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Contents:

FROM THE EDITOR

    1. R How to Get an Article Accepted at American Anthropologist (or Anywhere), Part 2
      1. Tom Boellstorff

RESEARCH ARTICLES

    1. R Traces of a Lost Language and Number System Discovered on the North Coast of Peru
      1. Jeffrey Quilter
        Marc Zender
        Karen Spalding
        Régulo Franco Jordán
        César Gálvez Mora
        Juan Castañeda Murga
    2. R "Arapesh Warfare": Reo Fortune's Veiled Critique of Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperament
      1. Lise M. Dobrin
        Ira Bashkow
    3. R Names That Show Time: Turkish Jews as "Strangers" and the Semiotics of Reclassification
      1. Marcy Brink-Danan
    4. R Anthropology and Environmental Policy: What Counts?
      1. Susan Charnley
        William H. Durham
    5. R Ad Hoc Humanity: UN Peacekeeping and the Limits of International Community in Gaza
      1. Ilana Feldman
    6. R How Did It Feel for You? Emotion, Narrative, and the Limits of Ethnography
      1. Andrew Beatty
    7. R Locating Value in Artisan Cheese: Reverse Engineering Terroir for New-World Landscapes
      1. Heather Paxson

PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY

    1. R Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2010
      1. David Vine
        Alaka Wali
        Melissa Checker
    2. R Brazilian Cosmopolitics—Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (http://www.vibrant.org.br/index_english.html)
      1. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
    3. R Vibrant: A Review
      1. Janet Chernela
    4. R This Is Our Culture: Anthropology and the Public Sphere in Malaysia
      1. Eric C. Thompson
    5. R Tokyo Green Space [http://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/]
      1. Robert Rotenberg
    6. R The 2009 UN Climate Talks: Alternate Media and Participation from Anthropologists
      1. Edward M. Maclin

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

    1. R Seeing China
      1. Marc L. Moskowitz
    2. R Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony by Yingchi Chu
      1. Paola Iovene
    3. R From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China edited by Paul Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang
      1. Weihong Bao
    4. R Up the Yangtze by Yung Chang
      1. David Schak
    5. R We Are the ... of Communism (Women shi gongchan zhuyi shenglüehao) by Cui Zi'en
      1. Seio Nakajima
    6. R China Independent Documentary Film Archive
      1. Matthew D. Johnson
    7. R Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Bill Porter
      Amongst White Clouds: Buddhist Hermit Masters of China's Zhongnan Mountains by Edward A. Burger
      1. Eric Reinders

BOOK REVIEWS

    1. R Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil by Stanley Bailey
      1. Jan Hoffman French
    2. R The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition by Michael Burawoy
      1. George Marcus
    3. R The Mind Possessed: The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition by Emma Cohen
      1. Lindsay Hale
    4. R Ethnicity, Inc. by John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
      1. Keith Hart
    5. R Acting in Anaesthesia: Ethnographic Encounters with Patients, Practitioners, and Medical Technologies by Dawn Goodwin
      1. Kelly Joyce
    6. R Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America by Mary Gray
      1. C. Todd White
    7. R China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism by Andrew Kipnis
      1. Vanessa L. Fong
    8. R Symbols in Clay: Seeking Artists' Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls by Steven LeBlanc and Lucia Henderson
      1. E. Charles Adams
    9. R The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru by Jessaca Leinaweaver
      1. Krista E. Van Vleet
    10. R Plunder: When the Rule of Law Is Illegal by Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader
      1. John M. Conley
    11. R Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India by Anand Pandian
      1. John Harriss
    12. R Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times by Michael G. Peletz
      1. Robert W. Hefner
    13. R Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman
      1. David J. Meltzer
    14. R Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital by Andrew Sartori
      1. Rachel Sturman
    15. R Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya by James Howard Smith
      1. Justus Ogembo
    16. R Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed
      1. Mark Goodale
    17. R What Color Is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig
      1. Raquel Romberg
    18. R Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen by Lisa Wedeen
      1. Steven Caton
    19. R Tiwanaku edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez
      1. Andrew Roddick

OBITUARIES

    1. R John Kennedy Campbell (1923–2009)
    2. R Charles Miller Leslie (1923–2009)
    3. R Aidan William Southall (1921–2009)

ERRATUM

    1. R For: "Descent with Modification: Bioanthropological Identities in 2009" by Julienne Rutherford, in American Anthropologist 112(2)