Communitas and schismo‐genesis: The Andean Pilgrimage reconsidered

Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. Fredrik Barth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, xii, 95 pp., map, fig. h/b, £ 17.50, $27.95.

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies. D. K. FEIL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 313 pp. £30.00.

Language Socialization Across Cultures edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 274 pp.

Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma. American Tribal Religions Volume 10. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 347 pp.

Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God. Ekkehart Ma‐lotki, Michael Lomatuwavma. American Tribal Religions Volume 11. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp.

Pilgrims in the Andes: Regional Culls in Cusco. Michael J. Sallnow. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. xiii + 351 pp. $29.95.

The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction: an Analysis of a Tanzanian Village. Ulla Vuorela. 234 pp. Monograph of the Finnish Society for Development Studies no. I. Helsinki, 1987.

The Dynamics of Productive Relationships: African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective. A. F. Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xix + 321 pp. £25.00.

Rumblings on Soil Conservation. An Essay from Kenya. Wilhelm Östberg. Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority, 1987. 83 pp. SEK 20.‐.

Religion, Development and African Identity, edited by K. H. PETERSEN. Seminar Proceedings No. 17. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987. 163 pp. £10.

Aspects of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow, edited by Robert Gary Minnich. Bergen: Studia University Bookstore, 1987.

Hvad Mutter Gjør er Alltid Viktig. Om å vtere kvinne og mann i en nordnonk bygd i 1970‐årene. Lisbet Holtedahl. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1.986. 224 pp.

Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community. Anthony P. Cohen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. ix + 216 pp., maps, figures, photographs, illustrations, appendixes, references, index, £22.95.

The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth‐Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. James Clifford. Cambridge (Mass.) &; London: Harvard University Press. 1988. xii +, 381 pp.

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1988. vi +, 157 pp.

Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle‐Class Life. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Löfgren, (transl. Alan Crozier, Foreword John Gillis). New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. ix + 321 pp.     

Darstellung einer Kindertrage aus dem Nepeña‐Tal (Peru)

People as Subject. People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Virginia Dominguez. New Directions in Anthropological Writing. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 238 pp.

Literacy and Society, edited by Karen Schous‐boe and Mogens Trolle Larsen. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1989. 247 pp., ill.

Music of Afghanistan. Professional Musicians in the City of Herat. John Baily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 183 pp. Accompanying cassette.

The Hidden Musicians. Music‐making in an English Town. Ruth Finnegan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvii + 378 pp.

Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700–1900. Susan Bayly. South Asian Studies No 43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 463 pp.

Mru. Bergbewohner im Grenzgebiet von Bangladesh. Claus‐Dieter von Brauns und Lorenz G. Löffler. Basel, Boston &; Stuttgart: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1986. 248 Seiten mit Farbtafeln, Schwarz‐Weiß‐Fotos, mehreren Karten, Bibliographie und Glossaren.

Mm. Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh (translated from German by Doris Wagner‐Glenn), 1990. 248 pp. ISBN 0–8176. 1816–3 (U. S.)

Unwrapping Japan—Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective, edited by Eyal Ben‐Ari, Brian Moeran and Jamks Valentine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 237 pp.

Developments in Polynesian Ethnology, edited by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Tungaru Traditions. Arthur Francis Grimble, edited by H.E. Maude, Pacific Islands Monograph Series, 7. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Scottish Crofters: A historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village. Susan Parman. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1990. 169 pp., index.

Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, edited by Sandra T. Barnes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. x + 274 pp.

Spirits from the Margin. Umbanda in Sao Paulo: A Study in Popular Religion and Social Experience. Fernando Giobellina Brumana and Elda Gonzales Martinez. Uppsala: Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 12, 1989. 308 pp.

Die Achuara‐Jivaro: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Organisationsformen am peruanischen Amazonas. Richard Gippelhauser and Elke Mader. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Ethnologischen Kommission, Bd. 5, Sitzungsberichte 550. Bd., 1990. 123 pp.

Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. John Holmes McDowell. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. 206 pp.

The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823. Jennifer S.H. Brown and Robert Brightman. Manitoba Studies in Native History, III. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1988. 266 pages. Index, 3 photos (1 color plate), 5 reproduced pictographs and figures, 2 maps.

Blood Ties, Life and Violence in Rural Mexico. James Greenberg. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text. Stephen Gudeman and Alberto Rivera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 207 pp.

