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American Anthropologist

Volume 86. Issue 4. December 1984

Contents:

Original Article

1. The Impact of Subsistence Change on Mobility and Settlement Pattern in a Tropical Forest Foraging Economy: Some Implications for Archeology
   
   1. James F. Eder
2. An Application of Dimensional Analysis in Cultural Anthropology
   
   1. Marion Lundy Dobbert
      Dennis P. Mcguire
      James J. Pearson
      Kenneth Clarkson Taylor
3. Navajo Attitudes Toward Development and Change: A Unified Ethnographic and Survey Approach to an Understanding of Their Future
   
   1. Mark Schoepfle
      Michael Burton
      Kenneth Begishe
4. Terms for Kith and Kin
   
   1. Rita Smith Kipp
5. The Misuse of Chayanov: "Chayanov's Rule" and Empiricist Bias in Anthropology
   
   1. Nicola Tannenbaum

Review Article

1. The Kula, Past and Present: The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Jerry W. Leach: The Kula: A Bibliography. Martha Macintyre
   
   1. George Dalton
2. Life-Histories: Lives: An Anthropological Approach to Biography. L. L. Langness and Gelya Frank: Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method. William McKinley Runyan. Carmen: The Autobiography of a Spanish Woman. Hans C. Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler.: Son of Tecún Umán: A Maya Indian Tells His Life Story. James D. Sexton: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Marjorie Shostak.
   
   1. Vincent Crapanzano
3. Reason and Culture: The Universal and the Particular Revisited: Rationality and Relativism. Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes
   
   1. Bob Scholte

Research Report

1. Consistency and Consensus among Informants: Disease Concepts in a Rural Mexican Village
   
   1. Susan C. Weller

Commentaries

1. Formative Period Political Differentiation in the Southern Valley of Mexico: A Comment on Steponaitis
   
   1. Neal W. Ackerly
      Dennis L. Young
2. Is This a System? Comment on Osborn's "Ecological Aspects of Equestrian Adaptations in Aboriginal North America"
   
   1. Jerrold E. Levy
3. Comment on Black's Review of Old Believers in Oregon
   
   1. Ethel Dunn
      Stephen Dunn
4. Response to Dunn and Dunn
   
   1. Lydia Black
5. Reply to Powers's Misreading of To Dance Is Human
   
   1. Judith Lynne Hanna
6. Comments on "High Altitude Hypoxia, Culture, and Human Fecundity/Fertility"
   
   1. Amitabha Basu
      Ranjan Gupta
7. Response to Basu and Gupta
   
   1. Melvyn C. Goldstein
      Cynthia M. Beall
      Paljor Tsarong

Book Review

1. Cultural/Ethnology: Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. Lee Clark Mitchell
   
   1. Shepard Krech
2. Cultural/Ethnology: Concepts of Person: Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India. Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett, eds
   
   1. David Hicks
3. Cultural/Ethnology: Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal. Lynn Bennett
   
   1. Robert A. Paul
4. Cultural/Ethnology: Shenfan. William Hinton
   
   1. E. N. Anderson
5. Cultural/Ethnology: Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel
   
   1. Melford Spiro
6. Cultural/Ethnology: Japanese Society: Reappraisals and New Directions. Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto
   
   1. Theodore C. Bestor
7. Cultural/Ethnology: Oriomo Papuans: Ecology of Sago Eaters in Lowland Papua. Ryutaro Ohtsuka
   
   1. Nancy McDowell
8. Cultural/Ethnology: Jan Verschueren's Description of Yei-Nan Culture. J. Van Baal
   
   1. Robert Glasse
9. Cultural/Ethnology: Two Tahitian Villages: A Study in Comparison. Douglas Oliver
   
   1. John Kirkpatrick
10. Cultural/Ethnology: Atoll Economy: Social Change in Kiribati and Tuvalu: Tabiteuea North. W. H. Geddes
    
    1. Martin Silverman
11. Archeology: Early Man in the New World. Richard Shutler
    
    1. Thomas F. Lynch
12. Archeology: Great Lakes Archaeology. Ronald J. Mason: Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest. James L. Phillips and James A. Brown
    
