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A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum.

The study is then completed by a much more anthropological fourth chapter that examines the place and role of youths, the deceased, masks, and executions in the context of the Carnival/Lent season.

Finally, a seam of anthropological scholarship on burial practices offers exquisitely detailed portraits of bereavement at the household and community level.

This reflection is interwoven with a critical examination of many written works and their authors, of the postmodernist influence on fieldwork, of social change and development, of the limits of anthropological understanding, of psychoanalysis and sociobiology, as well as of himself as a `born eclectic' who is happiest with ethnography and hypotheses deriving from ethnographic comparison.

Revisions to the American Anthropological AssociationAEs code of ethics over a three year period serve as an extended example of the challenges of applying ethical principles in the social sciences research.

Among the topics are the ontogeny of an anthropological epistemology in 18th-century Scotland, changing modern institutional forms (disciplines and nation states), an Afro-Brazilian theory of the creative process, intersubjectivity as epistemology, the all-or-nothing syndrome and the human condition, and perspectives from Africa on epistemology and ethics.

Thomas proposes that the time has come to focus instead on Cook's anthropological and scientific contributions.

Thus what began as an anti-imperialistic anthropological and historiographical romanticizing of native male Americans has been to some degree converted into a gay view that the large majority of those who became berdaches, in Will Roscoe's words, "did so entirely of their own volition." Indeed, Roscoe assures his readers that "most recent works see the berdaches not as passive but as agents, with free will." (11)