ABSTRACT
The articles in this influential journal placed it in the thick of a turbulent period for anthropology. Reacting to current research interests and launching what were often heated debates, it set the agenda for disciplinary change and new research.
Once described the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the Founder Editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in testing and refining the ideas of other disciplines. Once described by the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the founder editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in telling and refining the ideas of other disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|34 pages
Feminine Power
chapter 2|8 pages
‘Ladies' Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror,
chapter 3|8 pages
Dyke to Dyke: Ritual Reproduction At A U.S. Men'S Military College,
chapter 4|6 pages
Formal Men, Informal Women: How the Fulani Support Their Anthropologists,
part Two|25 pages
Indigenes' Rights, Anthropologists' Roots
chapter 7|5 pages
Ethnocide And Ethnocentricity: Correspondence,
chapter 8|6 pages
Critical Re-Vision: Clastres' Chronicle and the Optic of Primitivism,
part Three|46 pages
Fieldwork as Intervention
chapter 11|5 pages
Anthropology and the Nomad: Another View of the Afar,
chapter 14|6 pages
‘The Mountain People' as Tribal Mirror,
chapter 15|11 pages
The White ‘Helpers': Anthropologists, Development Workers And Local Imaginations,
part Four|36 pages
Markets of Desire
chapter 16|19 pages
In and Out of Polyester: Desire, Disdain and Global Fibre Competitions,
part Five|31 pages
Anthropology in the Mass Media
chapter 18|10 pages
Aliens, Ape Men and Whacky Savages: The Anthropologist in the Tabloids
chapter 19|8 pages
Anthropology's Identity Crisis: The Politics Of Public Image,
chapter 21|3 pages
Ancient Mysteries and the Modern World
part Six|47 pages
New Social Movements
chapter 24|10 pages
Whale Politics and Green Legitimacy: A Critique of the Anti-Whaling Campaign,
chapter 25|7 pages
Return of Love: Everyday Life and African Divination in Paris, 1
chapter 26|9 pages
The Sacrifice of ‘Id Al-Kabir: 1 Islam in the French Suburbs
part Seven|37 pages
Human Sciences in Authoritarian States
chapter 28|9 pages
Two Separate Developments: Anthropology In South Africa,
chapter 29|6 pages
Mythologized Representations in Soviet Thinking on the Nationalities Problem,
chapter 30|13 pages
Remaking Myanmar and Human Origins
chapter seven|3 pages
The Raw, the Cooked and the Marilynated
part Eight|48 pages
The Technology of Enchantment
chapter 34|8 pages
‘Bye-Bye Ted …': Community Response in Florida to the Execution of Theodore Bundy,
chapter 36|13 pages
Dry Bones: Nationalism and Symbolism in Contemporary Israel,
chapter Eight|3 pages
Hard-wired Human Science, or Cognitive Fluidity?
part Nine|31 pages
War and Civil Strife