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ETHNOLOGY AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY Editor-in-Chief Leonard Plotnicov Editors Richard Scaglion Joseph S. Alter Marie Norman Managing Editor Katherine A. Lancaster Associate Editors Herbert Barry III Gabriella Lukacs Keith Brown Hugo G. Nutini Nicole Constable Harry Sanabria Kathleen M. DeWalt John Singleton Robert M. Hayden William Smole Terrence S. Kaufman Andrew J. Strathern International Editorial Board Bruce Kapferer, Australia Takao Sofue, Japan Robert Cardoso de Oliveira, Brazil A. J. K. Kbbben, Netherlands Laurel Bossen, Canada Hal B. Levine, New Zealand Esther Goody, England Wande Abimbola, Nigeria Maurice Godelier, France Frederik Barth, Norway T. N. Madan, India Jan Podolak, Slovakia Eileen Kane, Ireland Carmelo Lison-Tolosana, Spa Don Handelman, Israel Ulf Hannerz, Sweden Alessandro Lupo, Italy Copyright © 2006 The University of Pittsburgh. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Number 1, Winter The Articulation of Culture: Agriculture and the Environment of Chinese in Northern Thailand Huang Shu-min Walking Streets, Talking History: The Making of Odessa Tanya Richardson Cosmology, Resources, and Landscape: Agencies of the Dead and the Living in Duna, Papua New Guinea Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Race and the Politics of Identity in Nepal Susan Hangen Temple-Building and Heritage in China Selina Ching Chan Co-Wife Conflict and Co-operation William Jankowiak, Monika Sudakov, and Benjamin C. Wilreker Number 2, Spring Spirits of the Hereafter: Death, Funerary Possession, and the Afterlife in Chuuk, Micronesia Katherine Boris Dernbach Chabad in Copenhagen: Fundamentalism and Modernity in Jewish Denmark Andrew Buckser Mummers and Moshers: Two Rituals of Trust in Changing Social Environments Craig T. Palmer Vietnamese New Rice Cakes: Iconic Festive Dishes and Contested National Identity Nir Avieli The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea Roger Ivar Lohman Number 3, Summer Wolof Women: Economic Liberalization, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Senegal Donna L. Perry Caste, Class, and Community in India: An Ethnographic Approach Balmurli Natrajan Patrilateral Bias among a Traditionally Egalitarian People: Ju/’Hoansi Naming Practice Patricia Draper and Christine Haney Ethnographic Atlas XXXI: Peoples of Easternmost Europe Dmitri Bondarenko, Alexander Kazankov, Daria Khaltourina, and Andrey Korotayev Number 4, Fall The Way of the Buffaloes: Trade and Sacrifice in Northern Laos 291 Guido Sprenger Fijian Males at the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity 313 in a Fiji Secondary School Carmen M. White The Sense of Tranquility: Bodily Practice and 337 Ethnic Classes in Yucatan Christine A. Kray Generation Ku\ Individualism and China’s Millennial Youth 357 Robert L. Moore Table of Contents - 2005 377 A f i d I