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| 797 |
Predatory
voyeurs: tourists and “tribal violence” in remote
Indonesia
Janet Hoskins
Tourism has been theorized in a new ethnography of modernity,
stressing the museumization of the premodern and its production
as spectacle. In this article, I explore the voice and perspective
of the “tribal culture” recently exposed to a new
type of gaze. Tourists are perceived as predatory voyeurs on
Sumba, a once remote area now receiving increasing numbers of
foreign visitors. An idiom of visual consumption encodes a critical
awareness of global inequities in access to and use of technology,
and a history of changing selfperceptions. The cameras that
every tourist brings to capture images of headhunters and primitive
violence become the very emblems of the exotic violence that
they are designed to capture. [tourism, photography, cultural
identity, Eastern Indonesia, violence, headhunting.] |
| 829 |
Road
mythographies: Space, mobility, and the historical imagination
in
postcolonial Niger
Adeline Masquelier
In this article, I explore how some Hausaphone Mawri in postcolonial
Niger materialize their experience of modernity. I examine the
fundamental role that space plays in local perceptions of modernity
by discussing stories people tell about what happens on the
road. In particular, I focus on their attention to the road
as part of a complex economy of violence, power, and blood.
By linking the road and its deadly spirits to the region’s
history of civil engineering, emergent capitalism, and religious
transformation, I show that rather than simply being iconic
of modernity, the road is a hybrid space that condenses past
histories at the same time that it concretizes the perils and
possibilities of modern life for rural Mawri. (space, roads,
mobility, modernity, imagination, spirits, Niger.) |
| 857 |
Fate
in the narrativity and experience of selfhood, a case from Taiwanese
chhiam
divination
Donald J. Hatfield
In this article, I examine the deployment of poetry in Taiwanese
practices of calculating fate. Observing that fate is both a
grounding notion to self-representation in narrative and to
the recognition of efficacious agents in a social field, I analyze
texts and interpretive practices of poetic divination, attending
to specific features that give fate its compelling qualities.
Most important among these features is the chronotopic character
of divination poems, which shape the experience of selfhood
in alternation and encounter through time. Investigating how
poetic contrast sets (such as those between gathering and dispersal,
fate as coterminous with a lifespan and fate as linked to specific
opportunities) produce these chronotopes, I ask how the poetics
of fate informs the distribution and abeyance of agency in particular
situations of crisis. In particular, I focus on crises that
lead to divination, emerging as fresh junctures in life historical
narratives. Finally, in light of the role of fate in the interpretation
of these variously distributed junctures and agents, I suggest
that the notion of fate could inform enthnographic work on micropolitics.
(divination, poetics, chronotopes, narrativity, agency, life
history, Taiwan) |
| 878 |
Remaking
the working class: Experience, class consciousness, and the
industrial
adjustment process
Thomas Dunk
In this article, I examine the interrelationships between experience,
class consciousness, and unemployment counseling in displaced
workers’ narratives about the process of industrial adjustment.
Focusing on the rhetoric of unemployment counselors and trainers,
I argue that the hegemony of neoconservative and neoliberal
interpretations of industrial restructuring and economic change
are secured – to the extent they are – through a microphysics
of power that operates through the agents and agencies of assistance
made available to displaced workers. (male working-class culture,
deindustrialization, Canada, discourse, experience, power) |
| 901 |
Vanishing
mediators: Enjoyment as a political factor in western Mexico
Pieter de Vries
Anthropologists, historians, and political scientists have pointed
to the pervasiveness of the cacique (political boss) as a habitual
figure who, through his role as an intermediary, is instrumental
in the reproduction of a structure of domination. In this article,
I argue that the performative and imaginary aspects of caciquismo
(political bossism) have been neglected in the analysis of structures
of power. Going beyond the conventional view of the cacique
as an effective intermediary, I argue that this figure often
operates as a sort of vanishing mediator who both unveils and
masks the absence of a center while standing for the corrupt
and venal side of the state. Furthermore, it is through the
orchestration of enjoyment and the image of excessive power
that the cacique contributes to the reproduction of a particular
mode of hegemony. I illustrate these performative and imaginary
processes by drawing on an ethnography of a regional cacique
involved in the power struggle of a local Water Users’
Association in western Mexico. (Mexico, brokerage, caciquismo,
ideology, hegemony, enjoyment, culture of power) |
| 928 |
Moving
and dwelling: building the Moroccan Ashelhi homeland
Katherine E. Hoffman
The tamazirt (homeland, contryside, village) has become an organizing
symbol for Anti-Atlas mountain Ishelhin (Tashelhit-speaking
Moroccan Berbers) that helps perpetuate Tashelhit language as
an index of ethnic identity. Residents render rural spaces meaningful
through gendered material practices and discursive representations.