Observing the Economy. C.A. Gregory and J.C. Altman. ASA Research Methods. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. 253 pp.

Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth‐Century Stockholm. Allan Pred. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 298 pp.

Central Borneo: Ethnic Identity and Social Life in a Stratified Society. Jerome Rousseau. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990. 388 pp.

Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology. Simon Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii, 217 pp., plates, maps, figures.     

Ancestor guardian figures and ancestral baskets among the bakuta

Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan. Ladislav Holy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 243 pp.

The Bedovin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power. Emrys L. Peters (edited by Jack Goody and Emmanuel Marx). Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 310 pp.

Kinship, Honour and Solidarity: Cousin Marriage in the Middle East. Ladislav Holy. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. 143 pp.

Marriage among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan. Hastings Donnan. Delhi and Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988. 231 pp.

Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement Julie M. Peteet. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 245 pp.

Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands. Robert I Levy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991 /1975/. 547 pp.

Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands. Raymond Firth (with Mervyn McLean). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvii + 307 pp.

Migration from Kalimantan to Madagascar. Otto Chr. Dahl. Oslo: Norwegian University Press/ The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1991. 143 pp.

Land Filled With Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari. Edwin N. Wilmsen. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xviii + 402 pp.

The Creative Communion. African Folk Models of Fertility and the Regeneration of Life, edited by Anita Jacobson‐Widdinc and Walter van Beek. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology, 15. Uppsala, 1990. 351 pp.

When the Grass is Gone: Development Interventions in African Arid Lands, edited by P. T. W. Baxter. Seminar Proceedings No. 25. Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1991. 214 pp.

Women at a Loss: Changes in Maasai Pastoralism and their Effects on Gender Relations. AUD Talle. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, 19. Stockholm: Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 1988.

The Poison in the Gift Ritual, Prestation and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village. Gloria Goodwin Raheja. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 286 pp.

The Assembly of Listeners. Jains in Society, edited by Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii + 328 pp.

Tibetan Buddhist Nuns. History, Cultural Norms and Social Reality. Hanna Havnevik. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. 1991. 251 pp.

The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomblé. Jim Wafer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 219 pp.

Völkerkunde im Nationalsozialismus: A spekte der An‐passung, Affinität und Behauptung einer wissenschaft‐lichen Disziplin. Hans Fischer. Hamburger Bei‐träge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 7. Berlin &; Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1990. 312 pp. List of ethnologists in Germany from 1933 (Austria from 1938) to 1945.

Buskar och fåglar: en socialantropologisk studie av gorale, brrgsfolket i södra Polen. Melcher Ekstro‐mer. Lund Monographs in Social Anthropology 1. Lund: Lund University Press, 1991.

Die Völker Nordsibiriens unter sowjetischer Herrschaft. Adelheid Weiser. Kulturanthropologische Studien Bd. 16. Hohenschäfdarn bei München: Klaus Renner Verlag, 1989. 325 pp.

Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradoxes of Change in the Life Course, edited by Paul Spencer. ASA Monographs 28. London: Routledge, 1990. xii + 222 pp.     

The World of Darkness

Bowden, Charles Killing the Hidden Waters Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977 174 pp., $9.96 Reviewed by Malcolm F. Farmer

Cogswell, Howard L. Water Birds of California Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977 416 pp., $5.75 paper Reviewed by Karl L. Trever

Grant, Edward Physical Science in the Middle Ages New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977 128 pp., $4.95 Reviewed by Emanuel D. Rudolph

Piltz, Albert, and Robert Sund Creative Teaching of Science in the Elementary School, 2d ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1977 310 pp., $7.95 Reviewed by Herbert H. Grossman

Lucas, David J., Harold I. James, John Simpson A First Science Dictionary: College Edition New York: Crane, Russak &; Company, Inc., 1977 206 pp., $8.50 Reviewed by Lawrence P. Eblin

Gribben, John, ed. Climatic Change New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 280 pp., $37.50 cloth, $11.95 paper Reviewed by Waring B. Hill

Caroe, G.M. William Henry Bragg 1862–1942: Man and Scientist New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 212 pp., $16.95 Reviewed by Gilbert Wright

Rowe, Mary Budd Teaching Science as Continuous Inquiry: A Basic New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978 509 pp., $16.00 Reviewed by Elmer F. Kohlmiller

