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American Ethnologist

Volume 38. Issue 1. February 2011

Contents:

Foreword

1. Foreword
   

Original Articles

1. Kinship as gift and theft: Acts of succession in Mayotte and Israel
   
   1. MICHAEL LAMBEK
2. Tantalus in the Digital Age: Coltan ore, temporal dispossession, and "movement" in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
   
   1. JAMES H. SMITH
3. On value and values in a West Bank settlement
   
   1. HADAS WEISS
4. The social life of a "free" gift
   
   1. SOUMHYA VENKATESAN
5. Ordinary states: Everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai
   
   1. JONATHAN SHAPIRO ANJARIA
6. Corruption as power: Caste and the political imagination of the postcolonial state
   
   1. JEFFREY WITSOE
7. Resistance or inaction? Protecting ayurvedic medical knowledge and problems of agency
   
   1. MURPHY HALLIBURTON
8. Place markers: Tracking spatiality in Brazilian hip-hop and community radio
   
   1. DEREK PARDUE
9. Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics of convivència
   
   1. BRAD ERICKSON
10. Internal transmigrants: A Dagomba diaspora
    
    1. DEBORAH PELLOW
11. What is the impact of transnational migration on family life? Women's comparisons of internal and international migration in a small town in Ghana
    
    1. CATI COE
12. Quoting Mario Juruna: Linguistic imagery and the transformation of indigenous voice in the Brazilian print press
    
    1. LAURA R. GRAHAM

Book Reviews

1. Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State by John R. Bowen
   Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism by Cihan Tu[gcaron]al
   
   1. JOAN W. SCOTT
2. Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary by Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus with James D. Faubion and Tobias Rees
   Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters by David A. Westbrook
   
   1. WERNER KRAUSS
3. Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes by Peter Gose
   
   1. CHRISTIANE PAPONNET-CANTAT
4. Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer
   
   1. LUCIA VOLK
5. Democracy: Anthropological Approaches by Julia Paley
   
   1. JEFFREY WITSOE
6. Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India by Raka Ray and Seemin Quyum
   
   1. MARY ROMERO
7. Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power by Cameron B. Wesson
   
   1. ROBBIE ETHRIDGE
8. In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement by Smriti Srinivas
   
   1. JOSEPH S. ALTER
9. Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion by Laurel Kendall
   
   1. SAMUEL GERALD COLLINS
10. Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times by Michael Peletz
    
    1. EVELYN BLACKWOOD
11. Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China by Tiantian Zheng
    
    1. ELANAH URETSKY
12. Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia by Andrew Willford
    
    1. MARK P. WHITAKER
13. Gaining Ground?"Rights" and "Property" in South African Land Reform by Deborah James
    
    1. SARAH M. MATHIS
14. Crowning the Nice Girl by Christine R. Yano
    
    1. BEVERLY J. STOELTJE
15. Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes by Denise Y. Arnold and Christine A. Hastorf
    
    1. JASON YAEGER
16. Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora by Julia Meredith Hess
    
    1. CAROLE McGRANAHAN
17. Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
    
    1. LILA ABU-LUGHOD
18. Made in Sheffield: An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics by Massimiliano Mollona
    
    1. TONYA CANNING
       PAULINE GARDINER BARBER
19. Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics by Niko Besnier
    
    1. ROBEY CALLAHAN
20. Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level by Kerry B. Fosher
    
    1. SALLY ENGLE MERRY
21. Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames by Mei Zhan
    
    1. TIMOTHY CHOY
22. Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone by Chris Coulter
    
    1. DOUG HENRY