Anthropological Abstracts Cultural/Social Anthropology from German-speaking countries edited by Ulrich Oberdiek Volume 3.2004 ___________ LIT Contents Editorial 4 General/Theoretical/Historical Studies 9 Regional Studies Africa 133 The Americas 191 Asia 219 Australia & Oceania 261 Europe 267 Periodicals scanned 327 Author Index 295 Subject Index Editorial This reference journal is published once a year and announces most publications in the field of cultural/social anthropology from the German language area (Austria, Germany, Switzerland). Since many of these publications have been written in German, and most German publications are not included in major, English language abstracting services, Anthropological Abstracts (AA) offers an opportunity and convenient source of information for anthropologists who do not read German to become aware of anthropological publications in German- speaking countries. Included are journal articles, monographs, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, yearbooks, etc., published in German. Occasionally, publications in English, or French, are included as well if the publisher is less well-known and when it is likely that the publication will not be noted abroad. The present printed volume of Anthropological Abstracts (AA) (2.2003) includes no. www-4 of the internet version (www.anthropology-online.de ’ Anthropological Abstracts ’ no. 4.2003); the printed version has about 30% additional material, however. Starting from the present volume the layout (size of script etc.) has been changed to ensure better readability. Some technical remarks This reference journal uses a combined and flexible approach of representation: While in most cases abstracts are supplied, for some anthologies and journals (e.g., Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, Kea) - because of space limitations - the Current Contents principle is applied, i.e. only authors and titles are printed. So technically, this is a combinded approach: that of an Abstracting reference journal, and the Current Contents principle listing names and titles only; all of the material has been indexed, however. Abstracts supplied by authors are marked by ## before and after the abstract. Due to space limitations they may be abbreviated. Up to three editors of an anthology will be listed. Only those papers in journals, yearbooks, catalogs and anthologies will be abstracted that are relevant to cultural/social anthropology - which is mainly applicable in the case of interdisciplinary publications. AA also tries to cover subjects related to, or influencing, anthropology, i.e. if they are relevant for present discourses. Thus, there may be material from history, folklore studies, linguistics, sociology, philosophy, etc., if there is an intersection with present debates in anthropology. Keywords after each abstract serve as an "abstract of the abstract" - for quick reference. Page numbers in the Subject Index refer to the page of Keywords listings; i.e. the abstracted article or book may begin on the preceding page. Regarding alphabetical order the German Umlaut (ä, ö, ü) will be broken up into ae, oe, ue in the text, but is disregarded in the indexes. The publishers, museums and research institutions must be thanked for their generally prompt deliveries of the books requested for Anthropological Abstracts. And last but not least: many thanks to Veit Hopf (LIT Verlag) for publishing this journal! Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek Quäkerstr. 7 D-79102 Freiburg/Germany Phone+Fax: Germany: 0761/70 72 344 e-mail: [email protected] GENERAL/THEORETICAL/HISTORICAL STUDIES ABELS, HEINZ Interaktion, Identität, Präsentation. Kleine Einführung in interpretative Theorien der Soziologie. 3. Aufl. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2004 203 pp., Euro 17.90; ISBN 3-531-43183-8 Interaction, identity, presentation. Short introduction into interpretive theories in sociology. 3rd. ed. This textbook introduces sociological theories of interpretation - G.H. Mead on identity (the background of pragmatism and behaviorism and central notions like roles, identity, play/game, I and Me) and Herbert Blumer's symbolic interactionism. Then Alfred Schütz' phenomenological foundation of sociology is described, followed by P. Berger's and T. Luckmann's 'societal construction of reality' and the 'institutionalization of social order', H. Garfinkel's ethnomethodology as a theory of everyday life action, and finally E. Goffman's 'techniques of presentation' (the endangered individual, the presentation of self in everyday life). Keywords: interaction, identity, presentation, interpretive sociology, Mead, G.H., Blumer, H., Schütz, A., Berger, P., Luckmann, T., Garfinkel, H., symbolic interactionism, interactionism, phenomenology, ethnomethodology, Goffman, E., individual, everyday life