Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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June 2009

Volume 15, Issue 2

Pages 223–458

  1. Original Articles

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. Book reviews
    4. Books received
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      Beyond nature versus culture: cultural variation as an evolved characteristic (pages 223–240)

      Daniel Nettle

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01561.x

    2. Not whether but how: a comment on Nettle's ‘Beyond nature versus culture’ (pages 241–243)

      W.G. Runciman

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01562.x

    3. Evolution in anthropology: a comment on Nettle's ‘Beyond nature versus culture’ (pages 244–246)

      R.I.M. Dunbar

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01563.x

    4. Cultural variation and social complexity: a comment on Nettle's ‘Beyond nature versus culture’ (pages 247–249)

      Robert Layton

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01564.x

    5. Beyond nature versus culture: a response to comments (pages 250–253)

      Daniel Nettle

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01565.x

    6. The village clay: recursive innovations and community self-fashioning among Sinhalese potters (pages 254–275)

      Deborah Winslow

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01552.x

    7. Pots and political economy: enamel-wealth, gender, and patriarchy in Mali (pages 276–294)

      Jerimy J. Cunningham

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01553.x

    8. Why Mapuche sing (pages 295–313)

      Magnus Course

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01554.x

    9. Bride abduction in post-Soviet Central Asia: marking a shift towards patriarchy through local discourses of shame and tradition (pages 314–331)

      Cynthia Werner

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01555.x

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      To know or not to know? Practices of knowledge and ignorance among Bidayuhs in an ‘impurely’ Christian world (pages 332–348)

      Liana Chua

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01556.x

    11. Hagiographic narrative and monastic practice: Buddhist morality and mastery amongst Thai Buddhist nuns (pages 349–364)

      Joanna Cook

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01557.x

    12. Tasteless profits and vexed moralities: assessments of the present in rural Rajasthan (pages 365–385)

      Ann Grodzins Gold

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01558.x

    13. Entering, and returning from, the underworld: reconstituting Silbury Hill by combining a quantified landscape phenomenology with archaeoastronomy (pages 386–408)

      Lionel Sims

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01559.x

  2. Book reviews

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. Book reviews
    4. Books received
    1. Feast: why humans share food – By Martin Jones (pages 409–410)

      Richard Wilk

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_1.x

    2. Consuming the inedible: neglected dimensions of food choice – Edited by Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry & Helen Macbeth (pages 410–411)

      Jakob A. Klein

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_2.x

    3. Fast food / slow food: the cultural economy of the global food system – Edited by Richard Wilk (pages 411–412)

      Ben Campbell

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_3.x

    4. The megaliths of northern Europe – By Magdalena S. Midgley (pages 412–413)

      Chris Scarre

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_4.x

    5. How war began – By Keith F. Otterbein (pages 413–415)

      Jonathan Haas

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_5.x

    6. Prehistoric Britain – Edited by Joshua Pollard (pages 415–416)

      Ian Ralston

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_6.x

    7. Landscapes of fraud: mission Tumacácori, the Baca float, and the betrayal of the O'odham – By Thomas E. Sheridan (pages 416–417)

      Larry J. Zimmerman

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_7.x

    8. Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia – Edited by Ildikó Bellér-Hann, M. Cristina Cesàro, Rachel Harris & Joanne Smith Finley (pages 417–418)

      Sawut Pawan

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_8.x

    9. Strangers either way: the lives of Croatian refugees in their new home – By Jasna Capo Žmegac (pages 418–419)

      Kathryn Tomlinson

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_9.x

    10. Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond: perspectives from social anthropology – By Andre Gingrich & Marcus Banks (pages 419–420)

      J.P. Linstroth

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_10.x

    11. Routes of remembrance: refashioning the slave trade in Ghana – By Bayo Holsey (pages 420–421)

      Edward M. Bruner

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_11.x

    12. Race, ethnicity and nation: perspectives from kinship and genetics – Edited by Peter Wade (pages 421–422)

      Alison Shaw

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_12.x

    13. High stakes: Florida Seminole gaming and sovereignty – By Jessica R. Cattelino (pages 422–423)

      Rebecca Cassidy

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_13.x

    14. On the game: women and sex work – By Sophie Day (pages 423–425)

      Keith Hart

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_14.x

    15. Economy's tension: the dialectics of community and market – By Stephen Gudeman (pages 425–426)

      Neil Carrier

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_15.x

    16. Where the wild things are now: domestication reconsidered – Edited by Rebecca Cassidy & Molly Mullin (pages 426–427)

      Roy Ellen

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_16.x

    17. Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea – By Ian Saem Majnep & Ralph Bulmer (pages 427–428)

