Contents:
Featured Article: Issues in Debate
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making kin: kinship theory and Zumbagua adoptions
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MARY WEISMANTEL
Debate
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nourishing kinship theory: a commentary on Weismantel's "making kin"
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SUSAN MCKINNON
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response to McKinnon
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MARY WEISMANTEL
Original Article
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equilibrium and extraction: dual organization in the Andes
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PAUL H. GELLES
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Mexico: cultural globalization in a disintegrating city
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NÉSTOR GARCÍA CANCLINI
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from tlahtocayotl to gobernadoryotl: a critical examination of indigenous rule in 18th-century central Mexico
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ARIJ OUWENEEL
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constructing local identities in a revolutionary nation: the cultural politics of the artisan class in Nicaragua, 1979-90
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LES W. FIELD
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women's rights are human rights: the merging of feminine and feminist interests among El Salvador's mothers of the disappeared (CO-MADRES)
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LYNN STEPHEN
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blood, oil, honey, and water: symbolism in spirit possession sects in northeastern Brazil
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DOLORES J. SHAPIRO
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erotic anthropology: "ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and beyond
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DEBORAH A. ELLISTON
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conversion by affiliation: the history of the Karo Batak Protestant Church
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RITA SMITH KIPP
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consumption, prostitution, and reproduction: the poetics of sweetness in bori
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ADELINE MASQUELIER
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Hindu culture for an Indian nation: gender, politics, and elite identity in urban south India
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MARY HANCOCK
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"I can't tell you all my troubles": conflict, resistance, and metacommunication in Bangladeshi illness interactions
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JAMES M. WILCE
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the hexis of interpretation: Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
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GREGORY STARRETT
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mon Japon: the revue theater as a technology of Japanese imperialism
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JENNIFER ROBERTSON
Review Article
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theory and local knowledge in the history and anthropology of the body
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CHARLOTTE FURTH
Review
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Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. TALAL ASAD
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EDMUND BURKE
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Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge. KIRSTEN HASTRUP and PETER HERVIK, eds
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MARY M. DOI
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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. CHARLES STEWART and ROSALIND SHAW, eds
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JOEL ROBBINS
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Reviews
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Rhetorics of Self-making. DEBBORA BATTAGLIA, ed
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ANTHONY P. COHEN
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Prey into Hunter: The politics of religious experience. MAURICE BLOCH
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ERNESTINE MCHUGH
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Understanding Rituals. DANIEL DE COPPET, ed
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JACOB PANDIAN
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reviews
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Legitimate Acts and iilegal Encounters: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda. MINDIE LAZARUS-BLACK
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COLLEEN BALLERINO COHEN
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The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images. ALFRED GELL
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CAROL J. GREENHOUSE
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Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life. F. ALLAN HANSON
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STACIA E. ZABUSKY
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The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski. ROBERT J. THORNTON and PETER SKALNIK, eds. LUDWIK KRZYZANOWSKI, trans
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HENRIKA KUKLICK
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Between Culture and Politics: Intellectuals in Modern Society. RON EYERMAN
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GEORGE E. MARCUS
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Multilingualism. JOHN EDWARDS
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DAVID D. LAITIN
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Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers. DON D. FOWLER and DONALD L. HARDESTY, eds
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DEBORAH E. REED-DANAHAY
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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations. ANNA WIERZBICKA
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EMILY A. SCHULTZ
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Interpretative Archaeology. CHRISTOPHER TILLEY, ed
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MICHAEL DIETLER
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Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. NICHOLAS THOMAS
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NORBERT PEABODY
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Ideology and Cultural Identity: Modernity and the Third World Presence. JORGE LARRAIN
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TALAL ASAD
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Cultural Economies Past and Present. RHODA H. HALPERIN
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MARK MOBERG
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Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples. ELSPETH YOUNG
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SØREN HVALKOF
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"Race," Ethnicity & Nation: International Perspectives on Social Conflict. PETER RATCLIFFE
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AMITAI TOUVAL
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At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective. ROGER SANJEK and SHELLEE COLEN, eds
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NICOLE CONSTABLE
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Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. KAMALA VISWESWARAN
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RICHARD HANDLER
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The Gift in Culture. ROZA GODULA, ed
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JAMES G. CARRIER
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Disability and Culture. BENEDICTE INGSTAD and SUSAN REYNOLDS WHYTE, eds
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MATTHEW KOHRMAN
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reviews
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NORA ELLEN GROCE
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Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. MARGARET LOCK
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ELIZABETH MILLER
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Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific. WILLIAM E. MITCHELL, ed
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DON HANDELMAN
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Anthropology and the Peace Corps: Case Studies in Career Preparation. BRIAN E. SCHWIMMER and D. MICHAEL WARREN, eds
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ROBERT B. TEXTOR
