Alexander Moore

Feasting as occupation: The emergence of ritual from everyday activities

Abstract Timothy Aschs justly famous ethnographic film, The Feast, made with Napoleon Chagnon, represents the forging of an alliance between two formerly mutually hostile villages of Yanomami tribesmen in the Venezuelan rain forest. The event is readily analyzed according to a rite of passage model. By referring to print ethnographies one can also analyze the action depicted in terms of the transmutation that ritual events effect upon everyday activities. Namely this paper demonstrates that cooking becomes a ceremonial statement; that eating becomes dining; that getting dressed becomes dressing up; that goods become gifts; that walking becomes dancing; that talking becomes chanting, chatting, demanding‐haggling, and speech‐making; and that playing become duelling. The analysis discloses ritual as the master system for orchestrating the political and economic events, each a culmination of its own activity stream.

Discipline or profession: Anthropology and its guilds

Chambers, Erve. Applied Anthropology: A Practical Guide. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1986. ix + 258 pp., including references and index. Driben, Paul. Aroland Is Our Home: An Incomplete Victory in Applied Anthropology. New York: AMS Press, 1986. xiv + 185 pp., including chapter notes and index.

Rosanzerusu is Los Angeles an anthropological inquiry of Japanese tourists

32.50 cloth. Eddy, Elizabeth M. and William L. Partridge, eds. Applied Anthropology in America, Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xiii + 571 pp., including bibliography. Van Willigen, John. Applied Anthropology: An Introduction. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1986. xviii + 259 pp., including bibliography and index.

Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings

36.95 cloth,

The Limitations of Imagist Documentary: A Review of Robert Gardner's "Forest of Bliss"

18.95 paper.