Front cover caption: The front cover illustration shows a Quranic roundabout in the suburbs of Muscat, in counterpoint to Jonathan Benthall’s guest editorial in this issue on Samuel Huntington’s highly controversial ‘clash of civilizations’ theory. A marble sculpture of a book with Arabic text stands open on a pile of closed books. The Sultanate of Oman is the historical centre of the Ibadite branch of Islam, which is practised there today with tolerance and moderation. The city of Muscat is notable for its many mosques and for the grassy landscaping of its streets, defying a national water shortage. (Photo by Jonathan Benthall, 1996.)

Jonathan Benthall 1
Imagined civilizations?
Matthew Engelke 3
The problem of belief: Evans-Pritchard and Victor Turner on ‘the inner life’
Ronnie Moore and Andrew Sanders 9
Formations of culture: Nationalism and conspiracy ideology in Ulster loyalism
David Price 16
Interlopers and invited guests: On anthropology’s witting and unwitting links to intelligence agencies
Narrative 22
Janine R. Wedel
Homo sovieticus, the naïve American and 11.9

Comment 23
Cathryn M. Cootner, Laurens Bakker, Eberhard Fischer
Stylistic canon, imitation and faking

Conferences 25
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Lynn D. Maners
Engaging the world – or rather, not? Report from the 7th EASA conference, Copenhagen, 14-17 August 2002

Lettres 26
Peter Suzuki Lessons from WWII
Peter Cave, Don Moody, Jonathan Benthall, Rasjid Skinner
Dropping the ‘Royal’?
Ragnar Johnson A dearth of statistics

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October 2002 – vol 18 – no 5

Front cover caption: The front cover illustrates the article by Adrian Peace on dingoes (see pp. 14-19). It is a detail from an early advertisement for tourism on Fraser Island, Queensland, which bears the legend ‘Fraser Island is a Garden of Eden. And Kingfisher Bay Resort is pure temptation. It’s where Adam & Eve would holiday.’ The advertisement emphasizes the paradise-like qualities of this unique sand island, and above all the harmonious relationship between people and animals in an authentic wilderness setting. In this issue, Adrian Peace describes how this kind of fetishization continues through to the present day. Recently, however, a rival and quite contradictory discourse has constituted the pure-bred island dingo as a dangerous, demonic creature, even ‘a natural-born killer’. The dingo has become animal matter out of place, a far cry from the diminutive creature at the naked man's left hand in this image, in a cultural transformation which has had serious consequences for the continued well-being of this endangered species.

Richard Vokes 1
The Arusha tribunal: Whose justice?
Roy Ellen 3
Dangerous fictions and degrees of plausibility: Creationism, evolutionism and anthropology
Klaus Høyer 9
Conflicting notions of personhood in genetic research
Adrian Peace 14
The cull of the wild: Dingoes, development and death in an Australian tourist location

Obituary 20
Judith Macdonald, Rima A Bartlett, Stephan Feuchtwang
Appreciations of Sir Raymond Firth

Conferences 23
David Mills
Anthropology and human development in Africa
12th conference of the Pan-African Anthropology Association, Nairobi, 4-7 August 2002

Catherine Alexander
A world of cultures: Culture as property?
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, 1-2 July 2002

Letters 24
Keith Suter, Michael Hitchcock,
Hugo F. Reading
Dropping the 'Royal'?

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August 2002 – vol 18 – no 4

Front cover caption: The front cover illustrates the article by Rosana Guber on Argentine anthropology (see pp. 9-13): Gauchos at a rodeo in Las Flores, Buenos Aires, province, 1989 [photo by Arnd Schneider, digitized under a DFG-UEL grant]. Since the 18th century gauchos have been the quintessential symbol of the Argentine countryside. Whilst Argentine agriculture has seen many changes since this time, including the seizure of vast tracts of land from the indigenous people after the Argentine army's 'Desert Campaign', the establishment of large rural estates (estancias), and mechanization, gauchos still persist as myth and reality in art, folklore, and literature. The changing ways of gaucho life, not only in Argentina but also in Uruguay and southern Brazil, have been the subject of many anthropological studies, some of them carried out by Argentine anthropologists featured in Rosana Guber's article in this issue.

