Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 23 (1994) CONTENTS OVERVIEW Digging On: A Personal Record and Appraisal of Archaeological Research in Africa and Elsewhere, J. Desmond Clark ARCHAEOLOGY Prehistoric Desert Farmers of the Southwest, Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish The Archaeology of Empires, Carla M. Sinopoli Changing Perspectives on Maya Civilization, William L. Fash The Northwest Coast: Complex Hunter-Gatherers, Ecology, and Social Evolution, Kenneth M. Ames Hunters and Farmers: Then and Now, Katherine A. Spielmann and James F. Eder Alternative Interpretations of the Late Upper Paleolithic in Central Europe, Anta Montet-White BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Biological Aspects of Menopause: Across the Lifespan, L. E. Leidy Advances in Human Reproductive Ecology, Peter T. Ellison Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Among Aboriginal North Americans, Eméke J. E. Szathmdry The Epidemiology of HIV Transmission: Trends, Structure, and Dynamics, Kathleen M. MacQueen LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES Music and Language, Steven Feld and Aaron A. Fox Language Ideology, Katherine A. Woolard and Bambi B. Schieffelin Honorification, Asif Agha Theories and Politics in African American English, Marcyliena Morgan Legal Language: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Social Power, Elizabeth Mertz Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 23 (1994) CONTENTS OVERVIEW Digging On: A Personal Record and Appraisal of Archaeological Research in Africa and Elsewhere, J. Desmond Clark ARCHAEOLOGY Prehistoric Desert Farmers of the Southwest, Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish The Archaeology of Empires, Carla M. Sinopoli Changing Perspectives on Maya Civilization, William L. Fash The Northwest Coast: Complex Hunter-Gatherers, Ecology, and Social Evolution, Kenneth M. Ames Hunters and Farmers: Then and Now, Katherine A. Spielmann and James F. Eder Alternative Interpretations of the Late Upper Paleolithic in Central Europe, Anta Montet-White BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Biological Aspects of Menopause: Across the Lifespan, L. E. Leidy Advances in Human Reproductive Ecology, Peter T. Ellison Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Among Aboriginal North Americans, Eméke J. E. Szathmdry The Epidemiology of HIV Transmission: Trends, Structure, and Dynamics, Kathleen M. MacQueen LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES Music and Language, Steven Feld and Aaron A. Fox Language Ideology, Katherine A. Woolard and Bambi B. Schieffelin Honorification, Asif Agha Theories and Politics in African American English, Marcyliena Morgan Legal Language: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Social Power, Elizabeth Mertz SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State, Carole Nagengast Old Age: Cultural and Critical Perspectives, Lawrence Cohen Land and Culture in Tropical Africa: Soils, Symbols, and the Metaphysics of the Mundane, Parker Shipton The Politics of Space, Time, and Substance: State Formation, Nationalism, and Ethnicity, Ana Maria Alonso Spirit Possession Revisited: Beyond Instrumentality, Janice Boddy INDEXES Author Index Subject Index Cumulative Index of Contributing Authors Cumulative Index of Titles