Branley, Franklyn M. Color: From Rainbows to Lasers New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1978 87 pp., $8.95 Reviewed by Van E. Neie

McNutt, Kristen W., and David R. McNutt Nutrition and Food Choices Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1978 506 pp., $10.36 Reviewed by Manfred Kroger

Allen, Arthur James A Whaler and Trader in the Arctic: 1895–1944 Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1978 213 pp., $5.95 paper Reviewed by Vagn Flyger

Coleman, William Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation, rev. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 187 pp., $13.95 cloth, $5.95 paper Reviewed by Donald J. Zinn     

In Memoriam: Rafael Karsten 1879–1956

Feminism and Anthropology. Henrietta Moore. Feminist Perspectives Series. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell and Polity Press, 1988. 246 pp.

Sous le signe de l'ours. Mythes et temporalité chez les Ojibwa septentrionaux. Désveaux, Emmanuel. Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1988. 304 p. ‐ pl.: ill., graph, carte.

Coast Salisk Essays. Wayne Suttles. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1987. 320 pp.

The Mataco of the Gran Chaco: An Ethnographic Account of Change and Continuity in Mataco Socio‐Economie Organization. Alvarsson, Jan Åre. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1988. 314 pp. 15 pp. plates, 12 maps, 31 tables, 17 figures.

Morally United and Politically Divided: The Chinese Community of Penang. Claes Hallgren. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, ix, 199 pp.

In the Stockholm Art World. Deborah Ericson. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1988. 179 pp.

Twenty Girls: Growing up, Ethnicity and Excitement in a South London Microculture. Helena Wulff. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1988. xii + 193 pp.

Central Planning and Local Reality: The Case of a Producers Cooperative in Ethiopia. Eva Poluha. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1989.

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Lila Abu‐Luchod. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 317 pp.

Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society, edited by Soraya Altorki and Camillia Fawzi El‐Solh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988. xii, 184 pp. $14.95 (paper).

The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe, edited by Tomas Gerholm and Georg Yngve Lithman. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. 293 pp. ISBN 07201 18667.

Iranian Immigrants and Refugees in Norway. Zahra Kamalkhani. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 43. Bergen: University of Bergen, 1988. 214 pages.

What Gifts Engender: Social Relations and Politics in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea. Rena Lederman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 291 pp. 1986.

Class and Culture in Urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community. Lionel Caplan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. ix+ 296 pp.

The Good Things of Life: A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture of the Yoruba People. Roland Hallgren. Leberød: Plus Ultra, 1988. pp. 198.

The Kazaks of China. Essays on an Ethnic Minority, edited by Linda Benson and Ingvar Svanberg. Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia 5. Stockholm: Almqvist &; Wiksell, International, 1988. xii + 250 pp. SEK. 147.00.

Culture, Identity, and Politics. Ernest Gellner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. viii, 189 pp.

Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist. Alan Dundes. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xvi + 216 pp.

When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators … More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. ALAN Dundes and Carl R. Pagter. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987. 271 pp.     

Eco Days at Marion

Wendy Saul with Alan R. Newman Science Fare: An Illustrated Guide and Catalog of Toys, Books and Activities for Kids New York: Harper &; Row, 1986 295 pp. $27.95 hardcover, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Jr.

George D. Zuidema, ed., and Leon Schlossberg, illus. The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy, 3d ed. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 125 pp. $25 hardcover, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Jr.

Alvin Silverstein and Virginia B. Silverstein The Story of Your Hand New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985 76 pp. $9.99 hardcover (library binding). Reviewed by Robert W. Boenig.

Langdon Winner The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986 178 pp. $17.50 hardcover. Reviewed by George G. Mallinson.

British Museum Dinosaurs and Their Living Relatives, 2nd edition New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986 72 pp. $24.95 hardcover. Reviewed by George R. Zug.     

