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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.

Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on:Material CultureEnvironmentHuman RightsHybridityAlterityCosmopolitanismEthnographyApplied AnthropologyGenderCyberneticsWith full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area

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

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