American Ethnologist

© American Anthropological Association

Cover image for Vol. 39 Issue 2

May 2012

Volume 39, Issue 2

Pages 235–470

  1. Editorial

    1. Top of page
    2. Editorial
    3. Original Articles
    4. Book Review
    1. Editor's foreword ANGELIQUE HAUGERUD (pages 235–237)

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01360.x

  2. Original Articles

    1. Top of page
    2. Editorial
    3. Original Articles
    4. Book Review
    1. The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming (pages 238–258)

      Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01361.x

    2. Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation (pages 259–279)

      Jeffrey S. Juris

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01362.x

    3. Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements (pages 280–283)

      David Nugent

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01363.x

    4. The materiality of the corporation: Oil, gas, and corporate social technologies in the remaking of a Russian region (pages 284–296)

      Douglas Rogers

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01364.x

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      “God made beautiful things”: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school (pages 297–312)

      Fida Adely

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01365.x

    6. Language and the frontiers of the human: Aymara animal-oriented interjections and the mediation of mind (pages 313–324)

      Benjamin Smith

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01366.x

    7. One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba (pages 325–338)

      Jafari Allen

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01367.x

    8. Rhizomes and other uncountables: The malaise of enumeration in Mexico's Colorado River Delta (pages 339–353)

      Shaylih Muehlmann

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01368.x

    9. The sexual economy of a sugar plantation: Privatization and social welfare in northern Tanzania (pages 354–370)

      Alison Holt Norris and Eric Worby

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01369.x

    10. Rite of passing: Bureaucratic encounters, dramaturgy, and Jewish conversion in Israel (pages 371–388)

      Michal Kravel-Tovi

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01370.x

    11. The Green Revolution's ghost: Unruly subjects of participatory development in rural Indonesia (pages 389–406)

      Marina Welker

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01371.x

    12. NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders’ perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil (pages 407–424)

      Benjamin Junge

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01372.x

    13. “The world is a forest of symbols”: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion (pages 425–438)

      Lilith Mahmud

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01373.x

  3. Book Review

    1. Top of page
    2. Editorial
    3. Original Articles
    4. Book Review
    1. My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft by Bonnie A. Nardi (pages 439–440)

      HILDE G. CORNELIUSSEN

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_1.x

    2. Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Identity and Development Politics in Latin America. by Monica C. DeHart. (pages 440–441)

      EDWARD F. FISCHER

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_2.x

    3. Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Christa Craven (pages 441–442)

      NADYA BURTON

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_3.x

    4. Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar. by Jennifer Cole (pages 442–444)

      HOLLY WARDLOW

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_4.x

    5. Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. by Alyshia Gálvez. (pages 444–445)

      CHRISTIAN ZLOLNISKI

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_5.x

    6. The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. by Lauren Derby. (pages 445–446)

      STEVEN GREGORY

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_6.x

    7. Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco. by M. Laetitia Cairoli. (pages 446–448)

      KATHERINE E. HOFFMAN

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_7.x

    8. The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. by Kate Ramsey (pages 448–449)

      ANDREW APTER

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_8.x

    9. Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas. by Karen Dubinsky. (pages 449–450)

      KRISTA E. VAN VLEET

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_9.x

    10. Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS. by Deborah B. Gould. (pages 450–452)

      RICHARD JOSEPH MARTIN

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_10.x

    11. Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space. by David A. B. Murray (pages 452–454)

      MARY GRAY

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_11.x

    12. Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel. by Juliana Ochs. (pages 454–455)

      WENDY PEARLMAN

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_12.x

    13. Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. by Miriam Ticktin. (pages 455–456)

      CAROLINA KOBELINSKY

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_13.x

    14. Islam, Politics, Anthropology. by Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares (pages 456–457)

      ROBERT W. HEFNER

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_14.x

    15. Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora. by Pier Larson. (pages 457–458)

      JENNIFER L. JACKSON

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_15.x

    16. Sex Panic and the Punitive State. by Roger N. Lancaster. (pages 459–460)

      SANDRA FAIMAN-SILVA

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_16.x

    17. I’m neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty. by Patricia Zavella. (pages 460–461)

      REGINA MARCHI

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_17.x

    18. Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights. by Dorothy L. Hodgson (pages 461–462)

      GRETCHEN E. SCHAFFT

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_18.x

    19. The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. by Miliann Kang. (pages 462–463)

      CARRIE M. LANE

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_19.x

    20. The Harkis: The Wound that Never Heals. by Vincent Crapanzano. (pages 463–464)

      JOHN R. BOWEN

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_20.x

    21. Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. by Johannes Fabian. (pages 464–465)

      SHERRY B. ORTNER

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_21.x

    22. Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement. by Tulasi Srinivas. (pages 465–467)

      SMITA LAHIRI

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_22.x

    23. Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania. by Stacey A. Langwick. (pages 467–468)

      ELISHA P. RENNE

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_23.x

    24. Life among the Anthros and Other Essays. by Clifford Geertz. (pages 468–469)

      RICHARD HANDLER

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_24.x

    25. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. by Diane Nelson. (pages 469–470)

      ELLEN MOODIE

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01374_25.x

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