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American Anthropologist

Volume 98. Issue 3. September 1996

Contents:

Forum

1. In Search of the Barbarians: Borders in Pain
   
   1. C. Nadia Seremetakis
2. Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Black-Korean Tension in America
   
   1. Kyeyoung Park
3. Conceptual Differences between Mexican and Peruvian Archaeology
   
   1. Thomas C. Patterson
4. The Racialization of a Debate: The Charreada as Tradition or Torture
   
   1. Olga Nájera-Ramírez

Article and Essay

1. Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism
   
   1. LAUREL KENDALL
2. Maya Zapatistas Move to the Ancient Future
   
   1. GARY H. GOSSEN
3. Mad Kings, Paper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland
   
   1. A. JAMIE SARIS
4. The History if Samoan Sexual Conduct and tie Mead-Freeman Controversy
   
   1. PAUL SHANKMAN
5. After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site
   
   1. ERIC GABLE
      RICHARD HANDLER
6. Order out of Chaos
   
   1. JAMES M. ACHESON
      JAMES A. WILSON

Film Review Essays

1. Interactive Media in Anthropology: Seed and Earth—Promise of Rain
   
   1. Peter Biella
2. Coming-Out Stories: Recent Videos on Gay and Lesbian Themes
   
   1. Roger N. Lancaster

Book Review Essays

1. The Essence of Aroma: Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. Constance Classen, David Howes, and Anthony Synnott
   
   1. Stephen A. Tyler
2. A Postmodern Rebirth of the Search for Objective Knowledge: How Culture Works. Paul Bohannan.: The Construction of Social Reality. John R. Searle
   
   1. Robert G. Carlson
3. Maladies de la Fin de Siècle: Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. Ian Hacking.: Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Interpretation. Mark Micale
   
   1. Charles W. Nuckolls
4. Blurring the Line between Fact and Fiction: A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs. Timothy J. Knab.: Enigma Variations: A Novel. Richard Price and Sally Price
   
   1. Miles Richardson
5. Anthropology and Everyday Scholarship: Legal Anthropology. Norbert Rouland.: Law in Everyday Life. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, eds
   
   1. Laura Nader
      Tim Plowman
6. Ethnographers in Rural France: Descendants de chouans: Histoire et culture populaire dans la Vendée contemporaine. Bernadette Bucher.: Les colloques ethnologiques de Bordeaux. L'ethnologie à Bordeaux: Hommage à Pierre Métais
   
   1. Alexander Alland
7. The Anthropology of Technology: Mining and Metallurgy: In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America. Alan Craig and Robert West, eds.: The Sounds and Colors of Power: The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico. Dorothy Hosier
   
   1. Helen Perlstein Pollard
8. From "Others" to Actors: New Perspectives on Popular Political Cultures and National State Formation in Latin America: Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797. Stafford Poole CM.: Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico. Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent, eds.: Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru. Florencia E. Mallon
   
   1. John Gledhill
9. Demographic Collapse in Colonial Missions: Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687–1840. Robert H. Jackson.: Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo
   
   1. Kent G. Lightfoot
10. Missionaries and Foreign Agents: Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon, Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett
    
    1. David Stoll
11. Facing Threats: Studies of the Tropical Forest: The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America. Michael Painter and William Durham, eds.: Prophets of Agroforestry: Guarani Communities and Commercial Gathering. Richard Reed.: Naturaleza y ecología humana en el neotropico. Dieter Heinen, José San José, and Hortensia Caballero Arias, eds
    
    1. Benjamin Orlove
12. The Ethnography of Change in New Guinea: Ancestral Rain Forests and the Mountain of Gold: Indigenous Peoples and Mining in New Guinea. David Hyndman.: Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village. Michael French Smith.: Culture and Change among the Muyu. J. W. Schoorl
    
    1. William E. Mitchell
13. The Polyphony of Melanesian Otherness: To Sing with Pigs Is Human. Jane C. Goodale.: Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography. Nancy C. Lutkehaus.: Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea
    
    1. Jane Fajans
14. Philology, Anthropology, and the Language of the Gods: Cutre le monde. Rite et pensée en Inde ancienne. Charles Malamoud.: La déesse Parole. Quatre figures de la langue des dieux. Marcel Detienne and Gilbert Hamonic, eds
    
    1. John Leavitt

Book Reviews

1. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. Vine Deloria Jr
   
   1. John Mohawk
2. Black Elk 's Religion: The Sun Dance and Lakota Catholicism. Clyde Holler
   
   1. William K. Powers
3. Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818–1918. Clara Sue Kidwell
   
   1. Kenneth H. Carleton
4. The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices. Bruce Cutler
   
   1. Paul Friedrich
5. Histoire de la littérature amérindienne au Québec. Diane Boudreau
   
   1. Gordon Sayre
6. Rifles, Blankets, and Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch. William E. Simeone
   
   1. Michael C. Coleman
7. Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia. Igor Krupnik. Marcia Levenson, trans, and ed
   
