Why Read about the Old Masters?

Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. N. J. Allen. Methodology and History in Anthropology, vol. 6. David Parkin, series ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 172 pp.
Durkheim Reconsidered. Susan Stedman Jones. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 288 pp.     

Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates

Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates . Pamela J. Stewartand Andrew Strathern, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 146 pp.     

Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner

Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner. Ethel Tobach, Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Mary Brown Parlee, Laura M. W. Martin, and Aggie Scribner Kapelman, eds. New York Cambridge University Press, 1997. 425 pp.     

Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination

Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination. Peter P. Schweitzer. Megan Biesele. and Robert K. Hitchcock. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.498 pp.     

Franz Boas 1858–1942: An Illustrated Biography; Margaret Mead: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Franz Boas 1858–1942: An Illustrated Biography. Norman Francis Boas. Mystic, CT: Seaport Autographs Press, 2004. 312 pp.
Margaret Mead: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future. Robert B. Textor, ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 348 pp.     

Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century.

Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century. Jurgen Heideking. Genevieve Fabre. and Kai Dreisbach. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 316 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine . Helle Johannessen and Imre Lazar, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. 202 pp.
Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives . Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner, eds. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006. 300 pp.     

Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing. Merete Demant Jakobsen. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 274 pp.     

L' Appétit Vient en Mangeant

We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Foods and the Making of Americans. Donna R. Gabaccia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.288 pp.
No Foreign Foods: The American Diet in Time and Place. Richard Pillsbury. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.262 pp.
Sociology on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society. Alan Beardsworth and Teresa Keil. New York: Routledge, 1997. 278 pp.
Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change. Helen Macbeth. ed. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997.218 pp.     

Poverty and Downward Mobility in the Land of Opportunity

Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence. Katherine S. Newman. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1999. 328 pp.
"So You Think. Drive. Cadillac?": Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform. Karen Seccombe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. 246 PP.
Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness. Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 132 pp.     

Anthropology as an Agonistic Discipline

Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge. Richard Fardon. ed. New York: Routledge, 1995. 233 pp.     

Drinking: Anthropological Approaches

Drinking: Anthropological Approaches . Igor de Garine and Valeria de Garine. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 248 pp.     

The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality. Vassos Argyrou. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 195 pp.     

Breast Feeding and Sexuality: Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Breast Feeding and Sexuality: Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania. Mara Mabilia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 140 pp.     

Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus

Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus. Paul Sant Cassia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 246 pp.     

Chronometric Dating in Archaeology, vol. 2

Chronometric Dating in Archaeology. vol. 2. R. E. Taylor and Martin J. Aitken. eds. New York: Plenum, 1997.396 pp.     

Making Their Way: Four Books on Youth, Culture, and Identity

Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 257 pp.
Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Ralph Cintron. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 264 pp.
Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers. Niobe Way. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 310 pp.
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Tobias Hecht. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 267 pp.     

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football. Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.320 pp.     

Teaching Concern for the Environment

Reidman, Sarah R. Biological Clocks New York: T. Y. Crowell Junior Books, 1982 120 pp. $10.50 trade, $10.89 library. Reviewed by Gilbert Wright.

Sidgwick, J. B. (revised by James Muirden) Observational Astronomy for Amateurs, 4th ed. Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1982 296 pp. $19.95 cloth, $5.95 paper. Reviewed by Van E. Neie.

Briggs, Asa The Power of Steam: An Illustrated History of the World's Steam Age Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982 208 pp. $22.50 (available in paper, $10, spring 1983). Reviewed by C. Bruce Hunter.

Manners, Ian R. North Sea Oil and Environmental Planning—The United Kingdom Experience Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982 268 pp. $37.50. Reviewed by Donald Schwartz.

Frazier, Kendrick Our Turbulent Sun Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982 198 pp. Reviewed by James W. O'Leary.

Randi, James Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1982 342 pp. $9.95 paper. Reviewed by R. F. Trimble.

Kircher, Harry B. and Donald L. Wallace Our Natural Resources, 5th ed. Danville, Ill.: Interstate, 1982 426 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Rex E. Kerstetter.

Riley, Denis and Lewis Spolton World Weather and Climate, 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982 $8.95. Reviewed by Ira W. Geer.

Shih, Gene and Richard Kessel Living Images: Biological Microstructures Revealed by Scanning Electron Microscopy Boston, Mass.: Science Books International, 1982 155 pp. $24.95 cloth, $14.94 paper. Reviewed by Michael E. Somers.

Christensen, Ann and Lee Green Trash to Treasures: An Idea Book for Classroom and Media Center Materials Littleton, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1982 178 pp. $18.50 paper.

Selberg, Ingrid Our Changing World New York: Philomel Books, 1982 12 pp. $10.95 trade.     

Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Polly Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhövel. eds. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1996. 294 pp.