ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY VOL. XVI     NO. 2    APRIL   2000
Contents
Civil society's need for de-deconstruction (JONATHAN BENTHALL)		1
FRANK DE ZWART Practical knowledge and institutional design in India'a affirmative action policy		4
MICHAEL LAMBEK Nuriaty, the Saint and the Sultan		8
ARMANDO SALVATORE Social differentiation, moral authority and public Islam in Egypt		12
SEAN KINGSTON An interview with Marion Berghahn		16
COMMENT   NIGEL RAPPORT on the New Anthropology of Britain		20
CONFERENCES   RONNIE FRANKENBERG on the AAA meetings, MICHAEL RICHARDSON and COSIMO ZENO on `Crossing cultural boundaries' , ADRIENE BOF and PET PETERS on `Elite cultures'		22
OBITUARY   I.M. LEWIS on Germaine Dieterlen, Noboru Miyata		25
LETTERS   Declaration by Austrian anthropologists; WILLIAM H. NEWELL on transcontinental influences in anthropology		27
NEWS		28
CALENDAR		29
RAI NEWS		30
CLASSIFIED		31
CAPTION TO FRONT COVER		30