Pt. 1. Challenges to identity and power. Continuity and change in Aztec culture: from imperial lords to royal subjects / Frances F. Berdan -- Change in the lives of a Brazilian indigenous people: to pluck eyelashes (or not?) among the Canela / William and Jean Crocker -- Cultural identity in China: the rising politics of ethnic difference / Dru C. Gladney -- The vice lords today: sociocultural change in an African American street gang / Lincoln Keiser. Pt. 2. Change in gender hierarchies. Sambia gender, sexuality, and social change / Gilber Herdt and Birgitta Stolpe -- Mothers to daughters: social change and matrilineal kinship in a Minangkabau village / Evelyn Blackwood -- The Ju/'Hoansi at the crossroads: continuity and change in the time of AIDS / Richard B. Lee -- From field to factory and beyond: new strategies for new realities in a Yucatecan village / Cindy L. Hull. Pt. 3. New patterns of migration and mobility. The Yolmo people of Melemchi, Nepal: change and continuity / Naomi H. Bishop -- The Mardu Aborigines: on the road to somewhere / Robert Tonkinson -- From local "tribe" to transnational Arab: the "new" Rashaayda Bedouin of Sudan / William C. Young -- Culture change and cultural reproduction: lessons from research on transnational migration / Leo R. Chavez. Pt. 4. Effects of economic change and modernization. Scottish Crofters: narratives of change among small landholders in Scotland / Susan Parman -- A village in Greece: Vasilika then and now / Ernestine Friedl -- Through Japanese eyes: culture change in a midwestern town / Toshiyuki Sano and Mariko Fujita.
