Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgement

Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgement. Reneé Ann Cramer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. 234 pp.     

Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions

Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions. Andrew Gulliford. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 2000. 285 pp.     

Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology

Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology. Helmut Wautischer. ed. Andershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1998. 240 pp.     

The Balance of Textual Power

Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Andrew Shryock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 359 pp.     

Tribal Health and Medicines

Tribal Health and Medicines . A. K. Kalla and P. C. Joshi, eds. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing, 2004. xxi + 447 pp.     

American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land

American Gypsy:. Stranger in Everybody's Land. 1999. 80 minutes, color, English narration with some spoken Romani. film produced and directed by Jasmine Dellal. For more information contact Little Dust Productions, 878 Grove St., San Francisco, CA 94117; http://americangypsy.com/ .     

Understanding Power in Indigenous Protected Areas: the Case of the Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks

This article draws on concepts of power from political ecology and political sociology to describe the ways that the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation (a Canadian indigenous people) have attempted to realize their goals under the broad rubric of their Tribal Parks initiative. Like some other Indigenous peoples’ and Community Conserved territories and Areas (ICCAs), the Tribal Parks example features de facto legal pluralism, lack of clear tenure and/or legal recognition, oppositional and/or cooperative relationships with other actors, and situations where local actors are influenced by intersecting global discourses on conservation and indigenous rights and culture. Globally, ICCAs are a form of protected area and are potentially critical in terms of meeting ambitious global protected area targets as well in addressing issues related to the rights and well-being of indigenous peoples. As such, understanding the ‘customary law or other effective means’, or the dynamics of power through which indigenous groups are able (or not) to realize their protected area goals is of global significance. This article illuminates the contours of power through two specific Tribal Parks case studies: the first involves contestations over industrial logging, while the second focuses on the establishment and implementation of what came to be called an ‘ecosystem services fee’ paid by ecotourism outfitters operating within a Tribal Park. Results highlight that the Tla-o-qui-aht have drawn power from different sources and exercised it by different means including turning to the Courts in a context of legal uncertainty, protest and direct action coupled with appeals to public opinion, developing and drawing on relationships with both local and non-local interests, and by strategically ‘tapping into’ prominent discourses.     

The Garifuna Journey

The Garifuna Journey. 1998. 47 minutes, color. video by Andrea E. Leland and Kathy L. Berger. For more information contact Leland/Berger Productions, 1200 Judson, Evanston, IL 60202.     

A Semiotic Analysis of The Great Dance -- A Hunter's Story in Relation to Media Representation of the San

The Great Dance -- A Hunter's Story . Produced by Earthrise Productions, 2000. Craig Foster and Damon Foster, directors. VHS/PAL or NTSC, color, 75 mins. English and Italian versions available. Distributor: Off the Fence, Nieuwe Herengracht 31, 1011 RM Amsterdam, Netherands Sale and rental details at http://www.senseafrica.com/greatdance/sales/sales.html     

Little Tracker

Little Tracker . Directed by Johan Heynes; camera, Fanie van der Merwe, Jacques Barnard, Thomas van der Merwe; sound, Laura van der Merwe; Fevertree Productions; 2000; 53 mins., color; narration in English, dialogue in Afrikaans. Distributed by ProVision Distribution Network, PO Box 49232, Hercules, 0030, South Africa. Tel: +27-12-3762608; Fax: +27-12-3762119; E-mail: provision@intekom.co.za     

Books Reviews

Book review in this article
INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF WHALING: FROM CONSERVATION OF WHALING TO CONSERVATION OF WHALES AND REGULATION OF WHALE WATCHING . Patricia Birnie
BEHAVIOUR OF WHALES IN RELATION TO MANAGEMENT . G. P. Donovan (ed.).
A HANDBOOK FORTHEIDENTIFICATIONOFCEPHALOPODBEAKS . Malcolm R. Clarke(ed.).
THE WAR AGAINST THE SEALS: A HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SEAL FISHERY . Briton Cooper Busch.
THE HARBOR SEAL . Doug Bertran Productions, Box 10340, Olympia, Washington 98502.     

Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians. 2000.; Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated.

Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians. 2000. video by Anne Makepeace. 85 minutes (56-minute version also available). Co-produced by Anne Makepeace Productions, Inc. and ThirteenAVNET. For further information, contact Bullfrog Films, P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 1-800-543-FROG (3764); info@bullfrogfilms.com.
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated. Mick Gidley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 319 pp.     

The Haitians, the Healers, and the Anthropologist. Two Case Studies

The Haitians, the Healers, and the Anthropologist. Two Case Studies. 1997. 100 minutes, color. video by Philip Singer. For more information contact Traditional Healing Productions, Philip Singer. Ph.D. 17280 Madison. Southfield, MI 48076.     

BOOK REVIEWS

DEPTH CHARTS OF THE CUMBRIAN LAKES. By A. E. Ramsbottom.
THE ALGAE (set nos. S7199, S7200, S7201). Educational Productions Ltd.
WEST AFRICAN FRESHWATER FISH. By M . Holden and W. Reed (1972).
TEXTBOOK OF FISH CULTURE: BREEDING AND CULTIVATION OF FISH. By M. Huet (1973).
THE INLAND WATERS OF TROPICAL AFRICA: AN INTRODUCTION TO TROPICAL LIMNOLOGY. By L. C. Beadle (1974).
TURBULENCE IN LAKES AND RIVERS. By I. R. Smith (1975).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Teaching of Anthropology. David G. Mandelbaum, Gabriel W. Lasker, and Ethel M. Albert
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Resources for the Teaching of Anthropology. David G. Mandelbaum, Gabriel W. Lasker, and Ethel M. Albert     

Dynamics of cytokine production in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated by LPS or infected by Borrelia

To specify the role of individual cytokines in the immune response to pyrogens, isolated and cultivated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were used for the experiments. Different pyrogens (lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli - LPS and live Borrelia afzelii) were applied and the time course of changes in concentrations of different cytokines in the medium was followed using the ELISA method. It was found that nonstimulated human PBMC proliferate under in vitro conditions and produce IL-6, TNF-alpha, IL-10 and finally also IL-1beta. Productions of IL-12 and INF-gamma are not changed. Proliferation of PBMC is potentiated after incubation with LPS or live Borrelia. PBMC stimulated by LPS increase the net production (stimulated minus unstimulated) of IL-1beta and TNF-alpha significantly, while production of IL-6 was smaller. A delayed increase in the production of IL-10 was also observed. Productions of IL-12 and INF-gamma were not influenced. In contrast to LPS, stimulation of PBMC with live Borrelia, increases also the production of IL-12 and IFN-gamma, besides IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, IL-6 and IL-10. Productions of IL-1beta, IL-6 and TNFalpha increased immediately after incubation with both LPS and Borrelia, while productions of IL-12 and INF-gamma begin to increase 8 hours and production of IL-10 12 hours after stimulation. Data indicate that stimulation with different pyrogens may activate the cells of the immune cascade in a different way. Stimulation of BPMC by LPS seems to activate the initial steps of the immune response (macrophages and granulocytes) only, while infection with live Borrelia also stimulates the later phase of the immune response, probably due to effect of initially produced cytokines.     

Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy

Daily Life in. Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy. vols. David H. Lempert. East European Monographs (Boulder), 444. Boulder, CO: David H. Lempert, 1995. 1761 pp. Distributed by Columbia University Press.     

Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods

Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods. David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005. 320 pp.