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Social Anthropology

Anthropologie sociale

ISSN: 0964-0282 (print) • ISSN: 1469-8676 (online) • 4 issues per year

Volume 4 Issue 2

(Im)materiality and sociality

The dynamics of intellectual property in a computer software research culture*

GEORGINA BORN

Cursing, poisoning and feminine morality. The case of the ‘Vinegar Hag’ in late eighteenth‐century Palermo*

GIOVANNA FIUME

The death of Piet Retief*

ADAM KUPER

Being worthy of protection. The dialectics of gender attributes in Yemen*

GABRIELE VOMBRUCK

Policy anthropology as expert witness

Raymond Apthorpe

Modernité et révolution

Gérard Heuzé

Reply to Kirsten Hastrup

SIGRÍDUR KRISTMUNDSDÓTTIR

Reviews

Geschichte der arabischen Welt. Edited by Uirich Haarmann. Munich C. H. Beck. All the mothers are one. Hindu India and the cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis. By Stanley M. Kurtz. Foreword by Stanley J. Tamblah. Cultures and societies In a changing world. By Wendy Griswold. Müne: La conservation alimentaire traditionelle au Liban. By Aïda Kanafal‐Zahar. Museums and the making of ‘ourselves'. The role of objects in national identity. Edited by Flora E. S. Kaplan. Museums and the appropriation of culture. Edited by Susan Pearce. Essal d'anthropologie du mythe. De Richard Pottier. Paris: Editions Kim & 1995. 239 pp. iSBN 2 90821 55 2. Ethnicity and conflict in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Fukui Katsuyoshi and John Markakis. The Sicilian Mafia. The business of private protection. By Diego Gambetta.

Books received

Abstracts

Georgina Born: (Im)materlallty and sociality: the dynamics of Intellectual property in a computer software research culture/(Im)materialit6 et socialite: dynamlque de la proprlete intellectuelle dans un milieu de recherche de programmation lnformatique/(Im)materiaiitit und Sozlalitiit: Die Dynamik von intellektuellem Eigentum In elner Forschungskultur, die sich mit Computer Software befasst/(1m)materialidad y socialidad: la dynamicade la propriedad inteiectual en una cultura de lnvestigacion en soportes informaticos Adam Kuper: The death of Piet Retief/La mort de Piet Retief/Der Tod des Pet Retief/La muerte de Piet Retief Giovanna mume: Cursing, poisoning and feminine morality/Les sorts, le poison et la moralite f6minine/Fluchen, Vergiften und weibiiche Moralvorstellungen/Maidecir, envenenar, y la moralidad femenina Gabriele vom Bruck: Being worthy of protection: the dialectics of Gender attributes in Yemen/M6riter protection: la diaiectique des attributs du genre au Yemen/Shutzwiirdig: die Dialektik der Geschlechterelgenschaften in Jemen/Digno/a de proteccion: la dialectica sobre 10s zitributos de genero en Yemen