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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Critiques -- On Being Out of Words -- Tactility and Distraction -- The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism -- Putting Hierarchy in Its Place -- Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic -- Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography -- The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference -- The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory -- A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities -- II. Reaction -- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology -- III. Witnessing -- Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru -- Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined -- IV. Poetics -- "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache -- V. What's Left, What's Emergent -- Nostalgia-A Polemic -- Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture -- VI. Circulations -- Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture -- Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings -- VII. Media -- Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? -- VIII. Experiment -- Tango -- Index

Book reviewed in this article: Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Byron J. Good. Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.

Introduction; Part I: Exploring Cultures; Chapter One; Part II: Writing the Other; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Part III: Reading the Other or On Visual Communication; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Part IV: Institution versus Meaning; Chapter Ten; Part V: Economy and Exchange; Chapter Eleven; Part VI: Signs, Communication, and Performance; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Part VII: Cognitive Systems; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Part VIII: Symbolic Systems; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen

The outburst of antiracist protests in the USA in 2020 demonstrates how deeply this society's present-day problems are rooted in its past. From this perspective, a study of the cultural memory of the time of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, the key moment in the contemporary American nation formation, is especially relevant and important. The cultural frontier between the North and the South that had appeared as an outcome of differences in US history has not disappeared up to now. By example of the complexity and inconsistency of the historical memory of the Civil War, slavery, and its abolition in the USA manifested in their visual representations, the article documents how through collective memory, history does not just invade modernity but is present in it, particularly in the form of memorials, monuments, museum expositions, and therefore determines the nation's modernity to a large degree.

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film. Karl G. Heider. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 347 pp.,. videotapes.