The Keeper of the Kris

**This is a special feature from the September 2010 issue of Anthropology Now. In “The Keeper of the Kris,” Janet Hoskins reviews Ann Dunham Soetoro’s book, Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia.** If she were alive today, Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, would be 67. The president’s mother was portrayed in Obama’s […]

September 2010

Volume 2 Number 2, September 2010 In This Issue: A Fieldnote on Shame by Lucas Bessire Icons of the Desert by Ruti Talmor Super Guinea Pigs? by Maria Elena Garcia My Bun, Her Oven by Elly Teman The Red General by Andrew Bickford Questions for Claude Levi-Strauss by Susan Harding and much more!