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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1  JUNE 2001


CONTENTS

A Vision of Modernization: An Article on a Drawing by Bah Rmpent, a child of the Sengoi Semai, a Traditionally Nonviolent Indigenous People of the Malaysian Peninsula
- Robert K. Dentan   3

Being a Widow and Other Life Stories: The Interplay between Lives and Words
- Sarah Lamb   16

The Travel and Travail of Negro Showpeople
- Iris Carter Ford   35

Disastrous Rites: Liminality and Communitas in a Flood Crisis
- Linda Jencson   46

My Friend Amsatou Barry
- Marta Rohatynskyj   59

Taipei Is Cold Tonight, or Finding Fate in Taiwanese Karaokes
- Donald J. Hatfield   71

FICTION

Going to America under the Jacaranda Tree
- Ayala Emmett   80

POEMS

Julia Flores, Mamacha T’ika (Mother Flower)
- Andrea M. Heckman   88

Rain, Again
- Kent Maynard   88

Gbomo, Gbomo
- Tope Omoniyi   90

Conflict Zone: Expressions of Fieldwork in Chiapas
Meetings: San Cristobal, March 1999 92
Christmas Stranger: Santo Domingo, December 1999 93
Weighing Hope: Santo Domingo, January 2000 95
Ash Wednesday: Santo Domingo, March 2000 96
Virtually War: Santo Domingo, April 2000 97
Reunion: San Cristobal, July 2000 98
Jeanne Simonelli

Anthropologist
- Brian Swann   100

BOOK REVIEWS

A New Look at Women’s Work in the Caribbean (High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work and Pink-Collar Identities in The Caribbean, Carala Freeman)
- Elizabeth Crespo   102

Materialism and Modern Lyric (Toy Medium: Materialsim and Modern Lyric, Daniel Tiffany)
- David Samuels   103

The Face at the Bottom of the Well (A Long Way from Tipperary: AMemoir, John Dominic Crossan)
- Stephen c. Saraydar   104

Through a Lens Darkly….(In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand, Rosalind C. Morris)
- Nicola Tannenbaum   106

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Fiction Prize for 2000 has been awarded to Ayala Emmett for her story, “Going to America under the Jacaranda Tree.” Maura Hanrahan has been given Honorable Mention for her story, “Caboto 500.”

Call for Fiction Manuscripts: Please send submissions to the fiction editor, Gregory Reck, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608. reckgg@appstate.edu

ON THE COVER

Grcaang of the Sengoi Semai, Malaysian peninsula, with a fish-spear.  Grcaang, his younger sibling/ cousin Tkooy, and Rmpent regularly supplement their diet with small fish and small birds. Photo by Robert Dentan.
 

 


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