most...
• Neoliberal ritualists of Urkupina: bedeviling patrimonial identity in a Bolivian patronal fiesta.(Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives)
  March 22, 1998; Albro, Robert

  This article examines the complications for regional cultural definition following Bolivian neoliberal democratic reforms. It analyzes Quillacollo's saint's day festival, also a national...
• Performing national culture in a Bolivian migrant community.(Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives)
  March 22, 1998; Goldstein, Daniel M.

  Folklorization of traditional Andean culture by a universalizing nation-state appropriates indigenous ceremony for political ends, but at the same time creates spaces within which indigenous...
• Political institutions and the evanescence of power: making history in highland Bolivia.(Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives)
  March 22, 1998; Rockefeller, Stuart Alexander

  The Bolivian Quechua community of Quirpini appears to be governed by a number of political institutions whose activities have little capacity for historically transformative action. An analysis...

January 1998

• Politicizing tradition: the identity of indigenous inhabitants in Hong Kong.
  January 1, 1998; Chan, Selina Ching

  This article investigates the identity of indigenous inhabitants in contemporary Hong Kong by discussing the Pang lineage in the New Territories. It examines this identity in relation to the...
• Strategies of rain-forest dwellers against misfortunes: the Tsimane' Indians of Bolivia.
  January 1, 1998; Godoy, Ricardo;Jacobson, Marc;Wilkie, David

  A household survey of Tsimane' Indians of the Bolivian rain forest is used to examine the effect of different types of misfortunes (e.g., illness, deaths, evacuations, crop loss) at the level of...
• The mother-in-law taboo.
  January 1, 1998; Pans, A.E.M.J.

  Table 6: Duration of the Postpartum Sex Taboo and M-S Avoidance (Stephens and D 'Andrade 1962)
• The ordination of a tree: the Buddhist ecology movement in Thailand.
  January 1, 1998; Darlington, Susan M.

  As part of a growing environmental movement in Thailand, a small number of Buddhist monks engage in ecological conservation projects. These "ecology monks" teach ecologically sound practices...
• When hypothesis becomes myth: the Iraqi origin of the Iraqw. (Tanzania)
  January 1, 1998; Rekdal, Ole Bjorn

  The now-rejected Hamitic hypothesis, depicting Caucasoid peoples from the north a responsible for a number of precolonial cultural and technological achievements in Africa, served to legitimize...

September 1997

• Charisma's realm: fandom in Japan.
  September 22, 1997; Yano, Christine

  Most studies of Japanese social organization focus upon structural elements of duty and obligation. This study of Japanese fan clubs uses the concept of charisma to analyze the voluntary bonds...
• Ethnic tourism and the renegotiation of tradition in Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia).
  September 22, 1997; Adams, Kathleen M.

  This article examines some of the political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history, chronicling the strategies whereby Torajans attempt to...
• Know your place: the organization of Tlingit geographic knowledge.
  September 22, 1997; Thornton, Thomas F.

  Tlingit geographic knowledge is organized along two principal axes: social structure and subsistence production. Using the place-name inventory of an 83-year-old Tlingit elder, this essay...
• Religious involution: sacred and secular conflict among Sephardic Jews in Australia.
  September 22, 1997; Gale, Naomi

  For immigrant Sephardic Jews in Sydney, Australia, a struggle between religious and secular powers is aggravated by the position of the Sephardim as a minority within a minority. (Limitations...
• The sibling principle in Oronao' residence. (lowland South America)
  September 22, 1997; Mason, Alan

  Oronao' residence groups are organized in terms of a sibling principle. Although not elaborated in native ideology, the principle appears in the concept of sibling group and associated...
• Women, land, and labor: negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau peasant community.
  September 22, 1997; Blackwood, Evelyn

  One of the central dynamics shaping agrarian change, and one seldom highlighted, is the structure and ideology of kinship and clientage in peasant communities. This article examines the...

March 1997

• A numerical look at rural Portuguese political candidates and strategies.
  March 22, 1997; Reed, Robert Roy

  This article describes various local-level political strategies employed in rural Portugal since the 1974 revolution, and details some of the complexities consequent to introducing...
• Political ecology and conflict in Ankarana, Madagascar.
  March 22, 1997; Gezon, Lisa L.

