Beyond Picturing Culture: A Critique of a Critique

Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology. Jay Ruby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 339 pp.     

Context, Meaning, and the Chomskyan Notion of Creativity

Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. Mary Douglas . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. xxi + 325 pp. $23.50 (cloth).
Culture and Communication. The Logic by Which Symbols are Connected: An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology. Edmund Leach . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 105 pp. $9.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper).
Meaning. Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. xiv + 246 pp. $12.50 (cloth).     

Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines

Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Jeremy MacClancy, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 456 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.     

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.     

One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology

One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology. Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 406 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.     

The Cutting Edge and the History of Anthropology

The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence. Robert R. Alford. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.168 pp.
. History of Anthropological Theory. Paul Erickson with Liam D. Murphy. Calgary, Alberta: Broadview Press, 1998. 254 pp.
An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Robert Layton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.242 pp.     

"There Is More to Life than a Glass of Water": Immigration in the Contemporary United States

Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America . Aiwha Ong. California Series in Public Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 333 pp.
Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy . Philip Kretsedemas and Ana Aparacio, eds. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 303 pp.
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration . Richard Alba and Victor Nee. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 359 pp.     

Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts… Showbiz.

Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts… Showbiz. James A. Boon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 361 pp.     

Combined Review: Architectural Anthropology and Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen

Architectural Anthropology. Mari-José Amerlinck, ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 232 pp.
Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen. Trevor H. J. Marchand. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. 304 pp.     

The Essential Edmund Leach. Vol. 1: Anthropology and Society; Vol. 2: Culture and Human Nature.

The Essential Edmund Leach. Vol. 1: Anthropology and Society; Vol. 2: Culture and Human Nature. Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw. eds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2000. 395 pp. and 420 pp.     

New Territories for Anthropologists

Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide . Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, M. Susan Lindee, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 328 pp.
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People . Joan Roughgarden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 474 pp.     

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.     

Encountering Ethnographic Film

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

Two Thousand and What? Anthropological Moments and Methods for the Next Century

Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry. Richard Jessor. Anne Colby, and Richard A. Shweder, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 516 pp
Interpretive Anthropology: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. Norman K. Denzin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 325 pp.     

The Anthropology of Globalization (with Notes on Neomedievalism, and the End of the Chinese Model of the Nation-State)

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 320 pp.
Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Néstor García Canclini. George Yúdice. trans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 200 pp.
The Anthropology of Globalization:. Reader. Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. eds. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 498 pp.     

The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology: Visual Methods in Social Research

The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology. Anna Grimshaw. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2001. 222 pp.
Visual Methods in Social Research. Marcus Banks. New York City: Sage Publications, 2001. 201 pp.     

A Historian among the Anthropologists

Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 404 pp.     

The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology

The Indomitable Miss Pink:. Life in Anthropology. Julie Marcus. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2001. 340 pp.