Complex societies and anthropology: A perspective from 1979*

The Transition to Statehood in the New World, edited by G. D. Jones and R. R. Kautz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. ix + 254 pp.

The Inca and Aztec States 1400–1800: Anthropology and History, edited by G. A. Collier, R. I. Rosaldo and J. D. Wirth. New York: Academic Press, 1982. xx + 475 pp.

Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms. Frank Salomon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 274 pp.

The Origins and Development of the Andean State, edited by J. Haas, S. Pozorski and T. Pozorski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vi+ 188 pp.

Peruvian Prehistory; An Overview of pre‐lnca and Inca Society, edited by R. W. Keatinge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xvii + 364 pp.     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article:
The North American Grasshoppers:Volume II Acrididae, Oedipodinae , by D. Otte.
Animal Behavior and ils Applicaiions, by Derek V. Ellis.
Bracken:Ecology, Land Use and Control Technology, edited by R. T. Smith and J. A. Taylor.
Functional Vertebrate Morphology, edited by M. Hildebrand, D. M. Bramble, K. F. Liem and D. B. Wake.
Air Pollution by Pholochemical Oxidants, edited by R. Guderian.
Physiological Ecology of Lichens (Cambridge Studies in Ecology), by Kenneth A. Kershaw.
The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant mutualisms , by A. J. Beattie.
Fundamentals of Insect Physiology, edited by Murray S. Blum.
The Leajhppers and Planthoppers, edited by L. R. Nault and J. G. Rodriguez.     

Reviews of publications

The Diatoms–Biology and Morpology of the Genera, by F. E. Round, R. M. Crawford and D. G. Mann.
The Control of Eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs, edited by S.-O. Ryding and W. Rast.
An Amazonian Rain Forest, edited by C. F. Jordan. Vol. 2 in Man and the Biosphere Series. Carnforth, Lanes., U.K.
Exploiting the Tropical Rain Forest, edited by D. Lamb, Vol. 3 in Man and the Biosphere Series. Carnforth, Lanes
Biological Control of Microbial Plant Pathogens, by R. Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Aquatic Plant Book, by C. D. K. Cook. The Hague, The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming, edited by Linda Maddock, Quentin Bone and Jeremy M. V. Rayner.
Groundwater Ecology, eds J. Gilbert, D. L. Danielpool and J. A. Stanford.
Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain, by M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer.
The Development of Biological Systematics, by Peter F. Stevens.     

Reviews of Publications

Avian Systematics and Taxonomy. Centenary Volume, edited by J. F. Monk.
The Ecology of Butterflies in Britain, edited by R. L. H. Dennis.
Evolution. A Biological and Palaeontological Approach, edited by P. Skelton.
Ethnobiological Classification. Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies, by Brent Berlin.
The Discovery of Evolution, D. Young. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Natural History Museum Publications)
A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus, 1758–1840, by A. J. Kohn.
Biological Diversity of Mexico. Origins and Distribution, edited by T. P. Ramamoorthy, R. Bye, A. Lot and J. Fa.
Antarctic Fish Biology: Evolution in a Unique Environment, by J. T. Eastman.
Sawfly Life History Adaptations to Woody Plants, edited by M. Wagner and K. F. Raffa.
An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology 3rd Ed., by J. R. Krebs and N. B. Davies.
The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White, compiled by R. Davidson-Houston.
Genes in Ecology, edited by R. J. Berry, T. J. Crawford and G. M. Hewitt.
Algae and Symbiosis, edited by W. Reisser.
Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology, edited by L. Hunter     

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior fro the Human Skeleton

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior fro the Human Skeleton. Clark Spencer Larsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 461 pp.     

Fields of play

A review of Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative, and Ecological Perspectives, edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 274 pp., $80.00, hard bound; $32.95, paperback.     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviws in this Article
The Human Body and the Law, 2nd edition by D.W. Meyers, Edinburgh University Press, 1990
Classic Cases in Medical Ethics by Gregory E. Pence. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. 1990
Changing Values in Medical and Health Care Decision Making, edited by Uffejuul Jensen and Gavin Mooney. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1990
IVF and Justice by Teresa Iglesias, London: The Linacre Centre For Health Care Ethics, 1990
The Practical, Moral and Personal Sense of Nursing: A Phenomenon-ological Philosophy of Practice by Anne H. Bishop and John R. Scudder, Jr. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990
A Companion to Ethics, edited by Peter Singer. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
Ethics and Law in Health Care and Research edited by Peter Byrne, Chichester, UK: 1990
The Human Embryo edited by G.R. Dunstan, Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1990
Everyday Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life by Rosalie A. Kane and Arthur L. Caplan. N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, 1990
Psychiatric Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by S. Bloch and P. Chodoff. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991
Health Care and Gender by Charlotte Muller. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990     

Tiger conservation in the new millennium

A review of Riding the Tiger: Tiger Conservation in Human‐Dominated Landscapes, edited by John Seidensticker, Sarah Christie, and Peter Jackson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 383 pp, $80.00 hardbound, $34.95 paperback.     