    1. Charles E. Cleland
13. Book Review
    
    1. John D. Speth
14. Archeology: Archaeological Ethnography among Mackenzie Basin Dene, Canada. The Arctic Institute of North America, Technical Paper 28. Robert R. Janes
    
    1. Richard A. Gould
15. Archeology: Paleolithic Site of the Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria, Part 3: Animal Bones and Further Analysis of Archeological Materials. Kazuro Hanihara and Takeru Akazawa
    
    1. Anthony E. Marks
16. Archeology: A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul. J. Peter White, with James F. O'Connell
    
    1. Virginia D. Watson
17. Archeology: Paleoethnobotany of the Kameda Peninsula Jomon. Gary W. Crawford
    
    1. James Schoenwetter
18. Archeology: Theory and Explanation in Archaeology: The Southampton Conference. Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Rowlands and Barbara Abbott Segraves
    
    1. David P. Braun
19. General/Theoretical: Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. Johannes Fabian
    
    1. George E. Marcus
20. General/Theoretical: Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life. Judith Schachter Modell
    
    1. L. L. Langness
21. General/Theoretical: The Invention of Tradition. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger
    
    1. Richard Handler
22. General/Theoretical: Law and Economic Organization: A Comparative Study of Preindustrial Societies. Katherine S. Newman
    
    1. Robert M. Hayden
23. General/Theoretical: People Without Government. Harold Barclay
    
    1. J. Brian Sheehan
24. General/Theoretical: Theory and Practice: Essays Presented to Gene Weltfish. Stanley Diamond
    
    1. Charles Frantz
25. General/Theoretical: The Versatility of Kinship: Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart. Linda S. Cordell and Stephen Beckerman
    
    1. Mac Marshall
26. General/Theoretical: Contexts of Behavior. Robert J. Maxwell
    
    1. Lynn Thomas
27. Physical: Geographic Variation in Modern Japanese Somatometric Data and Its Interpretation. The University Museum, Bulletin No. 22, 1983. Makiko Kouchi
    
    1. Harry L. Shapiro
28. Physical: The Australopithecine Face. Yoel Rak
    
    1. Henry M. McHenry
29. Physical: Child Abuse: The Nonhuman Primate Data. Monographs in Primatology, Vol. 1. Martin Reite and Nancy G. Caine
    
    1. Joan B. Silk
30. Applied: Family Planning in Japanese Society: Traditional Birth Control in a Modern Urban Culture. Samuel Coleman
    
    1. George A. DeVos
31. Applied: Aging and Life Course Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams
    
    1. Melvyn C. Goldstein
32. Applied: Other Cultures, Elder Years. Lowell D. Holmes
    
    1. Christie W. Kiefer
33. Applied: Assault on Paradise. Conrad Phillip Kottak
    
    1. Carol E. Hill
34. Applied: Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy. Anthony J. Marsella and Geoffrey M. White
    
    1. Barbara Gallatin Anderson

Applied

1. Applied: Transnationals and the Third World: The Struggle for Culture. Armand Mattelart
   
   1. Graham Clarke

Book Review

1. Applied: Desertification and Development: Dryland Ecology in Social Perspective. Brian Spooner and H. S. Mann
   
   1. F. H. Wagner
2. Applied: The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the Social Construction of Medicine. Peter Wright and Andrew Treacher
   
   1. Barbara Gallatin Anderson
3. Linguistics: A Grammar of Kiowa. Laurel J. Watkins
   
   1. Marianne Mithun
4. Linguistics: The Mirror, the Rabbit, and the Bundle. Linda Schele and Jeffrey H. Miller
   
   1. John S. Henderson
5. Linguistics: A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language. Nora C. England
   
   1. Louanna Furbee
6. Linguistics: Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, Volume 1: Geographical and Historical Introduction. Bernd Heine and Wilhelm J. C. Möhlig
   