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Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story. RUTH BEHAR
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JUDITH FRIEDLANDER
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Divisions and Solidarities: Gender, Class and Employment in Latin America. ALISON MACEWEN SCOTT
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MARY WEISMANTEL
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San Rafael, Camba Town: Life in a Lowland Bolivian Peasant Community. ALLYN MACLEAN STEARMAN
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LYNN SIKKINK
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Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History. JOANNE RAPPAPORT
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PAUL H. GELLES
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Lives TogetherWorlds Apart: Quechua Colonization in Jungle and City. SARAH SKAR
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JOANNE RAPPAPORT
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Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination. CANDACE SLATER
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ELLEN B. BASSO
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Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World. LESLIE E. SPONSEL, ed
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JEROME LEVI
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Citrus, Strategy, and Class: The Politics of Development in Southern Belize. MARK MOBERG
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KEVIN A. YELVINGTON
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Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender, and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry. SUSAN TIANO
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MATTHEW C. GUTMANN
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Santiago de Guatemala 15411773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience. CHRISTOPHER H. LUTZ
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PHILIP C. PARNELL
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The Decline of Community in Zinacantán: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification 19601987. FRANK CANCIAN
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JAN RUS
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Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to independence. ENRIQUE FLORESCANO. ALBERT G. BORK, trans
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LES FIELD
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Mestizaje in Ibero-America. CLAUDIO ESTEVA-FABREGAT
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PETER WADE
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Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond. LAMONT LINDSTROM
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FREDERICK ERRINGTON
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The Business of Marriage: Transformations in Oceanic Matrimony. RICHARD A. MARKSBURY, ed
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BRUCE KNAUFT
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Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society. MARIA LEPOWSKY
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GABRIELE STÜRZENHOFECKER
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Speaking to Power: Gender and Politics in the Western Pacific. LYNN B. WILSON
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RICHARD J. PARMENTIER
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Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Total Past. KLAUS NEUMANN
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RICHARD J. PARMENTIER
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The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll. LIN POYER
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ALETTA BIERSACK
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Hahalis and the Labour of Love: A Social Movement on Buka Island. MAX RIMOLDI and ELEANOR RIMOLDI
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EUGENE OGAN
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More Than a Living: Fishing and the Social Order on a Polynesian Atoll. MICHAEL D. LIEBER. Conflict and Social Change series. SCOTT WHITEFORD and WILLIAM DERMAN, series eds
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GLENN PETERSEN
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Neither Wolf nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, & Agrarian Change. DAVID RICH LEWIS
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Native Canadian Anthropology and History: A Selected Bibliography. SHEPARD KRECH III
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge. HOWARD MORPHY
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FRED R. MYERS
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A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being. TONY SWAIN
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FRANÇOISE DUSSART
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Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society. JOSEPH J. TOBIN, ed
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WILLIAM M. O'BARR
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The Rise of a Refugee God: Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin. GRAEME LANG and LARS RAGVALD
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JUN JING
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Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. CHRISTINA K. GILMARTIN, GAIL HERSHATTER, LISA ROFEL, and TYRENE WHITE, eds
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ELLEN R. JUDD
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Nomads in Central Asia: Animal husbandry and culture in transition (19th-20th Century). CAREL VAN LEEUWEN, TATJANA EMELJANENKO, and LARISA POPOVA
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THOMAS BARFIELD
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The New Cambridge History of India, Volume III.4: Ideologies of the Raj. THOMAS R. METCALF
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NORBERT PEABODY
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Modernity and Identity: Asian Illustrations. ALBERTO GOMES, ed
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JOSEPH S. ALTER
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Death in Banaras. JONATHAN P. PARRY
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MARY HANCOCK
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Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India. SARA DICKEY
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PURNIMA MANKEKAR
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reviews
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Latah in Southeast Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. ROBERT L WINZELER
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CAROL LADERMAN
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Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State. CAROL WARREN
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MARGARET J. WIENER
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The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia. CHARLES F. KEYES
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MARY BETH MILLS
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Ecology and Practical Technology: Peasant Farming Systems in Thailand. SHIGEHARU TANABE
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MARY BETH MILLS
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Cambodian Culture since 1975: Homeland and Exile. MAY M. EBIHARA, CAROL A. MORTLAND, and JUDY LEDGERWOOD, eds
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LINDSAY FRENCH
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Visible Women in East Coast Malay Society: On the Reproduction of Gender, Ceremonial, School and Market. INGRID RUDIE
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RITA SMITH KIPP
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Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women. NANCY D. DONNELLY
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CAROL A. MORTLAND
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Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Famines in Late Twentieth-Century America. GEORGE E. MARCUS with PETER DOBKIN HALL. Institutional Structures of Feeling series. GEORGE E. MARCUS, SHARON TRAWEEK, RICHARD HANDLER, and VERA ZOLBERG, series eds
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CHAR MILLER
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The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains. LEE IRWIN
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Surviving as Indians: The Challenge of Self-Government. MENNO BOLDT
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RONALD NIEZEN
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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. K. TSIANINA LOMAWAIMA
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ALICE LITTLEFIELD
