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BRUCE GRAHAM TRIGGER (1937–2006) Brian Fagan A History of Archaeological Thought, second ed. Oscar Moro Abadia The Long-Term Development of a Peasant Community in Rural Mexico Michael Schnegg KEY WORDS: Boundaries; Community; Compadrazgo; Mexico; Social networks Wolf’s dichotomy between open and closed corporate communities has become axiomatic for the study of social organization in rural communities in Mesoamerica. In this paper I argue that this dichotomy is of limited use for understanding the vital dynamics behind the evolution of social groups typically classified by anthropologists as peasants. To overcome the conceptual limitation of Wolf’s original classification I propose a network model that focuses on social relations. This approach can more adequately capture the variability and complexity we observe in everyday practice in rural communities in past and contemporary times. The paper examines aspects of the social organization of Belén, a rural community in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Using data from parish registers and two ethnographic surveys, I demonstrate how the social networks of compadrazgo (ritual kinship) and marriage can be reconstructed back into the seventeenth century. Since the beginning of the eighteenth century Beléños have formed most of their compadrazgo relationships with people from outside, indicating that social boundaries had started to collapse long before industrialization led to new economic relationships. The driving force behind the change was a severe epidemic shock. These findings have substantial, theoretical implications for the model of peasant society commonly applied in Mesoamerica, especially for earlier historical periods. An Ethnographic Study of Spondylus Use in Coastal Ecuador Daniel Eric Bauer KEY WORDS: Craft production; Culture change; Ecuador; History; Identity; Spondylus Archaeologists have long noted the importance of Spondylus in the archaeological record of Ecuador. However, no one has attempted to understand contemporary Spondylus use and its relation to the precolumbian past. This research attempts to understand contemporary Spondylus use in coastal Ecuador by focusing on issues of craft production and identity formation. Using an approach that combines both archaeological and ethnographic information, this paper attempts to understand the role of Spondylus craft production in the formation of a localized identity. The Historical Anthropology of a New Ireland Society Göran Aijmer KEY WORDS: Cultural modalities; Domestic symbolism; Houses; New Ireland; This historically inclined study examines features of habitation and domestic symbolism originally encountered in fieldwork in New Ireland in 1929–1930 by Hortense Powdermaker. It aims to reconstruct important aspects of early social life with a focus on houses as mundane institutions and expressive devices. The examination concerns the organization of shelter into continuous groups and social communities. Men’s houses and women’s houses stood out as symbolic topoi, each evoking a main cultural modality. The respective iconic narrations of these two possible worlds offered radically different solutions to the existential problem of continuity. Imagining and Contesting Familism in a UAW Local Pete Richardson KEY WORDS: Auto industry; Familism; Siblingship; The imaginary; Two-tier system; Unions Familism, as used by Don Kalb, is a process whereby companies shape families to reproduce a flexible labor force. Familism, I argue, is inseparable from how we imagine the family: the family at work and the work of the family. This paper looks at how familial relatedness, namely union siblingship, played a role in conflict over a two-tier wage system being implemented in a Detroit-area auto plant. Engaging with recent ideas about kinship, social and psychological anthropology, and theories of the imaginary, I treat the UAW local studied as a kind of jural family arising out of a specific, path-dependent history—a family which brings with it rights and obligations, but also a social imagination of those rights and obligations, to the shop floor. Debra Komar: Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology, Rebecca Schwendler: Handbook of Archaeological Methods, Vols. I and
II, John F. Hoffecker: Taymyr: The Archaeology of Northernmost Eurasia, Lawrence G. Straus: Los Yacimientos Paleolíticos de Ambrona y Marcel Otte: Aesthetics and Rock Art, Lawrence G. Straus: Catástrofes en la Prehistoria, Marie Balasse: The Zooarchaeology of Fats, Oils, Milk and Dairying, Katherine Szabó: Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments
of Human Behavior, Patrick Ryan Williams: Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku
Cities through Time, William H. Walker: Archaeologies of Materiality, Lynn Meskell, ed. Patricia A. McAnany: Copán: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom, Corrine Hofman: Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native
Puerto Rico, Andrew I. Duff: Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan
Basin, Maria Ostendorf Smith: Archaeology of the Middle Green River Region,Kentucky, Shannon M. Fie: Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, Otto Santa Ana: Mexican Americans and Language: Del dicho al hecho, Harry F. Wolcott: Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word, Stacey Rucus: Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip, Grant Arndt: Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas, Larry Nesper: Cultures and Ecologies: A Native Fishing Confl ict on
the Saugeen-Bruce Peninsula, Sylvia Rodríguez: Pilgrimage and Healing, Charles V. Carnegie: True-Born Maroons, Nancy J. Parezo: Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists
and the Construction of the American Southwest, Karl Jacoby: Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca
Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham, Rubén O. Martinez: Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Joe Watkins: Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American
Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey H. Cohen: Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Population
Culture of Oaxaca, Kimberly Theidon: Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia, Louise M. Burkhart: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón
Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Meaghan Morris: Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, Mary Scoggin: Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet,
and Political Participation in China, Mary H. Moran: Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism,
and the Transformation of Knowledge, Eugene Hunn: The Categorical Impulse: Essays on the Anthropology of
Classifying Behavior, Frederick H. Smith: Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and
Performance in the South African Rural Periphery, Daniel W. Sellen: Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental,
and Cultural Perspectives, David A. Phillips, Jr.: The El Malpais Archeological
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