Editorial Introduction 39(2): Beginnings,Endings, Transformations

Jack Goody. Cooking, Cuisine and Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, ix. 253 pp. $9.95, (paper).     

Editorial Introduction 40(3): States,Rituals, Diseases

Bailey, F. G. The Prevalence of Deceit. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 143pp. including references and index. $24.95 cloth, $7.95 paper.

Manganaro, Marc, ed. Modernist Anthropology: from Fieldwork to Text. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xii + 337 pp. including bibliography and index. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Ohnuki‐Tierney, Emiko, ed. Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xi + 330 pp. including references and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.     

Mujhe Jawab Do! (Answer me!): Women's grass-roots activism and social spaces in Chitrakoot (India)

Focusing on an ongoing grass-roots campaign of rural women in North India, this article examines how feminist activists strategically use and create social spaces to generate collective dialogue and critical reflection on issues of patriarchy and violence. The author highlights the ways in which grass-roots activists theorize the interrelationships among their own political actions, their visions of empowerment, and the everyday gendered spaces they seek to transform. The article demonstrates how a serious engagement with social spaces in grass-roots activism can enable us to overcome the conceptual gaps in feminist theorizations of empowerment and violence, and to apprehend more adequately the nature, content, and meanings of women's political actions.     

Editorial Introduction 39(3): Sport,Religion, and Intellectual Property

Goffman, Erving. Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986. With a Foreword by Bennett M. Berger. xviii + 586 pp. including index, n.p.

Bakeman, Roger and Gottman, John M. Observing Interaction. An Introduction to Sequential Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 221 pp. including table of contents, preface, references, and index. $32.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.     

Periostitis and osteolysis in a medieval skeleton from South‐West Hungary: (Leprosy,treponematosis, tuberculosis or hypertrophic osteoarthropathy) A diagnostic challenge!

This paper uses macroscopic and radiological examinations to provide differential diagnoses of pathological lesions in the well‐preserved skeleton of a young male from the medieval site of Zalavár in South‐West Hungary. Macroscopic inspection of the skeleton revealed conspicuous thickening of the tibiae and fibulae with ‘tree bark’ appearance of the cortex. Periosteal proliferations are also found on the calcanea and on the posterior part of the femora. The metatarsals showed bony proliferation and bone dissolution. No alteration of the axial skeleton or the skull was noted. Radiographs showed thickening of the cortex of tubular bones due to a multilayered type of periosteal apposition. The likelihood of these symptoms being the result of melorheostosis, hypervitaminosis A, fluorosis, thyroid acropachy, endosteal hyperostosis, tuberculosis (TB), hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA), treponematosis and leprosy is reviewed. None completely explains the entire spectrum of pathological lesions in the current individual, but the individual may have suffered from two co‐existent diseases. As a clinical entity, the changes in the metatarsals are compatible with leprosy, whereas the periosteal proliferations of the lower limbs point to a diagnosis of HOA as a secondary syndrome. Thus, a combination of leprosy and TB is suggested as a potential diagnosis. Although not definitive, our differential diagnosis was able to exclude a number of conditions producing periosteal apposition. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Editorial Introduction 35(3)

Sherzer, Joel. Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. xii + 260 pp. including bibliography and guide to pronunciation. $22.50 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 35(1)

In recent decades many anthropological studies have suggested new approaches to conversion in order to grasp the connections between local Christianities and modernities. However, the relationship between conversion in indigenous societies and modernity remains problematic. The notion of transformation is often used as an ideological concept, which gives little information on the nature of the process of conversion, which is organized by complex processes of transitions and continuities. A better understanding of the various forms of indigenous Christianity is crucial to the development of an anthropology of Christianity.     

Editorial Introduction 35(4)

O'Brien, Jay and William Roseberry, eds. Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. x + 288 pp. including references and index. $35.00 cloth.

Gallant, Thomas W. Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. xvi + 267 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Abrahams, Ray. A Place of Their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi + 205 pp. including photographs, charts, bibliography, and index. $59.95 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 38(3): The Partnership of Agency

Birx, H. James. Theories of Evolution. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1984. xiv + 417 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Brooks, John Langdon. Just Before the Origin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xii + 284 pp. including maps, sketches, bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 40(4): Farewell to Miraculous Regionalisms

Binford, Lewis R. Working at Archaeology. New York: Academic Press, 1983. xix + 463 pp. including references and index. $29.50 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 40(2): Debating the Biology,Archaeology, Language,and Gender of Human-Made Nuclear Disaster

Fedigan. Linda Marie. Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds. Montreal, Canada: Eden Press, 1982. vi + 386 pp.     

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HELLO,WUHAN!

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