  Conflict over issues of land use in northern Madagascar reveals that political control is situational and that rights to resources are ambiguous. In two cases, local farmers, the...
• Politics, gender, and time in Melanesia and aboriginal Australia. (Iatmul, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea)
  March 22, 1997; Silverman, Eric Kline

  This article interprets the symbolism and politics of Iatmul time (Sepik River, Papua New Guinea). Social life is structured by different forms of time (e.g., totemism, myth, Omaha...
• Residence rules and ultimogeniture in Tlaxcala and Mesoamerica.
  March 22, 1997; Robichaux, David Luke

  The rise of wage labor in rural Tlaxcala, Mexico, created a shorter period of initial virilocal residence and an earlier age at marriage. Along with declining infant mortality...
• Street names and political regimes in an Andalusian town.
  March 22, 1997; Gonzalez Faraco, J. Carlos;Murphy, Michael Dean

  The installation of each of the three socially transformative regimes of twentieth-century Spain (the Second Republic, the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the...

January 1997

• Ethnographic notes on conceptions and dynamics of political power in upper Burma (prior to the 1962 military coup)
  January 1, 1997; Spiro, Melford E.

  This article describes the conceptions of governmental power held by Burmese villagers in Upper Burma, and the degree to which their conceptions correspond to the behavior of government...
• Progressive theology and popular religiousity in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  January 1, 1997; Norget, Kristin

  This article examines the relationship between popular religiosity and the renovation movement taking place within the Catholic Church (the New Evangelization) in the southern Mexican city of...
• Sanctity and sanction in communal ritual: a reconsideration of Shinto festival processions.
  January 1, 1997; Schnell, Scott

  Japanese society is characterized by an emphasis on harmony and self-restraint as guiding principles of daily interaction. A a consequence, alcohol is often considered a necessary catalyst for ...
• Skill, dependency, and differentiation: artisans and agents in the Lucknow embroidery industry. (Lucknow, India)
  January 1, 1997; Wilkinson-Weber, Clare M.

  Female embroiderers in the chikan garment industry of Lucknow are homeworkers whose employment opportunities and wages are adversely affected by the restrictions of purdah and widely held...
• The matrifocal family in Iberia: Spain and Portugal compared.
  January 1, 1997; Brogger, Jan;Gilmore, David D.

  Although matriocality has faded somewhat as a topic in cultural anthropology, interest in the concept has revived in Mediterranean studies. Recent work in the northwest corner of Iberia...

December 1996

• Fragmentary encounters in a moral world: household power relations and gender politics. (Turkey)
  December 22, 1996; Ilcan, Suzan M.

  Despite numerous studies of the interrelations among households, gender politics, and power contestations, more attention needs to be given to how specific cultural beliefs and practices...
• Geomancy and town planning in a Japanese community.
  December 22, 1996; Kalland, Arne

  This article analyzes the layout of a Japanese community in terms of geomancy; i.e., how the village is structured in order to harness the flow of vital energy (ki in Japanese; ch'i in Chinese)...
• Of mines and Min: modernity and its malcontents in Papua New Guinea.
  December 22, 1996; Polier, Nicole

  If the narrative of multinational capitalist development has a common plot, its local experience and expression on new frontiers need to be understood in specific terms - what Cardoso and Faletto...
• The pursuit of a life worth living in Japan and the United States.
  December 22, 1996; Mathews, Gordon

  What makes life worth living? Why do we go on with life? These questions are matters of individual psychology, but they are also cultural and social: selves and society ever construct and justify...
• The universality of ancestor worship.
  December 22, 1996; Steadman, Lyle B.;Palmer, Craig T.;Tilley, Christopher F.

  A "professional malpractice of anthropologists to exaggerate the exotic character of other cultures" (Bloch 1977:285) has been detrimental to the study of cultural universals. This is highly ...

