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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST VOL 106 NO 1 MARCH 2004 RESEARCH ARTICLES 6 17 32 43 56 71 85 Ritual, Risk, and Danger: Chain Prayers in Fiji Matt Tomlinson Human Behavioral Organization in the Middle Paleolithic: Were Neanderthals Different? Donald O. Henry, Harold J. Hietala, Arlene M. Rosen, Yuri E. Demidenko, Vitaliy I. Usik, and Teresa L. Armagan An Ethnographic Film flam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object John L. Jackson Jr. Diversity and the State Does French Islam Have Borders? Dilemmas of Domestication in a Global Religious Field John R. Bowen Constituted through Conflict: Images of Community (and Nation) in Bulgarian Rural Ritual Gerald W. Creed Flouting Colonialism Money in Colonial Transition: Cowries and Francs in West Africa Mahir Saul Decolonizing Time Regimes: Lakota Conceptions of Work, Economy, and Society Kathleen Pickering The Material Construction of Social Reality 98 Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa Neil L. Norman and Kenneth G. Kelly 111 Culture Matters in the Neolithic Transition and Emergence of Hierarchy in Thy, Denmark: Distinguished Lecture Timothy Earle DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Presidential Address 126 Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins Louise Lamphere RESEARCH REPORTS 140 The Biocultural Context of Very High Fertility among the Bekaa Bedouin Suzanne E. Joseph 145 Universal Patterns in Cultural Evolution: An Empirical Analysis Using Guttman Scaling Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY DREAMS OF A NATION: REVIEWS FROM A PALESTINIAN FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW ESSAYS 150 152 153 155 157 159 The Adjacent Art of Documentary: A Palestinian Film Festival Lila Abu-Lughod, Guest Editor Remembrance of Things Present, Longing for Things Future Omnia El Shakry al-Zobaidi: Crossing Kalandia Blurred Genres Sonali Pahwa and Kamran Rastegar Abu-Assad: Ford Transit Uncomfortable Subjects Amahl Bishara Bakri: Jenin, Jenin Politics in the Everyday: Women in Palestinian Women's Films Lila Abu-Lughod Arasoughly: This Is Not Living Gargour: Blanche's Homeland El-Yassir: Four Songs for Palestine Palestinian Children: Dying to Live Lori A. Allen Terawi: Staying Alive El-Hassan: News Time MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEWS ESSAYS 161 Interpreting Wabanaki Women's History Marilyn Norciniori Four Mollys: Women of the Dawn. Abbe Museum [exhibit] McBride: Women of the Dawn [book] BOOK REVIEWS REVIEW ESSAYS 165 168 173 176 178 178 180 181 182 183 183 184 185 187 188 189 189 Reflections on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State Michael Asch Mackey: The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada Morantz: The White Man's Gonna Getcha Harris: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History Lee D. Baker Holt: The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century Alland: Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms Tucker: The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund COMBINED REVIEWS (Reviewer in parentheses) Amerlinck (ed.): Architectural Anthropology; Marchand: Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen (Moore) Finkler: Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier; Edwards: Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England (Ragon‚) SINGLE REVIEWS (Reviewers in parentheses) Aijmer and Ho: Cantonese Society in a Time of Change (Gates) Axel: The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" (Dusenbery) Blee: Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (Berlet) Carrillo: The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (Kelly) Carstens: In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town (Fay) Chatterjee: A Princely Imposter? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal (Tolen) Conklin: Consuming Grief: ÿ20Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society (Oakdale) Dussart: The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge (Povinelli) Edwards: Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad (Hanifi) English-Lueck: Cultures@SiliconValley (Davidson) Feinman and Manzanilla (eds.): Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints (Foias) Fernández-Alemany and Murray: Heterogender Homosexuality in Honduras (Hodge) Grinker: In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull (Solway) 191 Haas (ed.): From Leaders to Rulers (Carneiro) 192 Hezel: The New Shape of Old Island Cultures: A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia (Petersen) 192 Huber and Sandstrom: Mesoamerican Healers (Glass-Coffin) 193 Kemper: Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World (Spencer) 195 Kingsolver: NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States (Williams) 196 Koskoff: Music in Lubavitcher Life (Porcello) 197 Larsen: Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton (Bromage) 198 Maira: Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (Tewary) 199 Marcus: The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology (Toussaint) 200 McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly: Dynamics of Contention (Burdick) 201 McClaurin (ed.): Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics (Samantrai) 202 Powers: Navajo Trading: The End of an Era (Lamphere) 204 Roughley (ed.): Being Human: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Shapiro) 204 Scheid: Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (Halliburton) 205 Shoemaker (ed.): Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies (Wilkins) 206 Sneath: Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State (Bruun) 207 Strong: The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island (Grumet) 209 Townsend: The Package Deal: Marriage, Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives (Gilmore) 209 van Zanten: L'école de la périphérie: Scholarité et ségrégation en banlieue (Anderson-Levitt) COMMENTARIES 212 Culture, Demic Expansions, and Bilateral Kinship in the South American Gran Chaco: A Response to Doug Jones Marcela Mendoza 212 Commentary on the Obituary for Marvin Harris Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman OBITUARIES 214 Carol Kramer (1943-2002) Nan A. Rothschilds 216 Julian A. Pitt-Rivers (1919-2001) Susan Tax Freeman 219 Fitz John Porter Poole (1941-2002) David Lipset and Paul Roscoe __________