Notes on Anthropology

Complete Table of Contents

Volume 2, Numbers 1--2 (July 1998)

Front Matter

From the Coordinator

Column: Community Development corner

Column: Ethnomusicology

Good sites for research links

http://www.lib.washington.edu/libinfo/libunits/sochum/music/world.html

http://www.asan.com/users/dweber/

http://www.rain.org/~towle/music/world/

http://www.rain.org/~towle/music/musiclinks.html

Column: Language Learning

Column: LinguaLinks Anthropology

The relevance of social research for language programs¹

Yapese kinship propositions

Kinship and rapport

Kinship and authority

The methodological reasons to study kinship and politics

Social vocabulary

Kinship, politics, and meaning

Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Economic cooperatives, development, and matriliny in Papua New Guinea

Ethnographic background

Coconuts among the Sursurunga

The Tolai case

Selling copra on New Ireland

Comparing the Tolai and Sursurunga cases

Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Comment: One domain as a key to language and culture

Comment: The Agta today: Culture change among a Philippine rainforest people

Comment: Transculturation

Review: Disorderly discourse: Narrative, culture, and inequality

Review: Samoan planters: Tradition and economic development in Polynesia

New book: Di duumi u Gaama Aboikoni (The funeral of Granman Aboikoni)

Volume 2, Number 3 (October 1998)

Column: Community Development corner

1.. Start where the people are

Column: Introduction to survey of world music books

Column: How to communicate in a second language and culture

Column: The Anchor project: Anthropological Notes, Queries, and References for Bible translators

Cultural understanding in a multinational team

Introduction

Grid-group theory

Six societies in the grid-group configuration

Social economics

Borrowing

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Gift giving

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Social politics

Leadership

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Conflict resolution

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Ideology

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Kinship and friendship relations

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Parenting

Parents and discipline

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Education systems

Potential areas of misunderstanding

Concluding remarks

Back Matter

References

A linguist faces culture

Review: Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology

Volume 2, Number 4 (January 1999)

Front Matter

From the coordinator

Column: Community development corner

Column: Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology research questions

A.. Musicians (instrumentalists and/or singers)

B.. Musical instruments

C.. Music

Column: Language learning

Learning how to communicate clearly, though indirectly

Column: LinguaLinks anthropology

A review and reflection by Elinor Abbot

Back Matter

References

The animistic concept of the soul

Introduction

The concept of the soul

Visible manifestations of the soul

General characteristics of the soul

Multiple souls

The functions of the soul

Temporary absence of the soul from the body and its consequences

The functions of dreams

The destiny of the soul after the death of the body

Funeral rituals and “gifts”

Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Ethnic diversity and social harmony

What is ethnicity?

Ethnic difference and opportunity

Implications for SIL

Conflict resolution among the Sabaot of East Africa

Background

The clan

Cases of resolving conflicts

Case 1.. Clan dispute

Case 2.. Impending incursion

Case 3.. Kyoome Ntarastit

Case 4.. Muumnyanteet

Other oaths

Sustaining peace

Case 5.. Koroseek

Discussion

The role of ritual practices

Traditional system of justice versus government system

Suggestions for us all

Back Matter

Reference

Comment: Sudan workshop program

Comment: Helping to preserve Indian culture