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Presents bibliography of books on anthropology.

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) project represented here through papers by Thomas Lewis, Aaron Stalnaker, Hans Lucht, and Lee Yearley (with responses) was motivated by the judgment that the trend toward a focus on virtue ethics, with attendant concern for techniques of forming selves, creates an opportunity for a dialogue with ethnographers. I argue that the CSWR essays neglect social and institutional considerations, as well as overdrawing the distinction between “formalist” and virtue approaches to the study of comparative ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of books related to anthropology including "Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives," edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, "Silence: The Currency of Power," edited by Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb and "Memory Practices in the Sciences," by Geoffrey C. Bowker.

Books reviewed: Anthropology and history Hare, Tom, Remembering Osiris: number, gender, and the word in ancient Egyptian representational systems Harlan, Jack R., The living fields: our agricultural heritage Inomata, Takeshi & Stephen D. Houston (eds), Royal courts of the ancient Maya. Vol. 1: theory, comparison, synthesis Lockwood, Matthew, Fertility and house– hold labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji district, c.1870–1986 Pollock, Susan, Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was (Case Stud. early soc.) Quijada, Mónica, Carmen Bernand & Arnd Schneider, Homogeneidad y nación: con un estudio de caso: Argentina, siglos XIX y XX (Coll. tierra nueva e cielo nuovo 42) Anthropology of religion Assayag, Jackie & Gilles Tarabout (eds), La possession en asie du sud: parole, corps, territorie / Possession in South Asia: speech, body, territory Klass, Morton & Maxine K. Weisgrau (eds), Across the boundaries of belief (Contemp. issues in anthr. relig.) Rakotomalala, Malanjaona, Sophie Blancy & Françoise Raison–Jourde, Madagascar: les ancêtres au quotidien: usages sociaux du religieux sur les Hautes–Terres Malgaches Development Bierschenk, Thomas, J.–P. Chaveau & J.–P. Olivier de Sardan (eds), Courtiers en développement: les villages africains en quête de projets (Collection ‘Hommes et Sociétés’) Zerner, Charles (ed.), People, plants, and justice: the politics of nature conservation General Armbrust, Walter (ed.), Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Dupont, Veronique, Emma Tarlo & Denis Vidal (eds), Delhi: urban space and human destinies King, Victor T. (ed.), Rural development and social science research: case studies from Borneo (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 6) Privratsky, Bruce G., Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory Van Beek, Martijn, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen & Poul Pedersen (eds), Ladakh: culture, history, and development between Himalaya and Karakoram (Recent research on Ladakh 8) Winzeler, Robert L. (ed.), Indigenous architecture in Borneo: traditional patterns and new developments (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 5) Human evolution Agustí, Jorge, Lorenzo Rook & Peter Andrews (eds), The evolution of Neogene terrestrial ecosystems in Europe (Hominoid Evol. clim. chge Eur 1) Curtiss, Garniss, Carl Swisher & Roger Lewin, Java man: how two geologists changed the history of human evolution de Bonis, Louis, George Koufos & Peter Andrews (eds), Phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia (Hominoid Evol. clim. chge Eur. 2) Ghiglieri, Michael P., The dark side of man: tracing the origins of male violence Legal anthropology Just, Peter, Dou Donggo justice: conflict and morality in an Indonesian society Kahn, Paul W., The cultural study of law: reconstructing legal scholarship Niezen, Ronald, Defending the land: sover– eignty and forest life in James Bay Cree society (Cult. Surv. Stud. Ethn. Chge) Peterson, Nicolas & Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and indigenous Australians: changing conceptions and possibilities (Reshaping Australian Institutions ser.) Method Guneratne, Katharine Bjork, In the circle of the dance: notes of an outsider in Nepal Mihesuh, Devon A. (ed.), Natives and academics: researching and writing about American Indians Mukherji, Partha Nath (ed.), Methodology in social research: dilemmas and perspectives: essays in honour of Ramkrishna Mukherjee Newman, Paul & Martha Ratliff (eds), Linguistic fieldwork Social anthropology Fonseca, Isabel, Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey Forshee, Jill, Between the folds: stories of cloth, lives, and travels from Sumba Hua, Cai (transl. Asti Hustvedt), A society without fathers or husbands: the Na of China Jackson, Peter, Michelle Lowe, Danielle Miller & Frank Mort (eds), Commercial cultures: economies, practices, spaces (Leisure, consumption and culture) McKnight, David, People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: systems of classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island (Oxford studs. in anthrop. ling. 12) Palerm Viqueira, Jacinta & Tomás Martínez Saldaña (eds), Antologia sobre pequeño riego, Vol. II (Organizaciones Autogestivas) Pottier, Johan, Anthropology of food: the social dynamics of food security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of books about anthropology. "New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times," by Göran Aijmer; "Legal Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia," by Claire Anderson; "Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North," edited by David Anderson and Mark Nuttall.

