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Symbiosis and Ambivalence: Poles and Jews in. Small Galician Town. Rosa Lehmann. Berghahn: New York. 2001. xxii- 217 pp. ISBN:. 571 81505. (cloth) 1-57181-794-8 (paper).

Geneviève Makaping (2001) Traiettori di sguardi. se gli altri foste voi? [Trajectories of gazes. What if you were the Others'?] SoverioMannelli: Rubbettino

Catherine Verdery What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 298pp.

In this paper, I discuss the gossiping practices of political journalists in Northern Ireland. Passing on the latest gossip to sources is a way for a journalist to demonstrate their usefulness as a contact, whilst still maintaining a trustworthy character. Acquiring sources is vital for career success, and gossip plays an important role in this process. Gossip between journalists can have a competitive edge, as reporters try to outdo one another by revealing their knowledge of political intrigue. Yet gossiping with colleagues can also be a collaborative practice - a method of signalling one's membership in a common journalistic world. Such exchanges set up a space in which cultural intimacy can be created. In this inner arena, journalists play with the well-known stereotypes surrounding their profession, and re-claim them for themselves. Furthermore, through gossiping about politicians' indiscretions, journalists construct themselves as educated liberals in contrast to the subjects of their conversations who are portrayed as political and religious fanatics.

Jalil Sued Badillo El Dorado Borincano: La Economia de la Conquista 1510-1550; San Juan Ediciones Puerto, 2001. 515pp. ISBN: 0-942347-45-5

Definitions of identity, which describe its dynamic and complex character, were formulated especially by those academic fields which set their focus predominantly, and often exclusively, on minorities or the excluded: e.g. feminist theory, Cultural Studies and antiracism. But the theory of identity politics as a field of struggle for self-positioning should also apply to dominant and majority identity constructions. Moreover, we can observe a close relationship between minority and dominant discourses of belonging. Taking some results of field research in Berlin as illustration, the article shows, how identity constructions of young German discursive elites' depend on the construction of specific minority groups as 'Non-Germans. At the same time, these dominant constructions fundamentally structure the field, in which minority groups are obliged to move for their self-definitions. These self-definitions thus cannot be fully understood without a close analysis of the role they play within the identity constructions of 'the majority'.

This paper investigates the cultural dimension of immigrant entrepreneurship in the case of Berlin's Turkish economy. This investigation is needed because cultural explanations of business have been criticised for their deterministic and reified conception of culture. As a result, models explaining immigrant economies are now mostly socioeconomic and ignore culture. After a description of recent changes in German-Turks entrepreneurial activities and an ethnographic description of two German-Turkish businesses in Berlin, the paper argues that the implications in terms of culture and identity of self-employment can be fruitfully analysed with the concepts of hybridity and cosmopolitanism. Finally, a broader perspective is proposed that establishes a link between foreigners, trade and culture in order to enlarge our understanding of cosmopolitanism.

Gender and Migration in Southern Europe. Women on the Move. Floya Anthias and Gabriella Lazaridis. eds. Berg: Oxford, New York. 2000.263 pp. ISBN:. 85973 231. (cloth),. 85973 236. (paper).

This paper explores the social dissonance between the stories told by women from fishing families and those told about them in the Bigouden region of Brittany, France. In this paper I draw upon stories told by and about women collected in the course of ethnographic research in the fishing communities of this region since 1992. Women from local fishing households tell stories that emphasize the importance of women in the local economy and that highlight their strength of character and abilities. These stories document the daily activities of women in the maintenance of family fishing enterprises and in the running of their households. However, these stories are not the only tales told about Bigouden women from fishing households. A counterpoising thread of stories are also told by non-fishing folk. Whereas the stories told byfisherfolk are complementary, those told by non-fisherfolk are not. Ultimately the argument is advanced that the stories told by non-fisherfolk are part of an attempt to maintain local class distinctions between the fisherfolk and the local professional and propertied classes.