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In this article I assert that in focusing on salient discourses, contested cultural domains, and public forms of conflict and power, cultural and linguistic anthropologists, and other social scientists, have overlooked the significance of communal forms of silence in shaping the social and political landscape. I argue that such customary silences constitute "cultural censorship," which, unlike state‐sponsored censorship, is practiced in the absence of explicit coercion or enforcement. Although practiced by different and opposed groups, cultural censorship tends to be constituted through, and circumscribed by. the political interests of dominant groups. In this article, which is based on ethnographic research in Rio de Janeiro. I analyze a case of cultural censorship by examining the customary silence surrounding the subject of racism in Brazil. By emphasizing the phenomenology of cultural censorship among poor Brazilians of African descent. 1 argue that silence must not be conflated with, and does not preclude the existence of. non‐hegemonic consciousness, [silence, cultural censorship, consciousness, Brazil, racism]

Defining new directions in the anthropology and psychology of dreaming / Jeannette Mageo -- The anthropology of dreaming in historical perspective / Robin E. Sheriff -- Metaphors we dream by : on the nature of dream cognition / Jeannette Mageo -- Identity and memory in Germany : the defensive role of dreams / Matthew D.Newsom -- Dreaming bloody murder : women's dreams of mortal threat, true crime culture, and metonyms of gendered vulnerability / Robin E. Sheriff -- Dream sharing, play, and cultural creativity / Kelly Bulkeley -- Out-of-body on the happy hunting road : dialogues between dreaming and culture in Papua New Guinea / Roger Ivar Lohmann -- Taking dreams seriously : an ontological-phenomenological approach to Tzotzil Maya dream culture / Kevin P. Groark -- Godly dreams : Muslim encounters with the divine / Amira Mittermaier -- Life is but a dream : culture and science in the study of Tibetan dream yoga / Bruce M. Knauft -- Afterword : on the varieties and particularities of dreaming / Douglas Hollan.

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Butler, Edgar W. ; Pick, James B. ; Hettrick, W. James: Mexico and Mexico City in the world economy. - Boulder : Westview Press, 2001. - 406 S

This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works—how it is implicated in the construction of meaning—can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts