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Anthropology Today
Contents


Vol. 16, No. 6, December 2000 

Finding a new public face for anthropology (JOHN GLEDHILL) page 1 (LINKS)

PAUL SILLITOE
Indigenous knowledge, science and the 'poorest of the poor' 3

LAURA PEERS (LINKS)
A review of the Chase Manhattan Gallery of North America 8

CHRIS HANN (LINKS)
Problems with the (de)privatization of religion 14

FILM 21 ASEN BALIKCI Second Russian Anthropological Film Festival (LINKS)

CONFERENCES 23 DECLAN QUIGLEY on Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations, Moscow; BEA VIDECS on EASA 2000 (LINKS)

NEWS 26 CALENDAR 27 RAI NEWS 28 CLASSIFIED 28

CAPTION TO FRONT COVER page 28


Vol. 16, No. 5, October 2000

A critique of 'cognitive' development anthropology (JOHN CLAMMER) page 1

IAN S. MCINTOSH (LINKS)
When will we know we are reconciled? 3

RICHARD CLARKE (LINKS)
Palestinian and Israeli political tourism in Hebron 12

NARRATIVE
19 MATTHEW HODGES The sheep from the goats

CONFERENCES 23
MILA ROSENTHAL on Rural-Urban Relations and Representations, NICK TAPP on Cultures and Biodiversity

LETTERS 26 
P-J. EZEH on Shankland's views; reply by DAVID SHANKLAND; HAN VERMEULEN on Ethnographia; FELICIA HUGHES-FREELAND on Göttingen Film Festival; MARK HARRIS on Who cares about anthropology?; E. FROSTICK, STEPHEN NUGENT and TIM INGOLD on Selectionism; PETER SKALNIK on 'Publish or Perish'

NEWS 29 CALENDAR 30 RAI NEWS 31 CLASSIFIED 32

CAPTION TO FRONT COVER page 31


Vol. 16, No. 4, August 2000

Reflections on a visit to New York 
(KEITH HART) page 1 (LINKS1)

RAYMOND CORBEY 
Arts premiers in the Louvre 3 (LINKS)

JEREMY KEENAN 
Returning to the Tuareg as an 'elder' 7 

JOHN R. BOWEN 
Universal 'indigenous peoples' rights'? 12

EXHIBITIONS 17 
BRIAN DURRANS on Recycling at the Pitt Rivers Museum (LINKS)

CONFERENCES 19 
MAX CAROCCI on Northwest Coast Ethnology
CHARLES WHITEHEAD on The Anthropology of Consciousness (LINKS)
and on A Science of Consciousness (LINKS)

FILM 24 
RICARDO LEIZAOLA on the Göttingen Ethnographic Film Festival 

LETTERS 25 
MICHAEL W. YOUNG on 'Malinowski's Tent'; 
MARIE GILLESPIE et al. on 'Best of British'; 
ALAN PASSES on 'Disciplary Racism'; 
LES HIATT on the Viking Baby Invasion; 
MAURICE BLOCH and TIM INGOLD on Selectionism

CALENDAR 26 NEWS 27 RAI NEWS 28 CLASSIFIED 28

CAPTION TO FRONT COVER page 28


Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2000

The poverty of selectionism 
(TIM INGOLD) page 1

BOB SIMPSON 
Imagined genetic communities 3

SHARON E. HUTCHINSON 
Nuer ethnicity militarized 6

TOM HALL and HEATHER MONTGOMERY 
Home and away 13

JOHAN LINDQUIST 
Modern spaces and international hinterlands 15

NARRATIVE 18 JONATHAN BENTHALL 
Malinowski's tent

COMMENT 19  
DECLAN QUIGLEY on 'Rapportage', 
DAVID SHANKLAND and BENBURT on the ASA 2000 conference

CONFERENCES 23  
JULIA PANTHER on the ASA 2000 conference,
ANDRÉ ITEANU on Processes of naming

OBITUARY 25
HARALDE L. PRINS on A.H.J. Prins, Sir Robert Sainsbury

LETTERS 26 TOM BRASS on Bill Epstein
NEWS 26 CALENDAR 28 RAI NEWS 29 CLASSIFIED 31

CAPTION TO FRONT COVER page 30


Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2000

Civil society's need for de-deconstruction (JONATHAN BENTHALL)
page 1

FRANK DE ZWART Practical knowledge and institutional design in India's affirmative action policy 4

MICHAEL LAMBEK Nuriaty, the Saint and the Sultan 8

ARMANDO SALVATORE Social differentiation, moral authority and public Islam in Egypt 12

SEAN KINGSTON An interview with Marion Berghahn 16

COMMENT 20 NIGEL RAPPORT on the New Anthropology of Britain

CONFERENCES 22 RONNIE FRANKENBERG on theAAA meetings, MICHAEL RICHARDSON and COSIMO ZENO on 'Crossing cultural boundaries' , ADRIENE BOF and PET PETERS on 'Elite cultures'

OBITUARY 25 I.M. LEWIS on Germaine Dieterlen, Noboru Miyata

LETTERS 27 Declaration by Austrian anthropologists; WILLIAM H. NEWELL on transcontinental influences in anthropology
NEWS 28 CALENDAR 29 RAI NEWS 30 CLASSIFIED 31

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Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2000

Middle East scenarios (JONATHAN BENTHALL) page 1

KEITH BROWN and DIMITRIOS THEODOSSOPOULOS 
The performance of anxiety: Greek narratives of war in Kosovo 3

TONY CROOK 
Length matters: a note on the GM debate 9

DIDIER BOREMANSE 
Sewing machines and the Q'echi' Maya worldview 11

NARRATIVE 19 
TANYA LUHRMANN on 'God as the ground of empathy'

CONFERENCES 
21 PETER WADE on The American Anthropological Association 1999 Annual Meeting

OBITUARY 22 
M.N. Srinivas, RALPH GRILLO on Bill Epstein, Ashley Montagu, RODNEY NEEDHAM on Bruce Dakowski

LETTERS 25 
PHILIP THOMAS and JONATHAN BENTHALL on RAI Council policies

NEWS 26 CALENDAR 27 RAI NEWS 28 CLASSIFIED 29
CAPTION TO FRONT COVER page 28