Issue 16

Table of contents

1. Chris Fuller:

   Cora Du Bois and Twentieth-Century American Anthropology

   • Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, diplomat, agent By Susan C. Seymour

2. Geoffrey Hughes:

   Not So Crazy in Love

   • The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran By Zuzanna Olszewska

3. Lotte Hoek:

   Revelations in the Anthropology of Cinema

   • Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation By Anand Pandian
   • Sensational Movies: Video, Vision and Christianity in Ghana By Birgit Meyer

4. Jeremy MacClancy:

   ‘Your Money or No Knife’: Cosmetic Surgery as Wonderland

   • Buying beauty: cosmetic surgery in China By Wen Hua
   • Beauty and the beast By Michael Taussig

Feature article

1. James Laidlaw:

   A well-disposed social anthropologist’s problems with the ‘cognitive science of religion’