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This fifth three-year index of Anthropology Today is divided into nine sections:

SECTION NAME LISTED BY

1. ARTICLES authors' names

2. COMMENTS subject

3. DEBATE title of contribution

4. CONFERENCES title of conference

5. FILMS AND REVIEWS title of films

6. EXHIBITIONS title of exhibition

7. INTERVIEWS the name of the person interviewed

8. NARRATIVES authors' names

9. OBITUARIES subject

Letters: '[Volume, Number]' follows the article, etc. to which it responds.

VOLUMES: 13 (1997), 14 (1998), 15 (1999)

NUMBERS: 1 (Feb), 2 (Apr), 3 (Jun), 4 (Aug), 5 (Oct), 6 (Dec)

1. Articles Vol., No.

Ali Abu Hashish, Shereen and Allen Peterson, Mark: Computer khatbas: Databases and marital entrepreneurship in modern Cairo 15,6

Arnold, Bettina: The contested past 15,4

Banton, Michael: Reporting on race 15,3

Benthall, Jonathan: Hard-wired human science, or cognitive fluidity? 14,3

-Repercussions from the Église Saint-Bernard 13,4

-Speaking of suffering 13,3

-The critique of Intellectual Property 15,6

-The small habitation 14,2

-Two takes on the Abraham story 15,1

Blanchetti-Revelli, Lanfranco: Keeping meat and dairy consumers slim: Philippine seaweed, American carrageenan and the USFDA 13,5

Boddy, Janice: Writing Aman: The perils and politics of the popular book 13,3

Brown, K.S.: Marginal narratives and shifty natives: Ironic ethnography as anti-nationalist discourse [15,2] 15,1

Chatty, Dawn: Enclosures and exclusions: Conserving wildlife in pastoral areas of the Middle East 14,4

Christensen, Pia, Hockey, Jenny and James, Allison: Depending on the field? The natural history of a research project 13,2

Coleman, Simon and Simpson, Bob: Unintended consequences? Anthropology, pedagogy and personhood 15,6

Corbey, Raymond: African art in Brussels 15,6

Davis, John: Administering creativity 15,2

Dean, Bartholomew: Critical re-vision: Clastres' Chronicle and the optic of primitivism [15,4] 15,2

Dwyer, Kevin: Beyond a boundary: 'Universal human rights' and the Middle East 13,6

Fukuda, Kaoru: Different views of animals and cruelty to animals: Cases in fox-hunting and pet-keeping in Britain 13,5

Glowczewski, Barbara: Dynamic cosmologies and the Aboriginal heritage 15,1

Godelier, Maurice: American anthropology as seen from France 13,1

Gottlieb, Alma: The perils of popularizing anthropology [13,4] 13,1

Gottowik, Volker: Who's afraid of 'Teutonic professors'? The hermeneutic tradition in German ethnology 13,4

Gudeman, Stephen: The new Captains of Information 14,1

Guille-Escuret, Georges: Need anthropology resign? 15,5

Hammel, E.A.: Ethnicity and politics:Yugoslav lessons for home 13,3

Harrison, Simon: Cultural boundaries 15,5

-The extended agency of Alfred Gell 14,4

Hérault, Laurence: Learning communion 15,4

Hinton, Alex: Why did the Nazis kill? Anthropology, genocide and the Goldhagen controversy [14,6] 14,5

Hornborg, Alf: Ecological embeddedness and personhood: Have we always been capitalists? 14,2

Houtman, Gustaaf: Remaking Myanmar and human origins 15,4

Humphrey, Caroline: Shamans in the city 15,3

-The Domestic Mode of Production in post-Soviet Siberia? 14,3

Jerome, Jessica S.: How international legal agreements speak about biodiversity 14,6

Kingston, Sean: Pidgin Arts 15,2

Konstantinov, Yulian: Memory of Lenin Ltd.: Reindeer-herding brigades on the Kola Peninsula 13,3

Lærke, Anna: By means of re-membering: Notes on a fieldwork with English children 14,1

Lestel, Dominique: How chimpanzees have domesticated humans: Towards an anthropology of human-animal communication 14,3

Littlewood, Roland: Degrees of mastery in the work of Mary Douglas 14,6

-Living gods: In (partial) defence of Euhemerus 14,2

-Military rape 13,2

Lock, Margaret: Breast cancer: Reading the omens 14,4

Lovell, Nadia: The politics of teaching and the myth of hybridity [15,5] 15,3

Lucas, Gavin: Forgetting the past 13,1

Maddock, Kenneth: The dubious pleasures of commitment 14,5

Marx, Emanuel: Is there a chance for peace in the Middle East? 13,2

Murray, Stephen O.: Explaining away same-sex sexualities - when they obtrude on anthropologists' notice at all 13,3

