Introduction / Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Culture blends / Michael Agar -- Five principles / Richard Bauman -- Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture / Clifford Geertz -- Winking as social business / Jane E. Goodman -- Speaking of ethnography / Leila Monaghan -- The emergent quality of performance / Richard Bauman -- Poetics, play, process, and power: the performative turn in anthropology / Dwight Conquergood -- Narrative lessons / Elinor Ochs -- Greetings in the desert / Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird -- Let your words be few: symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeeth-century Quakers / Richard Bauman -- "To give up on words": silence in western Apache culture / Keith Basso -- "What we nee
Expert commentaries -- Terrorism: the threat of new technology / Alessia Ceresa -- Ethnicity and terrorism / Atin Basuchoudhary and William F. Shughart II -- Research and review studies -- Toward a theory of terrorism: a multid