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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2          DECEMBER 1999


Special Issue

Subject to Writing: The Victor Turner Prize and the Anthropological Text
Compiled and Edited by Barbara Babcock, with Pamela Lim


CONTENTS

Introduction: Subject to Writing: The Victor Turner Prize and the Anthropological Text
- Barbara Babcock

"Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain": Irreverent Notes on Gender and Ethnography
- Margaret Wiener

Surrogates, Slips, and Incidental Intrusions: The Tale of Raja Bakaléwat's Dog
- Mary Steedly

Revising the Text, Revisioning the Field: Reciprocity over the Long Term
- Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham

Discussion Margaret Wiener, Mary Steedly, and Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham: Deconstructing the Role of the Discussant Edward Bruner

Ethnography and Fiction: Where is the Border?
- Kirin Narayan

Telling a Life: Race, Memory, and Historical Consciousness
- Karen McCarthy Brown

Poetry and Ethnography: A Dialogical Approach
- Dennis Tedlock

Discussion 
Kirin Narayan, Karen McCarthy Brown, and Dennis Tedlock
Roy Wagner

POEMS

Winner of the 1999 Poetry Contest 

The Corner of Clay and Berry
- Helen Frost

OTHER POEMS

In Lascaux Cave
Triptych
     I. Venus Figure
     II. Group of Court Musicians
     III. Harriet Tubman
- Carolyn Banks

A Summer in Japan
- William Bright

Two Sonnets
     On Loss at Sea of a Gift of Personal Library to St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
     Last Rites
- Ward Goodenough

Antinomies for Eric
- Dell Hymes

Circle Dance
- Jarold Ramsey

To Win Love
Educating
- Ralph Salisbury

A Tree Against the Sky
- Scott P. Smiley

A Dream of the Prehistoric
- Brian Swann

An Ethnographic Encounter
- Shalva Weil

BOOK REVIEW

Life Lines (In Place, Toni Flores)
- Don Mitchell

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bruce Grindal is retiring from the fiction editorship and we will miss his presence. Thank you, Bruce, for providing us with some fine absorbing stories. Gregory Reck has agreed to "help out" on this editorship and we give him a big welcome. 

ON THE COVER

Victor Turner at the Wenner-Gren Conference on "Cultural Frames and Reflections: Ritual, Drama, and Spectacle." Burg Wartenstein, Austria, 1977.
Photo by permission of Edith Turner.

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