Dawn Chatty 1
Mobile peoples and conservation
Jonathan Marks 3
Contemporary bio-anthropology: Where the trailing edge of anthropology meets the leading edge of bioethics
Rosana Guber 8
Antropología social: An Argentine diaspora between revolution and nostalgia
A. Jamie Saris and Brendan Bartley 14
The arts of memory: Icon and structural violence in a Dublin 'underclass' housing estate

Comment 20
Nancy Lindisfarne, Werner Menski, Siew-Peng Lee, Pnina Werbner
Reproducing the multicultural nation

Jan van Bremen, Igor Kopytoff, Margaret Hardiman, David Price
Lessons from WWII anthropology

Conferences 24
Mwenda Ntarangwi
ASA 2002: Coming of age in Africa

Rebecca Marsland
ASA 2002: Travelling to Africa and through time

Yunus Rafiki, Chris Knight and Camilla Power
An Arusha declaration for 2002

Letters 26
Don Moody RAI or AI?

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June 2002 – vol 18 – no 3

Front cover caption: The front cover illlustrates the article by Koen Stroeken on football (pp. 9-13). This photo was taken on 21 June 2000, during a European Cup final match between France and the Netherlands. French supporters show their allegiance to their team by holding up a giant-size version of the tricolour shirt. This shirt acquired its special significance after the 1998 World Cup, which the French team, 'les Bleus', won on home ground. The shirt sports the colours of the French national flag, and so projects the success in football onto the nation as a whole. The Netherlands won this particular game in style, but the French went on to win the tournament. In doing so, they rid themselves of their reputation of playing ‘nice’, but ineffective football. For several decades their European neighbours Germany and Italy were repeatedly victorious in the World Cup final. Cultural labels such as 'disciplined' and 'clever' came to be attached to their strategies. In 1998 the French national team finally 'discovered' their identity, attributing their new-found success to their multicultural blend of players. Images of the massive celebrations in the streets of Paris are still regularly shown on French TV. With star players Zidane, Henry and Trezeguet, the French team are favourites to win the World Cup again this year. Source: Oranje Foto Side/ReMePro (www.remepro.nl).

Cynthia Keppley Mahmood 1
Anthropological compulsions in a world in crisis
Birgitta Edelman 3
‘Rats are people, too!’ Rat-human relations re-rated
Koen Stroeken 9
Why ‘the world’ loves watching football (and ‘the Americans’ don’t)
David Price 14
Lessons from Second World War anthropology: Peripheral, persuasive and ignored contributions

Exhibitions 21
Stephen Nugent
The Amazon on display

Comment 23
I. McIntosh, M. Colchester,
J. Bowen, D. Rosengren
Defining oneself, and being defined as, indigenous

Letters 25
Gerald Mars on royal patronage
E.M. (Sally) Chilver on Phyllis Kaberry

Conferences 26
Simon Coleman
‘The new higher education? Learning and teaching in a knowledge society’

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April 2002 – vol 18 – no 2

Front cover caption: The front cover illustrates the article by Anne Friederike Müller on Pierre Bourdieu (pp.5-9).
It is rare for leading French newspaper Le Monde to publish colour photographs on its front page. However, Bourdieu’s death was considered such an important event that the story was illustrated not only by the usual front-page cartoon, but also by a colour photo portrait. The issue also carried several articles devoted to Bourdieu on inside pages. Bourdieu, originally a philosopher, as he is described here in the sub-head, was perhaps internationally the best known French sociologist, but had a difficult relationship with the media of his home country. In the mid-1990s, not unlike Noam Chomsky some years earlier, Bourdieu began to criticize the conformist mindset of most journalists. He objected to the 'circularity of information' (media commenting on other media – this caption being a case in point), which in his view obstructed the publication of information vital to citizens in a democracy.
Bourdieu also denounced the monopolistic position of Le Monde – not the newspaper with the largest circulation, but the one with the greatest 'symbolic capital', i.e. the greatest intellectual authority, in France. After Bourdieu’s death, a number of French newspapers very quickly fell back into their habit of reviling him.