September 1996

• 'Desakotas' and beyond: urbanization in southern China.
  September 22, 1996; Guldin, Gregory Eliyu

  China's fifteen-year-long economic boom has encouraged a rapid urban expansion as well as a significant transformation of its urbanization process. The number of urban places has increased, the ...
• Islamic revivalism and political opposition among minority Muslims in Mauritius.
  September 22, 1996; Hollup, Oddvar

  This article analyzes the role played by Islamic revivalism in the construction of ethnic and religious identity and for political opposition among minority Muslims in Mauririus.(1) How Islamic ...
• Politics, ethnicity, and social structure: the decline of an urban community during the twentieth century. (Mombasa Swahili community)
  September 22, 1996; Swartz, Marc J.

  A once-cohesive community, whose members carried out a variety of activities involving group-wide co-operation, changed over the course of six decades into one in which there was little or no...
• Problematizing impairment: cultural competence in the Carolines.
  September 22, 1996; Marshall, Mac

  This article examines the Western concept of impairment by reference to the ideas Micronesian (Caroline Island) atoll dwellers hold about personhood,(2) and contributes to the growing...
• The universality of African marriage reconsidered: evidence from Turkana males.
  September 22, 1996; Dyson-Hudson, Rada;Meekers, Dominique

  Comparative research on marriage patterns in sub-Saharan Africa described marriage as both early and nearly universal (van de Walle 1968). Subsequent studies have partially disproved the first ...
• Tribal estates: a comparative and case study. (Native Americans)
  September 22, 1996; Tollefson, Kenneth D.;Abbott, Martin L.;Wiggins, Eugene

  Land, or some other form of a tangible estate which includes water, property, and other natural resources, is indispensable to the economic and social well-being of tribal people. The concept of ...

June 1996

• "Barrio" as a metaphor for Zapotec social structure.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units, part 2)
  June 22, 1996; Truex, Gregory F.

  The barrio divisions of the Villa of Santa Maria, a Zapotec town in the Valley of Oaxaca, are not corporate, nor are they endogamous. They do not form the basis for any regular mobilizations or...
• Afterword.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units, part 2)
  June 22, 1996; Nash, Manning

  It is not my intention to summarize the contents of the papers in this volume, nor to comment at length on the genesis of the problems about the customary local groups in Mesoamerica. These tasks...
• Center and periphery in the social organization of contemporary Nahuas of Mexico.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units, part 2)
  June 22, 1996; Sandstrom, Alan R.

  There has been a tendency among ethnographers working in Indian villages in Mesoamerica to ignore intermediary social units that lie between the domestic group and the wider universe of...
• Ritual prestation, intermediate-level social organization, and Sierra Otomi oratory groups.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units, part 2)
  June 22, 1996; Dow, James

  The Sierra Otomi live in the mountains of the eastern part of the state of Hidalgo and in adjacent municipios of the surrounding states of Puebla and Veracruz. Their way of life is peasant...
• The hamlet as mediator.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units, part 2)
  June 22, 1996; Cancian, Frank

  Our focus on "the customary social unit that mediates relations between household .. and community in Mesoamerican Indian and rural society" (Mulhare 1996:93) leads to a rich conceptual space. A ...
• The Mesoamerican community as a "great house."(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units, part 2)
  June 22, 1996; Monaghan, John

  Divisions below the level of community in Mesoamerican societies have been variously described as descent corporations, conical clans, marriage units, cult groups, and simply territorial and/or...

March 1996

• Barrio matters: toward an ethnology of Mesoamerican customary social units.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units)
  March 22, 1996; Mulhare, Eileen M.

  One of the most perplexing topics in Mesoamerican ethnology is the customary(2) social unit that mediates relations between household (or domestic group) and community in Mesoamerican Indian and...
• Mesoamerican community organization: preliminary remarks.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units)
  March 22, 1996; Nutini, Hugo G.

  During the past three generations, ethnology has benefitted enormously from ethnographic research conducted in various culture areas of the world. This is not only due to the increasing corpus of...
• Social organization and disorganization in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units)
  March 22, 1996; Carlsen, Robert S.

  The Tz'utujil Mayan community of Santiago Atitlan has written a most remarkable chapter in recent Guatemalan history. Following a decade of unprecedented violence, in late 1990 the Atitecos (the...
• The barrios of colonial Tecali: patronage, kinship, and territorial relations in a central Mexican community.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units)
  March 22, 1996; Chance, John K.

