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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2  MAY 1987

CONTENTS

Science and Relativism:
A Historical View of Anthropology's
Unresolved Dilemma
- Elizabeth Mertz   30

Reflection on the Absolute
- E. Paul Durrenberger   38

Some Recent Attacks on
Cultural Relativism: A Critical
Review
- Dennis Bartels   42

Anthropologist as Human:
The Ultimate Paradox
- Arden R. King   47

BOOK REVIEWS

Eastern European Enclaves:
Three Perspectives
- Aleksandras Gedmintas   52

Missionaries, Apologists, and
Anthropologists
- Mark S. Mosko   53

Humanism in Search of a
Framework
- Kenneth Wagner   54

POEMS

The Quest
- Celia A. Daniels   56

The Nest is Falling
- Kauraka Kauraka   57

Fieldworks' Reality
- Frank A. Salamone   57


If you have ethnographic photographs or line drawings similar to this one, please send them to the Quarterly so that we may consider them for future covers. Our supply is low, so now is a good time!


HONORS, AWARDS, ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are delighted to hear that Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, who received her doctorate at Northwestern University, where she was a student of Melville Herskovits, and who has written extensively on Afro-American cultures, inlcuding the recent "Africanism in the Americas," published in the Quarterly (vol. 10 [4], 1985), has become President of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. We welcome Dr. Cole to the South and know we can continue to call upon her, as a member of the Advisory Board, for advice and counsel.

The Institute for Advanced Study announces awards for postdoctoral fellowships in the School of Social Science for 1988-89. The focus in 1988-89 will be the revival of ethnic and religious commitment and the political forms that revival takes in Western societies. The School also invites applications on projects across the entire range of social science. Application deadline is December 1, 1987. For further information and forms write:

School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ 08540


The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) announces
a two year project, funded by both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, to compile a two volume supplement to the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. The supplement will add nearly 20,000 citations to this classic guide on material written about the native peoples of North America. For information write:

Human Relations Area Files
P. O. Box 2054, Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06520-2054

ON THE COVER

Photograph by
Diane Tong
67 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016

The cover photograph offers us a moment in the life of a Gypsy woman in Thessaloniki, Greece.  The conditions of her life are those of the poorer people in the Gypsy quarter. She and her neighbors earn an income in the summers as migrant workers. Her striking pose stands in sharp contrast to the stooped labor of picking tomatoes.


 

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