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Material Vernaculars : An Introduction / Jason Baird Jackson -- Searching for Home in the Ephemeral Architecture of the Sukkah / Gabrielle A. Berlinger -- (Not) Going Public : Mediating Reception and Managing Visibility in Contemporary Scrapbook Performance / Danille Elise Christensen -- Depictions of Women and Warfare in Kiowa Drawings from Fort Marion : Reassessing Nineteenth Century Kiowa Gender Roles / Michael Paul Jordan -- Life-Story Objects : Folk Art and Aging in Indiana / Jon Kay -- Chiefs, Brides, and Drum Keepers : Material Culture, Ceremonial Exchange, and Osage Community Life / Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley

"The Yuchis, one of the more resilient peoples of the southeastern United States, were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory along with their neighbors in the 1830s. In the early 1900s, as this study shows, much of their traditional way of life remained." "Yuchi life at the dawn of the modern era is portrayed in detail here, as observed and recorded by noted anthropologist Frank G. Speck in 1904-8. Speck's fieldwork, combined with information gleaned from the experiences of a number of Yuchi men, describes numerous facets of Yuchi culture, including language, subsistence practices, decorative arts, domestic architecture, clothing, religious beliefs and rituals, healing practices, mythology, music, social and political organizations, warfare, games, and life-transition rituals and customs, such as birthing, naming, marriage, and burial. Affording a glimpse of a Native community in transition a century ago, Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians stands as an introduction to the history and culture of a southeastern Native people."--Jacket

In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of scholarly societies. Among the topics discussed are current anthropological research on open source and open access; the effects of open access on traditional anthropological topics; the creation of community archives and new networking tools; potentially transformative uses of field notes and materials in new digital ecologies; the American Anthropological Association's recent history with these issues, from the development of AnthroSource to its new publishing arrangement with Wiley-Blackwell; and the political economies of knowledge circulation more generally.