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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME  22, NUMBER 2  DECEMBER 1997

CONTENTS

A Tale of Two Cities: Warner and Marquand in Newburyport
- Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr.   137

Studying Thy Neighor: Reflections on Participation
- Michael F. C. Bourdillon   150

The Way I See It: Perspectives on the Labor Movement from the People in It
- Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger   159

PHOTO ESSAY

The Junkyard of Futures past
- Nick De Genova   171

1996 FICTION CONTEST, HONORABLE MENTION

Is There a Light in My Eyes?
- Bruce T. Grindal   180

POEMS

Maximum Level
- Tara Waters Lumpkin   187

Aunt Betty and Co.
- Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern   188

Hanta Virus, Medicine Men, and the Other
- Terry Fischer (Odawa Indian)   190

Walking with a Basketmaker Two Haikus
- Deborah S. Dozier   191

REVIEW OF ARTICLE

Gender and Transformation in Africa (The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender, Sarah C. Brett-Smith; Iron, Gender and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies, Eugenia Herbert; The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, Peter R. Schmidt, ed.)
- Barbara G. Hoffman   192

COMMENTARY

The Making of Bamana Sculpture: A Rejoinder to Barbara Hoffman
- Sarah C. Brett-Smith   198

BOOK REVIEWS

Cracking the Boundaries of Urban Life in the United States (In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Philippe Bourgois)
- Paul Stoller   205

Finding the Way (The Heartland Chronicles, Douglas E. Foley)
- Miles Richardson   206

Imaging and Imagining the Georgraphic Other (Reading National
Geographic, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins)
- Marita Sturken   207

On the Meanings of Headhunting in Eastern Indonesia (Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual, Kenneth M. George)
- Leontine E. Visser   208

Finding the Office Funny (Sometimes the Dragon Wins: Yet More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire, Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter)
- Andrew Causey   210

After Returning to Some Places (Sense of Place, Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso, eds.)
- Kenneth M. George   211

Writing of Motion (Samba: Resistance in Motion, Barbara Browning)
- Greg Downey   213

Language Contests in the Hill-Thomas Hearings (The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings, Sandra L. Ragan, Dianne G. Bystrom, Lynda Lee Kaid, and Christina S. Beck, eds.)
- Phyllis Pease Chock   214

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Anthropology and Humanism has a new fiction editor, Bruce Grindal, well-known to our readers as the first editor of the journal, and author of some of our best humanistic writing. Welcome, Bruce.

We are saying goodbye to Miles Richardson as fiction editor. Thank you, Miles, for finding the great stories we have been publishing.


We also welcome a new reviews editor, Paul Benson, who is at the heart of what is going on in humanistic publication. And goodbye and thanks to Sally Ness, who has been giving us important reviews for four years.

A big welcome to Dell Hymes, the new poetry editor.



 

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