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37:1 (January 1995)

Editorial Foreword,1-2.

Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Gift of the Gods

K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN,“Colonialism and Forestry in India: Imagining the Past in Present Politics,”3-40.
JOSEPH MASCO,“‘It Is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance’: Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death, and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch. 1849 to 1922,”41-75.

Science and Health

MELBOURNE TAPPER,“Interrogating Bodies: Medico-Racial Knowledge, Politics, and the Study of a Disease,”76-93.
NIELS HEROLD,“Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare. A Review Article,”94-99.
ADELA PINCH,“Emotion and History. A Review Article,”100-109.

Ideology Above, Belief Below

ANDREW B. KIPNIS,“Within and Against Peasantness: Backwardness and Filiality in Rural China,”110-135.
DONALD S. SUTTON,“Consuming Counterrevolution: The Ritual and Culture of Cannibalism in Wuxuan, Guangxi. China. May to July 1968,”136-172.

CSSH Discussion

SHERRY B. ORTNER,“Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal,”173-193.
SHELDON ROTHBLATT,“How 'Professional' Are the Professions? A Review Article,”194-204.
MARC MANGANARO,“What's Wrong with This Picture: Reflections on Reading National Geographic. A Review Article,”205-209.

37:2 (April 1995)

Editorial Foreword,211-212.

Intellectuals at Ebb Tide

CHRISTIAN JOPPKE,“Intellectuals, Nationalism, and the Exit from Communism: The Case of East Germany,”213-241.
DAVID ALLAN,“Manners and Mustard: ldeas of Political Decline in Sixteenth-Century Scotland,”242-263.

Constructing Identity

URI BEN-ELIEZER,“A Nation-in-Arms: State, Nation, and Militarism in Israel's First Years,”264-285.
DAVID E. F. HENLEY,“Ethnogeographic Integration and Exclusion in Anticolonial Nationalism: Indonesia and Indochina,”286-324.
ANDREW J. SHRYOCK,“Popular Genealogical Nationalism: History Writing and Identity among the Balqa Tribes of Jordan,”325-357.
JONATHAN SPENCER,“The Past in the Present in Sri Lanka. A Review Article,”358-367.

CSSH Discussion

MICHAEL TAUSSIG,“The Sun Gives without Receiving: An Old Story,”368-398.
GAURI VISWANATHAN,“Blasphemy and Heresy: The Modernist Challenge. A Review Article,”399-412.

37:3 (July 1995)

Editorial Foreword,413-414.

Kings and Their People

ORNULF GULBRANDSEN,“The King Is King by the Grace of the People: The Exercise and Control of Power in
Subject-Ruler Relations,”415-444.
DAVID STRECKFUSS,“Kings in the Age of Nations: The Paradox of Lese-Majeste as Political Crime in Thailand ,”445-475.

Communist Business

JONATHAN GRANT,“The Socialist Construction of Philately in the Early Soviet Era,”476-493.
FRANK N. PIEKE,“Bureaucracy, Friends, and Money: The Growth of Capital Socialism in China,”494-518.

Constructing Spaces

JEFFREY D. NEEDELL,“Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Public Space and Public Consciousness in Fin-de-Siecle Latin America,”519-540.
ANTHONY D. KING,“Colonial Space. A Review Article,”541-554.

Ethnographic Drama

EDWARD L. SCHIEFFELIN,“Early Contact as Drama and Manipulation in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Pacification as the Structure of the Conjuncture,”555-580.
J. D. Y. PEEL,“For Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Things? Missionary Narratives and Historical Anthropology,”581-607.

CSSH Discussion

RAFE BLAUFARB,“The French Revolution: The Birth of European Popular Democracy?" 608-618.

CSSH Notes:619-622.

37:4 (October 1995)

Editorial Foreword,623-624.

Post-Revolutionary Stress Syndromes

KATHERINE VERDERY,“Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids: Romania, 1990 to 1994,”625-669.
ROBERT ROY REED,“From Utopian Hopes to Practical Politics: A National Revolution in a Rural Village,”670-691.

Ideologies of Identity

CYNTHIA TALBOT,“ Inscribing the Other, Inscribing the Self. Hindu-Muslim Identities in Pre-Colonial India,”692-722.
CAROL A. SMITH,“Race-Class-Gender Ideology in Guatemala. Modern and Anti-Modern Forms,”723-749.

Merchants and the State

SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM,“Of Imarat and Tijarat: Asian Merchants and State Power in the Western Indian Ocean, 1400 to 1750,”750-780.
MURIEL NAZZARI,“Widows as Obstacles to Business: British Objections to Brazilian Marriage and Inheritance Laws,”781-802.
MISAGH PARSA,“Entrepreneurs and Democratization: Iran and the Philippines,”803-830.


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