  In a review of Mesoamerican kinship studies two decades ago, Nutini (1976:14) noted that the barrio in Mesoamerican communities 'remains a rather obscure unit of social organization.' Since ...

September 1995

• Becoming shakaijin: working-class reproduction in Japan.
  September 22, 1995; Roberson, James E.

  In Japan, the transition from school into the working world marks one's transformation from student (gakusei) to social person (shakaijin). This transition is particularly important for men, for...
• Make-believe play among Huli children: performance, myth, and imagination.
  September 22, 1995; Goldman, Laurence R.;Emmison, Michael

  A Huli aphorism says, "Real men don't make children's talk, or play the games agoba kiruba [which hand is it in?] or mbola tola [exploding mud balls]." In much the same way that "real Huli men"...
• Permitted and prohibited wealth: commodity-possessing spirits, economic morals, and the goddess Mami Wata in West Africa. (Ron people, Nigeria)
  September 22, 1995; Frank, Barbara

  A widespread West African belief holds that individual wealth is gained through a criminal pact with spirits to whom human beings must be given as compensation.(2) It appears that this belief has...
• The cultural effects of conveyance loss in gravity-fed irrigation systems.
  September 22, 1995; Price, David H.

  Anthropological analyses of power in hydraulic and hydroagricultural societies have tended to concentrate on the larger issues of state development and maintenance of power (see Adams 1966;...
• Tradition, power, and allegory: constructions of the past in two Danish religious movements. (Grundtvigianism and the Inner Mission)
  September 22, 1995; Buckser, Andrew

  The nineteenth century was a time of radical change for the little island of Mors in northwestern Denmark. Among the most dramatic was a wave of religious awakening that divided the island's...
• Women's perceptions of polygyny among the Kaguru of Tanzania.
  September 22, 1995; Meekers, Dominique;Franklin, Nadra

  Much of the large body of research on polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on the sociocultural and demographic correlates of polygyny (Boserup 1970; Goody 1976; Lesthaeghe et al. 1989, 1994)...

June 1995

• Changing constructions of masculinity in a Sepik Society. (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea)
  June 22, 1995; Brison, Karen;Robbins, Joel

  The last decade has seen increasing interest in the effects of colonialism on Melanesian culture and identity. Several excellent collections (Carrier 1992; Jolly and Thomas 1992; Keesing and...

March 1995

• Americans in paradise: anthropologists, custom, and democracy in postwar Micronesia.(Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands)
  March 22, 1995; Falgout, Suzanne

  The historic relationship between anthropology and colonialism has been well established, particularly for British anthropologists working in Africa (Asad 1976; Kuper 1983; Hobsbawm and Ranger...
• Making-up the Toraja? The appropriation of tourism, anthropology, and museums for politics in upland Sulawesi, Indonesia.
  March 22, 1995; Adams, Kathleen M.

  Over the past fifteen years anthropologists studying ethnic phenomena have rejected older conceptions of cultural identity and tradition as stable, bounded realities born out of the past, turning...
• Passion, poetry, and cultural politics in the South Pacific.(Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands)
  March 22, 1995; Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Laura

  In the 1960s and 1970s, governments in many South Pacific countries educated elite classes of indigenous, mostly male, bureaucrats and professionals to replace departing colonial administrators...
• The look of rationality and the bureaucratization of consciousness in Papua New Guinea.
  March 22, 1995; Fife, Wayne

  Taussig (1993), in his Mimesis and Alterity, offers a useful concept for understanding cultural creativity in the Pacific region in the light of colonial relationships (also see Thomas 1991 and...

January 1995

• Developing people and plants: life-cycle and agricultural festivals in the Andes.
  January 1, 1995; Bourque, L. Nicole

  In the Andes, there is a close link between people and plants. The production, consumption, and distribution of crops dominates daily life and defines social boundaries. The association of people...
• Marriage with the proper stranger: arranged marriage in metropolitan Japan.
  January 1, 1995; Applbaum, Kalman D.

  Twenty-five to 30 per cent of all marriages taking place in Japan at present are arranged marriages (Kinjo 1990). Unlike "love" marriages, which are organized against the background of the ...
• Potlatching and political organization among the Northwest Coast Indians.
  January 1, 1995; Tollefson, Kenneth D.

