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.     

Nearby Ethnography from the American Heartland

Scipio Storytelling: Talk in. Southern Indiana Community. Margaret Read MacDonald. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996. 246 pp.
Following Old Fencelines: Tales from Rural Texas. Lee Winniford. College Station: Texas. &. University Press, 1998.262 pp.
Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky's Burley Belt. John van Willigen and Susan C. Eastwood. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 223 pp.
Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts. Catherine Henshaw Knott. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 314 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.     

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.     

Planet of the Normates

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 200 pp.
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 400 pp.
Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.315pp.     

Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam

. History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Wael B. Hallaq. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 294 pp.
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Judith E. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 216 pp.
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Susan F. Hirsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 355 pp.
The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf. Nathan J. Brown. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 258 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.     

Redefining the Ethnographic Object: An Anthropology Museum Turns Fifty

Exhibit A: Objects of Intrigue. Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 9, 1999–March 31, 2000.
Objects and Expressions: Celebrating the Collections of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Vancouver: Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 1999.     

The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan: The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom: Río Azul: An Ancient Maya City

The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan. Don E. Dumond. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.571pp.
The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. Grant D. Jones. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.568 pp.
Río Azul: An Ancient Maya City. Richard E. W. Adams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 238 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.     

Indigenous Peoples, State-Sanctioned Knowledge, and the Politics of Recognition

Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition . Bruce G. Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 248 pp.
Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgement Process . Mark Edwin Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 355 pp.
Gambling and Survival in Native North America . Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. 202 pp.     

Female Ascetics in Hinduism; The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States; Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

Female Ascetics in Hinduism. Lynn Teskey Denton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 218 pp.
The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States. Karen Pechilis, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 260 pp.
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal. June McDaniel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 356 pp.     

The Ojibwa Woman.; Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887–1934.; Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835.

The Ojibwa Woman. Ruth Landes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 248 pp.
Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934. Katherine M. B. Osburn. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 165 pp.
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Theda Perdue. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 252 pp.     

Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American Culture

Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp.
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp.
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp.     

People Out of Place: Unquiet Immigrants

Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency . Susan Bibler Coutin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 228 pp.
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South . Leon Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 254 pp.
The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border . David Bacon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 348 pp.     

Migration, Transnationalism, and Belonging: Movements in the Nation-State

Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp.
When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. Sheba Mariam George. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005. 259 pp.
In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 327 pp.     

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives; African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory; Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent. eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. xii. 510pp.
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii. 287 pp.
Reading Birth and Death:. History of Obstetric Thinking. Jo Murphy-Lawless. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. viii. 343pp.     

China's Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage

Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in. Chinese Village 1949–1999 . Yan Yunxiang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 289 pp.
Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy . Vanessa Fong. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 242 pp.
On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China . Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 355 pp.     

New Anthropological Perspectives on Southeastern Indians

Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. Margaret Bender. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 187 pp.
Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity. Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach. eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. 151 pp.
Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Circe Sturm. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 249 pp.     

Authenticating (and Inauthenticating) Local Moral Worlds: Ethnographies of Interpersonal Experience

Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless. Robert Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 308 pp.
Women in the American Welfare Trap. Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 206 pp.
Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in. Manhattan Residence. Alisse Waterston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 235 pp.
Sidewalk. Mitchell Duneier. with photographs by Ovie Carter New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 383 pp.