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"Heart
like a Car": Hispano/Chicano Culture in Northern New Mexico
Brenda Bright
Car
culture in northern New Mexico demonstrates how local
culture, as a reference and as a creation, becomes even
more significant as national and global popular cultures
create new power configurations, new alliances, and new
identities. An examination of Española area lowriders
highlights the ways extralocal processes such as mass
production and ethnopolitical mobilization are integral
in the creation of local tradition in an area marked by
tourism, loss of land, and labor outmigration. [ethnic
identity, localization, commodification, popular culture,
mass culture, Chicanos, New Mexico]
The
Work of Memory in Madagascar
Jennifer Cole
This
article examines the practices through which the Betsimisaraka
of Madagascar attempt to recode, assimilate, and contain
the influences of the outside world. The Betsimisaraka
endured colonization by the Merina and the French for
130 years. They rarely refer to this colonial past except
on certain occasions when it is powerfully evoked. They
prefer instead to commemorate ancestors. A processual
view of remembering and forgetting productively complicates
anthropological understandings of the colonization of
consciousness and the consciousness of colonization, revealing
how local cultural autonomy can be partially maintained
through the work of memory. [Madagascar, memory, forgetting,
colonization, Bartlett]
The
Shaman's Needle: Development, Shamanic Agency, and Intermedicality
in Aguaruna Lands, Peru
Shane Greene
In
this article I juxtapose and integrate three distinct
but interrelated lines of analysis: (1) a critique of
"development" with respect to its (mis)conceptions of
ethnomedicines as epistemologically and practically (that
is, culturally) static; (2) an explication of how shamanic
curing epitomizes such perceived stasis; and (3) an ethnographic
analysis of a specific shamanic session (originally presented
by Brown [1988]) conducted by an Aguaruna shaman whose
discourse and practice, when contextualized and fully
explored, undermine (mis)conceptions of stasis. The article
employs a notion of intermedicality to examine medical
development, demonstrating the important social agency
executed on the part of native practitioners. I discuss
implications for theorizing indigenous culture and the
importance of an ethnographic approach. [development,
shamanism, ethnomedicine, culture change, medical anthropology,
Amazonia]
Descent,
Alliance, and Political Order among Akha
Cornelia Ann Kammerer
This
article explores the way patrilineal descent and affinity
intersect and interlock with the political system among
Tibeto-Burman-speaking Akha highlanders of mainland Southeast
Asia. In contrast to Leach's famous work on the Kachin
of Burma, the Akha case suggests that asymmetric alliance
is not only compatible with egalitarian political organization
but can also be constitutive of it. Uncovering the cultural
nexus between descent and affinity and the structural
linkage between asymmetric alliance and political egalitarianism
requires a kinship analysis that is also an analysis of
local constructions of gender. [kinship, asymmetric alliance,
gender, political systems, comparison, Southeast Asia,
Akha]
Working
Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property,
and Power in Conjugal Relations
Tania Murray Li
In
this article I apply the conceptual repertoire developed
by feminist scholars in Africa to examine concepts of
personhood, property, and the conjugal contract in Southeast
Asia. I suggest that, as theory travels, it offers fresh
insight in the new context in which it is deployed and
is itself enriched. Studies of urban Singapore and upland
Sulawesi illustrate the ways in which cultural ideas are
reworked as women and men reposition themselves and attempt
to secure their economic futures in the context of changing
material conditions and shifting fields of power. [gender,
property, personhood, work, power, theory, Southeast Asia]
Global
Desirings and Translocal Loves: Transgendering and Same-Sex
Sexualities in the Southern Philippines
Mark Johnson
This
article explores male transgendering and same-sex sexualities
in the southern Philippines. In particular, the article
focuses on the translocal context of nonmainstream genders
and sexual identities. I describe a range of homosexual
encounters and elaborate on transactional scenarios, each
of which has significant implications for the way in which
the respective partners are gendered. In addition to these
transactional forms, I discuss the various real and imagined
worlds with which they are associated and within which
they are set. The article thus challenges the trope of
cultural particularity in anthropological accounts of
gender and sexual diversity, arguing that gender and sexual
identities are the product of relations that extend beyond
any particular locale. [gender, sexuality, translocality,
cartographies, cultural imagination]
