American Ethnologist

Vol. 26, No. 4, Nov., 1999

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Front Matter (pp. 797-798)
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The Bakers of Bernburg and the Logics of Communism and Capitalism
The Bakers of Bernburg and the Logics of Communism and Capitalism (pp. 799-821)
Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler

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The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico
The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico (pp. 822-842)
Lynn Stephen

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On Discourse and Power: "Cults" and "Orientals" in Fiji
On Discourse and Power: "Cults" and "Orientals" in Fiji (pp. 843-863)
Martha Kaplan and John D. Kelly

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Syncretic Subjects and Body Politics: Doubleness, Personhood, and Aymara Catechists
Syncretic Subjects and Body Politics: Doubleness, Personhood, and Aymara Catechists (pp. 864-889)
Andrew Orta

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Grooming "que zi": Marriage Exclusion and Identity Formation among Disabled Men in Contemporary China
Grooming "que zi": Marriage Exclusion and Identity Formation among Disabled Men in Contemporary China (pp. 890-909)
Matthew Kohrman

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Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics
Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics (pp. 910-932)
Paulla A. Ebron

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Of Enemies and Pets: Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia
Of Enemies and Pets: Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia (pp. 933-956)
Carlos Fausto and David Rodgers

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Sensing Locality in Yura: Rituals of Carnival and of the Bolivian State
Sensing Locality in Yura: Rituals of Carnival and of the Bolivian State (pp. 957-980)
Michelle Bigenho

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Comments and Reflections
- A Response to Helander's Critique of "Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence"
  
  A Response to Helander's Critique of "Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence" (pp. 981-983)
  Catherine Besteman
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647240
  
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Review Article
- Some Futures of Anthropology
  
  Some Futures of Anthropology (pp. 984-991)
  The Future of Anthropology: Its Relevance to the Contemporary World by Akbar Ahmed, Cris Shore; Grasping the Changing World: Anthropological Concepts in the Postmodern Era by Vaclav Hubinger; The Future of Anthropological Knowledge by Henrietta Moore
  
  Review by: Sherry B. Ortner
  
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Reviews
- In near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century by Nicholas B. Dirks
  
  In near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century by Nicholas B. Dirks (pp. 992-993)
  Review by: Richard J. Parmentier
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647242
  
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- A Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures by Carol Greenhouse
  
  A Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures by Carol Greenhouse (pp. 993-994)
  Review by: Anne Brydon
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647243
  
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- The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia by Aurolyn Luykx
  
  The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia by Aurolyn Luykx (pp. 994-995)
  Review by: Janise Hurtig
  
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- The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization by Susan Garzon, R. McKenna Brown, Julia Becker Richards, Wuqu' Ajpub'
  
  The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization by Susan Garzon, R. McKenna Brown, Julia Becker Richards, Wuqu' Ajpub' (pp. 995-996)
  Review by: Hilary E. Kahn
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647245
  
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- Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols by Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon
  
  Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols by Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon (pp. 996-997)
  Review by: Gregory Maskarinec
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647246
  
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- Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia by Michael Lambek, Andrew Strathern
  
  Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia by Michael Lambek, Andrew Strathern (pp. 997-998)
  Review by: Robert Desjarlais
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647247
  
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- Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World by Stefan Helmreich
  
  Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World by Stefan Helmreich (pp. 998-999)
  Review by: David Hakken
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647248
  
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- A Theory of Shopping by Daniel Miller; Shopping, Place, and Identity by Daniel Miller, Peter Jackson, Nigel Thrift, Beverly Holbrook, Michael Rowlands
  
  A Theory of Shopping by Daniel Miller; Shopping, Place, and Identity by Daniel Miller, Peter Jackson, Nigel Thrift, Beverly Holbrook, Michael Rowlands (pp. 999-1000)
  Review by: Eric Arnould
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647249
  
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- Critical White Studies: Looking behind the Mirror by Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic
  
  Critical White Studies: Looking behind the Mirror by Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (pp. 1000-1001)
  Review by: Anders Linde-Laursen
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647250
  
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- The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law by Rosemary J. Coombe
  
  The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law by Rosemary J. Coombe (pp. 1001-1003)
  Review by: Jonathan Friedman
  
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- Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War by Hugh Gusterson
  
  Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War by Hugh Gusterson (pp. 1003-1004)
  Review by: Andrew Pickering
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647252
  
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- Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects by Russell Thornton
  
  Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects by Russell Thornton (pp. 1004-1005)
  Review by: Christina M. Taylor
  
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- Bulls, Bullfighting, and Spanish Identities by Carrie B. Douglass; Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition by Sarah Pink
  
  Bulls, Bullfighting, and Spanish Identities by Carrie B. Douglass; Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition by Sarah Pink (pp. 1005-1006)
  Review by: Garry Marvin
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647254
  
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- Indigenous Women: The Right to a Voice by Diana Vinding
  
  Indigenous Women: The Right to a Voice by Diana Vinding (pp. 1006-1007)
  Review by: Lynn Stephen
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647255
  
