This issue of LAJ consists of five articles: AIDS in Africa: an economic perspective by JoAnn Marron; A comparative approach to the taxonomy and phylogeny of Pan by Susan Orsbon; The use of the successive pile sort in an ethnographic study of a shelter for battered women by Penelope A. Wong; Healing through language: linguistic anthropology and the recovery process of codependency by Joseph Keegan; and The phyletic affinity of ramamorphs: an ongoing controversy by Daniel Wescott.