Response to Merrill and Heras Quezada's comments

Article Abstract:

The construction of personhood and ethnicity among the Tarahumara should not be be approached too puritanically. For example, the Tarahumara say themselves that they prefer to be called Tarahumara by outsiders rather than Raramuri. Also, readers will not be able to find 'Banalachi' on any map, only Panalachi. Finally, it should be noted that Tarahumara thought and knowledge vary from community to community, so no ethnographic work on them can be summarily dismissed.

Analysis, Mexico, Ethnicity, Mexicans

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On reviewing exchange paradigms: response to McKinnon

Article Abstract:

Susan McKinnon's review of the book 'Society and Exchange in Nias' was fraught with criticisms. In particular, McKinnon criticized the book's allegedly erroneous claim that groups constituted wife-givers while individuals constitute wife-takers. She also faulted the book for separating alliance exchanges from those that increase prestige in feasts of merit. Closer scrutiny fails to reveal any merit to the criticisms leveled against the book.

Bibliography, Nias, Indonesia

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Comments on "Until Death Do Us Part." (response to article by John Borneman in this issue, p. 215)

Article Abstract:

Death is an important element in the kinship theory in anthropology. Although men's deaths are given greater significance than that of women's, clans continue to thrive even upon the deaths of the menfolk. The role of friendship rather than marriage in widening the scope of AIDS research must be reexamined. The marriage-death relationship must be dissociated from earlier misconception on the importance of male deaths over female deaths.

Patient outcomes, Mortality, Death, Men, Kinship

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