   1. Ben G. Blount
7. Linguistics: The History of the Fijian Languages. Paul A. Geraghty
   
   1. Joel M. Maring
8. Linguistics: Ways with Words. Shirley Brice Heath
   
   1. Martha C. Ward

Film Review

1. Israel in Antiquity: From David to Herod. A permanent exhibit at The Jewish Museum
   
   1. Roger S. Boraas
2. Men's Lives. 1976. A film by Josh Hanig and Will Roberts
   
   1. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
3. Between Men. 1979. A film by Will Roberts
   
   1. Stanley Brandes
4. Jocelyn, Facing Death at 17 with Strong Faith. 1981. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
   
   1. Christine Lemieux
5. Chillysmith Farm. 1981. A film by Mark Jury and Dan Jury
   
   1. Christine Lemieux
6. Hospice. 1979. Produced by Frank Moynihan
   
   1. Christine Lemieux
7. Poletown Lives 1983. A film by George Corsetti, Jeanie Wylie, and Richard Wieske
   
   1. Sally Engle Merry
8. Dudley Carter. 1982. Produced and directed by Abby Sher
   
   1. Linda A. Bennett
9. In Memory of the Land and the People. 1982. A film by Robert Gates
   
   1. Elizabeth A. Lawrence
10. A Cowhand's Song: Crisis on the Range. 1982. A film by Gwendolyn Clancy and Nancy Kelly
    
    1. Elizabeth A. Lawrence
11. Return to Sovereignty. 1983. Produced by Donald D. Stull and directed by David M. Kendall
    
    1. Louise Lamphere
12. Letter from an Apache. 1982. A film by Barbara Wilk
    
    1. Philip J. Greenfeld
13. U'mista Cultural Society and Chuck Olin Associates and directed by Chuck Olin Associates: Box of Treasures. 1983
    
    1. Mark S. Fleisher
14. Haa Shagoon. 1983. A film by Joseph Kawaky
    
    1. Mark S. Fleisher
15. Tarahumara: Racers Against Time. 1981. Produced and directed by Barnett Addis
    
    1. Dwight B. Heath
16. The House That Giacomo Built. 1983. A film by Donald S. Pitkin and Bill Anderson
    
    1. David I. Kertzer
17. The Ways of Nya Are Many. 1981. Directed by Jean-Jacques Peche and Jean-Paul Colleyn and produced by Catherine De Clippel
    
    1. Mary H. Moran
18. Sogow, Bambara Masks. 1983. Produced by Catherine De Clippel and directed by Jean-Paul Colleyn
    
    1. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
19. Witchcraft among the Azande. 1981. Produced by Granada Television International
    
    1. Philip Leis
20. Churchical Chants of the Nyabingi. 1983. Production arranged by Elliott Leib. Stereophonic
    
    1. John Homiak
21. Master Musicians of Jahjouka. 1983. Produced and directed by Michael Mendizza
    
    1. Dale F. Eickelman
22. Death Is Afraid of Us. 1980. Produced by Granada Television and Novosti
    
    1. Lydia Black
23. Courts and Councils. 1981. A film by Ron Hess
    
    1. Eva Friedlander
24. The Fragile Mountain. 1982. A film by Sandra Nichols
    
    1. Linda Stone
25. Tibetan Buddhism: Preserving the Monastic Tradition. 1983. Produced by Joseph W. Elder and directed by Edward W. Bastian: Tibetan Buddhism: Cycles of Interdependence. 1983. Produced and directed by Edward W. Bastian
    
    1. Linda Stone
26. Buddhism in China. 1983. Produced and directed by Wan-go Weng
    
    1. Kathleen McDermott
27. Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex. 1983. A film by Gunter Pfaff, produced and directed by Ronald C. Simons
    
    1. Robert Jay
28. First Contact. 1983. A film by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
    
    1. Terence E. Hays
29. Jane Goodall: Studies of the Chimpanzee. Five films produced by the National Geographic Society. Introduction to Chimpanzee Behavior
    
    1. Robert S. O. Harding