Article of the Week…

Kellington, S. H., and A. C. Mitchell An Evaluation of New Science Worksheets for Scottish Integrated Science London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978 136 pp. $9.50 paper. Reviewed by Howard J. Stein

Sullivan, Dennis Lots of Dots: Learning with Coordinate Pictures Designed by and for Children Berkeley: Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, 1977 48 pp. $2.50 softcover. Reviewed by John G. Harvey

Parker, Stephen Life before Birth: The Story of the First Nine Months Published with the British Museum (Natural History) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979 48 pp. $6.95 hardcover, $2.50 paper. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash

Anderson, Norman D. Investigating Science in the Swimming Pool and Ocean New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978 175 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Julian R. Brandou

Selsam, Millicent Tyrannosaurus Rex New York: Harper &; Row, 1978 41 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by George R. Zug

Freeman, W. H., and Brian Bracegirdle An Atlas of Embryology, 3d ed. London and Exeter, N. H.: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1979 94 pp. $10.00 cloth. Reviewed by Joseph Patrick Kennedy     

Hierarchy and value: An introduction

Martha J. Kaplan. 1995. Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and Colonial Imagination in Fiji. London and Durham: Duke University Press, xviii + 236 pp.

Martha Mundy. 1995. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 317 pp.

Thomas Csordas (ed.). 1994. Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 294 pp.

Philip L. Kohl &; Clare Fawcett (eds). 1995. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 329 pp.

Joanna B. Eicher (ed.). 1995. Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time. Oxford: Berg Publishers. xiv + 316 pp.

Anatoly M. Khazanov. 1995. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 334 pp.

Pertti J. Anttonen &; Reimund Kvideland (eds). 1994. Nordic Frontiers: Recent Issues in the Study of Modern Traditional Culture in the Nordic Countries. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore. 238 pp.

Hugo G. Nutini. 1995. The Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 444 pp.     

Book Reviews

Michael Kearney. 1996. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Per‐spectwe. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 210 pp.

Don Kulick &; Margaret Wiltson (eds). 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London/New York: Routledge. xvi + 283 pp.

Sandra Wallman et al. 1996. Kampala Women GettingBy: Well‐being in the Time of AIDS. London:James Currey Ltd. 246 pp.

Angelique Haugerud. 1995. The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xvi + 266 pp.

Mary Kay Vaughan. 1997. Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1920–1940. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, xiii + 262 pp.

Robert J. Foster (ed.). 1995. Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcohnial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, vi + 280 pp.

Tom G. Svensson. 1997. The Sámi and Their Land: The Sámi vs the Swedish Crown. Oslo: Novus forlag. 213 pp.

Pamela J. Asquith &; Arne Kalland (eds). 1997. Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. London: Curzon. 220 pp.     

A Review of: “New Interpretations of Complex Trace Fossils”

Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, edited by David D. Gillette and Martin G. Lockley, 1989. Cambridge University Press, 110 Midland Avenue, Port Chester, New York 10573, USA. lvii + 454 pages. US$54.50.     

Alternative regimes for harvesting the seabed

Scott Allen and John P. Craven, editors, Alternatives in Deepsea Mining, Proceedings, Law of the Sea Institute Workshop, December 11–14, 1978, Ka'u Hawaii (Honolulu: Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, 1979), vii + 110 pp., $12.50.

Jack N. Barkenbus, Deep Seabed Resources: Politics and Technology (New York: The Free Press, 1979), xiv + 191 pp., $14.95.

Ross D. Eckert, The Enclosure of Ocean Resources: Economics and the Law of the Sea (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1979), xiv + 390 pp., $16.95.

I. G. Bulkley, Who Gains From Deep Ocean Mining? Simulating the Impact of Regimes for Regulating Nodule Exploitation, Research Series No. 40 (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1979), vii + 117 pp., $3.50 (paper).

Judith T. Kildow, editor, Deepsea Mining (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1980), vii + 110 pp., $2.50.     

Notes and news

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Gilbert Herdt (Ed.)‐ Berkeley and Los Angeles: University or California Press. 1984. xvii + 409 pp.

Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Shirley Brice Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. 421 pp. £ 25.00.

Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High‐caste Women in Nepal. Lynn Bennett. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. xiii + 353 pp.

Riligiöst Funktionsträger in Nuristan. Jürcen Frembgen. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissen‐schaftsverlag, 1983. xx+195 pp., diagrams, maps, bibliography, index.

Lakota Belief and Ritual. James R. Walker. Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. xxix + 329 pp. $ 21.50.

A Special Caste? Tamil Women of Sri Lanka. ElSE Skjønsberg. London: Zed Press, 1982. iii+143 pp.

Old‐Timers and New‐Comers: Politics and Ethnicity in a Sudanese Community. Sharif Harir. Bergen: African Savannah Studies, Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology, No. 29. 1983. viii+ 134 pp.

