Vol. 46 No 2, 2004

Commodities, Capitalism and Globalization / Marchandises, Capitalisme et Mondialisation

Editors / Rédactrices :

Pauline Gardiner Barber (guest editor / rédactrice invitée) and Winnie Lem

 

Table of Contents

Commodities, Capitalism and Globalization—Introduction
Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem

Marchandises, Capitalisme et Mondialisation – introduction
Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem

In Search of the Midas Touch: Gold, Güiriseros and Globalization in Nicaragua
Ananthakrishnan Aiyer

Globalization and Alternative Localities
Robert C. Ulin

Extra-Virgin Olive Oil and Slow Food
Anne Meneley

The “Arab Wave” in World Music after 9/11
Ted Swedenburg

Refashioning Commodities: Women and the Sourcing of Secondhand Clothing in the Philippines
B. Lynne Milgram

Contradictions of Class and Consumption When the Commodity Is Labour
Globalization and Modernity—A Case Study of Cognac Consumption in Hong Kong
Anthropology of the Global, Globalizing Anthropology: A Commentary
Pauline Gardiner Barber

Josephine Smart
Jonathan Friedman

L’anthropologie du global, l’anthropologie globalisante : un commentaire
Jonathan Friedman

Articles

Gendering Colour: Identity, Femininity and Marriage in Kerala
Amali Philips

Manufacturing Mammies: The Burdens of Service Work and Welfare Reform
among Battered Black Women
Dana-Ain Davis

 

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendues

Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections, by George Stocking
Vered Amit

Sens dessus dessous, Organisation sociale et spatiale des Chimane d’Amazonie bolivienne, par Isabelle Daillant Bernard Arcand

British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain, by Nigel Rapport (ed.) Cathrine Degnen

Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, by Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin (eds.) Ellen E. Facey

Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders, by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg and Cluny Macpherson Ellen E. Facey

Le jardin d’ombres. La poétique et la politique de la rééducation social, par Michel Desjardins (préface de Gilles Bibeau) Raymond Massé

Time Depth in Historical Linguistics 1-2, by Colin Renfrew, April McMahon, and Larry Trask (eds.) Paul Proulx

The Handbook of Ethnography, by Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland and Lyn Lofland (eds.) Elvi Whittaker

Film Review / Revue de Film Footbinding: Search for the Three Inch Golden Lotus, directed and produced by Yue-Qing Yang Laurel Bossen

Books Received / Livres reçus

Note to Contributors/ Note à l’intention des auteurs

 

Cover / couverture Photo by B. Lynne Milgram, 2003.

Two female secondhand clothing traders display their stock of used garments at the weekly Saturday street market in Banaue, Ifugao province, northern Philippines. In the background, a customer looks through the racks of secondhand clothing. Photo par B. Lynne Milgram, 2003. Deux commerçantes de vêtements usagés déploient leur marchandise au marché ambulant hebdomadaire du samedi à Banaue, province d'Ifagao, au nord des Philippines. À l'arrière-plan, un client fouille dans les éventaires de vêtemen