MIWOK MYSTERIES: THE QUESTION OF ASYMMETRIC PRESCRIPTIVE MARRIAGE IN ABORIGINAL NORTH AMERICA

Gregory Forth; University of Alberta

Rodney Needham; Miwok; prescriptive marriage; kinship and marriage; symbolic classification

The Miwok of California stand out as the sole North American society classified by Rodney Needham (1962) as practicing asymmetric prescriptive marriage alliance. This essay reviews evidence from Gifford, the sole ethnographic source on Miwok marriage, and how later commentators (including Lévi-Strauss, Murdock, Kroeber, and Leach) employed Gifford’s findings, in order to assess how far and in what ways Needham (1962) may have been correct when he construed the Miwok as practicing ...

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2009-07-03

Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 1 (2008); 61-83

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PLURALISM AND TRANSCULTURATION IN INDIGENOUS MAYA RELIGION

Garrett Cook; Baylor University ; Thomas Offit; Baylor University

Transculturation; syncretism; Maya religion; Guatemala

Several religions are practiced in a highland Maya community. Costumbre and Maya spirituality perpetuate distinctive syncretic and anti-syncretic Maya tra-ditions, and are analyzed here as orthodox and reform versions of Maya religion adapted to different status groups. Like Maya Pentecostals, both use institutional forms borrowed from other cultures in syncretizing strategies that perpetuate core aspects of Maya culture in a radically changing political economy. Strategic individual ...

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2009-07-03

Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 1 (2008); 45-59

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HIJAB: FEMININE ALLURE AND CHARM TO MEN IN TUNIS

Simon Hawkins; Franklin & Marshall College

Tunisia; hijab; gender; desire; sexuality

This article examines a group of men in Tunis’s old city, and the ways they watch and interact with women. It focuses on the complicated relationship between hijab and desire. Contrary to common assumptions, hijab does not necessarily reduce sexual desire in men, which takes many forms. Which women the men find attrac-tive depends on context and the men’s social identity. What appears as a common expression of desire, calling to women on the street, is oriented toward reinforcing ...

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Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 1 (2008); 1-21

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(IN)FERTILITY AND THE MODERN FEMALE LIFE COURSE IN TWO SOUTHERN NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES

Marida Hollos; Brown University ; Bruce Whitehouse; Lehigh University

Southern Nigeria women; fertility; modernity; Pentecostal Christianity

Being “modern” is an aspiration for many in sub-Saharan Africa and entails certain widely held expectations regarding material living conditions and social status. Using ethnographic and survey data on female fertility from two commu-nities of southern Nigeria, this article describes some of the ways women are becoming modern and analyzes the forces behind these changes. The discussion includes education, initiation rites, premarital pregnancy, marriage, and the influence of Pentecostal ...

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2009-07-03

Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 1 (2008); 23-43

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INTRODUCTION

Leonard Plotnicov; University of Pittsburgh

Introduction to Special Issue: ";;Trash Food";;

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Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 2 (2008): SPECIAL ISSUE: "Trash Food"; 85-88

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THE VITA-MIGAS OF TEPITO

Alfonso Hernandez; Centro de Estudios Tepitenos ; Laura Roush; El Colegio de Michoacán

Barrio; Mexico City; recycling food, appliances, and clothing

Migas, now a hearty dish in some Mexico City restaurants, originated as scrap food in Tepito, a barrio of the city. Made of pig bones, stale tacos and stale bread, migas have become iconic of Tepito and its people. The residents historically maintained themselves and their neighborhood’s viability by rehabilitating discards—appliances, clothing, and food. Surrounded by new upscale residences and under pressure to succumb to urban development, Tepiteños have shown defiance and ...

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Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 2 (2008): SPECIAL ISSUE: "Trash Food"; 89-93

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A MEANS OF SURVIVAL, A MARKER OF FEASTS: MUSHROOMS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

Sveta Yamin-Pasternak; Johns Hopkins University

Mushrooms; Chukchi; Slavs; Yupik; Chukotka

While the price of wild mushrooms in North American restaurants and stores ranges from high to unaffordable for people with limited financial means, wild mushrooms for rural low-income households in places as diverse as Eastern Europe, parts of Africa, and the Russian Arctic are an important part of the diet, especially during food shortages. In Chukotka, in the far northeast of the Russian Federation, wild mushrooms are a source of nourishment in everyday consumption, and were ...

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Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 2 (2008): SPECIAL ISSUE: "Trash Food"; 95-107

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ELEVATING THE LOWLY DUMPLING: FROM PEASANT KITCHENS TO PRESS CONFERENCES

Jennifer Jordan; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Food culture; dumplings; Austria; regional promotion

Dumplings may be a simple food prepared in Central European kitchens and the object of publicity campaigns to draw culinary tourists to particular regions. Around the world, dumplings can be both a celebratory meal and a way to stretch meager ingredients with tiny bits of meat tucked into larger quantities of cheaper ingredients like wheat flour or potatoes. The Austrian dumpling exemplifies some of the ways that relatively cheap ingredients become both strikingly symbolic and ...

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2009-10-15

Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 2 (2008): SPECIAL ISSUE: "Trash Food"; 109-121

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UDDERS, PENISES, AND TESTICLES

Robert Rotenberg; DePaul University

Cooked penis, testicles, udders; symbolic associations

Sexual and lactating organs of animals are both foods and symbols. Because the organs are visible when the animal is mating or nursing, their shape is unmistakable, and their symbolic potency clings to them, even after slaughter. Cooking them might mask or magnify these qualities. This article reports on the means employed in different communities to render these organs as comestibles. (Cooked penis, testicles, udders, symbolic associations)

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Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology; Vol 47, No 2 (2008): SPECIAL ISSUE: "Trash Food"; 123-128

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