Perspectives on mammalian conservation

A review of Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity: Has the Panda Had Its Day? edited by Abigail Entwistle and Nigel Dunstone. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 455 pages, $110.00 hardbound; $34.95 paperback.     

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.     

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting behavior from the human skeleton.

By Clark Spencer Larsen. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 461 pp. ISBN 0-521-49641-1. $85.00 (cloth).     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article: Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates. Vol. VI. Echinoderms and Lophophorates, edited by A. C. Giese, J. S. Pearse and V. B. Pearse. Pacific Grove, California, U.S.A. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History, by T. B. Larsen. The Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Suffolk, by I. J. Killeen. Ipswich, U.K. Flycatcher. Memoirs of an Amateur Entomologist by K. A. Spencer. Ecosystems of the World 24. Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems, edited by A. C. Mathieson and P. H. Nienhuis. Revision of the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), by Helmut Zibrowius and Stephen D. Cairns. Paris: Mémoires du Musée Nationale d'Histoire Naturellee, 1992. Animals and Disease. An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine, by L. Wilkinson. The Inevitable Bond. Examining Scientist-Animal Interactions, edited by H. Davis and D. Balfour. Martin Lister's English Spiders (1678), edited by J. Parker and B. Harley (translated by M. Davies and B. Harley)). The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, edited by P. F. Sale. San Diego, USA: The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity, by M. J. Scoble. Bats. A Community Perspective, by J. S. Findley. The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Second Edition. Botanical monkeys, by E. J. H. Corner. The Biology of Millipedes, by S. P. Hopkin and H. J. Read. Mammals in the Palaearctic Desert: Status and Trends in the Sahara-Gobian Region, edited by J. A. McNeely and V. M. Neronov. Coelenterate Biology: Recent Research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora, edited by R. B. Williams, P. F. S. Cornelius, R. G. Hughes and E. A. Robson. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Animal Behaviour, 4th ed., by A. Manning and M. S. Dawkins. Weevils, Naturalists' Handbook 16, by M. G. Morris. Insects on Cabbage and Oilseed Rape. Naturalists' Handbooks 18, by W. D. J. Kirk.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Ethics of Reproductive Technology edited by Kenneth D. Alpern. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege by Jean V. McHale. London and New York: Routledge, 1993
The Codes of Codes , edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992
The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality by Daniel Callahan. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993
International Directory of Bioethics Organizations. Anita L. Nolen and Mary Carrington Coutts, editors. Bioethics Resource Series, Volume 1. Washington, DC: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 1993
The Codification of Medical Morality, Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century , edited by Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993
Pursuing Parenthood: Ethical Issues in Assisted Reproduction by Paul Lauritzen. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article:
COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, Reviewed by Lord Todd, PRS, Cambridge: Volume 1 (Stereochemistry, Hydrocarbons, Halo Compounds, Oxygen Compounds; edited by J. F. Stoddart. Shefield)
COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, Reviewed by G . Ourisson, Strasbourg: Volume 2 (Nitrogen Compounds, Carboxylic Acids, Phosphorus Compounds; edited by I. O. Sutherland, Liverpool).
COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, Reviewed by G . Stork, New York: Volume 3 (Sulphur, Selenium, Silicon, Boron, Organometallic Compounds; edited by D. Neville Jones, Shefield).
COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, Reviewed by R. U. Lemieux, FRS, Edmonton. Volume 4 (Heterocyclic Compounds; edited by P. G. Sammes, London).
COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, Reviewed by W. S. Johnson, Stanford: Volume 5 (Biological Compounds: edited by E. Haslam, Shefield).
COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, To be reviewed by J. E. Baldwin, FRS, Oxford: Volume 6 (Author, Formula, Subject, Reagent, Reaction Indexes; edited by C. J. Drayton, Oxford).     

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.     

A broader view of conservation

A review of Conservation in a Changing World, edited by Georgina M. Mace, Andrew Balmford, and Joshua R. Ginsburg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 308 pp. $80.00 hard bound; $34.95 paperback.     

BOOK REVIEW

Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology and Immunology. edited by R.C. Spencer, E.P. Wright, S.W.B. Newsom.     

Natural CO(2) springs: obstacle or opportunity?

Plant Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide: Evidence from Natural Springs edited by A. Raschi, F. Miglietta, R. Tognetti and P.R. van Gardingen Cambridge University Press, 1997. ￡40.00/$69.95 hbk (xiv+272 pages) ISBN 0 521 58203 2.