Encountering Ethnographic Film

Book reviewed in this article:
Innovation in Ethnographic Film . Peter Loizos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 224 pp.     

The sounds of black resistance in South Africa and America

Frank Marshall Davis, LIVIN’ THE BLUES: MEMORIES OF A BLACK JOURNALIST AND POET, (edited, with an introduction, by John Edgar Tidwell), Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 373 pp., £22.00.

Veit Erlemann, AFRICAN STARS: STUDIES IN BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN PERFORMANCE, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 214 pp., npl.     

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).     

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid/In Darkest Hollywood: Exploring the Jungles of South Africa's Cinema

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid. 1993. 112 minutes, color. video by Daniel Riesenfeld and Peter Davis. For more information contact Nightingale Films, 5214 N. Lakewood Ave. Chicago, IL 60640.
In Darkest Hollywood: Exploring the Jungles of South Africa's Cinema. Peter Davis. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996.214 pp.     

Book reviews

Reading National Geographic Lutz, Catherine A., and Jane L. Collins. Reading National Geographic. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993, xvii, 309 pp., illus., 2 appendices, index. Paper, $19.95, hdbk., $59.95.

The Cinema of John Marshall . Edited by Jay Ruby. New York: Harwood Academic Publications, 1992. Photographs. Maps. Charts. Index. 282 pp. Filmography. Index. $58.00 or £30, hardcover; $24.00 or £14, paper.

The Cinematic Griot Stoller, Paul, The Cinematic Griot: the Ethnography of Jean Rouch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 247 pp., photographs, index. $39.95 hardbound, $16.95 paper.     

Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology

Tree Leaf Talk:. Heideggerian Anthropology. James F. Weiner. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 190 pp.
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology. James H. Zammito. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 576 pp.
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Andrew Zimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 364 pp.     

Sense and Sense Making in the Caucasus

A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya . Anna Politkovskaya. Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, trans., with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp.
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus:. World-System Biography . Georgi M. Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 416 pp.
Chechnya: Life in. War-Torn Society . Valery Tishkov. Tatiana Sokolova, trans., with. foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 284 pp.     

Women in Cairo

Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo:. View from the Household. Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar. eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. 189 pp.
Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo. Unni Wikan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 333 pp.     

History, Memory, and Nation in the (Post)Colonies

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 243 pp.
Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Jeannerte Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.
In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Naomi M. McPherson. ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 264 pp.     

Critical Investigations of Age and Aging in the United States

Aged by Culture . Margaret Morganroth Gullette. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 267 pp.
Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America . Joel S. Savishinsky. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 281 pp.
My Mother's Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare . Luisa Margolies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 339 pp.     

Positively Diverse: Jewish Difference in Western Culture and the Academy

Thinking in Jewish. Jonathan Boyarin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 218 pp.
People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity. Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 507 pp.     

The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History

The Potlatch Papers:. Colonial Case History. Christopher Bracken. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.276 pp.     

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures; Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures. Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 456 pp.
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 332 pp.     

Korean American Economy and Society

Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York. Pyong Gap Min. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.134pp.
The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Kyeyoung Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.228 pp.
On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America. In-Jin Yoon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.274 pp.     

Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field

Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field. Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1999. 327 pp.     

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa.

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. Charles Piot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 220 pp.     

Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India

Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India. Emma Tarlo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 360 pp.     

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory. Paul Rabinow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 201 pp.     

Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel

Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel . Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 308 pp.     

Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland

Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.195 pp.