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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Challenges to Identity and Power | |
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| Continuity and Change in Aztec Culture: From Imperial Lords to Royal Subjects | |
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| Setting the Stage: Some Themes | |
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| The Aztec Empire on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest | |
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| Imperial Strategies | |
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| Political and Territorial Organization: the Altepetl | |
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| Social Stratification | |
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| Commerce | |
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| Religion | |
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| The Stage Is Set | |
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| New Lords of the Land | |
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| Aztecs to Nahuas: Continuity and Change in the New Order | |
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| Demographic Disaster | |
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| The Altepetl and Cultural Identity | |
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| Social Stratification: Disintegration Over Time | |
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| Occupations and Commerce | |
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| Taking Advantage of New Things and Ideas | |
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| Religious Syncretism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Change in the Lives of a Brazilian Indigenous People: To Pluck Eyelashes (or Not?) among the Canela | |
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| The Canela Today | |
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| Some Background to the Current Canela Situation | |
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| Tracing Culture Change Through Individuals | |
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| Basket Lifter and her Son, Speechless | |
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| Hard Bed | |
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| Anaconda | |
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| Angelo Carampei | |
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| Edible Vine | |
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| Summary: Factors in Culture Change | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cultural Identity in China: The Rising Politics of Ethnic Difference | |
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| The Soviet Union as China's Prologue? | |
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| Nationality in China | |
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| Han Nationality as Invented National Unity | |
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| Identity Politics and National Minorities | |
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| Internal Divisions among the Han Majority | |
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| Internet Cafes, Discos, and Democratization? | |
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| Conclusion: National Disunity? | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Vice Lords Today: Sociocultural Change in an African American Street Gang | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Change in Gender Hierarchies | |
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| Sambia Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change | |
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| Precolonial Sambia Society | |
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| Traditional Gender Roles and Initiation | |
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| Social Hierarchies among the Sambia | |
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| Marriage and the Traffic in Women | |
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| Social Change and Resistance | |
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| Schools and Gender Change | |
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| Change over the Past Decade | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Mothers to Daughters: Social Change and Matrilineal Kinship in a Minangkabau Village | |
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| Minangkabau and Their Houses | |
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| Reconfiguring Daughters' Desires | |
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| Education | |
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| Marriage Rights | |
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| Models of Domesticity | |
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| Contradictory Housewives | |
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| Social Change and Small Houses | |
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| Households, Demographics, and Migration | |
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| Residence and Matriliny | |
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| Daughters Who Leave | |
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| Daughters' Claims | |
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| Matriliny in Single-Family Households | |
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| Husband and Wife Contributions | |
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| Reconstituting Single-Family Households | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Ju/'Hoansi at the Crossroads: Continuity and Change in the Time of AIDS | |
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| Four Decades of Change | |
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| Nyae Nyae: A Struggle for Survival | |
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| Ju/'Hoansi in the Twenty-First Century: Progress and Poverty | |
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| Botswana | |
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| Namibia | |
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| Regional Developments: From the End of Apartheid to the Coming of AIDS | |
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| AIDS and the Ju/'Hoansi | |
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| The Ju/Hoansi's Lower Rates: Macro and Micro Factors | |
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| Ju/'Hoan Women's Autonomy | |
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| Forces Driving the Epidemic | |
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| The Larger Social Framework of AIDS Risk | |
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| The Tsumkwe Junior Secondary School | |
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| The Old-Age Pension Affair | |
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| Craft Buying as Income Generation | |
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| The Kashipembe Crisis | |
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| The Wider Nyae Nyae and Dobe Region | |
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| Conclusion: Back from the Brink? | |
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| References | |
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| Note | |
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| From Field to Factory and Beyond: New Strategies for New Realities in a Yucatecan Village | |
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| Theoretical Perspective | |
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| Yucatan and the World System: Historical Perspective | |
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| Yucatan and the Modern World System | |
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| Yaxbe | |
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| 1990s-The Fall of the Ejido: New Strategies for New Realities | |
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| Economic Diversification in the Village | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Nonagricultural Occupations | |
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| Women and Income Production Within the Home | |
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| Women and Income Production Outside of the Home | |
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| Women in Solidarity: The Horchateras | |
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| Commuting as Economic Strategy | |
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| Factory Jobs | |
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| Professional Occupations | |
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| Other Occupations | |
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| Men and Commuting | |
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| Women and Commuting | |
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| Migration as Economic Strategy | |
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| Conclusion: The Impact of Globalization | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| New Patterns of Migration and Mobility | |
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| The Yolmo People of Melemchi, Nepal: Change and Continuity | |
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| Melemchi: A Yolmo Temple-Village | |
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| The Village | |
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| Traditional Subsistence Strategies | |
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| Social and Political Organization | |
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| Religion and Worldview | |
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| Moving into the Twenty-First Century: 1971-2000 | |
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| Changes in the Subsistence System | |
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| Changes in Circular Migration | |
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| Incorporation into the Langtang National Park | |
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| A Primary School in Melemchi | |
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| Melemchi in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges of the Future | |
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| The Changing Demography of Melemchi | |
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| Dependence on External Remittance | |
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| Viability of the Village Subsistence System | |
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| Maintaining Cultural Knowledge | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Mardu Aborigines: On the Road to Somewhere | |
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| Introducing the Mardu Aborigines | |
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| Fieldwork among the Mardu | |
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| Conceptualizing Social Change and the Challenge to Analysis | |
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| The Mardu in a Wider Australian Context | |
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| Early Contacts with Europeans: Defining the "Whitefella" | |
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| The Mission and Its Aftermath: From Masters of the Desert to Children of the Devil | |
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| "Self-management": The Perils of Well-Meaning Government Policy | |
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| On Mobility, Dispersal, and Aggregation | |
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| The Mardu Today: On the Road to Somewhere | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| From Local "Tribe" to Transnational Arab: The "New" Rashaayda Bedouin of Sudan | |
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| Geographical and Historical Background | |
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| The History of "Tribal" Affiliations in Eastern Sudan | |
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| The Economic Internationalization of Eastern Sudan | |
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| International Politics and the Unstable National Border Between Sudan and Eritrea | |
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| The War in Eritrea | |
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| The War in Sudan | |
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| The Bani Rashiid in Saudi Arabia | |
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| The Bani Rashiid Campaign to Rework Genealogies and History | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction: Lessons from Research on Transnational Migration | |
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| Why is Transnational Migration Important for Anthropologists? | |
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| A Love-Hate Relationship with Immigrants | |
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| Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction | |
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| Immigration and Culture Change | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Effects of Economic Change and Modernization | |
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| Scottish Crofters: Narratives of Change among Small Landholders in Scotland | |
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| Doing Fieldwork | |
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| Narratives about Crofting | |
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| Narratives about Speaking Gaelic | |
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| Narratives about the Free Church | |
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| Narratives of Home and Exile | |
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| Summary of Changes | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Village in Greece: Vasilika Then and Now | |
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| Migration and the Fates of Migrants | |
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| Gender Roles | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| References | |
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| Additional Works on Vasilika | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Through Japanese Eyes: Culture Change in a Midwestern Town | |
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| Changing Eyes-From Analogue to Digital | |
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| Two Views of Downtown and the Public Square | |
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| A Tranquil Place and an Intense Site | |
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| Changes in Farming Practice | |
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| A Changing Ethnic and Economic Map | |
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| The Transformation of the Senior Center | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| References | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |