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Constructing Maya Communities: Ethnography for ArchaeologyAuthor(s): John W. Fox, Garrett W. Cook, Arthur A. DemarestSource: Current Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 5 (Dec., 1996), pp. 811-830Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation forAnthropological ResearchStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2744417Accessed: 29/09/2009 10:30

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Issue Table of ContentsCurrent Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 5 (Dec., 1996), pp. 737-899Volume Information [pp.895-899]Front MatterCultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply] [pp.737-762]Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply] [pp.763-793]Calendar [p.794]CA Forum on Theory in Anthropology: The Maya State: Centralized or Segmentary?Questions of Political and Economic Integration: Segmentary Versus Centralized States among the Ancient Maya [pp.795-801]More Than Kin and King: Centralized Political Organization among the Late Classic Maya [pp.803-810]Constructing Maya Communities: Ethnography for Archaeology [pp.811-830]

ReportsThe Non-Thrifty Genotype [pp.831-842]Birth Non-Seasonality on the Pacific Equator [pp.842-851]Socioeconomic Differentiation and Body Morphology in the Surui of Southwestern Amazonia [pp.851-856]Reevaluating "Twin Infanticide" [pp.856-863]Rainfall, Patio Living, and Crisis Mortality in a Small-Scale Society: The Benefits of a Tradition of Scarcity? [pp.863-867]Brainstorming on Intercultural Communication [p.868]Loss, Change, and Monumental Landscaping: Towards a New Interpretation of the "Classic" Maaori Emergence [pp.868-880]

BooksCracks in the Feminist Foundations [pp.881-882]The Malinowskis' Letters [pp.882-884]Affirming the Obvious [pp.884-885]Colonialism as a Fractured Project [pp.885-886]Landscape with Ruins: Archaeological Approaches to Built and Unbuilt Environments [pp.886-892]Books Received [pp.892-894]

Back Matter [pp.802-802]