Comment

David MacDougall on Visual Anthropology: Digital Video:
Comments by:
Jay Ruby, p.23
Sarah Pink, p.23
Joshka Wessels, p.24
Response by:
David MacDougall, p.24
S. Coleman & B. Simpson on Anthropology And Education: Anthropology 'Outside In':
Comments by:
Philip Whitehead, p.25
Simon Coleman and Robert Simpson, p.26
David Mills, p.26     

Conferences

Conferences reviewed:
David Mills, Anthropology and human development in Africa
David Mills, 12th conference of the Pan–African Anthropology Association, Nairobi, 4–7 August 2002
Catherine Alexander, A world of cultures: Culture as property? Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, 1–2 July 2002     

Conferences

Conferences reviewed:
Max Carocci, Northwest Coast Ethnology: Assessment and Perspectives, Paris, Collège de France, 21-23 June 2000
Charles Whitehead, The Anthropology Of Consciousness: Keeping Body and Soul Together? Society for Anthropological Consciousness, Tucson, 5-9 April 2000
Charles Whitehead, Grand Illusions: Robogeeks Meet Bad Scientists at 'Tucson 2000', 8-15 April 2000     

Defining a common ground for research: Psychological anthropology and education

Charles Harrington. Psychological Anthropology and Education: A Delineation of a Field of Inquiry. New York: AMS Press, 1979. xii + 232 pp. Index, annotated bibliography. $15.00.     

American education‐the image in the mirror

Solon T. Kimball. Culture and the Educative Process: An Anthropological Perspective. New York: Teachers College Press, 1974. x + 285 pp. $10.00 (cloth).

George D. Spindler, ed. Education and Cultural Process: Toward an Anthropology of Education. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. xii + 559 pp. Tables, figures, appendixes and indexes. $6.95 (paper).     

Virtual Forum: Archaeology and Decolonization

In this forum, patiently achieved through months of cyber-work, participants Nayanjot Lahiri (India), Nick Shepherd (South Africa), Joe Watkins (USA) and Larry Zimmerman (USA), plus the two editors of Arqueología Suramericana, Alejandro Haber (Argentina) and Cristóbal Gnecco (Colombia), discuss the topic of archaeology and decolonization. Nayanjot Lahiri teaches archaeology in her capacity as Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi. Her books include Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered (2005) and The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992). She has edited The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000) and an issue of World Archaeology entitled The Archaeology of Hinduism (2004). Nick Shepherd is a senior lecturer in the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he convenes the program in public culture in Africa. He sits on the executive committee of the World Archaeological Congress, and is co-editor of the journal Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. In 2004 he was based at Harvard University as a Mandela Fellow. He has published widely on issues of archaeology and society in Africa, and on issues of public history and heritage. Joe Watkins is Choctaw Indian and archaeologist Joe Watkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is 1/2 Choctaw Indian by blood, and has been involved in archaeology for more than thirty-five years. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and his Master’s of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University, where his doctorate examined archaeologists’ responses to questionnaire scenarios concerning their perceptions of American Indian issues. His current study interests include the ethical practice of anthropology and the study of anthropology’s relationships with descendant communities and Aboriginal populations, and he has published numerous articles on these topics. His first book Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (AltaMira Press, 2000) examined the relationships between American Indians and archaeologists and is in its second printing His latest book, Reclaiming Physical Heritage: Repatriation and Sacred Sites (Chelsea House Publishers 2005) is aimed toward creating an awareness of Native American issues among high school students. Larry J. Zimmerman is Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and Public Scholar of Native American Representation at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. He is Vice President of the World Archaeological Congress. He also has served WAC as its Executive Secretary and as the organizer of the first WAC Inter-Congress on Archaeological Ethics and the Treatment of the Dead. His research interests include the archaeology of the North American Plains, contemporary American Indian issues, and his current project examining the archaeology of homelessness. Originally published in Spanish in Arqueología Suramericana 3(1), 2007     

Book Reviews

Carmichael, Joel The Unriddling of Christian Origins: A Secular Account
Finan, Thomas and Twomey, Vincent (eds) Scriptural Interpretation in the Fathers: Letter and Spirit
Binski, Paul Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation
Crockett, Bryan The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England
Murphy, Ignatius The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850–1904
Woolverton, John F. The Education of Phillips Brooks
Hildebrand, Reginald F. The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation
Morgan, David T. The New Crusades, the New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969–1991
Bush Patterson, Beverley The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches
Kaplan, Steven (ed.) Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity
Bennett, Clinton In Search of the Sacred: Anthropology and the Study of Religions     

Laying the Foundation of U.S. Power in the Pacific

Book reviewed in this article:
David M. Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion across the Pacific, 1784–1900     

Rejoinder to Stearns

Ortiz, Sutti, ed. Economic Anthropology: Topics and Theories. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 1. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America (Society for Economic Anthropology), 1983. xvi + 429 pp. including bibliographies at the end of each chapter, notes on contributors, author and subject indices. $16.75 paper.     

