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Vol. 66, No. 3/4 – Summer & Fall, 2007

Articles

Introduction


Space, Place, Emergence


Lisa Gabbert and Paul Jordan-Smith



Articles


The Boma and the Peripatetic Ruler: Mapping Colonial Rule in German East Africa, 1889–1903

Michael Pesek



Situating the Local by Inventing the Global: Community Festival and Social Change


Lisa Gabbert



Portable Places: Serial Collaboration and the Creation of a New Sense of Place


Lynne McNeill



Bellydance in the Town Square: Leaking Place through Tribal Style Identity


Erin Kenny



Islamic Head Covering among Turkish Women in the US: Creating International Spaces of Difference


Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon



Sharing Prosperity: Critical Regionalism and Place-Based Social Change

Rosina S. Miller

Review Essays
Reviews

Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice and the Fairy Tale Tradition


Reviewed by Cristina Bacchilega



Roger D. Abrahams, with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul

Reviewed by Frank de Caro



Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone

Reviewed by Ray Cashman



Will Evans, Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader, 1898–1948 392

Reviewed by Kathryn MacKay



Simon J. Ortiz, ed., Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection; David MacDougall, The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses

Reviewed by Charles Camp



Gananath Obeyesekere, Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas

Reviewed by John B. Wolford



George T. Blakey, Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers’ Project in Indiana, 1935–1942

Reviewed by Charles Camp



Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher Chippindale, and David S. Whitley, eds., Discovering North American Rock Art

Reviewed by Douglas Deur



Ernesto De Martino, The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism

Reviewed by Peter Savastano



Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, eds., Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941–1942

Reviewed by Matthew Barton



Laurel Horton, Mary Black’s Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life

Reviewed by Simon J. Bronner



Susan Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco

Reviewed by Amy Shuman



Bill Daniel, Who is Bozo Texino?: The Secret History of Hobo Graffiti

Reviewed by James Deutsch

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