Lingua Franca - October 2001| Table of Contents

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October 2001 - Volume 11, No. 7
		CONFERENCES Upcoming conferences FIELD NOTES Kindergarten Cop/ It's not easy being green/ God from the machine INSIDE PUBLISHING Pooh-poohing lit crit/ Highway to Hull-House/ Women and the art of motorcycle maintenance BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS The Gene HYPOTHESES Jim Holt on virgin birth and the stem cell debate.

The Artistic Animal Is creativity in our genes? The self-made scholar Ellen Dissanayake thinks so. But it has taken her a lifetime of experience outside the academy to find out why. BY CALEB CRAIN A Return to Java Decades after his banishment, Benedict Anderson has returned to Indonesia with a plea for unity. Can the famous theorist of nationalism put his ideas into practice? BY SCOTT SHERMAN		Child's Play As violent video games grow in popularity, actual rates of violent crime continue to decline. Of course, say some media scholars: Sometimes a game is just a game. BY ALISSA QUART Doubting Thomas Admirers of the American painter Thomas Eakins always knew he liked photographs. But how will fans react when they learn that he likes to trace them onto his canvas. BY RICHARD B. WOODWARD

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