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- Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon
  
  Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon (pp. 1007-1008)
  Review by: Michael Harkin
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647256
  
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- Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala by Kay B. Warren
  
  Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala by Kay B. Warren (pp. 1009-1010)
  Review by: George A. Collier
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647257
  
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- The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History by Christopher Bracken
  
  The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History by Christopher Bracken (p. 1010)
  Review by: W. Arens
  
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- The Convict and the Colonel by Richard Price
  
  The Convict and the Colonel by Richard Price (pp. 1011-1012)
  Review by: Jennifer Cole
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647259
  
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- Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People by Thomas A. Abercrombie
  
  Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People by Thomas A. Abercrombie (pp. 1012-1013)
  Review by: Mark Rogers
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647260
  
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- Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan by Andrew Shryock
  
  Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan by Andrew Shryock (pp. 1013-1014)
  Review by: Farha Ghannam
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647261
  
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- Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba by Joel C. Kuipers
  
  Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba by Joel C. Kuipers (pp. 1014-1015)
  Review by: Gary Palmer
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647262
  
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- Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science by Stacia E. Zabusky
  
  Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science by Stacia E. Zabusky (pp. 1015-1016)
  Review by: Roberto J. Gonzalez
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647263
  
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- The Anthropology of Korea: East Asian Perspectives by Mutsuhiko Shima, Roger L. Janelli
  
  The Anthropology of Korea: East Asian Perspectives by Mutsuhiko Shima, Roger L. Janelli (pp. 1016-1017)
  Review by: Sonya Ryang
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647264
  
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- To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 by Jeffrey L. Gould
  
  To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 by Jeffrey L. Gould (pp. 1017-1018)
  Review by: Joanne Rappaport
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647265
  
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- Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East by Lila Abu-Lughod
  
  Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East by Lila Abu-Lughod (pp. 1018-1019)
  Review by: Julie Peteet
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647266
  
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- Cyprus and Its People: Nation, Identity, and Experience in an Unimaginable Community, 1955-1997 by Vangelis Calotychos
  
  Cyprus and Its People: Nation, Identity, and Experience in an Unimaginable Community, 1955-1997 by Vangelis Calotychos (pp. 1019-1020)
  Review by: Susan Pattie
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647267
  
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- Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment by Ellen Lewin
  
  Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment by Ellen Lewin (pp. 1020-1021)
  Review by: Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647268
  
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- Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition by Susan C. Seymour
  
  Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition by Susan C. Seymour (pp. 1021-1022)
  Review by: Erin P. Moore
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647269
  
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- Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa by Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah LeVine, Amy Richman, P. Herbert Leiderman, Constance H. Keefer, T. Berry Brazelton
  
  Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa by Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah LeVine, Amy Richman, P. Herbert Leiderman, Constance H. Keefer, T. Berry Brazelton (p. 1023)
  Review by: Marida Hollos
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647270
  
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- The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community by Ellen Cushman
  
  The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community by Ellen Cushman (p. 1024)
  Review by: Steven Gregory
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647271
  
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- The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History by Ellen Beasley
  
  The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History by Ellen Beasley (pp. 1024-1025)
  Review by: Edwin N. Wilmsen
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647272
  
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- Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata by Janet L. Finn
  
  Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata by Janet L. Finn (pp. 1025-1026)
  Review by: Christine Kray
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647273
  
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- Stonehenge: Making Space by Barbara Bender
  
  Stonehenge: Making Space by Barbara Bender (pp. 1026-1027)
  Review by: Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647274
  
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- L'énigme du don by Maurice Godelier
  
  L'énigme du don by Maurice Godelier (pp. 1027-1028)
  Review by: Marcio Goldman and David Rodgers
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647275
  
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- The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru by Bonnie Glass-Coffin
  
  The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru by Bonnie Glass-Coffin (pp. 1028-1029)
  Review by: Diane Austin-Broos
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647276
  
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- Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS--Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women by E. J. Sobo
  
  Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS--Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women by E. J. Sobo (pp. 1029-1030)
  Review by: Nina Kammerer
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647277
  
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- The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons by James B. Waldram
  
  The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons by James B. Waldram (pp. 1030-1031)
  Review by: Wayne Warry
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647278
  
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- Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults by Andrew Lattas
  
  Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults by Andrew Lattas (pp. 1031-1032)
  Review by: Dorothy K. Billings
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647279
  
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- The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power by Bruce Kapferer
  
  The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power by Bruce Kapferer (pp. 1032-1033)
  Review by: Michael Carrithers
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647280
  
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- AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas by Stephanie Kane
  
  AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas by Stephanie Kane (pp. 1034-1035)
  Review by: Anne M. Lovell
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647281
  
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- Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam by Katherine Pratt Ewing
  
  Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam by Katherine Pratt Ewing (pp. 1035-1036)
  Review by: Pnina Werbner
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/647282
  
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Back Matter
Back Matter (pp. 1037-1040)
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American Ethnologist

Vol. 26, No. 4, Nov., 1999

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