   1. Charles F. Merbs
8. Jägaren och makterna: Samiska och finska björnceremonier. Carl-Martin Edsman
   
   1. Hugh Beach
9. Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, ed
   
   1. Catherine Wanner
10. People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador. John C. Kennedy
    
    1. James M. Acheson
11. Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies: A Gulf of Maine Perspective. Bruce J. Bourque
    
    1. Stephen Loring
12. The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America. Timothy R. Pauketat
    
    1. C. Margaret Scarry
13. Navajo Multi-Household Social Units. Thomas R. Rocek
    
    1. Stephen Plog
14. How the Maya Built Their World. Elliot M. Abrams
    
    1. K. Anne Pyburn
15. The Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán. Vols. 1 and 2. Dennis Breedlove and Robert Laughlin
    
    1. William Balée
16. Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow. Christine Eber
    
    1. James Thrasher
17. Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
    
    1. Adriana G. Sarraméa
18. Familia, salud y sociedad: Experiencias de investigacion en México. Francisco Javier Mercado, ed
    
    1. Kaja Finkler
19. Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia. Lesley Gill
    
    1. Linda Green
20. Saude e povos indígenas. Ricardo V. Santos and Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., eds
    
    1. Emilio F. Moran
21. Echoes of the Call: Identity and Ideology among American Missionaries in Ecuador. Jeffrey Swanson
    
    1. Elmer S. Miller
22. Power and Violence in the Colonial City: Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740–1782). Oscar Cornblit
    
    1. Michael F. Brown
23. Yanamami Warfare: A Political History. R. Brian Ferguson
    
    1. Napoleon Chagnon
24. La paix des jardins: Structures sociales des Indiens curripaco du haut Rio Negro (Colombie). Nicolas Journet
    
    1. Stephen Hugh-Jones
25. Studying War, Anthropological Perspectives. S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs, eds
    
    1. Neil Lancelot Whitehead
26. Other Intentions: Cultural Contexts and the Attributions of Inner States. Lawrence Rosen, ed
    
    1. T. M. Luhrmann
27. Psychological Anthropology. Philip K. Bock, ed
    
    1. Robert A. Paul
28. The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy. Michael Herzfeld
    
    1. Charles Stewart
29. In the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change. Renée C. Fox
    
    1. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
30. Irish Travellers: Culture and Ethnicity. Mary McCann, Séamus Ó Siocháin, and Joseph Ruane, eds
    
    1. Sharon Bohn Gmelch
31. Merchants and Shopkeepers: A Historical Anthropology of an Irish Market Town, 1200–1991. P. H. Gulliver and Marilyn Silverman
    
    1. Paul A. Shackel
32. Gods and Vampires. Return to Chipaya. Nathan Wachtel. Carol Volk, trans
    
    1. Frank Salomon
33. To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain. Thomas Maschio
    
    1. Susanne Küchler
34. Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions. G. W. Trompf
    
    1. Roger I. Lohmann
35. How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example. Marshall Sahlins
    
    1. Donald Pollock
36. Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán, eds
    
    1. Matti Bunzl
37. Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics. Lawrence J. Taylor
    
    1. Bohdan G. Szuchewycz
38. Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity. David G. Horn
    
    1. Peter T. Schneider
39. Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Sahlins
    
    1. Susan Carol Rogers
40. In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine. Jill Dubisch
    
    1. Richard Deutsch
41. Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana. Pauline E. Peters
    
    1. Nancy E. Horn
42. Blood, Milk, and Death: Body Symbols and the Power of Regeneration among the Zaramo of Tanzania. Marja-Liisa Swantz, with Salome Mjema and Zenya Wild
    
    1. Philip Setel
43. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination. Annie E. Coombes
    
    1. Deborah Kaspin
44. The Idea of Africa. V. Y. Mudimbe
    
    1. Sally Falk Moore
45. Religion in Africa. Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E. A. van Beek, and Dennis L. Thomson, eds
    
    1. Philip Burnham
46. Ghosts: Life and Death in North India. Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed
    
    1. Piers Vitebsky
47. Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste and Class in Rural South India. Karin Kapadia
    
    1. Nllanjana Chatterjee
48. The Householder's World: Purity, Power and Dominance in a Nepali Village. John N. Gray
    
    1. Gregory G. Maskarinec
49. Marriage and Divorce in Islamic South-East Asia. Gavin W. Jones
    
    1. Laura ML Ahearn
50. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. Martha Mundy
    
    1. Andrew Shryock
51. Telling Lives, Telling History. Susan Rodgers, ed. and trans
    
    1. Janet Hoskins
52. On the Subject of "Java." John Pemberton
    
    1. Robert W. Hefner
53. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
    
    1. Emily Mei-Hwa Lee
54. Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. Lothar von Falkenhausen
    
    1. Su Zheng
55. Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. Susan Brownell
    
    1. D. M. Anderson
56. Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji. Martha Kaplan
    
    1. Richard J. Parmentier
57. Voyage of Discovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia. Ben Finney
    
    1. Ward H. Goodenough
58. Street Addicts in the Political Economy. Alisse Waterston
    
    1. David Maynard