Issue 8

Table of contents

1. Sherry B. Ortner:

   Bourdieu and “history”

   • Bourdieu and historical analysis Edited by Philip S. Gorski

2. Adam Kuper:

   Out of eden

   • Anthropology confronts the problems of the modern world By Claude Lévi-Strauss

3. Janice Boddy:

   Under the microscope

   • Africa as a living laboratory: empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950 By Helen Tilley

4. Emma Tarlo:

   Two journalists get up close and personal with urban poverty in India

   • Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a Mumbai slum By Katherine Boo
   • A free man: a true story of life and death in Delhi By Aman Sethi

5. Caroline Merrifield, Caroline Merrifield, Caroline Merrifield & Caroline Merrifield:

   Modernity of this century: four ethnographic perspectives

   • The modernity bluff: crime, consumption, and citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire By Sasha Newell
   • New masters, new servants: migration, development, and women workers in China By Yan Hairong
   • Insurgent citizenship: disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil By James Holston
   • Exceptional violence: embodied citizenship in transnational Jamaica By Deborah A. Thomas

Feature article

1. Zuzanna Olszewska:

   Notes on class mobility and status aspiration in contemporary Iran