ANTHROPOS
101.2006/1

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Articles

Reports and Comments                           Book Reviews

Articles

Anton Quack:

100 Years of Anthropos 3

Monni Adams:

Inherited Rules and New Procedures in Three Trials in Canton Bo, Southwestern Côte d’Ivoire 9

Steve Tonah:

Diviners, Malams, God, and the Contest for Paramount Chiefship in Mamprugu (Northern Ghana) 21

Johannes Harnischfeger:

Islamisation and Ethnic Conversion in Nigeria 37

Hermann Gufler and Njakoi John Bah:

The Establishment of the Princes’ Society in Oku, Cameroon. An Enhancement of Traditional Culture or Its Adulteration? 55

Robert Hazel:

Cyclicité, histoire et destin dans les systèmes de classes d’âge de l’Afrique de l’Est 81

Bernhard Lang:

Israels Religionsgeschichte aus ethnologischer Sicht 99

el-Sayed el-Aswad:

The Dynamics of Identity Reconstruction among Arab Communities in the United States 111

John Haddad:

To Inculcate Respect for the Chinese.” Berthold Laufer, Franz Boas, and the Chinese Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, 1899–1912 123

Lorena Córdoba:

Ideología, simbolismo y relaciones de género en la construcción de la persona chacobo 145

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen:

The Urban Manchinery Youth and the Social Capital in Western Amazonian Contemporary Rituals 159

José Luiz Izidoro:

A Religiosidade popular na cultura caiçara. A Festa do Divino Espírito Santo em Iguape 169

Jessica Joyce Christie:

Inca Copacabana. A Reconstruction from the Perspective of the Carved Rocks 179

David B. Kronenfeld:

Issues in the Classification of Kinship Terminologies. Toward a New Typology 203

Reports and Comments

Uwe Wolfradt, Andrea E. Schmidt, und Swetlana Solvana:

Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit. Wahrgenommene soziale Akzeptanz bei jungen Kalmyken 221

Jacob Pandian:

Syncretism in Religion 229

Norbert Dannhaeuser:

Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies 233

Berthold Riese:

Drei neue Maya-Hieroglyphen Kataloge 238

Book Reviews

Aijmer, Göran:

New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times (Lars Peter Laamann) 247

Arens, Werner, und Hans-Martin Braun:

Die Indianer Nordamerikas. Geschichte, Kultur, Religion (Dagmar Siebelt) 248

Ashforth, Adam:

Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa (T.O. Beidelman) 249

Bajalijewa, Toktobjubju D.:

Vorislamische Glauben der Kirgisen (Julia Droeber) 250

Barnard, Timothy P.:

Multiple Centres of Authority. Society and Environment in Siak and Eastern Sumatra, 1674–1827 (Stefan Dietrich) 252

Biardeau, Madeleine:

Stories about Posts. Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess (Arvind Sharma) 253

Bichler, Gabriele Aïsha:

Bejo, Curay und Bin-Bim? Die Sprache und Kultur der Wolof im Senegal (Christian Meyer) 254

Bowen, John R.:

Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia. An Anthropology of Public Reasoning. (Wolfgang Marschall) 256

Brown, Michael F.:

Who Owns Native Culture? (Bernhard Wörrle) 257

Chibnik, Michael:

Crafting Tradition. The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings (Andreas Volz) 258

Cipolletti, María Susana (ed.):

Los mundos de abajo y los mundos de arriba. Individuo y sociedad en las tierras bajas, en los Andes y más allá (Dan Rosengren) 259

Das, Veena, and Deborah Poole (eds.):

Anthropology in the Margins of the State (Roland Drubig) 261

Dilger, Hansjörg:

Leben mit AIDS. Krankheit, Tod und soziale Beziehungen in Afrika (Alexander Rödlach) 263

Dobler, Gregor:

Bedürfnisse und der Umgang mit Dingen. Eine historische Ethnographie der Ile d'Ouessant, Bretagne (Hans P. Hahn) 264

Endeley, Joyce, Shirley Ardener, Richard Goodridge, and Nalova Lyonga (eds.):

New Gender Studies from Cameroon and the Caribbean (Ute Röschenthaler) 267

Fikentscher, Wolfgang:

Culture, Law, and Economics. Three Berkeley Lectures (Wolfgang Reinhard) 268

Finlayson, Clive:

Neanderthals and Modern Humans. An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective (Peter K. Smith) 269

Fischer, Steven Roger:

A History of the Pacific Islands (Thomas Bargatzky) 270

Galinier, Jacques:

The World Below. Body and Cosmos in Otomí Indian Ritual (Brigitte Wiesenbauer) 271

Gardner, Peter M.:

Bicultural Versatility as a Frontier Adaptation among Paliyan Foragers of South India (Ulrich Demmer) 272

Gavin, Traude:

Iban Ritual Textiles (Mattiebelle Gittinger) 273

Glowczewski, Barbara :

Rêves en colère avec les Aborigènes australiens. Alliances aborigènes dans le Nord-Ouest australien (Pascale Bonnemère) 274

Goodenough, Ward H.:

Under Heaven’s Brow. Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk (Corinna Erckenbrecht) 275

Grijp, Paul van der:

Identity and Development. Tongan Culture, Agriculture, and the Perenniality of the Gift (Karen Sykes) 277

Gufler, Hermann:

Affliction and Moral Order. Conversations in Yambaland (Cameroon) (Jürg Schneider) 278

Gütl, Clemens (Hrsg.):

Adieu ihr lieben Schwarzen.” Gesammelte Schriften des Tiroler Afrika-Missionars Franz Mayr (1865–1914) (Anton Quack) 279

Halperin-Kaddari, Ruth:

Women in Israel. A State of Their Own (Orit Kamir) 281

Hyland, Sabine:

The Jesuit and the Incas. The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. (Kerstin Nowack) 282

Kapfer, Reinhard:

Die Frauen von Maroua. Liebe, Sexualität und Heirat in Nordkamerun (Godula Kosack) 284

Kasten, Erich (ed.):

People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia (Ludger Müller-Wille) 285

Kasten, Erich (ed.)

