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Anthropology Today

CONTENTS 2001 – vol 17


December 2001 – vol 17 – no 6

William O. Beeman 1
Writing for the crisis

Adam Kuper 3
Isaac Schapera – a conversation (Part 1: South African beginnings)

W.G. Wolters 8
The Euro: Old and new boundaries in the use of money

Comment
Richard Tapper 13
Anthropology and (the) crisis: Responding to crisis in Afghanistan

Narrative
Glenn Bowman 16
Thinking the unthinkable: Meditations on the events of 11.09.2001

Letters 20
Anita Herle Torres Strait Islanders
Robert Paine Charity

Conferences
Jonathan Skinner 21
Open society and open minds
Ian S. McIntosh 22
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Vieda Skultans 23
Narrative-based medicine

Obituary
Ronnie Frankenberg 24
Abner Cohen
P. Loizos 26 Wazir J. Karim 27
Rosemary Firth
I.M. Lewis 27
Julian Pitt-Rivers
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October 2001 – vol 17 – no 5

Tom Selwyn 1
Bosnia-Hercegovina, tourists, anthropologists

Simon Harrison 3
The past altered by the present:
A Melanesian village after twenty years

John Liep 10
Airborne kula: The appropriation of birds by Danish ornithologists

Michael M.J. Fischer 16
In the Science Zone: The Yanomami and the fight for representation
(Part 3)

Narrative 20
Richard Wilson
Children and war in Sierra Leone: A West African Diary

Letters 22
Peter G.A. Boorman on sub-standard advertising;
Judith Huntsman on Dame Commanders

Comment 23
Jay Ruby, Sarah Pink, Joshka Wessels & David MacDougall
Visual anthropology: Digital video

Phillip Whitehead, Simon Coleman, Bob Simpson & David Mills
Education: Anthropology ‘outside in’

Conferences 27
Gillian Evans & Ruth McLoughlin
Children in their Places

Obituary 28
Miguel Chase Sardi by John Renshaw

News
29   Calendar 30   Classified 31


August 2001 – vol 17 – no 4

Jonathan Benthall 1 [links]
Time to look ‘The Gift’ in the mouth

Jerry Jacka 3 [links]
Coca Cola and kolo: Land, ancestors and development

Michael M. J. Fischer 9 [links]
In the Science Zone: The Yanomami and the fight for representation

June Nash 15 [links]
Globalization and the cultivation of peripheral vision

Comment 23
Simon Coleman & Hildi Mitchell [links]
Pilgrimage: Bringing the structure back in

Amitav Ghosh & H.L. Seneviratne [links]
Buddhist monks and ethnic politics

Simone Abram & David Shankland [links]
Anthropology versus science

Conferences 26
James Fairhead [links]
ASA 2001: Rights, claims and entitlements


June 2001 – vol 17 – no 3

NIGEL RAPPORT 1 [links]
Towards the Holy Grail of a 'scientific morality'

SARAH FRANKLIN 3
Sheepwatching
[cloning links; foot-and-mouth links]

STEVE NUGENT 10 [links]
Anthropology and public culture: The Yanomami, science and ethics

DAVID MACDOUGALL 15
Renewing ethnographic film: Is digital video changing the genre? [links]

HILARY CALLAN 22 [links]
Anthropology and the British Association for the Advancement of Science: An interview with David Shankland

NARRATIVE 24 [links]
Huon Wardle
Schismogenesis in a Belfast urinal

EXHIBITIONS 26 [links]
Raymond Corbey
ExItCongoMuseum: The travels of Congolese art

COMMENT 28 [links]
Timur Kuran, Jonathan Benthall and Bill Maurer
Speculations on Islamic financial alternatives

NEWS 30    CALENDAR 31   CLASSIFIED 33

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April 2001 – vol 17 – no 2

DAVID SHANKLAND 1 [links]
Putting the science back in

GALINA LINDQUIST 3 [links]
The culture of charisma: Wielding legitimacy in contemporary Russian healing

HILDI MITCHELL 9 [links]
‘Being there’: British Mormons and the history trail

H.L. SENEVIRATNE 15 [links]
Buddhist monks and ethnic politics: A war zone in an island paradise

COMMENT 22 [links]
Charles Watters and Didier Fassin
Avenues of access and the parameters of legitimacy

FILM 24 [links]
Sarah Pink
Bringing anthropology and film together?

CONFERENCES 25 [links]
David G. Anderson
Post-socialisms in the Russian North

Simon Coleman and Bob Simpson [links]
Anthropology and education (1): Resisting bureaucracy

David Mills
Anthropology and education (2): Broadening anthropology

LETTERS 28 (starts on back cover) [links]
Jonathan Benthall
Matea te urofa: To Raymond Firth on his 100th birthday, 25 March 2001

NEWS 29   CALENDAR 30   RAI NEWS 31   CLASSIFIED 32

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February 2001 – vol 17 – no 1

MARILYN STRATHERN 1
Blowing hot and cold
[QAA Anthropology Subject Report links; QAA in general links]

DIDIER FASSIN 3 [links]
The biopolitics of otherness

BILL MAURER 8 [links]
Engineering an Islamic future

NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES 12 [links]
Ishi's brain, Ishi's ashes

COMMENT 19
Nancy Scheper-Hughes and John Gledhill [links]
Neo-cannibalism: Anthropologists in the Amazon.

Francesca Merlan and Ian S. McIntosh [links]
Reconciliation: The people’s choice?

J.C.H. King and Laura Peers [links]
‘Native museums’

BOOKS 23
Alan Barnard
Anthropology in the Commonwealth [links]

CONFERENCES 25
Mark Allen Petersen
Anthropology and the media [links]

Michael Eastham
Rock art research: a colonial discipline? [links]

NEWS 28 CALENDAR 29 RAI NEWS 30 CLASSIFIED 31

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