Anthropology in Disneyworld: Rapport,Gardner, and the ‘Discipline‘ of Social Anthropology

This article examines the response by Rapport to the critique made by Gardner of his book Transcendent Individual. Rapport eschews the idea of discipline in relation to anthropology. This is connected to his distaste for any hint of social determinism, and his eulogising of the essay format as the most suitable means of conveying human contrariety. His approach necessarily leads him to embellish his accounts of what the world is like with visions of what it should be like if only everyone adopted his literary and liberal stance. A contrary ‘manifesto’ is here presented: the job of social anthropology is to explain actual historical societies, and one cannot simply appropriate the subject so that it now becomes about a kind of never‐never land. Rapport's approach, far from leading to a glorification of individuality, leads only to a monochrome vision which paints all human beings as reductively ‘aesthetic’, ignoring, and rendering impossible the explanation of all institutionalised forms of belief and practice, not least those brutal forms which, says Rapport, inspire his work.     

Research note: Yeast flora of Haitian rum distilleries

Summary In Haïtian rum distilleries, few modifications have been carried out on the working conditions for some time.Schizosaccharomyces is the main yeast genus which exists in such distilleries. In the distilleries of the French West-Indies, there is a predominance ofSaccharomyces yeasts.Schizosaccharomyces strains allow the production of a light rum which is in great demand.

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Resumen En las destilerias de ron de Haiti los métodos de producción se han mantenido practicamente invariables desde hace tiempo. El género de levaduras más abundante en dichas destilerias esSchizosaccharomyces. En las destilerias de la Guayana francesa las levaduras predominantes son del géneroSaccharomyces. Las cepasde Schizosaccharomyces son las que permiten la producción de ron claro para el que existe una gran demanda.

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Résumé Il y a déjà un certain temps que l'on n'effectue que peu de modifications aux conditions de travail dans les distilleries Haïtiennes de rhum.Schizosaccharomyces est le genre principal de levure qui existe dans ces distilleries. Dans les distilleries des Antilles françaises, il y a prédominance des levuresSaccharomyces. Les souches deSchizosaccharomyces permettent la production de rhum de variété light qui est fort demandé.

     

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film. Karl G. Heider. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 347 pp.,. videotapes.     

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film (book and video). Karl G. Heider. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 347 pp.; 190:58 running time, VHS, color.     

Anthropology! Distinguished Lecture—2000

The transformation of anthropology in the twenty-first century can be seen in new mixes between anthropology's subfields and between anthropology and our publics interested in theory, research, and the practical. For most of the twentieth century anthropology was marked by increasing specialization. Now there is a reassembling that is more inclusive of all humankind. There is a reconnection of the particular and the universal, the local and the global, nature and culture. Fragmentation and holism move us back and forth, yet an anthropological perspective on the new technologies affecting the nature of nature, the forms of globalization, the environment, and intellectual property requires the use of all the anthropologies. Each epistemology privileges different aspects of reality. Anthropology, among the first of the "new" sciences rather than the last of the "old," is exploring new ways to understand the human condition writ large, [nature, culture, holism, epistemologies, new mixes]     

Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

Applications of Anthropology: Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century . Sarah Pink, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 244 pp.     

Terrains of blood and nation: Haitian transnational social fields

As have a growing number of political leaders of emigrant-sending countries, Haitian government officials and immigrant leaders have envisioned Haiti as a transnational nation-state. This article explores the ways in which the vision of Haiti as a transnational nation builds upon the experiences, needs and aspirations of both persons living in Haiti and those who have settled in the United States. Using a concept of 'transnational social field', we examine how family obligations and the experiences of immigration are understood through a language of blood and descent that links individuals to broader concepts of a transnational homeland. Rather than celebrating transnational connections, this essay concludes by warning that the ideologies which undergird 'long distance nationalism' are problematic.