Presents a list of books received the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" as of March 2004. "The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community," end edition, by Catherine J. Allen; "Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France," by Jean-Loup Amselle; "The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers," by Juan Luis Arsuaga; "The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas," edited by Pat Caplan.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology.

Presents a list of books to be included in the publication of the 'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute' periodical. 'Masculine Domination,' by P. Bourdieu; 'African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective,' second edition, by G. Connah; 'Human Societies: An Introduction,' by A. De Swaan.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology that were published in several journals. The books include "Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community," by E. N. Anderson, "The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality," by Vassos Argyrou, and "The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture," by Georges Bataille.

A list of books related to anthropology is presented, which include "Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country," edited by Walter Randolph Adams and John P. Hawkins, "Iraqi Women: Untold Stories From 1948 to the Present," by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, and "Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies," by William G. Axinn and Lisa D. Pearce.

Presents a list of several books related to anthropology. "Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India"; "Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag"; "Rethinking the Mediterranean"; "Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community."

A list of anthropology-related books received for review is presented, including "The Making of Psychotherapists: An Anthropological Analysis," by James Davies, "Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level," by Kerry B. Fosher, and "Hindu Divorce: A Legal Anthropology," by Livia Holden.

A list of the books about anthropology which were received by the Royal Institute of Anthropological Institute is presented.

A list of books related to anthropology is presented.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology.

A list of books received by the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" is presented, including "Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township," by Erik Bähre, "Social Change and the Evolition of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community," by Dean E. Arnold and Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life," edited by Michael Carrithers.

A list of books about anthropology is presented. It includes "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination," by Anne Allison, "Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico," edited by Vered Amit and Noel Dyck, "The World of an Anthropologist," by Marc Augé and Jean-Paul Colleyn and "The Language and Sexuality Reader," edited by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick.

A list of the books and received by the journal is presented which includes "Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values and What it Means to be Human," by Scott Atran, "The making of Language," by Mike Beaken and "Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine," by James C. McCann.

A list of books received for review is presented, including "Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia," edited by Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker, "Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa," by Brenda Chalfin, and "Social Brain, Distributed Mind," edited by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett.

A list of books received by the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" is presented, including "Global Ambitions and Local Identities: An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger," by Galit Ailon, "Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa," by Andrew Apter and "Questions of Anthropology," edited by Rita Astuti, Jonathan Parry and Charles Stafford.

A list of several books related to anthropology is presented including "A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church," by Matthew Engelke, "Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt," by John Baines and D. Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, other Truths," by Susan D. Blum.

Presents a bibliographies of books on anthropology, sociology and history.

A list of anthropology-related books received for review is presented, including "The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance," by Nasser Abufarha, "Enchantments of Modernity: Empire, Nation, Globalization," edited by Saurabh Dube, and "Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights," edited by Gilbert Herdt.

Presents a list of books received by the staff of the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" in March 2006. "Asian Medicine and Globalization," edited by Joseph S. Alter; "Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures With the Institute of Nautical Archaeology," edited by George F. Bass; "The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography," by Luke Eric Lassiter.

A list of books relating to anthropology is presented, including "Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities: Perspectives From Israel and Germany," "Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts," and "Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves."

The article presents a list of volumes that have been published through the American Anthropological Association's publication "Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association" including "Alternative Approaches to Lithic Analysis," "Powers of Observation: Alternative Views in Archeology," and "Lords of the Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America."

