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This article considers three moments in the history of Camp Fire, the first American multiracial organization for girls: (1) the foundation of the organization in the 1910s through the 1930s by progressive reformers heavily influenced by ethnological scholarship on Native American rituals and symbolism; (2) the transformation of the organization into a coeducational organization in the 1970s; and (3) current efforts in the organization, now known as Camp Fire USA, to bring its activities more in line with contemporary multiculturalism while retaining its "Indian" traditions as the organization's heritage. These three historical moments are explored through a combination of archival research, interviews, and participant-observation. As a case study, the history of Camp Fire offers the opportunity to (1) deepen our knowledge of the American tradition of "playing Indian" and (2) track changes and continuities in the relationship among race, culture, gender, and sexuality in U.S. informal education.

This review article addresses the following question: Given the transformed social, political, and intellectual conditions for ethnographic research among indigenous peoples in North America, what forms has such research come to take at the turn of the twenty-first century? The review considers significant trends and innovations in research sites and topics, research methodologies, theoretical orientations, and forms of representation. It also assesses the distinctive strengths and limitations posed by ethnographic research for scholars engaging with significant dimensions of contemporary indigenous life, including struggles for rights, resources, recognition, and language vitality in both the national and international arenas; the repatriation and sovereignty movements; the development of tribal casinos, tourist complexes, cultural centers, and media outlets; continued social and economic marginalization of many indigenous peoples; and challenges posed by neoliberalism and globalization to tribal governments and economies.

Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Clifford Geertz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 27 lpp.

US youth organizations, several now celebrating their hundredth birthdays, have inherited a history of crafting selves through cultural appropriation. In organizations such as the YMCA, Boy Scouts of America, and Camp Fire Girls, woodcraft and wilderness sports associated with Native Americans have played a privileged role, serving to construct American citizens through a form of mimesis popularly known as 'playing Indian'. As dominant ways of dealing with cultural diversity have changed from assimilation and cultural appropriation to multicultural inclusion, and as various anti-discrimination laws have been enacted, US youth organizations have struggled to transform their traditions. This article tracks a history of cultural appropriation and organized play in US youth development organizations in order to understand these organizations' dilemmas and strategies as they attempt to remain vital and relevant in the 21st century.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies -- PART I Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext -- 1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism -- 2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver -- 3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology -- 4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life -- PART II Kinship Negotiations: What's Biology Not/Got to Do with It -- 5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/ Class Politics of Blood Transfusion -- 6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic -- 7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption -- 8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China -- 9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting -- PART III Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship -- 10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory -- 11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies -- PART IV 'R' Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies -- 12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa -- 13. ''We're Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are'': Science and Relatedness -- 14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet -- PART V Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship -- 15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s -- 16. Cutting the Ties That Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship -- 17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act -- Contributors -- Index