ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM
VOLUME 27, NUMBER
2 December 2002
CONTENTS
Miami Money and the Home
Gal
-Karen E. Richman 119
“Without Deer There is No
Culture, Nothing”
-Alexander D. King 133
Could She Be Dying? Dis-Orders
of Reality around Death in an American Hospital
-Helen S. Chapple 165
FICTION
Maquiladora Cousins
-Tamar Diana Wilson 185
POEMS
Five Poems in Three
Languages
Meditación in and about
Mbohapy Ñe’ĕ 192
Pax Nobiscum 193
Muse 194
Pride? 195
Ignoramus
-Tracy K. Lewis 197
Slugs 198
Soft Boiled Eggs
-Brian Swann 199
Imprecation against Two
Cambridge Policemen for Disturbing Dave Sapir’s Party
-Dell Hymes 203
BOOK REVIEWS
“After Genres”: A
Biography That Illuminates Ethnography (In the Arms of Africa:
The Life of Colin M. Turnbull, Roy Richard Grinker)
-Christopher Eric Garces 205
Silicon Valley Light
(Cultures@Silicon Valley, June Anne English-Lueck)
-Jennifer Croissant 207
New Perspectives of Female
Circumcision (The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological
Perspective, Ellen Gruenbaum)
-Barry P. Michrina 208
Africa Reclaiming Herself
(On the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe)
-Donald Robotham 209
A Place to Write: The
Bartender as Ethnographer (A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a
Working Class Bar, Julie Lindquist)
-Warren Olivo 211
ANNOUCEMENTS
The Society for Humanistic
Anthropology is pleased to announce that the 2002 Victor Turner Prize for
Ethnographic Writing was won by Henry Stephen Sharp for his book Loon: Memory,
Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community. Honorable Mention awards
were won by Mary Weismantel for her book Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race
and Sex in the Andes, and Catherine Lutz for her book Homefront: A Military City
and the American 20th Century.
Kent Maynard won the 2001
Wick Chapbook Prize for Ohio
poets. His collection, Sunk like God behind the House, was published in the
fall of 2002. Several of the poems first appeared in Anthropology and Humanism.
ON THE COVER
Zoya Petrovna cooking for
her relatives in a Koryak reindeer herders’ camp, Kamchatka.
Zoya echoed the statement that the reindeer were the basis for the Koryaks’
entire culture. Photo by Alexander D. King.