  Although Drucker (1983:95) acknowledges "large aggregations of local groups among some Northwest Coast divisions," he contends that "they were not political organizations" because "no authority...
• The social symbolism of healing in Nepal.
  January 1, 1995; Pigg, Stacy Leigh

  An incident in a Nepali village, late one August afternoon in 1987, illustrates how people there have come to connect ideas about national development to healing. A young woman, Jethi, was...
• Zarraf, a Tuareg women's wedding dance.
  January 1, 1995; Rasmussen, Susan

  One evening, during wedding celebrations among the Kel Ewey Tuareg, Amina, a renowned singer who had just completed songs accompanying men's dancing, took me aside and gestured for me to follow...

September 1994

• Marriage regulation and the rhetoric of alliance in northwestern Turkey.
  September 22, 1994; Ilcan, Suzan M.

  Research on Turkish marriage practices emphasizes the importance of endogamy (i.e., marriage within the same clan or lineage, sect, community, group, village, or neighborhood) to protect common...
• Savor slowly: 'ekiben' - the fast food of high-speed Japan. (railroad station box lunch)
  September 22, 1994; Noguchi, Paul H.

  How food is linked to other dimensions of culture has drawn considerable anthropological interest during recent years (Arnott 1975; Farb and Armalegos 1980;, Harris 1985; Kuper 1977; MacClancy...
• The disintegration of caste and changing concepts of Indian ethnic identity in Mauritius.
  September 22, 1994; Hollup, Oddvar

  Most scholars (Mayer 1967; Benedict 1961; Jayawardena 1971) discussing the issue of caste among overseas Indians observe that the caste system as it functions in village India was never...
• The existential status of the Pakistani farmer: studying official constructions of social reality.
  September 22, 1994; Dove, Michael R.

  Pakistan's first major social forestry project,(2) the joint Pakistan/U.S. Forestry Planning and Development Project, begun in 1985, immediately experienced problems with its field component,...
• The 'mayete' as object and stereotype in Andalusian proletarian poetry. (agrarian middle class conflicts with workers)
  September 22, 1994; Gilmore, David D.

  Fuenmayor is an agrotown of about 8,000 people located in the valley of the Guadalquivir River in southern Spain (Andalusia) about which I have written (Gilmore 1980, 1987).(1) Like most other...

June 1994

• Alcohol, community, and modernity: the social organization of toddy drinking in a Polynesian society. (Solomon Islands)
  June 22, 1994; Donner, William W.

  Drunkenness, the poet (Housman 1940) suggests, creates a new and perhaps lovelier world, "the world as the world's not." For Housman, however, this world of intoxication is ephemeral and ...
• Ethnicity embodied: evidence from Tahiti.
  June 22, 1994; Clark, Sheila Seiler

  Inhabitants of French Polynesia are experiencing drastic changes in the social context of everyday life. Growing economic dependence on France, the rapid increase in foreign visitors since the...
• Settlement and sociality among the Mountain Arapesh. (Papua New Guinea)
  June 22, 1994; Roscoe, Paul B.

  Thanks to the early ethnographic work of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune, the Mountain Arapesh of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, have become one of the standard exemplars of human...
• Spatial meaning in Andean festivals: Corpus Christi and Octavo.
  June 22, 1994; Bourque, L. Nicole

  Spatial divisions are also social ones in the Andes. The village, houses, paramo (moor), and jungle are all places that have social meaning. Physical movement during festivals distinguishes...
• The thief-searching (leba shay) institution in Aariland, Southwest Ethiopia, 1890s-1930s.
  June 22, 1994; Naty, Alexander

  The military encounter between the Aari people and the imperial Abyssinian army during the late nineteenth century resulted in the defeat of the Aari and the introduction of hitherto unknown...

March 1994

• Bakrnal: coup, carnival, and calypso in Trinidad.
  March 22, 1994; Birth, Kevin K.

  On 27 July 1990, the people of Trinidad and Tobago experienced a violent, attempted coup d'etat. Six months later, the attempted coup became one of the dominant themes of Carnival. Among a...
• Ethnicity and labor in the Puget Sound fishing industry, 1880-1935.
  March 22, 1994; Boxberger, Daniel L.