They construct place and gender in the course of their movements
between the countryside and the city. I suggest that dislocation
may be integral to the cultural process of rendering locations
as well as identities meaningful. The subjective connection
of Ishelhin to place gives less primacy to place as space than
as a location in a nexus of mobile relationships. (anthropology
of place, rural-urban relations, ethnicity, verbal expression,
Morocco, Imazighen) |
| 963 |
Spending
power: Love, money, and the reconfiguration of gender relations
in Ado-Odo, southwestern Nigeria
Andrea Cornwall
Women’s (mis)behavior in intimate relationships is a constant
topic of commentary among women and men in Ado-Odo, southwestern
Nigeria. Today’s women are said to be wayward and troublesome,
defying their husbands in pursuit of other men’s love and
money. Yet, many women maintain marriages in which there is
no love and no money. And for those who do leave, remarriage
offers little attraction: neither for love nor for money. In
this article, I explore the interplay between love and money
in intimate relationships in Ado-Odo and implications for the
ways in which gender and agency are construed and enacted in
everyday life. (Nigeria, Yoruba, women, gender relations, love,
money) |
| 981 |
Spatializing
states: Toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality
James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta
In this exploratory article, we ask how states come to be understood
as entities with particular spatial characteristics, and how
changing relations between practices of government and national
territories may be challenging long-established modes of state
spatiality. In the first part of this article, we seek to identify
two principles that are key to state spatialization: verticality
(the state is “above” society) and encompassment (the
state “encompasses” its localities). We use ethnographic
evidence from a maternal health project in India to illustrate
our argument that perceptions of verticality and encompassment
are produced through routine bureaucratic practices. In the
second part, we develop a concept of transnational governmentality
as a way of grasping how new practices of government and new
forms of “grassroots” politics may call into question
the principles of verticality and encompassment that have long
helped to legitimate and naturalize states’ authority over
“the local.” (states, space, govermentality, globalization,
neoliberalism, India, Africa) |
| book
reviews |
| 1003 |
Georges
woke up laughing: Long-distance nationalism and the search for
home (Schiller and Fouron)
Laura A. Lewis |
| 1004 |
Griots
at war: Conflict, conciliation, and caste in Mande (Hoffman)
Karin Barber |
| 1005 |
Entangled
Edens: Visions of the Amazon (Slater)
John Frechione |
| 1007 |
Healing
the modern in a central Javanese city (Ferzacca)
M. Cameron Hay |
| 1008 |
North
Koreans in Japan: Language, ideology, and identity (Ryang)
Kaori H. Okano |
| 1009 |
In
and out of Morocco: Smuggling and migration in a frontier boomtown
(McMurray)
Dieter Haller |
| 1011 |
Quiché
rebelde: Religious conversion, politics, and ethnic identity
in Guatemala (Falla)
Robert S. Carlsen |
| 1012 |
Death,
memory and material culture (Hallam and Hockey)
James W. Green |
| 1013 |
Tears
of longing: Nostalgia and the nation of Japanese population
song (Yano)
Teri Silvio |
| 1014 |
Recovering
history, constructing race: The Indian, black, and white roots
of Mexican Americans (Menchaca)
Brian Haley |
| 1016 |
Endangered
relations: negotiating sex and AIDS in Thailand (Lyttleton)
Walter L. Williams |
| 1017 |
Náyari
history, politics, and violence: From flowers to ash (Coyle)
Peter S. Cahn |
| 1018 |
Between
Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and consumption among urban
Chinese Muslims (Gillette); Muslims in the diaspora:
The Somali communities of London and Toronto (McGown)
Joann D’Alisera |
| 1020 |
An
anthropology of the European union: Building, imagining and
experience the new Europe (Bellier and Wilson, eds.)
David McMurray |
| 1023 |
Streets,
bedrooms, and patios: The ordinariness of diversity in urban
Oaxaca (Higgins and Coen)
Miguel Diaz Barriga |
| 1024 |
The
British on the Costa del Sol: Transnational identities and local
communities (O’Reilly)
Anne-Meike Fechter |
| 1025 |
War
and slavery in Sudan (Jok)
Anita Fábos |
| 1027 |
Against
culture: development, politics, and religion in Indian Alaska
(Dombrowski)
Paul Nadasdy |
| 1028 |
Histories
and stores from Chiapas: Border identities in southern Mexico
(Hernández Castillo)
Edward F. Fischer |
| 1029 |
Mullahs
on the mainframe: Islam and modernity among the Daudi Bohras
(Blank)
Walter Armbrust |
| 1031 |
City
of walls: Crime, segregation, and citizenship in São
Paulo (Caldeira)
Joshua Barker |
| 1032 |
The
empire of things: Regimes of value and material culture (Myers,
ed.)
Janet Hoskins |
| 1034 |
Integral
Europe: Fast-capitalism, multiculturalism, neofascism (Holmes)
Dominic Boyer |
| 1035 |
Women
on the verge: Japanese women, Western dreams (Kelsky)
Amy Borovoy |
| 1037 |
Changing
food habits: Case studies from African, South America and Europe
(Lentz, ed.)
Marianne E. Lien |
| 1038 |
Holy
saints and fiery preachers: The anthropology of Protestantism
in Mexico and Central America (Dow and Sandstrom, eds.)
Nancy Forand |
| 1040 |
Language,
ethnicity and the state: Minority languages in the European
Union (O’Reilly, ed.)
Joan Gross |
| 1042 |
Persistence
of the gift: Tongan tradition in transnational context (Evans)
Cathy A Small |
| 1043 |
A
society without fathers or husbands: The Na of China (Hua)
Eileen Walsh |
| 1045 |
I
am my language: Discourses of women and children in the borderlands
(González)
John Attinasi |
| 1046 |
After
revolution: Mapping gender and cultural politics in neoliberal
Nicaragua (Babb)
Dolores Byrnes |
| 1048 |
Before
Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan jihad (Edwards)
Audrey Shalinsky |
| 1049 |
Praising
his name in the dance: Spirit possession in the spiritual Baptist
faith and orisha work in Trinidad, West Indies (Lum)
Diana Maitland Dean |
| 1050 |
Deadliest
enemies: Law and the making of race relations on and off Rosebud
reservation (Biolsi)
Caroline Brown |
| 1052 |
New
directions in anthropological kinship (Stone, ed.)
Olaf H. Smedal |
| 1054 |
Macedonia:
The politics of identity and difference (Cowan, ed.)
David E. Sutton |