A list of books related to anthropology is presented including "The Politics of Survival," by Marc Abélès, "Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami," by Irfan Ahmad, and "Contested Nationalism: Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s," by Nina Caspersen.

A list of books and films on anthropology is presented including "The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects," by Roberto Abadie, "The Ways of Friendship: Anthropological Perspectives," edited by Amit Desai and Evan Killick, and "The Origins of Grammar: An Anthropological Perspective," by Martin Edwardes.

Child undernutrition is responsible for 45% of all under‐five deaths in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and numerous morbidities. Although progress has been made, high levels of child undernutrition persist in Zambia. Existing studies have explored primary caretakers' (PCs) explanatory models of child undernutrition in LMICs, without comparison with those of health care providers (HCPs). This paper examines and compares the perceived causes of child undernutrition among PCs and HCPs in Zambia. We conducted a qualitative study, using semistructured one‐to‐one and group interviews, with 38 PCs and 10 HCPs to explore their perceptions of child undernutrition and its perceived causes in Lusaka district, Zambia. Interview data were analysed with thematic analysis. Our findings indicate that PCs and HCPs in Lusaka district have divergent explanatory models of child undernutrition and perceive parental agency differently. In divergently framing how they conceptualise undernutrition and who is able to prevent it, these models underpin different attributions of causality and different opportunities for intervention. PCs highlighted factors such as child food preferences, child health, and household finances. Contrarily, HCPs stressed factors such as 'improper feeding', only highlighting factors such as wider economic conditions when these impacted specifically on health care services. One factor, identified by both groups, was 'inadequate mothering'. To accelerate the reduction of child undernutrition, interventions must address divergences between PCs and HCPs' explanatory models. Additionally, attention needs to be paid to how wider socio‐economic and cultural contexts not only impact childhood undernutrition but shape attributions of causality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What do anthropologists do with all the data (both primary and secondary) they accumulate while doing fieldwork? Most continue to draw on it for many years, but there is increasing pressure (e.g. from the ESRC) to place much of it in archives, usually in electronic form. What kind of material could be deposited? What use may be made of such material by others? What are the ethical dilemmas which face anthropologists in depositing confidential data? Are there differences between paper and electronic archives and between textual and other forms of material, such as photos and sound recordings? How can anthropologists best protect their sources? Does anthropology become a form of historiography when its raw data are archived? What forms of ‘knowledge’ are created by archiving? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, four relational heuristic responses for exploring new modes of engagement, or patterns of activity, that could enliven humanity's efforts in fostering systemic thinking and action to inform sustainability transitions are offered. Their purpose is to realise more resilient and just Anthropocene futures. These relational heuristics are (1) re‐patterning our theories of change‐making, (2) cultivating a shared future consciousness, (3) creating transformative spaces and (4) engaging in processes of co‐exploration. We argue that these heuristics are better aligned for studying and responding to the systemic and interdependent nature of the real‐world challenges we are currently facing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For over 40 years, I have been conducting research from a variety of perspectives in the somewhat complex and difficult‐to‐read megacity of Tokyo. In this paper, I consider the characteristics of urban space in Tokyo and present an overview of my research objectives, methods, and the results obtained at each stage. The architectural typology methods to which I was introduced in Italy formed the basis for my Tokyo studies. However, as this methodology was established for Italian cities, which were designed artificially around architecture, it has limitations in exploring Tokyo, a Japanese city that was created in harmony with nature. Therefore, I have adopted the concept of "spatial anthropology" in my research, which makes it possible to identify the characteristics of Japanese cities that make them significantly different from western cities. Furthermore, the concept of eco‐history, which aims to enable new research on cities and territories by integrating history and ecology, allowed for a different perspective of Tokyo as a "water city." This research illuminates a true affluent city that coexists with an environment suitable for the 21st century, which differs from the urban model of the modern Western development type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on theory evolution from the perspective of considering the role that complexity science might have in social theorizing and research. We assume that just as human society is complex, dynamic, interdependent, and with future states emerging with reference to complex histories, so too are human explanations and theories. With reference to a complexity approach to postmodern ethnography, that of vortical postmodern ethnography, we make manifest the dynamic and interdependent nature of theory building, with human actor/observers and discourse evolution. We suggest that a complexity perspective on social research and theorizing may be most valuable for its role in bringing about alternative descriptions, rather than promoting certain interventions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has benefited greatly from the time that I have recently spent working on the Committee of Section H of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. I am particularly grateful to David Shankland and Malcolm Smith, both of whom have served as Recorders for Section H, for generously sharing their knowledge and reminiscences of the Section with me. The paper further benefited from comments received at the recent 2004 Festival of Science in Exeter at which I presented it in a session entitled‘Anthropology after Darwin: The role of the BA’. I also acknowledge the helpful comments of three anonymous reviewers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A systematic theory of the nature of suburban social structure within an organizational frame of reference is subjected to an empirical test. Major hypotheses derived from the general theory were supported by the analysis. A methodological contribution was achieved by combining analysis of census data with analysis of sample survey data. A chain of relationships between social structure and politics has been demonstrated through interposition of organizational theory between the regularities of mass data at the census tract level and of individual data at the sample survey level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the sociology in and of China. In the general history of social sciences it is assumed that the marriage between sociology and anthropology comes late, having been preceded by a long courtship. China does not fit this pattern. Almost as soon as social sciences were established there anthropology and sociology were intertwined, to be disentangled in a strange way when Communists arrived. To avoid a tedious recitation of evidence just one witness is called upon, a scholar whose later career in the U.S. makes his testimony underline the Chinese paradox. Writing in China in 1944 Francis L.K. Hsu has said in this paper that the word sociology is used synonymously with the term social anthropology. It is customary to date the beginning of sociology in China by the publication of Yen Fu's translation of two chapters of "The Study of Sociology" in 1898. Later a few original works were produced in Chinese and courses of instruction were introduced in universities, it was not until about the 1920s that sociological investigations of any great weight began to be made.