  To say that the subject of ethnicity has received considerable attention in recent years is to state the obvious. As Nash (1989:126-27) points out, the amount of literature on ethnicity is so...
• Ganga and gandagi: interpretations of pollution and waste in Benaras. (India)
  March 22, 1994; Alley, Kelly D.

  This essay examines interpretations of city waste by variously located Hindu residents of Benaras, a pilgrimage place and urban center in north-central India. The focus draws out views about...
• Precolonial New Guinea trade.
  March 22, 1994; Harding, Thomas G.

  The prominent development of trade is a generalization that has not foundered on Melanesian diversity,(2) but just how prominent was trade in the lives of precontact Melanesian communities...
• Sorcery and evidence of change in Maring justice. (New Guinea)
  March 22, 1994; LiPuma, Edward

  Many Maring believe that the gravity and frequency of sorcery and sorcery cases have accelerated since pacification, a not uncommon result throughout Oceania (Lederman 1981:20; Lattus 1993:55)....

January 1994

• "Edutaining" children: consumer and gender socialization in Japanese marketing.
  January 1, 1994; Creighton, Millie R.

  A common Japanese expression asserts, "ko wa takara," (children are treasures). Japan's earliest poetry anthology, the Manyoshu, compiled in A.D. 753, expresses the sentiment as, "a treasure...
• Legitimacy, coercion, and leadership among the Sursurunga of southern New Ireland.
  January 1, 1994; Bolyanatz, Alexander H.

  Local leadership in southern New Ireland, as in many places in Papua New Guinea, is instantiated in big men. Big men, who lack formal office, recruit and maintain political and economic support...
• Personal names as narrative in Fiji: politics of the Lauan onomasticon.
  January 1, 1994; Arno, Andrew

  In every society, proper names, as well as all words that are being used to make reference to a specific object rather than a class or category, are a point of contact between the language and...
• Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: food avoidances in the Ituri Forest, Zaire.
  January 1, 1994; Aunger, Robert

  Traditionally, ethnographic researchers have relied heavily on the interview as a method of collecting data (Bernard 1988:203). This prevalence of interviewing is not just characteristic of...
• The problem of mute metaphor: gender and kinship in seaboard Melanesia. (Murik people of Papua New Guinea)
  January 1, 1994; Lipset, David M.;Stritecky, Jolene Marie

  This article examines how genealogical relationships are differentially expressed by women and men. In particular, it analyzes five paired sets of kinship data that were collected in a...

September 1993

• Celebrating Nikolaus Day: ideology and emotion in a German children's ritual.
  September 22, 1993; Norman, Karin

  A child growing up in Western society is confronted with a complex array of educational ideas and institutions. Discovering their meanings and the range of authority of various educators can be...
• Exchange and social stratification in the Eastern Adriatic: a graph-theoretic model.
  September 22, 1993; Milicic, Bojka

  Sharply marked social differentiation is a salient characteristic of Mediterranean societies. In the anthropology of the Mediterranean, inequality of social status has been analyzed so far only...
• Nuclear and joint family households in West Bengal villages.
  September 22, 1993; Dasgupta, Satadal;Weatherbie, Christine;Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra

  Studies on the joint family household in India have revolved around two major questions. (1) Does the joint family household represent the typical household in rural India and, if so, is it...
• Sexuality, power, and social order in Cartagena, Colombia.
  September 22, 1993; Streicker, Joel

  Now more than ever, sexuality has become an important topic in social analysis. Generated by (among other things) gays' and lesbians' increasing political and cultural visibility, the ...
• The family contexts of marriage timing in Nepal.
  September 22, 1993; Dahal, Dilli R.;Fricke, Tom;Thornton, Arland

  Marriage in most societies constitutes one of the primary transitions in a person's life course. Its significance is heightened by including the interests of networks beyond the couple in ...