Trends in Nordic Tradition Research. Studia Fen‐nica 27. Lauri Honko and Pekka Laaksonen (eds). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1983. 260 pp.

Kitchen Table Society. Marianne Gullestad. Oslo: Universitets Forlaget. 1984.

Indonesia and Malaysia: Scandinavian Studies in Contemporary Society. Thommy Svensson and Per Sørensson (eds). Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Studies on Asian Topics No. 5, London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1983, 282 pages.

Culture History and African Anthropology: a Century of Research in Germany and Austria. Jorgenzwer‐Nemann. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 6. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsa‐liensis, 1983. 170 pp., figures, bibliography, index.

Managing Culture Contact: The Organisation of Swedish Immigration Policy. Morris Aaron Fred. Eifo English Series Report No 6. Stockholm: Commission for Immigrant Research, 1983. iii + 129 pp.

Evil Eye or Bacteria: Turkish Migrant Women and Swedish Health Care. Lisbeth Sachs. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology No. 12, 1983. xx + 257 pp.

The Traveller Gypsies. Judith Okely. Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 254, Index. Glossary.

Nuristani Buildings. Lennart Edelberg. Jutlan‐dic Archaeological Publications XVIII. 1984, Aarhus: Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, Moesgård. xxvii + 223 pp., map.     

The black ghetto and mainstream America

Thomas B. Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, CHAIN REACTION: THE IMPACT OF RACE, RIGHTS AND TAXES ON AMERICAN POLITICS, London and New York: Norton, 1992, ix + 343pp., $10.95 and £7.95 (paper).

Nicholas Lemann, THE PROMISED LAND: GREAT MIGRATION AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA, New York: Knopf, 1991, 410pp., $24.95 (cloth).

Alphonso Pinkney, BLACK AMERICANS, Fourth Edition, Englewood Cliffs, CT: Prentice Hall, 1993, vii + 246pp., npl.

Lee Sigelman and Susan Welch, BLACK AMERICANS’ VIEWS OF RACIAL INEQUALITY: THE DREAM DEFERRED, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, ix + 225pp., £13.95 and $15.95 (paper).

Raphael J. Sonenshein, POLITICS IN BLACK AND WHITE: RACE AND POWER IN LOS ANGELES, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, xxii + 301pp., $14.95 (paper).

Gerald Suttles, THE MAN‐MADE CITY: THE LAND USE CONFIDENCE GAME IN CHICAGO, London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, xiii + 312pp., $24.95 and £19.95 (cloth).

William J. Wilson (ed.), THE GHETTO UNDERCLASS: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES, updated edn., London and Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993, 201pp., $18.50 (paper).     

Short reviews

Michael Reich, Racial Inequality: A Political—Economic Analysis, Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1981, xii + 345 pp. $57.95.

Bradley R. Schiller, The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, third edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice‐Hall, 1981, x + 244 pp., £5.15.

Thomas Sowell, Markets and Minorities, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, xi + 141 pp., $6.00.

Phyllis A. Wallace, Black Women in the Labor Force, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England, The MIT Press, 1980, xv + 163 pp. $12.50.     

Cultural diversity and schooling

Ashley H. Robins, BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN PIGMENTATION, (Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology, 7), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiii + 253 pp., £37.50.

Ulfried Geuter, THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGY IN NAZI GERMANY. Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, v‐xxi + 335 pp., npl.

Clare Midgley, WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY. THE BRITISH CAMPAIGNS, 1780–1870, London: Routledge, 1992, xii + 281 pp., £37.50.

Maryinez Lyons, THE COLONIAL DISEASE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SLEEPING SICKNESS IN NORTHERN ZAIRE, 1900–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi + 335 pp., £50.00.

Wim van Binsbergen, TEARS OF RAIN: ETHNICITY AND HISTORY IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992, 495 pp., £45.00.

Albert B. Robillard (ed.) SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, London: Kegan Paul International, 1992, xvi + 507 pp., £45.

Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) ‘VIVA’: WOMEN AND POPULAR PROTEST IN LATIN AMERICA, London: Routledge, 1993, 270 pp., £12.99 pb; £40.00 hb.

Cindi Katz and Janice Monk (eds) FULL CIRCLES: GEOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN OVER THE LIFECOURSE, London: Routledge, 1993, 317 pp., £12.99 pb; £40 hb.

