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FROM THE EDITOR

    1. R The Next Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist Is ...
      1. TOM BOELLSTORFF

FROM THE EDITORS OF OTHER AAA JOURNALS

    1. R From the Editors of ANTHRO-AT-LARGE Newsletter
    2. R From the Editor of the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (JSAE)
    3. R From the Editors of Medical Anthropology Quarterly
    4. R From the Publications Director of the Archeology Division, Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association

IN FOCUS: GLOBAL CHANGE AND ADAPTATION IN LOCAL PLACES

    1. R Introduction to "In Focus: Global Change and Adaptation in Local Places"
      1. Donald R. Nelson
        Colin Thor West
        Timothy J. Finan
    2. R Domestic Transitions, Desiccation, Agricultural Intensification, and Livelihood Diversification among Rural Households on the Central Plateau, Burkina Faso
      1. Colin Thor West
    3. R Hispanic Farmers and Farmworkers: Social Networks, Institutional Exclusion, and Climate Vulnerability in Southeastern Arizona
      1. Marcela Vásquez-León
    4. R Praying for Drought: Persistent Vulnerability and the Politics of Patronage in Ceará, Northeast Brazil
      1. Donald R. Nelson
        Timothy J. Finan

RESEARCH ARTICLES

    1. R Indigenous Ecological Knowledge as Situated Practices: Understanding Fishers' Knowledge in the Western Solomon Islands
      1. Matthew Lauer
        Shankar Aswani
    2. R The Arctic Cooking Pot: Why Was It Adopted?
      1. Karen Harry
        Liam Frink
    3. R Eating between the Lines: Mississippian Migration and Stable Carbon Isotope Variation in Fort Ancient Populations
      1. Robert A. Cook
        Mark R. Schurr
    4. R Old Jokes and New Multiculturalisms: Continuity and Change in Vernacular Discourse on the Yucatec Maya Language
      1. Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
    5. R Contagion and Alterity: Kowoj Maya Appropriations of European Objects
      1. Timothy W. Pugh

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

    1. R A New Website for the Society for Visual Anthropology: http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/
      1. KATE HENNESSY
        CRAIG CAMPBELL
    2. R The Business of Being Born by Abby Epstein
      1. ERICA GIBSON
    3. R First Australians by Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole
      1. SABRA THORNER
    4. R Fish Is Our Life by Peregrine Beckman
      Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore C. Bestor
      1. WILLIAM W. KELLY
    5. R Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals by Andrea M. Heckman
      Ausangate by Andrea Heckman and Tad Fetig
      1. LYNN A. MEISCH

BOOK REVIEWS

    1. R Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes by Denise Y. Arnold and Christine A. Hastorf
      1. JOHN W. VERANO
    2. R Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities by Karen Bassie-Sweet
      1. ANDREA STONE
    3. R The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place by Ruth M. Van Dyke
      1. JILL NEITZEL

OBITUARIES

    1. R George William Skinner (1925–2008)
      1. KATHERINE VERDERY
        CAROL A. SMITH
    2. R William Timothy Sanders (1926–2008)
      1. JEFFREY R. PARSONS