June 1993

• African sacred kings: expectations and performance in the Cameroon grassfields.
  June 22, 1993; Fowler, Ian

  In a paper published in 1962 Phyllis Kaberry drew attention to the elaborate nature of political organization in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon and referred to the unique combination of...
• Muslim women traders of northern Nigeria: perspectives from the city of Yola.
  June 22, 1993; VerEecke, Catherine

  Since Polly Hill's pioneering work (1969) on the economics of households in a northern Nigerian town, devoted largely to the analysis of what she termed the "hidden trade" among Hausa women,...
• Prestations and affinity in a bilateral society: the Timugon Murut of Sabah, Malaysia.
  June 22, 1993; Brewis, Kielo;Lingenfelter, Sherwood G.

  This article describes Timugon ritual prestations of bridewealth, rice, and water buffalo with the aim of illuminating the nature of Timugon social structure and the processes of reproduction...
• Public oratory in Xhosa ritual: tradition and change.
  June 22, 1993; McAllister, P.A.

  The establishment of a new homestead (umzi) is an important step for people in rural Xhosa-speaking communities in the Transkei, as it is in many other societies. For both the new homestead...
• Uneven development in western Guatemala.
  June 22, 1993; Goldin, Liliana R.;Saenz de Tejada, Maria Eugenia

  In Latin America, analysts have noted patterns of uneven development within individual third world countries, independent of their peripheral or semiperipheral condition. There are numerous ...

March 1993

• A ritual response to climatic perturbations in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. (Wola people)
  March 22, 1993; Sillitoe, Paul

  The impression gained by visitors to the New Guinea Highlands is of an equable climate year round with its usual, though not invariable, daily Pattern of warm sunshine in the mornings regularly...
• First-time televiewing in Amazonia: television acculturation in Gurupa, Brazil.
  March 22, 1993; Pace, Richard

  In June of 1982 the first three television sets were turned on and began to receive discernable images in the remote Amazonian town of Gurupa, Brazil.(2) The event marked the first time in the ...
• Sampling in time allocation research.
  March 22, 1993; Bernard, H. Russell;Killworth, Peter D.

  Sampling behavior by direct observation is a common technique in field studies of behavior (Lehner 1979; Martin and Bateson 1986). There are two ways to sample behavior: (1) focus on...
• Uncertainty, humility, and adaptation in the tropical forest: the agricultural augury of the Kantu'. (Indonesian Borneo)
  March 22, 1993; Dove, Michael R.

  The first and in some respects most important stage of the swidden cycle of the Kantu' of West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) consists of selecting a favorable site based on augury from seven...

January 1993

• Class segmentation and divided labor: Asian workers in the Gulf of Mexico seafood industry. (Bayou La Batre, Alabama)
  January 1, 1993; Moberg, Mark;Thomas, J. Stephen

  The growth of refugee and immigrant enclaves in the United States despite pressures for assimilation highlights the persistence of ethnic identity over other loyalties. Because ethnically...
• Folk taxonomy and mythology of birds of paradise in the New Guinea Highlands.
  January 1, 1993; Healey, Christopher

  Folk taxonomy and myth have conventionally been treated as disparate provinces of cultural meaning, the one dealing with culturally represented but concrete and objective realities of the...
• Panoan marriage sections: a comparative perspective.
  January 1, 1993; Hornborg, Alf

  Almost 50 years ago, George Peter Murdock (1949:56) could assert that systems of marriage sections had "never been reported outside of Australia and a limited area in Melanesia." Since then, ...
• Political evolution in Micronesia.
  January 1, 1993; Peoples, James G.

  Anthropology has a longstanding interest in the evolution of social and political systems. Although human cultures are diverse due to their specific histories and environmental settings,...
• The discourse of souls in Tana Toraja (Indonesia): indigenous notions and Christian conceptions.
  January 1, 1993; Adams, Kathleen M.

  In Insular Southeast Asia, indigenous religions are oriented more towards practice than philosophy. Geertz's (1973:177) observations concerning religion in Bali generally hold true for other...
• The noble custom of roora: the marriage practices of the Shona of Zimbabwe.
  January 1, 1993; Meekers, Dominique

  As is the case in many African societies, the normative marriage customs of the Shona-speaking peoples are characterized by the negotiation and payment of bridewealth. In Shona society, the...
• Transformation of family ideology in upper-middle-class families in urban South Korea.
  January 1, 1993; Kim, Myung-hye

  This article examines conventional views and assumptions about the family, and challenges the language often used to refer to the Korean family in a timeless, functional way. It reviews the...