Abstract: The elderly are often considered a vulnerable group in public and academic bioethical debates and regulations. In this paper, we examine and challenge this assumption and its ethical implications. We begin by systematically delineating the different concepts of vulnerability commonly used in bioethics, before then examining whether these concepts can be applied to old age. We argue that old age should not, in and of itself, be used as a marker of vulnerability, since ageing is a process that can develop in a variety of different ways and is not always associated with particular experiences of vulnerability. We, therefore, turn to more fundamental phenomenological considerations in order to reconstruct from a first person perspective the intricate interconnections between the experiences of ageing and vulnerability. According to this account, ageing and old age are phenomena in which the basic anthropological vulnerability of human beings can manifest itself in an increased likelihood of harm and exploitation. Thus, we plead for a combined model of vulnerability that helps to avoid problems related to the current concepts of vulnerability. We conclude first that old age as such is not a sufficient criterion for being categorized as vulnerable in applied ethics, and second that reflections on ageing can help to develop a better understanding of the central role of vulnerability in human existence and in applied ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines how embodied acts of building home(s) for others shape particular constructions of cultural difference and otherness. It presents a largely unexplored perspective of home – one that is uninhabited by its builders. This perspective becomes relevant through a study of Polish home-builders who have legally entered the building sector in London since EU expansion in 2004, who put together homes for others, temporarily inhabiting them during building, and moving out as soon as the work is completed. Using participant photo-diaries and semi-structured interviews, this paper suggests that the building act – putting together of homes for others as part of a political economy of labour and materials in different localised contexts, produces particular distinctions between the ‘socio-technical’ nature of homes across national territories. In doing so, it extends different perspectives on homes from cultural geography, anthropology and architecture to suggest a more nuanced material geography of home – as an assemblage of building elements under different contexts which, through the building acts of migrant men, allow scrutiny of cultural difference and otherness. Participants’ own homes left behind in Poland, homes they build for others in London and the future homes that they aspire to, suggest how differences in the ways that they are put together are ascribed cultural meanings of dwelling that are inherently corporal. Building homes is a deeply masculine act – a sexualised and embodied politics of home, which validates particular versions of gendered ethno-national identities as Polish men, and locates the future home within a Polish home/land. Although inhabiting the future home is uncertain, building this home is seen as an extension of their identity as Polish men who ensure the continuity of the Polish home and family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why people have the memory architecture that results in such concepts being more memorable than other types of concepts by pointing out the benefits of a memory structure that leads to better recall for minimally counterintuitive concepts and by showing how such benefits emerge in the real-time processing of comprehending narratives such as folk tales. This model suggests that memorability is not an inherent property of a concept; rather it is a property of the concept, the context in which the concept is presented, and the background knowledge that the comprehendor possesses about the concept. The model predicts how memorability of a concept should change if the context containing the concept were changed. The paper also presents the results of experiments carried out to test these predictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses keys to the moral procurement, treatment and disposition of remains used for scientific research, specifically those donated to the University of Tennessee’s Anthropological Research Facility (ARF). The ARF is an outdoor laboratory dedicated to better understanding the fate of human remains in forensic contexts, and focuses its research on decomposition, time since death estimates, body location and recovery techniques, and skeletal analysis. Historically, many donations were unclaimed bodies received from medical examiners (although it will be shown that this trend is changing), and it has been argued that the use of unclaimed bodies for medical or scientific purposes is a violation of autonomy since no consent was given by the individual. It is argued here, however, that the domain of autonomous choice extends to one’s own corpse only insofar as expressed wishes are made known prior to one’s death, and that in the absence of expressed intent toward final disposition, it is acceptable for institutions to receive donations from medical examiners or family members. This paper also discusses other philosophical issues related to donation, consent and autonomy, and the forensic benefits of research conducted at the Anthropological Research Facility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents several awards and fellowships related to anthropology in Great Britain. The Alfred Gell price will be given to the best paper published in the "Journal of Material Culture." The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and Anthropologists’ Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research invite offers to host the annual RAI Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology. The Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund for Social Anthropological Research aims to help handicapped social anthropology scholars.

