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The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Number 91

C) 2005 Kroeber Anthropological Society:

Editorial Committee:

Laurence Cuelenaere  Shlomy Kattan

Nathaniel Dumas     Alfred Montoya
Brad Erickson       Amelia Moore

Marc Goodwin        Shanti Morrell-Hart

Liza Grandia        Adelaide Papazoglou
Daniel Husman       Emily Wilcox

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Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
No. 91, 2005

Plan B: When the Anthropologist Becomes Data

Guest Editor: Nathaniel Dumas
Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking Communicative Breakdowns in Ethnography

Nathaniel Dumas ...............................................................................  1
Language, Culture and Miscommunication

John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz .............................. ................................. 6
The Past Less Traveled

Rachel Faye Giraudo .................................. ............................................. 25
Refusing to Gloss: Metalinguistic Practices and the Collaborative Construction of
Meaning in Nepal

Calla Jacobson ...............................................................................  36
"Is This Play?" Reframing Metaphoric Action on Indianist Playgrounds

Petra Tjitske Kalshoven ................................................................................  66
Rubbed the Wrong Way: Making Ethnographic Film against the Grain

Mark  Westmoreland ............................ ................................................... 89
Afterword: On the Pleasures of "Muddling Through" in Ethnography

George E. Marcus ............................. .................................................. 113