Bringing the State Back In

Book reviewed in this article:
Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia . Virginia Matheson Hooker , ed. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993. 302 pp. Dissociated Identities: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society . Rita Smith Kipp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. 320 pp.     

Speaking through Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java: Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia

Speaking through Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java. Laine Berman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 256 pp.
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. J. Joseph Errington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.216 pp.     

The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Robert W. Hefner. ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 319 pp.     

Colonial "Reformation" in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995

Colonial "Reformation" in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995. Albert Schrauwers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 279 pp.     

Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba

Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba. Joel C. Kuipers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 185 pp.     

Review article: The challenge of African‐American leadership in an ambiguous world: W.E.B. Du Bois,Carter Woodson,Ralph Bunche and Thurgood Marshall in historical perspective

David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DU BOIS ‐ BIOGRAPHY OF A RACE, 1868–1919, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993, xv + 735 pp., $35.00.

Jacqueline Goggin, CARTER G. WOODSON: A LIFE IN BLACK HISTORY, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xix + 217 pp., $24.95 (£23.70).

Brian Urquhart, RALPH BUNCHE: AN AMERICAN LIFE, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993, 496 pp., $27.50.

Mark V. Tushnet, MAKING CIVIL RIGHTS LAW: THURGOOD MARSHALL AND THE SUPREME COURT, 1936–1961, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, xi + 399 pp., £27.50.     

The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia

The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia . Tom Boellstorff. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 282 pp.     

Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt: Ethnography in Historical Context

Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt: Ethnography in Historical Context. Soheir A. Morsy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993 (cloth). xiv + 237 pp.     

Outward Appearances: Dressing State and Society in Indonesia

Outward Appearances: Dressing State and Society in Indonesia. Henk Schulte Nordholt. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: KITLV Press, 1997. 327 pp.     

For the Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia

For tfie Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia. Signe Howell. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1996. 398 pp.     

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Laurie Sears. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pp.     

Contemporary Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia

Contemporary Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia. Kim Jane Saunders. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.107 pp.     

War in Guatemala and Exile in Florida

Book reviewed in this article:
Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy . Victor Perera. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 382 pp. Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida. Allan F. Burns. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 208 pp.     

Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals and Contested Identities among Lauje of Indonesia

Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals and Contested Identities among Lauje of Indonesia. Jennifer W. Nourse. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. xi. 308 pp.     

Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices

Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices. Juliette Koning. Marleen Nolten. Janet Rodenburg. and Ratna Saptari. eds. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. 2000 pp.     

Reform and Revolution in Mexico

Book reviewed in this article:
Spent Cartridges of Revolution: An Anthropological History of Namiquipa, Chihuahua . Daniel Nugent. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993. 225 pp. Planificación Regional y Reforma Agraria . Angel Palerm. Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericano, Gernika, 1993. 420 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Scandinavian Ferns. Benjamin Øllgard and Kirsten Tind. 317 pp., 114 colour plates, 103 line drawings. Rhodos International Science and Art Publisher, Copenhagen. 1993. Hardback: ISBN 87–7245–532–2, Danish kr. 425.
Stewart & Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Third edition. Edited by Paul Hackney, xi + 419 pp., 14 colour & 9 black-and-white photographs, maps and tables. Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation. Christopher Grey-Wilson. 208 pp., 114 colour plates, 38 lines drawings. B. T. Batsford, London. 1993.
Wild and Garden Plants. Max Walters. 200 pp., 39 colour plates, 51 black-and-white illustrations. The New Naturalist Library. HarperCollins, London. 1993.
Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family. R. L. Dressier. 314 pp., 16 colour plates (96 photographs) and numerous black-and-white drawings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1993.
Flowering Plants of the World. V. H. Heywood (Consultant Editor). 335 pp., many part-colour illustrations and maps. B. T. Batsford, London. 1993.     

Writing across the Biology-Culture Gap

Book reviewed in this article:
Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture . Duane Quiatt and Vernon Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 322 pp. The Use of Tools by Human and Non-Human Primates . Arlette Berthelet and Jean Chavaillon , eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 424 pp.     

Objects and Practices of Nomads

Book reviewed in this article:
Bedouins of Qatar . Klaus Ferdinand. The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project. New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1993. 400 pp. Nomads of Luristan: History, Material Culture, and Pastoralism in Western Iran . Inge Demant Mortensen. The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project. New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1993. 414 pp.     

Doing Our Home Work: Anthropologists on Homelessness and Housing in the United States

There's No Place like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States. Anna Lou Dehavenon. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996.206 pp.
Ttie Unequal Homeless: Men on tlie Street, Women in Their Place. Joanne Passaro. New York: Routledge, 1996. 128 pp.
Homesteading in New York City, 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida. Malve von Hassell. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996. 205 pp.