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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1  JUNE 1995

CONTENTS

Fighting over Pigshit: A New Ireland Pragmatic
- Roy Wagner   3

Suspending Disbelief: An Encounter with the Occult in Brittany
- Ellen Badone   9

The Bori and I: Reflections of a Mature Anthropologist
- Frank A. Salamone   15

Of Cowries and Crying: A Beng Guide to Managing Colic
- Alma Gottlieb   20

Tiananmen Square: The Rhetorical Power of a Woman and a Man
- Yuehong Zhang   29

FICTION

Pietro's House
- Walter Goldschmidt   47

1994 FICTION CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION

Come Out And Serve
- Kirin Narayan   51

POETRY

Confessions of an Ethnographic Poet
- Don Mitchell   60

POEMS

Bog Body
- Bettina Arnold   64

Archeology
- Charles Underwood   65

Poems from Igbo
- Rory Turner   66

Fox and Me
- Tara Lumpkin   68

Strange Harbor
- Kate Altork   69

COMMENTARY

Reflections on the Art of Ethnography
- Molly Turner   70

BOOK REVIEWS

Overlapping Endeavors: Anthropology and Literature (Parallel
Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Discover Africa, Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham)
- Kirin Narayan   76

African Constructions of Self (First Find Your Child a Good Mother: The Construction of Self in Two African Communities, Paul Riesman)
- Clarke K. Speed   77

Indonesian Images (The Soul of Indonesia: A Cultural Journey, Umar Kayam and Harri Peccinotti, and Indonesia in Focus: Ancient Traditions--Modern Times, Peter Homan, Reimar Schefold, Vincent Dekker, and Nico de Jonge, eds.)
- Karl G. Heider   78

Ritualizing the Play of Politics (The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance, Richard Schechner, and Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism, Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz, eds.)
- Randy Martin   80

Beyond the Veil: Culture Screening Reality (Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, Renato Rosaldo)
- Frederick C. Gamst   82

The Body in Culture and Text (Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and
Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text, Frances E. Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe, eds.)
- Traci Carroll   83

A Family Mourns Its Past (Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family, Richard Werbner)
- Carol Hermer   85

The Ethnography of the Senses (The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology and Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger, Paul Stoller)
- Leonard Plotnicov   86

Postmodern Anthropology, Science, and Humanism (Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother: Studies in Cultural Analysis, Melford Spiro)
- E. Paul Durrenberger   88

ON THE COVER

Whaling Festival, Point Hope, Alaska, 1990. An Inupiaq whaling captain calls out the name of one of the crewmen who helped him catch a bowhead whale. He will present the crewman with a slice of muktuk taken from the skin and fat of the whale. Photo by Bill Hess.


 

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