ALBRECHT, MICHAEL ET AL. (Eds.) Getting pictures right. Context and interpretation (Topics in African studies 3) Köln: Köppe Verlag 2004 192 pp., Euro 29.80; ISBN 3-89645-247-9 General/Theoretical/Historical Studies ______________________________________________________________________ The papers of this volume originate from a symposium at Basle in 2003, on the occasion of the retirement of Paul Jenkins, historian and former archivist of the Basel Mission. ##Under the impact of the visual, which has marked the twentieth century in an unprecedented manner, the humanities have come to acknowledge pictures as important sources and objects of research. This shift started some twenty years ago and has been termed the pictorial, iconic, or visual turn. In this process the reflection on photographic sources originating from the colonial encounter has played an important role.## HOLZER, ANTON: Der Weg und die Fotografie [The way and photography] KLEIN, THORALF: The Basel Mission as a transcultural organization: photographs of Chinese Christians and the problem of agency PALMA, MARISOL: Konstruktion, Sammlung und Archiv: Zur sozialen Biografie der Feuerland-Fotografien von Martin Gusinde [Construction, collection, and archive: On the social biography of the Tierra del Fuego photographs of Martin Gusinde] FARDON, RICHARD: The ethnologist and the missionaries: recording the 1908 Lela in Bali Nyonga FREY NÄF, BARBARA: Imaging the past: historicising portraits of the Kodagu and Nilgiri regions, South-East India JENKINS, PAUL: Camera evangelistica - camera lucida? Trans-border experiences with historical photographs from a mission archive GEARY, CHRISTRAUD M.: Portraiture, authorship, and the inscription of history: photographic practice in the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon (1902- 1980) HANEY, ERIN: If these walls could talk: exploring the dynamic archive through Ghanaian portraiture Keywords: photography, visual anthropology, semiotics, pictorial turn, iconic turn, visual turn, agency and photography, authorship, inscription, mission and photography, Gusinde, M. ANTWEILER, CHRISTOPH Ethnologie lesen. Ein Führer durch den Bücher-Dschungel. 3., überarbeitete u. ergänzte Auflage mit CD-ROM (Arbeitsbücher Kulturwissenschaft 1) Münster: Lit Verlag 2003 535 pp., 1 CD-ROM, Euro 25.90; ISBN 3-8258-5608-9 10 General/Theoretical/Historical Studies ______________________________________________________________________ Reading anthropology. A guide-book through the jungle of books. 3rd revised and enlarged edition, CD ROM included The third edition of this book within three years - meant as a guide-book covering all anthropological subject fields and geographic areas - has almost doubled in content in respect to the first edition. Each entry has a short text of one to five lines characterizing the respective book. Since the guide-book is systematized but has no indexes, the third edition comes with a CD for fast information retrieval. Keywords: guide-book on anthropological literature, anthropological literature (guide-book) ANTWEILER, CHRISTOPH Urbanität und Ethnologie: aktuelle Theorietrends und die Methodik ethnologischer Stadtforschung Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 129.2004:285-307 ##Urbanization and anthropology. Current trends and methods of anthropological urban research Cities are characterized by diverse and dense populations, highly artificial environments and the permanence of a public realm. In urban life, people of diverse backgrounds interact often intensively, but know each other only very partially, e.g. only by social category. Cities are nodes of the movement of goods, energy, information and the migration of people within a built environment. Anthropology in cities is hampered by the ethnographic tradition of research in rural populations conceived as environmentally circumscribed and spatially fixed. Despite this, modern anthropology provides unique insights into urbanism, especially on micro structure, networks, symbols and the emic dimension of urban life. The author proposes some directions of future research regarding themes and methods. Urban anthropological theory should seek to disentangle the phenomena of urbanism and urbanism from modernity and postmodernity. Classical methods of urban anthropological research, such as extended case analysis and network analysis can deliver specific insights not provided by other urban disciplines. These methods should be reanimated and amended by participatory approaches, which are scientifically revealing and practically useful. A stronger comparative approach is generally required in urban anthropology. There is a broad spectrum of new data types and methods of collecting and analysing data available.## Keywords: urban anthropology, public space, population density, density of population, space and