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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1  JUNE 1996


CONTENTS

Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1995
- Roy Wagner   3

Becoming Savage: Western Representations and Cultural Identity in a Sepik Society
- Karen J. Brison   5

A Paradoxical Gift of Memory: The Pain, Pride, and History of an
Untouchable "Kitchen Poetess"
- R. S. Khare   19

A Delicate Science: A Critique of an Exclusively Emic Anthropology
- Daniel Halperin   31

Casting out the Foreigners: Interpretation of a Curing Rite in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Jennifer Williams Nourse   41

Images of Difference: Deaf and Hearing in the United States
- Laura Lakshmi Fjord   55

FICTION

Introduction
- Dan Ingersoll   70

The Informant
- Paul Heinrich, winner of the 1995 Fiction Contest   71

Burials
- Don Mitchell   82

POEMS

Introduction
- Toni Flores   91

Motopark Beggars
- John McCall, cowinner of the 1995 Poetry Prize   92

Ethnography of the Unspoken
- Charles Underwood, cowinner of the 1995 Poetry Prize   96

Mardi Gras do do
- Karne Suben   98

Primal Belief
- Hushi Philsooph   99

BOOK REVIEWS

Visible and Invisible Realms (Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic and Colonial Conquest in Bali, Margaret Wiener, winner of the Victor Turner Prize)
- Gretchen Weix   100

Michael Jackson: At Home with the Word (At Home in the World, Michael Jackson)
- Paul Benson   101

The Power of Cross-Cultural Metadiscourse (Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society, Jonathan D. Hill)
- TGI  Suzanne Oakdale   102

The Politics of Identity (Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding, George C. Rosenwald and Richard L. Ochberg, eds., and Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors, Kenneth Jacobson)
- Heidi Kelley   103

Introducting Iceland (Icelandic Essays: Explorations in the Anthropology of  Modern Life, E. Paul Durrenberger)
- Jonathan Wylie   106

ON THE COVER

Billiards in Taiyun, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Photo by Joseph Lipten.


 

 


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