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Number-88, 2002

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Reflections on Citical Work as, an Acamic Anthropologist

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Rethinking Emic Pottery Classficat'ion

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From Immigrant to Citizen thirough State-Run Education:

':The Symbolic Structure of Public Education In Argentina During

-theWave of MassItaian 'Immigrafion-(1880-'1920,s)-    ''

Marisa L. Wilson         '                                   28

The GwembeValley_-201 The Localiand teGlobal

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Xongodory and Homeland Manipulating Identity in a
Mul-ti-Ethnicl Region

-Katerine R.-Metz                                            61

WesternmUniversalsmandthe Suburbsof Humanity
A 'Commntary on 9/1 1

Mondher Kilan' (Susan -Ervin-Tripp,trans)                   -7

A Descripton of Two VNersions of Domestic Space by Three
South Asian Women    -

Anoma Pieris                                                 9

The "'Africa-Rest of 'the World" Hypothesis :in Evolutioary.

Anthropology: ATheeoretical Analysis                     ' '      109
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Book Reviews       " '                ' '  '                      120

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Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
Number 88, 2002

Contents:

Reflections on Critical Work as an Academic Anthropologist

Hans Baer ....................................................................1

Rethinking Emic Pottery Classification

Scott R. Hutson and Robert Markens ...................................................................  8
From Immigrant to Citizen through State-Run Education: The Symbolic Structure of
Public Education in Argentina during the Wave of Mass Italian Immigration (1880-
1920s)

Marisa L. Wilson ................................................................... 28
The Gwembe Valley-2001: The Local and the Global

Elizabeth Colson ................................................................... 50
Xongodory and Homeland: Manipulating Identity in a Multi-Ethnic Region

Katherine R. Metzo ...................................................................  61
Western Universalism and the Suburbs of Humanity: A Commentary on 9/11

Mondher Kilani (Susan Ervin-Tripp, trans.) ............................................................. 77
A Description of Two Versions of Domestic Space by Three South Asian Women

Anoma Pieris ...................................................................  92

The "Africa-Rest of the World" Hypothesis in Evolutionary Anthropology: A
Theoretical Analysis

Lansana Keita ........................................................... 109
Book Reviews      ........................................................... 120