Articles

Reports and Comments

Henryk Hoffmann: Russian Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries from the Religious-Studies Perspective of K. M. Antonov. A Review Article 567–571

Georg Schifko: Zur Rezeption der Maori-Tätowierkunst (ta moko) in Star Trek 571–578

Martin Baier: Bordering Northern Sarawak and Sabah (East Malaysia). Indonesia’s New National Park in North Central Borneo. A Review Essay 578–582

Prasenjit Sarkar and D. P. Mukherjee: Patterns of Marriage among a Hindu Caste Population of the Southern Part of West Bengal, Bordering Bangladesh 583–587

Félix Ntep: Sorcellerie et entrepreneuriat. Une complicité étrange en Afrique 587–597

José Luiz Cazarotto: Tabernáculo Vitória. Um novo movimento messiânico: Novo? 597–602

María Susana Cipolletti: Coloquio Internacional "A expulsão da Companha de Jesus dos domínios portugueses (1759−1761)" 602–605

 

Book Reviews

Alexiades, Miguel N. (ed.): Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia. Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives (Julie Velásquez Runk)   607

Amborn, Hermann: Flexibel aus Tradition. Burji in Äthiopien und Kenia. Unter Verwendung der Aufzeichnungen von Helmut Straube. With Explanation of Some Cultural Items in English (Alexander Kellner) 608

Arenas, Pastor y Gustavo Porini: Las aves en la vida de los tobas del oeste de la provincia de Formosa (Argentina) (María Susana Cipolletti) 610

Bamford, Sandra, and James Leach (eds.): Kinship and Beyond. The Genealogical Model Reconsidered (Jeff Marck) 612

Barcelos Neto, Aristóteles: Apapaatai. Rituais de máscaras no Alto Xingu (Kerstin Eggeling und Stephanie-Thalia Dietrich) 613

Besom, Thomas: Of Summits and Sacrifice. An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices (Kerstin Nowack) 614

Bousiou, Pola: The Nomads of Mykonos. Performing Liminalities in a “Queer” Space (Ramona Lenz) 615

Boyd, Brian: On the Origin of Stories. Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Don Gardner) 616

Chuluunbaatar, Otgonbayar: Einführung in die mongolischen Schriften (Stefan Krist) 618

Cipolletti, María Susana, y Fernando Payaguaje: La fascinación del mal. Historia de la vida de un shamán secoya de la Amazonía ecuatoriana (Darius J. Piwowarczyk) 619

Citro, Silvia: Cuerpos significantes. Travesías de una etnografía dialéctica (Rodolfo Puglisi) 620

Clavandier, Gaëlle: Sociologie de la mort. Vivre et mourir dans la société contemporaine (Claude Rivière) 621

Collins, Samuel Gerald: All Tomorrow’s Cultures. Anthropological Engagements with the Future (Waldemar Kuligowski) 623

Dark, Philip J. C., and Mavis Dark: Vukumo. Art and Life of the Kilenge. A Personal Perspective; Papua New Guinea (Terence E. Hays) 623

Daubenmier, Judith M.: The Meskwaki and Anthropologists. Action Anthropology Reconsidered (Friderike Seithel) 624

Donck, Adriaen van der: A Description of New Netherland (Barbara Alice Mann) 626

Donovan, James M.: Legal Anthropology. An Introduction (Holger Warnk) 627

Eberhard, Igor, Julia Gohm und Margit Wolfsberger (Hrsg.): Kathedrale der Kulturen. Repräsentation von Ozeanien in Kunst und Museum (Hilke Thode-Arora) 628

Edwards, Jeanette, and Carles Salazar (eds.): European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology (Shahanah Schmid) 631

Eldredge, Elizabeth A.: Power in Colonial Africa. Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870–1960 (Clifton Crais) 632

Ellen, Roy (ed.): Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies. Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia (Shankar Aswani) 633

Eller, Jack David: Cultural Anthropology. Global Forces, Local Lives (Noel B. Salazar) 633

Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette, and Emiko Ochiai (eds.): The Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective. Revisiting House Societies, 17th–20th Centuries (Hans Dieter Ölschleger) 634

Fikentscher, Wolfgang: Law and Anthropology. Outlines, Issues, and Suggestions (Alan Smart) 636

Forth, Gregory: Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia. An Anthropological Perspective (Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart) 636

Gérimont, Patricia: Teinturières à Bamako. Quand la couleur sort de sa réserve (Ilsemargret Luttmann) 637

Godelier, Maurice: In and Out of the West. Reconstructing Anthropology (Andre Gingrich) 641

Goulet, Jean-Guy A., and Bruce Granville Miller (eds.): Extraordinary Anthropology. Transformations in the Field (H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen) 642

Grabner-Haider, Anton und Johann Maier: Kulturgeschichte des frühen Christentums. Von 100 bis 500 n. Chr. (Andreas Heiser) 643

Greene, Candace S.: One Hundred Summers. A Kiowa Calendar Record (Dagmar Siebelt) 645

Halstead, Narmala, Eric Hirsch, and Judith Okely (eds.): Knowing How to Know. Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present (Denise Nuttall) 646