      Roy Ellen

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_17.x

    18. African sacred groves: ecological dynamics and social change – Edited by Michael J. Sheridan & Celia Nyamweru (pages 428–429)

      Pauline Von Hellermann

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_18.x

    19. The intestines of the state: youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields – By Nicolas Argenti (pages 429–430)

      Ian Fowler

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_19.x

    20. Asian voices in a postcolonial age – By Susan Bayly (pages 430–431)

      Alpa Shah

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_20.x

    21. Horse-and-buggy Mennonites: hoofbeats of humility in a postmodern world – By Donald B. Kraybill & James P. Hurd (pages 431–432)

      Steven D. Reschly

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_21.x

    22. Disciplining the savages: savaging the disciplines – By Martin Nakata (pages 432–433)

      Sue McGinty and Tyson Yunkaporta

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_22.x

    23. The history of the Incas – By Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (pages 433–434)

      R. Alan Covey

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_23.x

    24. Imperial formations – Edited by Anne Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan & Peter C. Perdue (pages 434–435)

      Chris Hann

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_24.x

    25. Aghor medicine: pollution, death, and healing in northern India – By Ron Barrett (pages 435–436)

      Amit Desai

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_25.x

    26. Iron in the soul: displacement, livelihood and health in Cyprus – By Peter Loizos (pages 436–437)

      Anne Jepson

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_26.x

    27. Where there is no midwife: birth and loss in rural India – By Sarah Pinto (pages 437–438)

      Clarinda Still

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_27.x

    28. Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world: global politics of medical knowledge and practice – Edited by Laurent Pordié (pages 438–439)

      Alicja Rucinska

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_28.x

    29. Other people's anthropologies: ethnographic practice on the margins – Edited by Aleksandar Boškovic (pages 440–441)

      Kostas Retsikas

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_29.x

    30. All tomorrow's cultures: anthropological engagements with the future – By Samuel Gerald Collins (pages 441–442)

      Kathleen Richardson

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_30.x

    31. Narrating, doing, experiencing: Nordic folkloristic experiences – Edited by Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj, Barbro Klein & Ulf Palmenfelt (pages 442–443)

      Anselma Gallinat

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_31.x

    32. Moving anthropology: critical indigenous studies – Edited by Tess Lea, Emma Kowal & Gillian Cowlishaw (pages 443–444)

      Diana Young

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_32.x

    33. Reflecting visual anthropology: using the camera in anthropological research – Edited by Metje Postma & Peter Ian Crawford (pages 444–445)

      Barbara Knorpp

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_33.x

    34. The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe – By Chris Hann & the ‘Civil Religion’ Group (pages 445–446)

      André Czeglédy

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_34.x

    35. Resisting state iconoclasm among the Loma of Guinea – By Christian Kordt Højbjerg (pages 446–447)

      Nadia Lovell

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_35.x

    36. Women's renunciation in South Asia: nuns, yoginis, saints, and singers – Edited by Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, & Ann Grodzins Gold (pages 447–448)

      Mary Searle-Chatterjee

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_36.x

    37. Uncertain vision: Birt, Dyke and the reinvention of the BBC – By Georgina Born (pages 448–450)

      Michael Stewart

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_37.x

    38. Horse people: thoroughbred culture in Lexington and Newmarket – By Rebecca Cassidy (pages 450–451)

      Margaret Taylor

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_38.x

    39. Primary school in Japan: self, individuality and learning in elementary education – By Peter Cave (pages 451–452)

      Brian J. McVeigh

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_39.x

    40. The discipline of leisure: embodying cultures of ‘recreation’– Edited by Simon Coleman & Tamara Kohn (pages 452–453)

      Allen Abramson

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_40.x

    41. Crucible of conflict: Tamil and Muslim society on the east coast of Sri Lanka – By Dennis B McGilvray (pages 453–454)

      R.L. Stirrat

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_41.x

    42. Puyo Runa: imagery and power in modern Amazonia – By Norman E. Whitten, Jr & Dorothea Scott Whitten (pages 454–455)

      Evan Killick

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01566_42.x

  3. Books received

    1. Top of page
    2. Original Articles
    3. Book reviews
    4. Books received
    1. Books received (pages 456–458)

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01567.x

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