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Body Language in the Context of Culture Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance. Edited by Brenda Farnell. Metuchen, N.J.; The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995. Name index, subject index. 313 pp. $42.50, hardcover.     

SINGLE BOOK REVIEWS

P'ungmul : South Korean Drumming and Dance . Nathan Hesselink. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 271 pp.     

Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities.

Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities. Carole Pegg. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 376 pp.     

Lord of the Dance: The Mani Rimdu Festival in Tibet and Nepal.

Lord of the Dance: The Mani Rimdu Festival in Tibet and Nepal. Richard J. Kohn. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 320 pp.     

Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance

Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance. Michelle Kisliuk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 241 pp.     

From Margin to Center: From Medical Anthropology to Cultural Studies of Science

Writing at the Margins: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Arthur Kleinman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 314 pp.
Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. Robert A. Hahn New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 327 pp.
The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Allan Young. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 327 pp.     

AIDS and Anthropologists: Ten Years Later

Global AIDS Policy. Douglas A. Feldman. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1994 (cloth and paper),. + 250 pp.
AIDS and STDs in Africa: Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine. Edward C. Green. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xii. 276 pp.
Hidden in the Blood:. Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan. Carter Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), xx. 168 pp.
Plague Doctors: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America. Jamie L. Feldman. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1995 (cloth), xii. 273 pp.
Young People at Risk: Fighting AIDS in Northern Tanzania. Knut-Inge Klepp. Paul M. Biswalo. and Aud Talle. eds.Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995 (cloth), xxviii. 243 pp.
AIDS is. Kind of Kahungo That Kills. Hanne Overgaard Mogensen. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), ix. 135 pp.
Les Sciences Sociales Face au Sida: Cas Africains autour de l'Exemple Ivoirien. Jean-Pierre Dozon and Laurent Vidal. eds. Paris: Orstom, 1995 (paper). 300 pp.
Sida et Anthropologie: Bilan et Perspectives. Jean Benoist and Alice Desclaux. eds. Paris: Karthala, 1995 (paper). 412 pp.     

Ethnicity in the USSR and the CIS

After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Anatoly M. Khazanov. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 311pp.
Who Gets the Past? Competition for Ancestors among Non-Russian Intellectuals in Russia. Victor A. Shnirelman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966. 98 pp.
In the Soviet House of Culture:. Century of Perestroikas. Bruce Grant. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 225 pp.     

Cultural Politics and China's Minorities

China's Minority Cultures. Colin Mackerras. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 252 pp.
Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers. Stevan Harrell. ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. 379 pp.     

"Visual Anthropology Is Dead, Long Live Visual Anthropology!"

Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. eds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 306 pp.
Principles of Visual Anthropology. Paul Hockings. ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. 562 pp.
Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography. Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 362 pp.     

Science Studies: Beyond the War Zone

Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology. Susan Leigh Star. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 421 pp.
Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones. Nelly Oudshoorn. London: Routledge, 1994. 195 pp.
Science and Technology in. Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts. David J. Hess. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. 306 pp.     

The Archaeology of Disease, 2nd and Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians:Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent

The Archaeology of Disease, 2nd. ed. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995 (cloth), x + 243 pp.
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent. Stephen Webb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (cloth), xii + 324 pp.     

Indian Blood: New Lessons in Hindu Statecraft

Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society. Steven M. Parish. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 270 pp.
Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India. David Ludden. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 346 pp.
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992. Shahid Amin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.256 pp.
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Veena Das. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. 230 pp.     

Women's Health, Women's Lives

What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health. Lesley Doyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii. 280 pp.
Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Carolyn F. Sargent and Caroline Brettell. eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966. + 370 pp.
Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence. Paul Farmer. Margaret Connors. and Janie Simmons. eds. Monroe, ME: Common Courage, 1966. xxi. 473 pp.
Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS-Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women. E. J. Sobo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. ix. 232 pp.
Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico. Kaja Finkier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. xix. 238 pp.     

Un-Separate and Still Unequal? Three Books about American Education and Race at the End of the Liberal Century

Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. James Banks, ed. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 352 pp.
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. Lisa Delpit. New York: The New Press, 1995. 206 pp.
Beyond Desegregation: The Politics of Quality in African American Schooling. Mwalimu J. Shujaa, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1996. 268 pp.     

Gender in the Muslim Middle East

Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Margot Badran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 352 pp.
Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Sondra Hale. Boulder, CO. Westview Press, 1996. 294 pp.
Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions. Marcia C. Inhorn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. 441 pp.     

Hierarchy and value: An introduction

Martha J. Kaplan. 1995. Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and Colonial Imagination in Fiji. London and Durham: Duke University Press, xviii + 236 pp.

Martha Mundy. 1995. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 317 pp.

Thomas Csordas (ed.). 1994. Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 294 pp.

Philip L. Kohl &; Clare Fawcett (eds). 1995. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 329 pp.

Joanna B. Eicher (ed.). 1995. Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time. Oxford: Berg Publishers. xiv + 316 pp.

Anatoly M. Khazanov. 1995. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 334 pp.

Pertti J. Anttonen &; Reimund Kvideland (eds). 1994. Nordic Frontiers: Recent Issues in the Study of Modern Traditional Culture in the Nordic Countries. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore. 238 pp.

Hugo G. Nutini. 1995. The Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 444 pp.     

Political Violence, Narrative, and Memory

Lords of the Lebanese Marclies: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society. Michael Gilsenan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 377 pp.
Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Ted Swedenburg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. 259 pp.     

Drugs, Violence, and Moral Panic in Urban America

Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals. Mark S. Pleisher. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 332 pp.
Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence. Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 303 pp.     

No Exit: Aboriginal Australians and the Historicizing of Interpretation and Theory

Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology, L. R. Hiatt Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 225 pp.
What the Bones Say: Tasmanian Aborigines, Science, and Domination. John J. Cove. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University Press, 1995. 221 pp.