JASO 1976-1979
Marc Augé Anthropology and the problem of ideology 1-10
Kirsten Hastrup and Jan Ovesen The joker's cycle 11-26
Chris Halsall The purity of Irish music - some 19th century attitudes 27-34b
Tim Jenkins Review article [on 'Perceiving women', edited by S. Ardener] 35-41
Mark Aston Review article [on 'Surveiller et punir', by M. Foucault'] 42-50
Book Reviews 51-4
Paul Dresch Economy and ideology: an obstacle in materialist analysis 55-77
Melinda Babcock Icelandic folk tales or national tales 78-86
Daniel Tabor "The savage and the innocent": anthropological involvement in possession cults [Brazil] 87-98
Edwin Ardener 'Social fitness' and the idea of 'survival' 99-102
Book Reviews 103-8
John Morton 'Dan Sperber and the anacondas': an ethnographic comment on Sperber's theory of symbolism 109-20
Mike Taylor Social anthropology as discourse 121-8
Mark Beeson On an aspect of 'The raw and the cooked' [musical language] 129-37
Ed Condry The impossibility of solving the highland problem [Scotland] 138-49
Ragnar Johnson Review article [on] 'Ritual and knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea', by F. Barth 150-60
Book Reviews 161-2
Paul Heelas Intra-religious explanations 1-16
Alison Sutherland Sierra Leone and the 'stranger problem' 17-24
Mike Taylor "What would there be to create if gods existed" 25-36
Juliet Blair Androgyny and creativity 37-48
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Two letters from Radcliffe-Brown to Evans-Pritchard 49-50
Book Reviews 51-62
Hilary Callan Review article [on 'Biosocial anthropology', edited by R. Fox] 106-13
Philip Kreager Malthus and formal analysis: a cautionary tale 63-73
Joanna Hodge Hermeneutics in anthropology 74-83
Malcolm Chapman What science is saying about the Celts 84-94
Michael Carrithers Review article [on 'World conqueror and world renouncer: a study of Buddhism and polity against a historical background', by S.J. Tambiah] 95-105
Book Reviews 114-15
Tim Jenkins The death of Marx: a media event 116-24
Kirsten Hastrup Laws and flaws in the constitution of the Icelandic Freestate 125-41
David Scobie The scientist, the quester, and the writer: Tristes tropiques and Lévi-Strauss 142-50
Jan Ovesen 'Biogenetic structuralism' and the location of structures [review article on 'Biogenetic structuralism', by C.D. Laughlin, jr and E.G. d'Aquili] 151-7
Glenn Bowman Symbolic incest and social intercourse: kula and community in Kiriwina 158-70
Book Reviews 171-7
Index Vol. 8/1-3
Jan Ovesen Maurice Godelier and the study of ideology 1-12
Maryon McDonald Language 'at home' to educated radicalism 13-34
Malcolm Chapman Reality and representation [on structuralism] 35-52
Sarah Skar Men and women in Matapuquio [Peru] 53-60
Tamara Dragadze Anthropological fieldwork in the USSR 61-70
Book Reviews 71-80
Roger Just Some problems for Mediterranean anthropology 81-97
Sue Wright Prattle and politics: the position of women in Doshman-Ziari 98-112
Roger Rouse Talking about shamans 113-28
Vernon Reynolds Grasshoppers and slugs [comment on 'Maurice Godelier and the study of ideology', by J. Ovesen, 'Reality and representation', by M. Chapman and 'Language "at home" to educated radicalism', by M. McDonald] 129-30
Malcolm Chapman and Maryon McDonald The missing link [comment on 'Grasshoppers and Slugs', by V. Reynolds] 131-2
GERTRUDE A postface to a few prefaces [sexual author attitudes] 133-42
Anthony Shelton The Dutch connection [review article on 'Structural anthropology in the Netherlands', by P.E. Josselin de Jong] 143-8
Book Reviews 149-56
Nick Allen A Thulung myth and some problems of comparison 157-66
Akbar S. Ahmed The colonial encounter on the north-west frontier province: myth and mystification 167-74
Melinda Babcock Some remarks on the chronology of Icelandic sources 175-85
Hilary Callan Social anthropology and the structure of attention 186-90
Anthony Shelton Volosinov on the ideology of inversion 191-5
Correspondence (on GERTRUDE and on 'Reality and Representation') 198-9
Book Reviews 200-5
Index Vol. 9/1-3
Douglas Johnson Colonial policy and prophets: the 'Nuer settlement', 1929-1930 1-20
Sarah Skar The use of the public/private framework in the analysis of egalitarian societies 21-30
Roma Standefer The symbolic attributes of the witch 31-47
David Scobey Rousseau and the call for anthropology 48-60
Book Reviews 61-8
Joanna Lowry The structure of subjectivity: problems in ethnographic description 69-82
Allison James Confections, concoctions and conceptions [U.K. material; childhood] 83-95
Steve Priddy Fieldwork and the Border Country [review article on 'The fight for Manod', by R. Williams] 96-101
David Turton Bridewealth payments and Nuer cattle [comment on 'Colonial policy and prophets: the "Nuer settlement" 1929-30', by D. Johnson] 102-4
Book Reviews 105-14
Mark Elvin Mandarins and millenarians: reflections on the Boxer uprising of 1899-1900 115-38
Malcolm Crick Anthropologists' witchcraft: sybolically defined or analytically done? [comment on 'African witchcraft beliefs: the definitional problem' and 'The symbolic attributes of the witch', by R. Standefer] 139-46
David Parkin Straightening the paths from wilderness: the case of divinatory speech 147-60
Elizabeth Munday When is a child a 'child'?: alternative systems of classification 161-72
Book Reviews 173-84