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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4  DECEMBER 1985

EDITORS

Editor, Miles Richardson, Louisiana State University
Managing Editor, Linda Long McQueen
Art Director, Mary Lee Eggart
Editorial Assistant, Mary Van Rheenen

Associate Editors
M. Jill Brody, Louisiana State University
Bruce Grindal, Florida State University
Gregory Reck, Appalachian State University

Book Review Editor
Nancy J. Schmidt, Indiana University

ADVISORY BOARD

Gerald D. Berreman, University of California, Berkeley
David Bidney, Indiana University (Retired)
Ivan A. Brady, State University of New York at Oswego
Johnetta B. Cole, University of Massachusetts
Francis L. K. Hsu, University of San Francisco
Norris Brock Johnson, University of North Carolina
Arden King, Tulane University
Gilbert Kushner, University of South Florida
L. L. Langness, University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred McClung Lee, City University of New York Brooklyn
Bob Scholte, University of Amsterdam
Robert F. Spencer, University of Minnesota
George Stocking, University of Chicago
Marea Teski, Stockton State College
Colin M. Turnbull, George Washington University
Dennis M. Warren, Iowa State University
Stanley Wilk, Lycoming College
Valentine Winsey, Pace University

Copyright c 1984 by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1703 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. All rights reserved. The mandala on the cover is after a Shri-Yantra meditation pattern from Buddhist ritual (see also) Sybil Monoly-Nagy’s Matrix of Man published in 1968 by Praeger, New York).

CONTENTS

Foreword    90

Strange Pain: Textual Expressions
From Africa and the Caribbean
- Karla Powew   91

Ritual and Symbol
in Baka Life History
- Kathleen Higgens   100

Toward a Native Anthropology:
Methodological Notes on a Study of
Successful Caribbean Women by an Insider
- Nesha Z. Haniff   107

Of Mules and Yankee Gals:
Struggling with Stereotypes
in the Field
- A. Lynn Bolles   114

Africanisms in the Americas:
A Brief History of the Concept
- Johnnetta B. Cole   120

Suffering, Transformation, and
Survival: The Issue Reviewed
- Gelya Frank   127

Poems   129

BOOK REVIEWS

Gregory: Anxious Pleasures. The Sexual Lives
of an Amazonial People (Richard Parker)   130

Ekvall: Tents Against the Sky
and The Lama Knows
(Molly G. Schuchat)   131

Perinbanayam: The Karmic Theater:
Self, Society, and Astrology
in Jaffna (E. Doyle McCarthy)   132

Books Received 1985   134

Index to Volume 10   135

Original art by Mary Lee Eggart




 

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