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Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House. FRANK G. SPECK
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief among North American Indians and inuit. ANTONIA MILLS and RICHARD SLOBODIN, eds
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Indians in Prison: Incarcerated Native Americans in Nebraska. ELIZABETH S. GROBSMITH
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community. JUDY SCALES-TRENT
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ANGELA GILLIAM
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In My Father's Study. BEN ORLOVE
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JONATHAN BOYARIN
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Inherit the Alamo: Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine. HOLLY BEACHLEY BREAR
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ERIC GABLE
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Environmental Values In American Culture. WILLET KEMPTON, JAMES S. BOSTER, and JENNIFER A. HARTLEY
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HERVÉ VARENNE
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Reading Ads Socially. ROBERT GOLDMAN
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LEE DRUMMOND
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Messages Men Hear: Constructing Masculinities. IAN M. HARRIS
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MATTHEW C. GUTMANN
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The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois 18901990. JANE ADAMS
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MARILYN SILVERMAN
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Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority. MARTHA BALSHEM
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SUSAN M. GIACOMO
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage. ROBBIE E. DAVIS-FLOYD
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KATHARINE YOUNG
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Gender Play: Girls and Boys In School. BARRIE THORNE
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JOYCE E. CANAAN
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Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. JEANNETTE EDWARDS, SARAH FRANKLIN, ERIC HIRSCH, FRANCES PRICE, and MARILYN STRATHERN
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ROBBIE E. DAVIS-FLOYD
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Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart. HELENA RAGONÉ
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LINDA L. LAYNE
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Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture. JUDITH S. MODELL
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SUSAN MCKINNON
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Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones. NELLY OUDSHOORN
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DAVID G. HORN
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Animal to Edible. NOELIE VIALLES. J. A. UNDERWOOD, trans
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JEFFREY TOBIN
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reviews
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The Ceremonial City: Toulouse Observed 17381780. ROBERT A. SCHNEIDER
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GARY W. MCDONOGH
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Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts of Person and Society. CAROL TROSSET
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GWEN KENNEDY NEVILLE
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The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland. GWEN KENNEDY NEVILLE
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JANE NADEL-KLEIN
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Irish Travellers: Culture and Ethnicity. MAY McCANN, SÉAMAS Ó SÍCHÁIN, and JOSEPH RUANE, eds
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LAWRENCE J. TAYLOR
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Nordic Frontiers: Recent issues in the Study of Modern Traditional Culture in the Nordic Countries. PERTH J. ANTTONEN and REIMUND KVIDELAND, eds
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MYRDENE ANDERSON
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Ethnicity in Eastern Europe: Questions of Migration, Language Rights & Education. SUE WRIGHT, ed
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KAREN-SUE TAUSSIG
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The Power of Symbois against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fail of State Socialism in Poland. JAN KUBIK
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JANINE R. WEDEL
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Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe. YASEMIN NUHOGLU SOYSAL
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DAVID I. KERTZER
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Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East. VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM. Women and Change in the Developing World. MARY H. MORAN, ed
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UNNI WIKAN
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Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a Stone. EVELYN A. EARLY
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UNNI WIKAN
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Entre le sacre et le profane: Le temps de l'experience d'une commune arabe chrétienne. ROBERT BENEDICTY
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ROGER JOSEPH
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Anthropology and Africa: Changing Perspectives on a Changing Scene. SALLY FALK MOORE
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W. ARENS
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Dividing the Commons: Pontics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana. PAULINE E. PETERS
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CAROLINE BLEDSOE
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Living with Africa. JAN VANSINA
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JOHN C. MCCALL
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Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities: Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-Determination. DAVID PARKIN
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KELLY ASKEW
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Islamic Society and State Power In Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick. LEONARDO A. VILLALÓN
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RONALD NIEZEN
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Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg. SUSAN J. RASMUSSEN
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BARBARA A. WORLEY
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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. JOHN M. JANZEN. Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 34. JOHN M. JANZEN, gen. ed
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NANCY ROSE HUNT
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Milk, Honey, and Money: Changing Concepts in Rwandan Healing. CHRISTOPHER C. TAYLOR. Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Enquiry. WILLIAM L. MERRILL and IVAN KARP, eds
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LIISA MALKKI
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Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa. JEAN COMAROFF and JOHN COMAROFF, eds
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ALMA GOTTLIEB
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Marriage, Perversion, and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia 18941930. DIANA JEATER
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CORINNE A. KRATZ
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Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Cult among the Yaka. RENÉ DEVISCH
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JONATHAN ZILBERG
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Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut. MAGUÉRITE DUPIRE
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PAUL STOLLER
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Les frontières du mal: Approches anthropologiques de la santé et de la maladie/Kranksein und Gesundwerden im Spannungsfeld der Kulturen. MARC-OLIVIER GONSETH, ed
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PAMELA FELDMAN-SAVELSBERG
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Dismantling Apartheid: A South African Town in Transition. WALTON R. JOHNSON
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EMILE BOONZAIER
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Nuptuality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives. CAROLINE BLEDSOE and GILLES PISON, eds
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PAUL W. HANSON