Learning
from the Swat Pathans: Political Leadership in Afghanistan,
1978-97
David B. Edwards
The
conflict in Afghanistan, now two decades old, has generated
considerable attention from journalists, policy analysts,
and political scientists, but the literature on the conflict
includes few references to the work of Fredrik Barth on
political leadership among the Swat Pakhtuns of neighboring
Pakistan. Here I explore the relevance of Barth's work
to an analysis of the war in Afghanistan. In particular,
I examine Barth's "methodological individualism" and compare
his approach with alternative approaches advanced by three
of his principal critics: Talal Asad, Akbar S. Ahmed,
and Michael Meeker. [Afghanistan, Pakistan, political
authority, Islam]
Outclassed
by Former Outcasts: Petty Trading in Varna
Yulian Konstantinov, Gideon M. Kressel and Trond Thuen
People
caught in circumstances of social upheaval differ in the
ways in which they adjust to instability and change. Occasionally
individuals at less privileged socioeconomic levels engage
in socially devalued practices such as the small-scale
trading enterprises that have been degraded ideologically
during 45 years of communist rule in Bulgaria. In this
article we explore the ways in which people adjust to
change by examining ethnographically the practice of trader
tourism in Bulgaria. We argue that such an examination
supports a rethinking of the concept of boundaries, if
boundaries are fluid sets of constraints that individuals
negotiate when reacting to monumental stress. Specifically,
we consider the reactions of population groups within
Bulgaria to the post-1989 economic crisis. We also suggest
that members of each group react in group-specific strategies
of temporary inclusion, permanent inclusion, and exclusion.
[economic anthropology, survival strategies, markets and
trader tourism, capitalism con. communism, Roma/Indo-Roma/Gypsies,
Eastern Europe/Balkan/Bulgaria, transition/boundaries]
Comments
and Reflections
Reviews
The
Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption,
Commoditization, and Everyday Practice
(Gottlieb)
Brad Weiss
Natural
Histories of Discourse (Fenigsen)
Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, eds.
In
the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African
Community (Durham)
Anne M. O. Griffiths
The
Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela
(Watts)
Fernando Coronil
Fragments
of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography
(Cowan)
E. Neni Panourgiá
Ethnicity,
Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads
of History and Anthropology (Albro)
Brooke Larson and Olivia Harris
Maid
to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers
(Park)
Nicole Constable
Weaving
Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland
Guatemala Town (Femen¡as)
Carol Hendrickson
Portrait
of a Greek Imagination: an Ethnographic Biography of Andreas
Nenedakis (Marcus)
Michael Herzfeld
Nightsong:
Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa (Emoff)
Veit Erlmann
Moral
Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind,
Emotion, and Self (Cohen)
Steven M. Parish
Religion
and Power in Morocco (Launay)
Henry Munson Jr.
The
Myth of Mondrag¢n: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class
Life in a Basque Town (del Valle)
Sharryn Kasmir
War,
Exile, Everyday life: Cultural Perspectives (Zivkovic)
Renata Jambresc Kirin and Maja Povrzanovi, eds.
The
Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change
in Monterey Park, California
John Horton
American
Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins
Sarah J. Mahler
Multiculturalism
from the Margins: Non-Dominant Voices on Difference and
Diversity (Weston)
Dean Harris, ed.
Anthropology
and the Crisis of Intellectuals
Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart
Waiting
for Foucault
Marshall Sahlins
From
Physics to Anthropology - and Back
Simon Schaffer
Redrawing
the Map: Two African Journeys
Gabriell Gbadamosi and Ato Quayson
Anthropology,
the Intellectuals, and the Gulf War
Patrick Wilcken
The
Relation: Issues in Complexity and Scale
Marilyn Strathern
Miracle
in Natal: Revolution by Ballot-Box
Alan Thorold
Conversations
with Anthropological Filmmakers: Melissa Llewelyn-Davis
Anna Grimshaw
Conversations
with Anthropological Filmmakers: David MacDougall
Anna Grimshaw and Nikos Papastergiadis
On
Becoming Authentic: Interview with Jimmie Durham (Reed)
Nikos Papastergiadis and Laura Turney
The
Story of a Marriage: the Letters of Bronislaw Malinowski
and Elsie Masson, Volume 1
Helena Wayne
The
Story of a Marriage: The Letters of Bronislaw Malinowski
and Elsie Masson, Volume 2 (Bauer)
Helena Wayne
The
Rulings of the Night: an Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman
Oral Texts (Fisher)
Gregory G. Maskarinec
Organizing
Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle
East (Beal)
Dawn Chatty and Anika Rabo, eds.
Thanks
from the Editor
Cumulative
Index, Volumes 22-25
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