Pálsson, Gísli and Rabinow, Paul: Iceland: The case of a national human genome project [15,6] 15,5

Pink, Sarah: The white 'helpers': Anthropologists, development workers and local imaginations 14,6

Radulescu, Speranta: Traditional musics and ethnomusicology under political pressure: The Romanian case 13,6

Rival, Laura: Oil and sustainable development in the Latin American humid tropics 13,6

Russell, Andrew: Miss World comes to India 13,4

Sherif, Bahira: Gender contradictions in families: Official v. practical representations among upper middle-class Muslim Egyptians 15,4

Silverman, Helaine: Archaeology and the 1997 Peruvian hostage crisis 15,1

Spedding, A.L.: Dreams of leaving: Life in the Feminine Penitentiary Centre, Miraflores, La Paz, Bolivia 15,2

Stewart, Charles: Who owns the Rotonda? Church vs. State in Greece 14,5

Sutton, David E.: The vegetarian anthropologist 13,1

Tresch, John: Heredity is an open system: Gregory Bateson as descendant and ancestor 14,6

Urry, James: Writing yourself into history 13,5

van der Geest, Sjaak: Akan shit: Getting rid of dirt in Ghana 14,3

Wali, Alaka and Khan, Naveeda: Inserting 'culture' into multiculturalism: Conversations at the Field Museum, Chicago 13,4

Watson, C.W.: 'Born a Lady, became a Princess, died a Saint': The reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales 13,6

Weiner, James F.: 'Bad Aboriginal' anthropology: A reply to Ron Brunton [13,5] 13,4

Wright, Chris: The third subject: Perspectives on visual anthropology [14,5] 14,4

Wright, Susan: The politicization of 'culture' [14,2; 14,3]] 14,1

2. Comments

Anthropological handbooks: by Jan van Bremen [13,5] 13,4

Escaping Robert Kaplan's dystopia: by Paul Richards 15,6

Herskovits on census-taking in Dahomey: by Roger Sandall 15,6

'In the skin of an Untouchable'?: by Robert Deliège 14,2

Indian anthropology: by Jonathan Benthall 14,6

Jonathan Miller and the Torres Strait Expedition: by Jude Philp 14,2

Polish civil society: by Elizabeth C. Dunn 14,4

Reflections on the research assessment exercise: by Mark Harris [13,2]

Sherry Ortner and Philip Roth: by Jonathan Schwartz 14,6

Special issue of JASO in memory of Godfrey Lienhardt: by Raymond Firth 15,3

Tango: by Arnd Schneider 14,6

3. Debate

Gift relationships between ethnographers and their hosts: Sean Kingston, Alma Gottlieb and Jonathan Benthall [14,1] [13,6]

Karimpur exchange: Mandy Rudge [14,4] 14,3

Reciprocity: The long and the short of it: Clarissa de Waal [14,4; 14,5] 14,3

4. Conferences

Alternatives to sacrifice: Jonathan Benthall 15,3

ASA Conference 1998: Jonathan Skinner 14,4

Boundaries and Identities: Nigel Rapport 13,1

Church Unions in Central and Eastern Europe: Chris Hann 13,3

EASA Conference - 'Culture and Economy': Yoshimi Umeda 13,2

EASA Conference 1998: Keith Hart 14,6

Experience Rich Anthropology Winter School: Sarah Pink 15,3

Exploratory workshop on anthropology and policy: Mark Jamieson [15,4] 15,3

Fieldwork: Arnd Schneider 13,5

Formality and informality: managing island life: Sue Lewis and Andrew Whitehouse 14,5

'How to publish in anthropology': Sean Kingston 14,2

Human rights and human nature: Jonathan Benthall 15,5

ICAES, Williamsburg, August 1998: Glenn Bowman 14,6

'Ideology in Balkan anthropological research': Paul J. Nixon 13,2

Indigenous environmental knowledge: Holly Harris 13,4

Indigenous human rights: Tony Crook 14,1

Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity and rights: Terry Roopnaraine 14,3

'Landscape, Modernity and Exclusion': Penelope Harvey 15,6

Manchester University Department of Anthropology 50th anniversary conference: Richard Wilson 15,6

