Stone Men of Malekula on Malakula: An Ethnography of an Ethnography

This article examines the resonances of the voluminous ethnography, ‘Stone Men of Malekula’ (SMM) in contemporary Vanuatu. Anthropological research is politically charged in Vanuatu, in part because of how the weighty materiality of archival forms exercise significant local authority. However, alongside respect for this ‘evidential’ material is a healthy scepticism of anthropological authority. SMM, written by the maverick anthropologist John Layard in 1942 (based on fieldwork in 1914–15), has returned to Vanuatu in many guises over the years. It is used as formal evidence in land disputes and as a bone of contention within competing claims. Tracing the ways in which culture is written, read and materialized, exposes the paradoxes of knowledge and politics not only within anthropological critique but in Vanuatu villages.     

An Ethnography of Dementia

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - The experiences of dementia sufferers have rarely been examined in sociological literature. This article seeks to describe the experiences of one Alzheimer's...     

The Trading Crowd: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market

The Trading Crowd: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market. Ellen Hertz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 238 pp.     

Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals.

Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Nabokov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 230 pp.     

An Ethnography of the Neolithic: Early Prehistoric Societies in Southern Scandinavia

An Ethnography of the Neolithic: Early Prehistoric Societies in Southern Scandinavia. Christopher Tilley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 360 pp.     

Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography

Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography . Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson, eds. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2006. 302 pp.     

Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience

Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience. Christena L. Turner. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1995. 268 pp.     

TreeViewJ: An application for viewing and analyzing phylogenetic trees

Background  

Phylogenetic trees are widely used to visualize evolutionary relationships between different organisms or samples of the same organism. There exists a variety of both free and commercial tree visualization software available, but limitations in these programs often require researchers to use multiple programs for analysis, annotation, and the production of publication-ready images.     

Ethnography of Memory: An American Anthropologist's Family Story of Refuge from Nazism

Exile:. Memoir of 1939. Bronka Schneider. Erika Bourguignon and Barbara Hill Rigney. eds. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. 132 pp.     

The Social Anti-Mafia in Western Sicily: An Experiment in Visual Ethnography

Frustrated by the constraints imposed on visual ethnography by any one film, Toni de Bromhead has been filming around the subject of the Sicilian mafia for a quarter-century, building up a body of visual ethnography with eleven different films so far. In this paper she aims to demonstrate how these films “talk to each other” and, together, build up different themes. Each film has its own principle subject, but inevitably “trespasses” onto subjects found in other films, so adding to the viewers’ understanding and knowledge. These subjects range from values of masculinity among Sicilian criminals in Florence, and the work of the social anti-mafia in Sicily, to a group of young people contesting the local elections in their small Mafia-infested Sicilian town. Viewers are invited to make their own journey through the films, according to the theme that interests them. Here a journey is made through the films that reveal what the Mafia may mean to ordinary Sicilians, described so as to give an idea of how this might work.     

An Indian picture of the Dodo

Ohne ZusammenfassungDurch Lichtbilder erläuterter Vortrag, gehalten am 7. Juni 1958 auf dem XII. Internationalen Ornithologen-Kongreß in Helsinki.     

The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography (1910–2000)

The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography (1910–2000) . Hugo G. Nutini. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 386 pp.