Hans van Amersfoort and Hans Knippenberg (eds), STATES AND NATIONS. THE REBIRTH OF THE ‘NATIONALITIES QUESTION’ IN EUROPE, Netherlands Geographical Studies 137, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1991, 189 pp., Dfl. 29.50.

Elizabeth D. Huttman, Wim Blauw and Juliet Saltman (eds), URBAN HOUSING SEGREGATION OF MINORITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, xiii + 431 pp., npl.

Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano (eds) JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM RELOCATION TO REDRESS, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992, 264 pp., $17.95 US (paper only).

David J. O'Brien and Stephen S. Fugita, THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991, 178 pp., £8.99 (paper).

Paul James Rutledge, THE VIETNAMESE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, 173 pp., npl.     

Book reviews

Andrew Hacker, TWO NATIONS: BLACK AND WHITE, SEPARATE, HOSTILE, UNEQUAL, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992, vii + 257 pp., $24.95.

Catherine Silk and John Silk, RACISM AND ANTI‐RACISM IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990, x + 186 pp., £27.50.

Therese Daniels and Jane Gerson (eds), THE COLOUR BLACK, BLACK IMAGES IN BRITISH TELEVISION, London: BFI Publishing, 1989, 160 pp., £4.95 (paper).

Jim Pines and Paul Willemen (eds), QUESTIONS OF THIRD CINEMA, London: BFI Publishing, 1989, x + 246 pp., £7.95 (paper).

David R. Roediger, THE WAGES OF WHITENESS: RACE AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, London: Verso, 1991, 191 pp., £12.95 (paper).

William Cohen, AT FREEDOM'S EDGE: BLACK MOBILITY AND THE SOUTHERN WHITE QUEST FOR RACIAL CONTROL, 1861–1915, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991, 340 pp., $42.50.

Robert L. Cooper, LANGUAGE PLANNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 216 pp., £27.50, £9.95 (paper).

Emmanual Sivan and Menachem Friedman (eds), RELIGIOUS RADICALISM AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, 244 pp., n.p.

Eliezer Ben‐Rafael and Stephen Sharot, ETHNICITY, RELIGION, AND CLASS IN ISRAELI SOCIETY, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 287 pp., £32.50.     

8-mm Cassette Films in the Teaching of Biology

Textbook of Theoretical Botany Volume 4 R. C. McLEAN and W. R. IVIMEY-COOK 595 pp, illustrated. London: Longman, 1973. £12-00. Reviewed by Eric Caulton

Introduction to Human and Social Biology DON MACKEAN and BRIAN JONES 282 pp, illustrated. London: John Murray, 1975. £2.15. Reviewed by Charles Brady

The Educational Use of Living Organisms: A Source Book P. J. KELLY and J. D. WRAY 195 pp, illustrated. London: English Universities Press, for the Schools Council, 1975. £3.50. Reviewed by Tessa Davey

Handbook on the Laboratory Mouse CHARLES G. CRISPENS 267 pp. Springfield, fll.: Charles C. Thomas, 1975. $9.75. Reviewed by D. Lovell

Photosynthesis M. A. TRIBE, M. R. ERAUT and R. K. SNOOK 77 pp, illustrated. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. £500. Reviewed by J. I. Williams

Bone and Biomineralization Studies in Biology No. 53 K. SIMKISS 59 pp. London: Edward Arnold, 1975. £2.30 boards, £1.15 paper. Reviewed by Colin Stoneman

Chromosome Hierarchy: An Introduction to the Biology of the Chromosome BERNARD JOHN and KENNETH R. LEWIS 171 pp, illustrated. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £7.00 boards, £3.50 paper. Reviewed by R. A. E. Tilney-Bassett

Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Approach JOHN ALCOCK 547 pp, illustrated. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, 1975. £6.60. Reviewed by S. M. Evans

Animal Behaviour Readings from Scientific American, edited by THOMAS EISNER and EDWARD O. WILSON 339 pp, illustrated. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman &; Co., 1975. £7.15 boards, £3.95 paper. Reviewed by S. M. Evans

Biological Anthropology Readings from Scientific American, edited by SOLOMON H. KATZ 494 pp, illustrated. San Francisco and Reading: W. H. Freeman &; Co., 1975. £8.30 boards, £3.50 paper. Reviewed by Paul Rogers

Investigations in Behaviour and Elementary Neurobiology F. M. SPEED and J. J. B. SMITH 184 pp, illustrated. London: Macmillan Education, 1975. £2.20. Reviewed by John A. Barker

