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Themed Environments
Suburbs and the Middle Class in Bangkok
Timothy Simpson (abstract)

Defending the Suburban Dream
Gated Communities in Calabasas, Califomia
Joost Zonneveld (abstract)

Strange Distance
Reading Walden in Suburbia
Jenny Cool (abstract)

The Indian Middle Class and Residential Space
The Suburb as the Abode of the ‘Educated’
Margit van Wessel (abstract)

The New Land
Suburb and City in One
Leon Deben (abstract)

Dreams of Leaving . . .
Suburbia in Cairo
Anouk de Koning (abstract)

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The Berserk Style in Post-Vietnam America
Kirby Farrell (abstract)

To Hunt the Black Shaman
The Great Purge in East Siberia
Heonik Kwon (abstract)

Catastrofes en hemelse helpers
Notities en beelden
Jojada Verrips (abstract)

The Disease of Immorality
Narrating Aids as ‘Sign ofthe Times’ in Middle-class Nairobi
Rachel Sprank (abstract)

‘Breng Boldoot’
De schokbestendigheid van de Jakartaanse middenklasse in 1998
Lizzy van Leeuwen (abstract)

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L’ enfant terrible
Anthropology and its Aversion to Children
Lawrence
A. Hirschfeld (abstract)

Why Chi1dren Should be Central to Anthropological Research
Christina Toren (abstract)

‘It Hurts’
Children’s Cultural Learning About Everyday Illness
Pia Haudrup Christensen (abstract)

The Magical Power of Words
About Children, Their Conflicts and Their Bodies
Suzanne Kuik (abstract)

Kinderen, polygynie enfosterage
ervaringen uit Oost-Kameroen
Catrien Notermans (abstract)

Notions of ‘Risk’ Applied to Urban Children in Nepal
Karen Valentin (abstract)

The Buca Boys from Metro Juárez
Leadership, Gender and Age in Mexico City’s Youthful Street Culture
Roy Gigengack (abstract)

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The Double Nature of Collecting
Materialism and Anti-Materialism
RusselI W Belk, University of Utah (abstract)

Nobody’s Objects
Early-19th Century Ethnographical Collections and the Formation of Imperialist
Attitudes and Feelings
Susan Legêne, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (abstract)

On Collecting as Play, Creativity and Aesthetic Practice
Bjarne Rogan, University of Oslo (abstract)

Collectible Amulets
The Triple Fetishes of Modern Thai Men
lrene Stengs, University of Amsterdam (abstract)

Monsters in Vienna
The pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum
Mélanie van der Hoorn (abstract)

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On Materiality
Gosewijn van Beek

Why It’s Safer to Build on Concrete Than Epistemology
A Comment on ‘On Materiality’ by Gosewijn van Beek
Daniel Miller

All-Consuming Faith
Language, Material Culture and WorldTransformation among Protestant Evangelieals
Siman Coleman

What’s (the) Matter?
Objects, Materiality, and Interpretability
Maruska Svasek

Money as Matter and Sign
Webb Keane

Betoverde Wereld?
Verslag van een debat over de rol van godsdienst in moderne samenlevingen
– Geschiedschrijving en de secularisatie these (Peter van Rooden)
– Kanttekeningen bij een uitdagende stelling (L. Laeyendecker)
– Secularization theory (Gerd Baumann)
– Secularisatie en ontkerstening (Hans Tennekes)

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Ten Geleide

Oxymorons and Short-Circuits in the Re-Enchantment of the World
The Case
of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Thomas J. Csardas

‘The Beast of the Revelation’
American Fundamentalist Christianity and the European Union
Orestis Lindermayer

‘Wake the Flame Inside Us’
.Magie, Healing and the Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain
Susan Greenwood

Pilgrimage and Islam in Rural Pakistan
The Influence of the Hajj
Hastings Donnan

Rituele verandering in Europa
Een kritiek op Boissevains opvattingen over rituele revitalisatie
Gerard Roe/ofs

‘Kijk, dames en heren, het zit namelijk zo…!’
Enkele kanttekeningen bij de roep om duidelijkheid in een onduidelijke
wereld
Mattijs van de Port

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