Medical questions of identity: Helen Lambert and Liz Hart 13,1

National Network for Teaching and Learning in Anthropology 1997: Andrew Russell 14,1

Photographic heritage of West Africa: Hermione Cornwall-Jones 15,3

Pre-University Anthropology Forum: Paul Valentine and Lionel Sims 15,2

Princess Diana: Jeanette Edwards and Anthony Simpson 14,3

Religious Change in the 20th century: Yeoh Seng Guan 13,4

'Rock art and shamanism': Simon Crook 15,2

'Shamanism in contemporary society': Justin Woodman 14,6

Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods in Anthropology: Allen Abramson 13,2

The 1996 AAA Annual Meeting: Penelope Harvey and Jonathan Benthall 13,1

The 1997 AAA Annual Meeting: Nigel Rapport and Jonathan Benthall 14,1, 14,2

The 1998 AAA Annual Meeting: Jonathan Benthall and Roy Willis 15,2

The 6th International Thai Studies Conference: Nicholas C.T. Tapp 13,3

The epidemiology of representations: Harvey Whitehouse 14,6

The Hmong/Miao in Asia: Nicholas Tapp 14,6

'The Politics of Emergency': Ian S. Fairweather 13,4

The re-enchantment of science: Charles Whitehead 14,5

Torres Strait Centenary conference: Jonathan Benthall 14,5

5. Film & film reviews

5th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film: Suzette Heald 13,1

Broadcast ethnographic films: Marcus Banks 15,5

'Evaluating visual ethnography' conference in Leiden: Jonathan Benthall 15,6

Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival: Sarah Pink 14,4

Music and rituals: ISRE 1998 festival: Jerome Lewis 15,1

Rub'el Kurus: Carlos Flores 15,1

6. Exhibitions

Antropologica at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam: Mary Bouquet 15,2

Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms at the Victoria & Albert Museum: Simeran Gell 15,3

Maori at the British Museum: Amiria J.M. Salmond 14,5

Torres Straits Islanders exhibition in Cambridge: Elizabeth Edwards 15,1

7. Interviews

M.N. Srinivas on his life and work, interviewed by Chris Fuller 15,5

8. Narratives

Collins, David and Urry, James: 'A flame too intense for mortal body to support' 13,6

D'Alisera, JoAnn: Born in the USA: Naming ceremonies of infants among Sierra Leoneans living in the American capital 14,1

Gregory, Chris: Hunting for water in Port Moresby 13,4

Gudeman, Stephen: The juror 14,5

Lindisfarne, Nancy: The Box (1959) 13,5

9. Obituary

Adair, John 14,3

Castaneda, Carlos 14,6

Clarke, Graham: by Andrew Shacknove 14,3

Cohen, Percy 15,6

de Josselin de Jong, P.E.: by Han F. Vermeulen 15,3

Dube, Shyama Charan: by Ravindra Jain 13,1

Dumont, Louis: by Roger-Pol Droit 15,1

Forsythe, Diana Elizabeth 13,6

Gell, Alfred: by Eric Hirsch, Suzanne Kuchler and Chris Pinney 13,2

Gray, Andrew: by the Harakmbut Indigenous People 15,4

Hamnett, Ian: by Michael Banton 13,4

Hewes, Gordon W. 14,1

Holy, Ladislav: by Richard Fardon 13,3

Kirkwood, Kenneth 13,6

Leakey, Mary 13,1

Lewton-Brain, James: by Aidan Southall 13,1

Lombard, Denys 14,3

Loudon, J.B.: by Leonard Mars 15,2

Lounsbury, Floyd 14,6

MacRae, Donald 14,2

McCormack, Carol 13,5

Nugent, Daniel: by Jonathan Spencer 14,3

Osmundsen, Lita 14,3

Patterson, Sheila 14,4

Paulme, Denise 14,4

Pike, Cynthia 13,6

Rapoport, Robert N. 13,1

Rappoport, Roy Abraham 'Skip': 14,1

Ravenhill, Philip 13,6

Reid, Bill 14,3

Samuel, Raphael 13,1

Stirling, Paul: by Ralph Grillo 14,5

Valeri, Valerio 14,3

van der Post, Laurens 13,1

Wanambi, Dundiwuy: by Ian Dunlop 13,2

Warren, Dennis Michael: by David Brokensha 14,1

Weiner, Annette B.: by Jane Schneider 14,2

Wolf, Eric R.: by Rayna Rapp 15,3

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY Index 1997-99

Volume 13 No.1 to Volume 15 No.6