Eric Hirsch 1
Malinowski’s intellectual property
Pnina Werbner 3
Reproducing the multicultural nation
Anne Friederike Müller 5
Sociology as a combat sport: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) – admired and reviled in France
Reimar Schefold 10
Stylistic canon, imitation and faking:
Authenticity in Mentawai art in Western Indonesia
Sandy Toussaint 15
Searching for Phyllis Kaberry via Proust:
Biography, ethnography and memory as a subject of inquiry

Narrative
Tamara Kohn Mom’s Pecan Rolls 20

Comment
J.Sluka, Noam Chomsky & D.Price 22
‘Terrorism’ and the responsibility of the anthropologist
Tariq Modood & Alison Shaw 24
Sources of Muslim assertiveness in Britain
Thomas Killion/Alexandra K. Kenny & Nancy Scheper-Hughes 25
Ishi’s brain, Ishi’s ashes: The complex issue of repatriation
Donald Macleod & Tom Selwyn 27
The scope of the anthropology of tourism

Film
Rolf Husmann & Jill Daniels 28
Of nightmares, odysseys and miracles:
Taiwanese Ethnographic Film Festival

Conferences
Stephen Gudeman 29
Family organization, inheritance and property rights in transition

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February 2002 – vol 18 – no 1

Front cover caption: The front cover illustrates the article by Kristín Loftsdóttir in this issue (pp 9-13). WoDaaBe pastoral nomads celebrate numerous festivals at the end of the rainy season, when water is abundant and the workload lower than at other times of the year. The author notes: Soon after I arrived in Niger in August 1996, I attended a large gathering in the bush north of Tchin-Tabaraden, where many lineage groups came together for dance performances, in addition to various other social activities. As my expression in the photo indicates, it was a rather overwhelming beginning for fieldwork. This photo was taken when some WoDaaBe men, later to be among my closest friends, wanted my photo taken with one of the costumed dancers. It was for my own good, they explained, because I could show the photograph when later returning to my university in the United States. These men had all worked as migrant workers in Niamey for many years, engaging in production and sale of craft items, and thus interacting with tourists and expatriates in the city. Being very familiar with Westerners’ taste for the exotic, and their particular desire at that time to have their own pictures taken with ‘a’ WoDaaBe, these friends advised me to have such photos taken for future reference. Their predictions were correct of course, this photograph being the one generally liked by my friends and colleagues.

Marcus Colchester 1
Indigenous rights and the collective conscious
David Price 3
Past wars, present dangers, future anthropologists
Alison Shaw 5
Why might young British Muslims support the Taliban?
Kristín Loftsdóttir 9
Knowing what to do in the city: WoDaaBe nomads and migrant workers in Niger
Adam Kuper 14
Isaac Schapera - a conversation
(Part 2: The London years)

Comment
the euro
Keith Hart 20
A tale of two currencies
Gustav Peebles 21
Money vs currency

Letters 23
Margaret Hardiman
A memory of Rosemary Firth
Sarah Horsfall Anthropology and crisis
Jonathan Benthall, Glenn Bowman
11.09 meditations

Conferences
Jerome Lewis 24
Property and equality
Mark Allen Peterson 25
AAA2001: Love, terror and nostalgia in Washington
Brian Moeran 26
AAA2001: Anthropology worlds apart
Andre Gingrich 27
AAA2001: Potential for transatlantic communication in anthropology?

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