On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp.     

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body: Understanding Difference

Praxis is not simply about learning cultural rules by rote, it is about coming to an understanding of social distinctions through your body.
Much of clinical and practical knowledge [in medicine] is embodied knowledge-knowledge sensed through and with the body. This includes senses of sight, sound, touch, smell.     

Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation

Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation. The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. February 2, 2002–June 2, 2002.     

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body. Joan Cassell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 267 pp.     

Modern Mesoamerica: The Politics of Identity

Politics and Privilege in a Mexican City. Richard R. Fagen and William S. Tuohy
Being Indian in Hueyapan: A Study of Forced Identity in Contemporary Mexico. Judith Friedlander .
Panajachel: A Guatemalan Town in Thirty-Year Perspective. Robert E. Hinshaw .
Población y sociedad: Cuatro comunidades del Acolhuacan. Marisol Pérez Lizaur .
Princes of the Earth: Subcultural Diversity in a Mexican Municipality. Barbara Luise Margolies .
Servants of the Saints: The Social and Cultural Identity of a Tarascan Community in Mexico.     

Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument

Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument. Pat Caplan. ed. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers, 1995. 248 pp.     

Alkyl phenols and saponins from the roots of Labisia pumila (Kacip Fatimah)

Recently, there is a remarkable boom in the sales of Labisia pumila (Kacip Fatimah) in the Malaysian market, as an extract of the plant is used to gain energy and libido as well as to treat many other ailments. A chemical analysis of its roots was undertaken and three metabolites, demethylbelamcandaquinone B (1), fatimahol (2), and dexyloprimulanin (3) together with 21 known compounds including epoxyoleanane glycosides, alkenated phenolics, cerebroside, glycerogalactolipids, and lipids were isolated and identified. Structure elucidation was achieved by spectroscopic and chemical studies. The MeOH extract of KF and compounds 12 and 13 exhibited moderate in vitro antibacterial activity.     

The Politics of Anti-Creationism: The Committees of Correspondence

When the creationism issue rose to the surface in the late 1970s, an organized opposition to the creationist campaign came from an unexpected source. Local groups of rank and file evolution defenders, led by a retired biology teacher, organized a grassroots network of anti-creationism called the Committees of Correspondence. They basically approached the creationism issue as a political rather than a scientific problem and fought the battle on local fronts, where creationists were heavily engaged in legal campaigns to include their ideas in the public schools. Grassroots anti-creationism was, however, eventually replaced by a centralized national operation with an educational emphasis. In this paper, I will document the development of this neglected part of the creation-evolution controversy and discuss related issues, namely the politics of science that became clearly visible in the course of evolutionists' disputes over anti-creation strategies. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Contesting the Politics of Culture, Rewriting the Boundaries of Inclusion: Working for Social Justice with Muslim and Arab Communities

This article calls on anthropologists of education to assert a more public voice attacking the ideological purposes to which the concept of "culture" has been deployed following the September 11 attacks. We must support schools, communities, and the media to address the power and politics of race and religion in contemporary social and political contexts, rather than focus primarily on multicultural education about Islamic and Arab "culture." Finally, this article urges us to expand our knowledge of the processes of social incorporation for Muslim and Arab immigrant youth to include a deeper understanding of how global politics contribute to young people's sense of emerging identities.     

On the Politics of Theorizing in a Postmodern Academy

The authors outline a politics of academic theorizing that seeks pluralism and egalitarianism without relativism and nihilism. Their goal is to help transform the academy by knocking down the walls around institutionalized technoscience without dissolving the enterprise of academic theorizing. Postmodernist critiques have blurred the cultural boundaries between technoscience and popular science practices, calling into question the absolute legitimacy of the former. Yet the positive proposals of postmodernism have been less valuable than the critiques. The authors hope to recover some of the imaginative power of postmodernist criticism by formulating a different politics of academic theorizing, built around the language and practice of partnering. In the process, they hope to build exchange relations between postmodernism and other forms of theorizing, such as feminism.     

Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood

Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 429 pp.     

The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice

The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice . Jacqueline Solway, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 260 pp.