Harkin, Michael E., and David Rich Lewis (eds.): Native Americans and the Environment. Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (Robert Jarvenpa) 647

Hill, David T.: Journalism and Politics in Indonesia. A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922−2004) as Editor and Author (Edwin Wieringa) 650

Hill, Jonathan D.: Made-from-Bone. Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon (Bernd Brabec de Mori) 651

Hontheim, Astrid de: Chasseurs de diables et collecteurs d’art. Tentatives de conversion des Asmat par les missionnaires pionniers protestants et catholiques (Chris Ballard) 652

Jenkins, Philip: God’s Continent. Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis (Andrzej Bronk) 653

Kan, Sergei: Lev Shternberg. Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist (David G. Anderson) 655

Kirsch, Thomas G.: Spirits and Letters. Reading, Writing, and Charisma in African Christianity (Heike Behrend) 657

Koch, Gertraud und Amelie Franke (Hrsg.): Kulturelle Vielfalt als Gestaltungsaufgabe. Ethnologische Beiträge in diversen Praxisfeldern (Sabine Klocke-Daffa) 658

Köhler, Ulrich: Vasallen des linkshändigen Kriegers im Kolibrigewand. Über Weltbild, Religion und Staat der Azteken (Brigitte Wiesenbauer) 660

MacClancy, Jeremy: Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (Dieter Haller) 661

Marshall, Jonathan Paul: Living on Cybermind. Categories, Communications, and Control (Alexander Knorr) 662

Mills, David: Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology (Henrika Kuklick) 663

Mückler, Hermann: Einführung in die Ethnologie Ozeaniens (Lothar Käser) 665

Mückler, Hermann, Norbert Ortmayr und Harald Werber (Hrsg.): Ozeanien. 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft (Lothar Käser) 666

Piette, Albert: Anthropologie existentiale (Pierre Erny) 667

Pöhl, Friedrich, und Bernhard Tilg (Hrsg.): Franz Boas – Kultur, Sprache, Rasse. Wege einer antirassistischen Anthropologie (Erich Kasten) 668

Prussat, Margrit: Bilder der Sklaverei. Fotografien der afrikanischen Diaspora in Brasilien 1860−1920 (Andreas Hofbauer) 670

Ramseyer, Urs: Das Theater des Universums. Ritual und Kunst in Tenganan Pegeringsingan, Bali. – The Theatre of the Universe. Ritual and Art in Tenganan Pegeringsingan, Bali (Wolfgang Marschall) 671

Rao, Aparna, Michael Bollig, and Monika Böck (eds.): The Practice of War. Production, Reproduction, and Communication of Armed Violence (Neil L. Whitehead) 673

Reichel, Eva: Notions of Life in Death and Dying. The Dead in Tribal Middle India (Cornelia Mallebrein) 674

Rovine, Victoria L.: Bogolan. Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali (Ilsemargret Luttmann) 675

Schefold, Reimar, Peter J. M. Nas, Gaudenz Domenig, and Robert Wessing (eds.): Indonesian Houses; vol. 2: Survey of Vernacular Architecture in Western Indonesia (Wolfgang Marschall) 678

Sibeth, Achim (Hrsg.): Bali im Fokus der Kamera. Drei balinesische Fotografen 1930–2009 (Henk Schulte Nordholt) 680

Sibeth, Achim (Hrsg.): Being Object. Being Art. Meisterwerke aus den Sammlungen des Museums der Weltkulturen Frankfurt am Main (Matthias Claudius Hofmann) 680

Sow, Fatou (éd.): La recherche féministe francophone. Langue, identités et enjeux (Ulrike Schuerkens) 681

Spener, David: Clandestine Crossings. Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border (Frances Rothstein) 682

Staller, John Edward (ed.): Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and Origin (Ursula Thiemer-Sachse) 683

Stang, Carla: A Walk to the River in Amazonia. Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians (Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen) 685

Stanley, Nick (ed.): The Future of Indigenous Museums. Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific (Markus Schindlbeck) 686

Stasch, Rupert: Society of Others. Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place (Volker Heeschen) 687

Thode-Arora, Hilke: Weavers of Men and Women. Niuean Weaving and Its Social Implications (Alexandra Wessel) 689

Tomlinson, Matt: In God’s Image. The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (Lynda Newland) 690

Vertovec, Steven (ed.): Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism (Caroline B. Brettell) 690

Weinreich, Matthias: “We Are Here to Stay.” Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (Andreas Dittmann) 691

Werf, Janko van der: “We Live Like in a War.” An Anthropological Investigation into Criminal Gangs in the Rural and Urban Areas of Papua New Guinea (Roland Seib) 692

Whelehan, Patricia: The Anthropology of AIDS. A Global Perspective (Alexander Rödlach) 693

Whiteley, Peter M.: The Orayvi Split. A Hopi Transformation; 2 vols. Vol. 1: Structure and History; vol. 2: The Documentary Record (Armin W. Geertz) 694

Winkler, Hans Alexander: Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt. A Study of Spirit Possession (Janice Boddy) 697

Zips-Mairitsch, Manuela: Verlorenes Land? Indigene (Land)Rechte der San in Botswana (Dominik Kohlhagen) 698