Anthropology

Vol. 12 No 1 February 1996

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Contents

Teaching and learning social anthropology (R.D. GRILLO) page 1
NIGEL RAPPORT
'Dear Elsie', 'Dear Bronio' 2
GÉRARD LENCLUD
The factual and the normative in ethnography 7
GEORGE GMELCH and SHARON BOHN GMELCH
Barbados's Amerindian past 11
EXHIBITIONS 16
PETER FLÜGEL on Jain revival at the V & A Museum,
MALCOLM COLLIER on Portraits of Berkeley Anthropologists, 1901-1995
OBITUARY 19
ADAM KUPER on Ernest Gellner
MARY BOUQUET on David Schneider
CONFERENCES: 21 ESTELLIE SMITH and JONATHAN BENTHALL on the 1995 annual AAA meetings, JONATHAN SKINNER on Visions of development: haben oder sein
LETTERS: 25 DON MOODY, DECLAN QUIGLEY, SEAN KINGSTON
CALENDAR 26 NEWS 27 RAI NEWS 28 CLASSIFIED 29

CAPTION TO FRONT COVER page 28

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