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This article illustrates and discusses the situation of diverse Indian groups who live on the Brazil/Guyana border. Efforts to enforce legal claims to land are frustrated by the machinations of local politicians as well as the Brazilian state's attempts to militarize the region through the Calha Norte project. The complexity of relations between different yet coexisting Indian groups challenges crude typologies based on ethnic authenticity and degree of assimilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents letters sent into 'Anthropology Today' regarding articles published in previous issues.

While cognitive studies have historically been regarded as falling well within the anthropological brief, there is little evidence that contemporary versions of cognitive anthropology have much bearing in other fields of cognitive study. In this article I discuss the domination within anthropology of analyses which treate cognition as a residual category, and I discuss some of the ways in which cognitive studies which have bearing on anthropological inquiry are being carried out in other disciplines. The failure of anthropology to acknowledge the reemerging cognitive sciences, it is argued, is a result of the dominance of cultural relativism, the ignoring of developments in linquistics, and the resistance to theoretical departures which challenge the integrity of conventional anthropological objects of analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Comments on an article written by Lawrence Grossberg about rock and roll music in the U.S. Submission of rock criticism to the received wisdom on mass culture; Treatment on the meaning of rock; Assumption that rock is an aspect of youth culture.

This article presents the author's views on the anthropological research paper "The Politics of Anthropology in the Andes," by Orin Starn, an American anthropologist. According to the author, Starn does not properly characterize the protagonists. Starn portrays them as tendencies within anthropology itself rather than as a set of anthropological tendencies that fight the wisdom of the larger sociopolitical domain.