Anthropology Today

Vol. 14 No. 3 June 1998
Hard-wired human science, or cognitive fluidity? ( JONATHAN BENTHALL ) page 1
CAROLINE HUMPHREY
The Domestic Mode of Production in post-Soviet Siberia? 3
SJAAK VAN DER GEEST
Akan shit: getting rid of dirt in Ghana 8
DOMINIQUE LESTEL
How chimpanzees have domesticated humans 12
CONFERENCES
15 JEANETTE EDWARDS and ANTHONY SIMPSON on Princess Diana, TERRY ROOPNARAINE on indigenous knowledge and rights


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