Combined Review: Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier and Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 296 pp.
Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England. Jeanette Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 264 pp.     

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1.; The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 571 pp.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 455 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.     

Arab and Muslim America: Emergent Scholarship, New Visibility, Conspicuous Gap in Academe

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock. eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pp.
Family and Gender among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge. eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 19961996. 327 pp.
Arabs in America: Building. New Future. Michael W. Suleiman. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 355 pp.
Without Forgetting the Imam. Linda S. Walbridge. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 242 pp.     

Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond; New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere

Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond. Walter Armbrust. ed. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2000. 378 pp.
New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. Dale Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 213 pp.     

The Connecting Sea: History, Anthropology, and the Mediterranean

The Corrupting Sea:. Study of Mediterranean History. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 761 pp.
Mediterranean:. Cultural Landscape. Predrag Matvejević. Michael Henry Heim. trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 218 pp.
. Mediterranean Society. An Abridgment in One Volume. Shlomo D. Goitein. Jacob Lassner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 503 pp.     

Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández

Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández. Simon Varey. Rafael Chabrán. and Dora B. Weiner. eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi. 229 pp.
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández. Simon Varey. ed. Rafael Chabrán. Cynthia L. Chamberlin. and Simon Varey. trans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xix. 281 pp.     

Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York; The Culture of Health: Asian Communities in the United States; Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia

Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York. Zibin Guo. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii. 173 pp.
The Culture of Health: Asian Communities in the United States. Grace Xueqin Ma. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. + 165 pp.
Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia. Gil Soo Han. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.292 pp.     

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua.; Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism.

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Florence E. Babb. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 304 pp.
Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 443 pp.     

Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism.; Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology.

Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism. Clark Spencer Larsen. ed. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 320 pp.
Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology. Clark Spencer Larsen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 248 pp.     

Reasoning with an Attitude: Johannes Fabian's Ecstatic Trek

Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Johannes Fabian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 320 pp.
Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays. Johannes Fabian. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 356 pp.     

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp.     

Audit Society: Rituals of Verification: Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

Audit Society: Rituals of Verification. Michael Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.183 pp.
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. Marilyn Strathern. ed. New York: Routledge, 2000. 310 pp.     

Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State

Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State. David Sneath. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 320 pp.     

Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy

Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 358 pp.     

Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record

Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record. Alison E. Rautman. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 283 pp.     

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xiv. 277 pp.     

Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations and the Ethos of Advocacy

Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations and the Ethos of Advocacy. Robert Jackall and Janice M. Hirota. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 333 pp.     

Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan

Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan. John W. Traphagan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 225 pp.     

"Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being.

"Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. Naomi Adelson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix. 141 pp.