Issue 6

Table of contents

1. Fenella Cannell:

   Filming the decline

   • Not Hollywood: independent film at the twilight of the American dream by Sherry Ortner

2. Daniel Miller:

   How people make machines that script people

   • Invisible users: youth in the internet cafés of urban Ghana by Jenna Burrell
   • Making virtual worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life by Thomas Malaby
   • Addiction by design: machine gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Schüll

3. Dena Freeman:

   Value chains for development: an ethnography of pro-poor market interventions in Ethiopia

4. Susan Gal:

   Texts also are things

   • The anthropology of texts, persons and publics By Karin Barber

5. Magnus Course:

   The fifth of five worlds

   • Language and art in the Navaho universe by Gary Witherspoon

Feature article

1. Deborah James:

   Regulating credit: tackling the redistributiveness of neoliberalism