The effects of several attitudinal, cognitive skill, and personality variables in response to auditory and visual hallucination suggestions to hypnotic subjects are assessed. Cooperative attitudes toward hypnosis and involvement in everyday imaginative activities (absorption) correlated with response to auditory and visual hallucination suggestions in both sexes. Males and females did not differ in response to hallucination suggestions, and the visual hallucination suggestion was more difficult to respond to than the auditory hallucination suggestion. The large majority of subjects described the imagery generated by both suggestions as being of relatively short duration and less vivid than a "real" object. The large majority of subjects also described their experiences as imagined rather than as heard or seen.A number of recent studies have delineated variables affecting subjects' responses to auditory and visual hallucination suggestions. These reports have also examined the interrelationships between responses to hallucination suggestions (

This article problematizes the process of heritage declaration using ethnographic research on the working class carnival produced each year in the historic city center of Puebla, México. The author explores the ways in which the intersection of cultural and political practice in this case has not only called into question the authenticity of certain aspects of this local tradition, but have instead converted them into points of contention among carnival producers.

■ Following William Roseberry, this article treats 'local facts as world historical facts' in order to discuss the contours of a conflictive and contradictory process of proletarianization among stoneworkers, masons and maids in one peri-urban community of central Mexico. We analyze the dialectic of internal and external relationships that, over time, shaped social struggles on an uneven field of power in Santo Tomás Chautla (Puebla) before and after the 1994 peso devaluation. Proletarianization in Chautla is uneven, but has in every instance entailed a wider and deeper involvement with commodity production.

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Anyone who has ever tried to implement or participate in a social welfare program designed by a planner with no direct experience in the field knows the true meaning of the word "frustration." Planners and policy makers are dreamers—utopians whose quest for the perfect program allows them to ignore any thought that their ideas may not translate well into reality. Their job is to write outstanding proposals in hopes of attracting the funding that will support the program.