Anthropological Quarterly
Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2009
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E-ISSN: 1534-1518 Print ISSN: 0003-5491
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From the Editors
Introducing Polygot Perspectives
pp. 5-6
Articles
The Beggar's Play: Poverty, Coercion, and Performance in Shenyang, China
pp. 7-35
African "Soul Brothers" in the 'Hood: Immigration, Islam, and the Black Encounter
pp. 37-62
From Inscription to Incorporation: The Body in Literacy Studies
Crip Walk, Villain Dance, Pueblo Stroll: The Embodiment of Writing in African American Gang Dance
pp. 69-97
The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue
pp. 99-127
Writing the Body: Cosmology, Orthography, and Fragments of Modernity in Northeastern India
pp. 129-154
Reflecting on Words and Letters from the Perspective of Embodiment, with Commentary on Essays by Daphne Lei, Susan Phillips, and Sohini Ray
pp. 155-171
Subject Headings:
- Phillips, Susan A., 1969- Crip walk, villain dance, Pueblo stroll: the embodiment of writing in African American gang dance.
- Lei, Daphne Pi-Wei. Blood-stained text in translation: tattooing, bodily writing, and performance of Chinese virtue.
- Ray, Sohini, 1966- Writing the body: cosmology, orthography, and fragments of modernity in northeastern India.
- African American dance -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Mind and body -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
- Mind and body -- India.
Technoscience in Islamic Societies
Islam, Fatalism, and Medical Intervention: Lessons from Egypt on the Cultivation of Forbearance (Sabr) and Reliance on God (Tawakkul)
pp. 173-196
Malaysian Modernities: Cultural Politics and the Construction of Muslim Technoscientific Identities
pp. 197-228
The Iranian Scientific Community and its Diaspora after the Islamic Revolution
pp. 229-250
Social Thought and Commentary
Dating in a Sexually Segregated Society: Embodied Practices of Online Romance in Irbid, Jordan
pp. 251-278
Mauss Redux: From Warfare's Human Toll to L'homme total
pp. 279-309
Polygot Perspectives
Peripeties tis eterotitas: I paraghoyi tis politismikis dhiaforas sti simerini Elladha [Adventures of Alterity: The Production of Cultural Difference in Modern Greece] (review)
pp. 311-330
Book Reviews
Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life (review)
pp. 331-336
Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality (review)
pp. 337-341
The Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility (review)
pp. 343-349
Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape: an Archaeological Ethnography (review)
pp. 351-356
Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community (review)
pp. 357-362