This paper contributes to the ethnography of masculinity and the media in PNG. I outline some changes in Kamula men's understandings of masculinity as they are registered in accounts of conflicts between state security services, the Kamula, Rambo and other actors. Outlining this history shows how Kamula men are increasingly entangled in forms of state power and violence that are partially defined by new myths of masculinity expressed in Melanesian readings of Rambo. The paper describes how some of the power effects linked to Rambo are transferred to Kamula men. I argue that in their accounts of Rambo the Kamula are also exploring different models of sovereignty and state power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building on influential work in virtue ethics, this collection of essays examines the categories of self, person, and anthropology as foci for comparative analysis. The papers unite reflections on theory and method with descriptive work that addresses thinkers from the modern West, Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity, early China, and other settings. The introduction sets out central methodological issues that are subsequently taken up in each essay, including the origin of the categories through which comparison proceeds, the status of these categories in the process of comparison, and the goals of comparison. In considering the question of goals, the introduction draws connections between comparative study and historical study within one tradition. Both types of analysis can bridge the gap between historical and normative work by attending to the ways in which the questions a scholar asks—not just the answers found—vary from one context to another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the topics and events which transpired in the anthropology conferences in 2000. 'Northwest Coast Ethnology: Assessment and Perspectives' in College de France in Paris, France on June 21-23, 2000; 'The Anthropology of Consciousness: Keeping Body and Soul Together?' at the Society of Anthropological Consciousness in Tucson, Arizona on April 5-9, 2000.

This paper shows that Japan underwent a sequence of historical periods during which the level of technical development and the place of the individual in society paralleled that of similar periods in Europe. Particular attention is paid to 16th-century Japan, a period remarkably similar to the European Renaissance in its individualism and socioeconomic and cultural vitality. In both Japan and Western Europe, this renaissance followed the breakdown of an imperium and its replacement by a feudal system. The historical parallel continues with those parts of Europe in which absolutist governments were successfully imposed, since Japan underwent a similar phenomenon, accompanied by a similar decline in individualism and in technological development. Although no definitive conclusions can be reached, the paper explores the implications of these parallels for our understanding of both Japan and the general historical and psychological processes involved in the growth of individualism and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the 15th Annual Conference of the Pan-African Anthropological Association on August 8-12, 2005 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. During the conference, professor Paul Nkwi returned as president. Almost 60 percent of the papers brought were from non-anthropologists. The whole event was a combination of discussions and intellectual argumentation.