Peter Just was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at Williams College since 1988. He has conducted field research among the Dou Donggo and Javanese in Indonesia and lobster fishermen in Maine, USA.John D. Monaghan is Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has carried out fieldwork among the Maya of Guatemala, the Mixtec of Mexico, and the Kalanguya of the Philippines.

• 1: Fieldwork and ethnography 2: Culture 3: Society 4: Sex and blood 5: Caste, class, tride, nation 6: People and their things 7: People and their gods 8: People and their selves 9: Into a shrinking world References Further Reading Index

Peter Just was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at Williams College since 1988. He has conducted field research among the Dou Donggo and Javanese in Indonesia and lobster fishermen in Maine, USA.John D. Monaghan is Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has carried out fieldwork among the Maya of Guatemala, the Mixtec of Mexico, and the Kalanguya of the Philippines.

• 1: Fieldwork and ethnography 2: Culture 3: Society 4: Sex and blood 5: Caste, class, tride, nation 6: People and their things 7: People and their gods 8: People and their selves 9: Into a shrinking world References Further Reading Index

Peter Just was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at Williams College since 1988. He has conducted field research among the Dou Donggo and Javanese in Indonesia and lobster fishermen in Maine, USA.John D. Monaghan is Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has carried out fieldwork among the Maya of Guatemala, the Mixtec of Mexico, and the Kalanguya of the Philippines.

• 1: Fieldwork and ethnography 2: Culture 3: Society 4: Sex and blood 5: Caste, class, tride, nation 6: People and their things 7: People and their gods 8: People and their selves 9: Into a shrinking world References Further Reading Index