Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change.

Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change. Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 234 pp.     

Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology Occasional Paper No. 25

Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, Occasional Paper No. 25. James G. Cusick. Carbondale. IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations. Southern Illinois University, 1998. 502 pp.     

Daring to Change: The Potential of Intercultural Education in Aymara Communities in Chile

The following article presents a project in teacher training in northern Chile that was meant to provoke an attitudinal change toward native culture among rural school teachers working in one Aymara district. In keeping with participatory research methods, the project also sought to probe into the dynamics at play in the teachers' position. The conclusions drawn from this experience suggest that hegemonic barriers stand in the way of broadening the scope of intercultural education in plural, democratic societies.     

Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism

Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism. Jody Shapiro Davie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.163 pp.     

Where Empathy in Psychotherapy Originated: C. Rogers,His Psychoanalytic Predecessors and Followers

This article presents a historical-psychological analysis of how the concept of empathy appeared and became established in psychotherapy. It examines in detail the early psychoanalytic approaches of S. Ferenczi and O. Rank and their possible influence on C. Rogers’s laying the groundwork for the role of empathy. For the first time in Russian psychology, the article illuminates certain aspects of the biographies of Rogers and H. Kohut as the founders of new schools in psychotherapy, of which empathy is the paramount feature. Kohut’s self-psychology is analyzed from the standpoint of his postulation of the “threefold” status of empathy as a method of psychology, a tool of the analyst, and the subject of a universal requirement of development. It briefly considers the development of the views of Rogers and Kohut in the latest “experiential” schools in the person-centered approach and intersubjective psychoanalysis.     

Understanding the Rise of Consumer Ethnography: Branding Technomethodologies in the New Economy

ABSTRACT   In this article, I aim to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the changing public role of anthropology by exploring the rise of branded ethnographic practices in consumer research. I argue that a juncture in the "New Economy"—the conjoining of corporate interest in branding, technology, and consumers, with vast social changes—may explain the rapid growth of ethnography for consumer research and predict its future direction. An analysis of branded propaganda from ethnographic vendors that claim their technology-enhanced methods innovate "classic" anthropological practices discloses the way corporations employ technologically mediated means to focus on the reflexive self in consumer research. In this analysis, I reveal that technological methodologies are central to the production of branded ethnographic practices, as forms of branding and technology legitimate consumer–corporate flows of interaction. The conclusion raises awareness to the ways in which modern branding practices reconstruct anthropology in public discourse. [Keywords: branding, consumer research, ethnography, reflexivity, technology]     

Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island

Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on. Danish Island. Andrew Buckser. New Directions in Anthropology, 5. Providence, RI, and Oxford, England: Berghahn Books, 1996. 264 pp.