ANTHROPOS
103.2008/2

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Articles                         Reports and Comments                           Book Reviews

Articles
R.H. Barnes:

The Power of Strangers in Flores and Timor    343
Frédéric Bourdier:

Indigenous Populations in a Cultural Perspective. The Paradox of Development in Southeast Asia    355
M. Sreenathan, V.R. Rao, and R.G. Bednarik:

Palaeolithic Cognitive Inheritance in Aesthetic Behavior of the Jarawas of the Andaman Islands    367
Eszter Spät:

Religious Oral Tradition and Literacy among the Yezidis of Iraq    393
Andrew Shryock:

Thinking about Hospitality, with Derrida, Kant, and the Balga Bedouin    405
Yazid Ben Hounet:

Valoristaion d’objets bédouins et redéfinitions identitaires lors d’un moussem en Algérie    423
Julius O. Adekunle:

The Wasangari. Politics and Identity in Borgu    435
Ibrahima Sow:

Les troubles mentaux au Sénégal. Existence éthique et problématique de l’identité    447
Catrien Notermans:

Local and Global Icons of Mary. An Ethnographic Study of a Powerful Symbol    471
Miguel Astor-Aguilera and Robert Jarvenpa:

Comparing Indigenous Pilgrimages. Devotion, Identity, and Resistance in Mesoamerica and North America   483
María Susana Cipolletti:

“Nostalgia del monte”. Indígenas del Oriente peruano según un manuscrito del jesuita Juan Magnin (Borja 1743)    507
Teresa Brinkel:

Forschende im Fokus. Zu den Potentialen und Problemen der Wissensforschung in den Kulturwissenschaften    527

Reports and Comments
Gregory Forth:

Friarbird on Roti    541
Georg Schifko:

Anmerkungen zu einer tätowierten Bärenskulptur als Ausdruck eines bikulturellen Neuseelands    545
Frans Wijsen and Ralf Tanner:

The Limitations of an Ecumenical Language. The Case of Ki-Swahili   549
Claude Rivière:

La gestualité comme marqueur socioculturel    555
Anton Quack:

Anthropology and Missionaries. A Review Essay    560



Book Reviews
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (ed.):

Female Circumcision    (Katarina Greifeld)    569 
Ahmed, Amineh: Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women    (Martin Sökefeld)    570
Akakpo – Numado, Sena Yawo:

Mädchen- und Frauenbildung in den deutschen Afrika-Kolonien (1884–1914)    (Godula Kosack)    571 
Anderson, E.N.: Everyone Eats    (Karola Elwert-Kretschmer)    572
Antweiler, Christoph:

Was ist den Menschen gemeinsam?    (Marie-France Chevron)    573
Axinn William G., and Lisa D. Pearce: Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies    (Julia Pauli)    575
Bamford, Sandra (ed.):

Embodying Modernity and Post-Modernity    (Terence E. Hays)    576
Barnes, Linda L.: Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts    (Ute Engelhardt)    577
Berger, Peter: Füttern, Speisen und Verschlingen    (Lydia Icke-Schwalbe)    578
Blakely, Sandra: Myth, Ritual, and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa    (Detlef Gronenborn)    580
Cabrera Becerra, Gabriel: Las Nuevas Tribus y los indígenas de la Amazonia    (Darius J. Piwowarczyk)    580
Claffey, Patrick:

Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin    (Eugen Nunnenmacher)    582
Crawford, Michael (ed.):

Anthropological Genetics    (Winfried Henke)    583
Davidson, Jamie S., and David Henley (eds.):

The Revival of Tradition in Indononesian Politics    (Holger Warnk)    585
Deimel, Claus:

 nawésari. Texte aus der Sierra Tarahumara    (Brigitte Wiesenbauer)    586
Diamond, Jared M.:

Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed    (Ulrike Schuerkens)    587
Dieckmann, Ute:

Hai║om in the Etosha Region    (Alan Barnard)    589
Engelke, Matthew:

