The sanitized environments maintained by multinational corporations in Malaysian "free trade zones"' are not immune to sudden spirit attacks on young female workers. Ordinarily quiescent, Malay factory women who are seized by vengeful spirits explode into demonic screaming and rage on the shop floor. Management responses to such unnerving episodes include isolating the possessed workers, pumpin...

CSHA Online Fall 2003 ◆ CSHA Magazine 5 Narrative Ability in Autisim continued on page 6 The stories we tell about our lives, hear told by and about others, and those jointly constructed and transmitted within communities are a valuable resource through which we build and reinforce relation-ships and participate in shared cultural practices. A uniquely human capability, narrative is an importan...

Spontaneous rupture of the gravid uterus is a serious and life-threatening complication of pregnancy for both mother and baby. With the increase in cesarean births over the past decade, this complication will be seen more frequently. Spaulding and Gallup reported 15 cases of spontaneous rupture of the gravid uterus over a 21-year-period (or an incidence of 1:6673). Of these patients, 47% had pr...

this ethnography is a dialogic ethnography between field and two researchers. dialogic ethnography or dialogic anthropology was a result of textual revolution in discipline. textual or interpretive anthropology has been definition of culture as text founded in 1970s and 1980s. geertzian textual revolution considered and interpreted events and actions as texts. marcus, clifford, rabinow, crapanz...

Background: the author describes shamans as practitioners who deliberately shift their phenomenological pattern of attention, perception, cognition, and awareness in order to obtain information not ordinarily available to members of the social group that granted them privileged status. Objectives: to describe how these phenomenological shifts were accomplished and used. Methods: archival studie...

Most post-conflict reconciliatory exercises make it incumbent upon survivors to forgive, and seek closure as a demonstration of ‘moving on’. Various anthropologists have criticized reconciliation related forms ‘alternative justice’ extensively but within the framework maintaining social bonds rule law. In this introduction, I reflect critically on interdisciplinary scholarship reconciliation, a...

In 1998, Italy passed a law (Article 18) granting “victims of human trafficking” temporary residence permits to “escape from situations of violence and abuse.” There were two conditions: the applicant had to agree to pursue criminal action against her exploiter and to participate in a state-funded “rehabilitation” program mostly offered by Catholic groups engaged in combating criminality and fo...