Properties of Culture – Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia. (Ludger Müller-Wille) 285

Kasten, Erich (ed.)

Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia. (Ludger Müller-Wille) 285

Ketan, Joseph:

The Name Must Not Go Down. Political Competition and State-Society Relations in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea (Roland Seib) 286

Knaap, Gerrit, and Heather Sutherland:

Monsoon Traders. Ships, Skippers, and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar (Martin Rössler) 288

Knauft, Bruce M.:

Critically Modern. Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies (Franciszek M. Rosinski) 289

Koch-Grünberg, Theodor:

Die Xingu-Expedition (1898–1900). Ein Forschungstagebuch (María Susana Cipolletti) 290

Komter, Aafke E.:

Social Solidarity and the Gift (Cele Otnes) 292

Kraus, Michael:

Bildungsbürger im Urwald. Die deutsche ethnologische Amazonienforschung (1884–1929) (Gabriele Brandhuber) 293

Kraus, Wolfgang:

Islamische Stammesgesellschaften. Tribale Identitäten im Vorderen Orient in sozialanthropologischer Perspektive (Burkhard Ganzer) 294

Kremling, Verena:

Zu kalt um aufzustehen? Einflüsse von Identität und Weltbild auf die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Fulbe-Viehhaltern im Liptako (Burkina Faso) (Frank Krönke) 297

Lange, Dierk:

Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa. Africa-Centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives (Detlef Gronenborn) 299

Lanik, Monika:

Freie Bürger und Freimaurerinnen. Lokalpolitik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts (Annemarie Gronover) 300

McCann, James C.:

Maize and Grace. Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. (T.O. Beidelman) 301

MacClancy, Jeremy (ed.):

Exotic No More. Anthropology on the Front Lines (Markus Müller) 302

McKnight, David:

Going the Whiteman’s Way. Kinship and Marriage among Australian Aborigines (Kim de Rijke) 304

Marx, Christoph:

Geschichte Afrikas. Von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart (Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig) 306

Mauzé, Marie, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan (eds.):

Coming to Shore. Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions (Alexandra V. Roth) 308

Merry, Sally Engle, and Donald Brenneis (eds.):

Law and Empire in the Pacific. Fiji and Hawai’i (James Turner) 310

Michels, Stefanie:

Imagined Power Contested. Germans and Africans in the Upper Cross River Area of Cameroon, 1887–1915 (Ute Röschenthaler) 311

Murray, Colin, and Peter Sanders:

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho. The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (Rita Schäfer) 312

Ntukula, Mary, and Rita Liljeström (eds.):

Umleavyo – The Dilemma of Parenting (Rita Schäfer) 313

Pellow, Deborah:

Landlords and Lodgers. Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community (Katja Werthmann) 315

Peterson, Derek R.:

Creative Writing. Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya (T.O. Beidelman) 316

Rabben, Linda:

Brazil’s Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization. The Yanomami and the Kayapó (Peter Schröder) 318

Riese, Berthold (Hrsg.):

Crónica Mexicayotl. Die Chronik des Mexikanertums des Alonso Franco, des Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc und des Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (Michel Launey) 319

Robinson, Rowena:

Christians of India (Rudolf C. Heredia) 321

Rubel, Paula G., and Abraham Rosman (eds.):

Translating Cultures. Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology (Volker Heeschen) 322

Sanga, Glauco, and Gherardo Ortalli (eds.):

Nature Knowledge. Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility (Bernhard Streck) 323

Schareika, Nikolaus:

Westlich der Kälberleine. Nomadische Tierhaltung und naturkundliches Wissen bei den Wodaabe Südostnigers (Andreas Volz) 325

Seligmann, Linda J.:

Peruvian Street Lives. Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco (Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke) 326

Stelzig, Christine:

Afrika am Museum für Völkerkunde zu Berlin, 1873–1919 (Ute Röschenthaler) 327

Tall, Aminatou:

Das Frobenius-Institut unter Eike Haberland (Adam Jones) 329

Voell, Stéphane:

Das nordalbanische Gewohnheitsrecht und seine mündliche Dimension (Ilka Thiessen) 329

Williamson, Margaret Holmes:

Powhatan Lords of Life and Death. Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. (Ingo W. Schröder) 330

Wolf, Eric R.:

Pathways of Power. Building an Anthropology of the Modern World (Wolfgang Marschall) 331

Yurkova, Irina:

Der Alltag der Transformation. Kleinunternehmerinnen in Usbekistan (Philipp Schröder) 332

Neue Publikationen 335

Zeitschriftenschau 351

Miszelle 334

Mitarbeiter dieses Heftes 371