A Problem of Presence    (T.O. Beidelman)    590
Finnegan, Ruth:

The Hidden Musicians    (Michael Schlottner)    591
Gingrich, Andre, and Marcus Banks (eds.):

Neo-Nationalism in Europe and Beyond    (Lien Warmenbol)    593
Gravers, Mikael (ed.):

Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma    (Volker Grabowsky)    594
Gronover, Annemarie:

Religiöse Reserven    (Hanna Kienzler)    596
Hayase, Shinzo:

Mindanao Ethnohistory Beyond Nations  (Susan Russell)    597
Janowski, Monica, and Fiona Kerlogue (eds.):

Kinship and Food in South East Asia    (Eugen N. Anderson)    598
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield:

African Art and the Colonial Encounter    (T.O. Beidelman)    599
Klostermaier, Klaus K.:

A Survey of Hinduism    (Othmar Gächter)    600
Kulijaman, Mataliwa, et Eliane Camargo :

Kaptëlo    (Diego Villar)    602
Largey, Michael D.:

Vodou Nation    (Silke Straatman)    603
Lehmann, Albrecht:

Reden über Erfahrung    (Rolf Wilhelm Brednich)    604
Lucero, Lisa J., and Barbara W. Fash (eds.):

Precolumbian Water Management    (Mary W. Helms)    605
Majnep, Ian Saem, and Ralph Bulmer:

Animals the Ancestors Hunted    (Terence E. Hays)    606
Malaurie, Jean:

Hummocks. Journeys and Inquiries among the Canadian Inuit    (Robert Jarvenpa)    607
Michael, Holger:

Kulturelles Erbe als identitätsstiftende Instanz    (Lioba Rossbach de Olmos)    608
Musch, Tilman:

Nomadismus und Sesshaftigkeit bei den Burjaten    (Stefan Krist)    610
Musch, Tilman (ed.):

Buryat Songs (CD)    (Stefan Krist)    610
Neudorfer, Corinne:

Meet the Akha – Help the Akha?    (Jana Igunma)    612
Nicolini, Beatrice (ed.):

Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War, and Peace in Africa    (Rita Schäfer)    613
Nieuwkerk, Karin van (ed.):

Women Embracing Islam    (Wiebke Walther)    614
Petersen, Helga, und Alexander Krikellis (Hrsg.):

Religion und Heilkunst der Toba-Batak auf Sumatra    (Peter van Eeuwijk)    616                 

Puri, Rajindra K.: Deadly Dances in the Bornean Rainforest    (Stefan Seitz)    617
Ringmar, Erik:

The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia    (Ulrike Schuerkens)    587 
Rothstein, Frances Abrahamer:

Globalization in Rural Mexico    (Harald Mossbrucker)    619
Schmidt, Volker H. (ed.): Modernity at the Beginning of the 21st Century    (Ulrike Schuerkens)    587
Schuerkens, Ulrike (ed.):

Globalization and Transformations of Local Sociooeconomic Practices    (Hans P. Hahn)    621
Solway, Jacqueline (ed.): The Politics of Egalitarianism    (Julie Taylor and Amelia Cook)    622
Steiner, Franz Baermann:

 Zivilisation und Gefahr    (Ulrich van Loyen)    624
Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern (eds.):

Asian Ritual Systems    (Adam Yuet Chau)    626
Taylor, Philip:

Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta    (Alexander Horstmann)    627
Thiessen, Ilká:

Waiting for Macedonia    (Andreas Hemming)    628
Toffin, Gérard:

Newar Society    (Lubomira Palikarska)    630
West, Harry G.:

Ethnographic Sorcery    (T.O. Beidelman)    631 
Wolff, Larry, and Marco Cipolloni (eds.):

The Anthropology of the Enlightenment    (Andrzej Bronk)    632
Wulf, Christoph: Une anthropologie historique et culturelle    (Claude Rivière)    634

Neue Publikationen    639

Zeitschriftenschau    653

Miszellen    635

Mitarbeiter dieses Heftes    671

Index    677