Reassessing the Gaither Report's Role

Book reviewed in this article:
David L. Snead, The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War     

Would it be rude if I asked…

Esther N. Goody, ed. Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. viii + 324 pp. $7.95 paper; $29.95 cloth.     

Advocacy and the struggle for a better science of anthropology

Spaulding, Philip, ed. Anthropology in Praxis. Calgary, Canada: Department of Anthropology, Occasional Papers in Anthropology and Primatology, 1986. iii + 253 pp. N. P.

Paine, Robert, ed. Advocacy and Anthropology, First Encounters. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985. xiii 4‐ 278 pp. including references. $15.00 paper.

Agar, Michael H. Independents Declared: The Dilemmas of Independent Trucking. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 191 pp. including appendices, literature cited, and index. $24.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

New perspectives on West African women

Niara Sudarkasa. Where Women Work: A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 53. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1973. x + 176 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, plates. $4.00 (paper).

Christine Oppong. Marriage among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 8. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. (Foreword by Meyer Fortes.) xv + 187 pp. Map, tables, appendix, bibliographies, index. $13.95.

Kenneth Little. African Women in Towns: An Aspect of Africa's Social Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. viii + 242 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. $16.50 (cloth), $5.95 (paper).     

New approaches to new data

Villa, Paola. Terra Amala and the Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Southern France. University of California Publications in Anthropology Volume 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xxiv + 303 pp. including acknowledgments, abstracts, 58 illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $23.00 cloth.     

Ethnographies of terror

Cultural Survival Quarterly. Death and Disorder in Guatemala. Volume 7, number 1. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc., 1983. 53 pp. including 29 photographs, 8 tables, 1 map, and bibliography. $5.00 paper.

Cultural Survival Quarterly. Voices of the Survivors: The Massacre al Finca San Francisco, Guatemala. Occasional Papers of the Anthropology Resource Center, Number 10. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc., 1983. ii + 105 pp. including 5 photographs, 2 maps, and glossary. $5.00 paper.     

The Founding Remembered

Book reviewed:
David C. Hendrickson. Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding . (American Political Thought, eds. Wilson Carey McWilliams and Lance Banning.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xiv + 402 pp. Appendix, figures, bibliographic essay, notes, index. $29.95.     

Public policy and anthropology

Michael V. Angrosino, ed. Do Applied Anthropologists Apply Anthropology? Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1976. 136 pp. $4.50 paper.

John H. Bodley. Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. Menlo Park, California: Cummings Publishing Company, 1976. 246 pp. Bibliography and index. $4.50 paper.

Peggy Reeves Sanday, ed. Anthropology and the Public Interest: Field‐work and Theory. New York: Academic Press, 1976. xxviii + 363 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $19.50.     

Parallel Lives – An Interview with Ruth Tringham

Ruth Tringham is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is one of the founders and a director of the UC Berkeley Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTiA). Her research has focused on the transformation of early agricultural (Neolithic) societies. Tringham has directed and published archaeological excavations in South‐east Europe and Turkey, at the site of Çatalhöyük. Current research focuses on the life‐histories of buildings and the construction of place. Much of her recent practice of archaeology incorporates digital, especially multimedia, technology in the presentation of the process of archaeological interpretation, Since 1998 Tringham has incorporated multimedia authoring and digital technology into teaching inquiry‐based hybrid courses. From 1998 to 2001 she held the UCB Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education. Tringham is now recognized internationally as one of the leaders of digital education, media literacy, and digital publishing in archaeology. This interest in multimedia grows out of a lifelong passion for music, puppets and cultivating illusions of reality.

The interview was conducted in Cambridge on 23 October 2007, the day after Ruth Tringham's participation in a personal history retrospective at the Department of Archaeology together with Meg Conkey, Henrietta Moore and Alison Wylie, and organized by Pamela Smith. The retrospective aimed to reflect on the transformation of archaeological theory and method during the 1970s and early 1980s (an audio recording is at http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/podcast/rss.xml). The interview was transcribed by the interviewees together with Dr Katharina Rebay, University of Cambridge.     

The anthropologist as historian and as scientist,or the uses of history

Margaret T. Hodgen. Anthropology, History, and Cultural Change. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology No. 52. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974. vii + 108 pp. Tables, maps, references, and index. $4.50 (paper).

Annemarie deWaal Malefijt. Images of Man: A History of Anthropological Thought. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. ix + 383 pp. Bibliography and index. $10.00 (cloth); $3.50 (paper).     

On anthropological epistemology: Praxis and critique

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xv + 205 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00 cloth, $13.00 paper.

Ulin, Robert C. Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. xvii + 200 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 cloth.