Fisheries, Resources of the Sea and their Management DAVID CUSHING 87 pp. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. £3.50. Reviewed by W. H. Dowdeswell

The Food and Health of Western Man JAMES L. MOUNT 270 pp. London: Charles Knight &; Co., 1975. £5.50. Reviewed by Erica F. Wheeler

The Oxford Book of Trees Text by A. R. CLAPHAM Illustrated by BARBARA E. NICHOLSON 216 pp. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. £4.95. Reviewed by Vicky W. Smith

Oxford Biology Readers London: Oxford University Press 44 Differentiation in Higher Plants, D. H. Northcote. 1974. 60p. 49 Spore Liberation in Cryptogams, C. T. Ingold. 1974. 30p. 52 Insect Flight, J. W. S. Pringle. 1975. 30p. 57 Disease in Higher Plants, R. K. S. Wood. 1974. 60p. 77 The Golgi Apparatus, G. M. W. Cook. 1975. 30p. 78 The Productivity of the Sea, D. H. Cushing. 1975. 30p. 81 The Plasma Membrane, JA. Lucy. 1975. 30p. These booklets form useful additions to the popular Oxford Biology series. Reviewed by David Tomley

Environmental Education Activities Manual WILLIAM B. STAPP and DOROTHY A. COX 6 books, Michigan: Stapp and Cox, 1974. $10 the set. Reviewed by David R. George

Soils and other Growth Media A. W. FLEGMANN and R. A. T. GEORGE 170 pp. London: Macmillan, 1975. £2.50. Reviewed by M. J. Bazin

Lectures on the Phenomena of Life Common to Animals and Plants CLAUDE BERNARD 288 pp, illustrated. Springfield, 111.: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. $12.95. Reviewed by Diana Manuel     

Exploring the Insect World

Scheffer, Victor B. A Natural History of Marine Mammals New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1976 176 pp., $7.95. Reviewed by William B. Nutting

Sargent, Theodore D. Legion of Night: The Underwing Moths Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976 222 pp., $15.00. Reviewed by N.N. Raghuvir

Thiessen, Del, and Yahr, Pauline The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations: Mechanisms of Territoriality and Olfactory Communication Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1977 224 pp., $20.00. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash

Bullard, Fred M Volcanoes of the Earth Austin and London: The University of Texas Press, 1976 579 pp., $26.95. Reviewed by James W. Skehan

Edwards, Peter Seaweeds and Sea Grasses (in the Vicinity of Port Aransas, Texas) Austin: University of Texas, 1976 128 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Herbert H. Grossman

Schreider, Herman How Scientists Find Out about Matter, Space, Time, Energy New York: McGraw Hill Book Co, 1976 133 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Joseph H. Gillen

C.R. Austin and R.V. Short, eds. The Evolution of Reproduction Series: Reproduction in Mammals (Book 6) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 189 pp., $15.95 hardcover, $4.95 paperback. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde

Simon, Seymour Tropical Saltwater Aquariums: How to Set Them Up and Keep Them Going New York: The Viking Press, 1976 90 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by John Lyman

Brown, Vinson Sea Mammals and Reptiles of the Pacific Coast Riverside, N.J.: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976 265 pp., $10.95. Reviewed by Albert C. Jensen

Behrens, June What I Hear Chicago: Childrens Press, 1976 40 pp., $4.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall     

Letters to the Editor

Biology: A Functional Approach Second edition M. B. V. ROBERTS 656 pp., illustrated. London: Nelson, 1976. £4.95 Reviewed by John Feltwell

R. N. SAVELAND (Ed.) Sponsored by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 267 pp., illustrated. London and New York: John Wiley, 1976. £7.50. Reviewed by J. Bossanyi

Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications R. M. MAY (Ed.) 317 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1975. £8.50 boards, £4.80 paper. Reviewed by D. M. Keith-Lucas

The Battle Against Bacteria—A Fresh Look Second edition P. BALDRY 179 pp., illustrated. London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. £4.50. Reviewed by C. G. Gayford

Student's Collection of Electron Micrographs J. J. HEAD 46 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £2.50. Reviewed by John Feltwell     

Chimpocentrism revisited

A review of The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives, edited by S.T. Parker, R.W. Mitchell, and H.L. Miles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 419 pp., $85 hardbound