Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram, eds. Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada. John Davis. Exchange. Buckingham Joel S. Kahn and Francis Loh Kok Wah, eds. Fragmented Vision: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Malaysia. Pierre Bourdieu. The Logic of Practice. Marjorie Garber. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Lorraine V. Aragon. Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities and State Development in Indonesia. Jill Forshee. Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travel from Sumba. Joy Hendry. The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook (eds). Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Alice Beck Kehoe. Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. Patrick Vinton Kirch. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. Helen Reeves Lawrence (ed.). Traditionalism and Modernity in the Music and Dance of Oceania: Essays in Honour of Barbara B. Smith. Kin Liu. In One's Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post‐Reform China. Daniel Miller and Don Slater. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Fred Myers (ed). The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Roy Wagner. An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology. Kathy Whimp and Mark Busse. Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Robert M. Ariss with Gary Dowsett . Against Death: The Practice of Living with HIV. Thomas Barfield . (ed.). The Dictionary of Anthropology. Donna Birdwell‐Pheasant and D. Lawrence‐Zuñiga . (eds.). House Life‐Space, Place and Family in Europe. Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu . (eds). Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania: Reflections on the Japanese, Dutch, Chinese and Indian Experiences. Donald L. Donham . History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology. Derek Freeman . The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of her Samoan Research. Michael W. Young . Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915–1918. Susan F. Hirsch . Pronouncing and Preserving Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Michael Humphrey . Islam, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora. Richard Jenkins , (ed.). Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability. Sarah Joseph . Interrogating Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Social Theory. Thousand Oaks Verena Keck . (ed.). Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies. Andrew B. Kipnis . Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village. George E. Marcus . (ed.). Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas. Anne Maxwell . Colonial Photography and Exhibitions: Representations of the ‘Native’ and the Making of European Identities. Lise McKean . Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement. Virginia D. Nazarea . (ed.). Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. Mark Nuttall . Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival. Rowena Robinson . Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa. Mena Roces . Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post‐War Philippines. Dorothy Shineberg . The People Trade: Pacific Islander Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865–1930. Daya Somasundaram . Scarred Minds: The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils. Mandy Thomas . Dreams in the Shadows: Vietnamese‐Australian Lives in Transition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin. 1999. 220pp., index, bibliog., $A38.43 (Hc.), ISBN 1–86448‐862‐X. Andrew Walker . The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael F. Brown. Who Owns Native Culture? Gillian Cowlishaw. Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race Richard Davis (ed.) Woven Histories Dancing Lives: Torres Strait Islander Identity, Culture and History Vanessa L. Fong. Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One‐Child Policy Donna Goldstein. Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown Rodney Harrison. Shared Landscapes: Archaeologies of Attachment and the Pastoral Industry in New South Wales Michael Jackson. In Sierra Leone Phil Jackson. Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human Monique Jeudy‐Ballini and Bernard Juillerat (eds). People and Things: Social Mediations in Oceania E. D. Lewis (ed.). Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend (eds). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective Jane Nadel‐Klein. Fishing for Heritage: Modernity and Loss along the Scottish Coast. Roslyn Poignant. Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle Stuart Robson (ed.). The Kraton: Selected Essays on Javanese Courts Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Carolyn Sargent (eds). Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood Veronica Strang The Meaning of Water Oxford Roy Willis and Patrick Curry. Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nadia Abu El‐Haj . Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self‐Fashioning in Israeli Society. Arjun Appadurai (ed.) Globalization. Ben Burt and Michael Kwa'ioloa (eds) . A Solomon Islands Chronicle, as Told by Samuel Alasa'a. Michael Kwa'ioloa and Ben Burt . Our Forest of Kwara'ae: Our Life in Solomon Islands and the Things Growing in our Home. Lionel Caplan . Children of Colonialism: Anglo‐Indians in a Postcolonial World. Erve Chambers . Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism. Gaur Desai . Subject to Colonialism: African Self‐Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson (eds) . Re‐Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China. Richard Handler (ed.) . Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology. Steven Harrell (ed.) . Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. Philip Hayward . Tide Lines: Music, Tourism and Cultural Transition in the Whitsunday Islands (and adjacent coast). Michael Herzfeld . Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society. Christopher Houston . Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State. Brij V. Lal (ed.) . Before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development. Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro (eds) . Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. Brian J. McVeigh . Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self‐Presentation in Japan. Marc L. Moskowitz . The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan. David Parker and Miri Song (eds) . Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’. Thomas, C. Patterson . A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. Jude Philp . Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888–1905. A National Museum of Australia Exhibition from the University of Cambridge. Peter Read . Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. Nancy Rosenberger . Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing World. Andrew Russell, Elisa J. Sobo and Mary S. Thompson (eds) . Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints. D. E. Smith (ed.) . Indigenous Families and the Welfare System: Two Community Case Studies. J. Taylor, J. Bern, and K.A. Senior . Ngukurr at the Millennium: A Baseline Profile for Social Impact Planning in South‐East Arnhem Land. J. Taylor and N. Westbury . Aboriginal Nutrition and the Nyirranggulung Health Strategy in Jawoyn Country. David J. Stuart‐Fox . Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali. Murray L. Wax . Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming. Mary Weismantel . Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Julie Marcus, ed. First in Their Field. Women and Australian Anthropology. Diane Bell, Pat Caplan and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds. Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Jeffrey Minson. Questions of Conduct: Sexual Harassment, Citizenship, Government. Jacques Derrida. Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money. Philip Manning. Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology. James Fentrees and Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Jeremy Rifkin. Beyond Beef. The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. Pierre Lemonnier. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop, eds. Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Uldis Ozolins. The Politics of Language in Australia. Gillian Bottomley. From Another Place. Migration and the Politics of Culture. Richard Maddox. El Castillo. The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town. Grant Evans, ed. Asia's Cultural Mosaic. An Anthropological Introduction. Jean-Paul Dumont. Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jonathan Spencer. A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble. Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Kalpana Ram. Mukkuvar Women. Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Albert B. Robillard, ed. Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Anne Salmond. Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642–1772. Geoffrey Irwin. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Bernard Juillerat, ed. Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in West Sepik. Roger M. Keesing. Custom and Confrontation. The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy. James J. Carrier, ed. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden, eds. Like People You See in a Dream. First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Klaus Neumann. Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. Ron Brunton. The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Maurice Godelier and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Big Men and Great Men. Personifications of Power in Melanesia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood. Rights for Aborigines. Sarah Colley. Uncovering Australia: Archaeology, Indigenous People and the Public. Kirk Dombrowski. Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). Passage of Change: Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific. Sinclair Dinnen with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Bruce M. Knauft (ed.). Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies. Helen Gremillion. Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. Jean Guiart. Et le masque sortit de la mer: Les pays anciens de Hienghène à Témala, Gomèn et Koumac. Robin Hide. Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and Bibliography. William Mazzarella. Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Louise Meintjes. Sound of Africa: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Sally Merry and Donald Brenneis (eds). Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawaii. Peter J. M. Nas, Gerard A. Persoon and Rivke Jaffe (eds). Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimer Schefold. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Sherry B. Ortner. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture and the Class of 58. Thomas C. Patterson. Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists. Melissa Perry and Stephen Lloyd. Australian Native Title Law. Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson (eds). Photography's Other Histories. Nigel Rapport. I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power. Renato Rosaldo (ed.). Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Regina Scheyvens and Donovan Storey. Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths (eds). Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies. Cecilia Van Hollen. Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (eds) . Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand. Piya Chatterjee . A Time For Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation. Jean and John L. Comaroff (eds) . Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Michael Humphrey . The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma. S. Jaarsma and Marta Rohatynskyj (eds) . Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Gaynor Kavanagh . Dream Spaces: Memory and Museum. Fred R. Myers . Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Nigel A. Stephenson . Kastom or Komuniti: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson (eds) . Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader. Elizabeth Wood‐Ellem . Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900–1965. Michael W. Young and Julia Clark . An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922–39.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lawrence A. Babb . Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture. Roland J.-L. Breton . Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia Alan Tormain Campbell . Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography. Claude Livi-Strauss . The Story of Lynx. Colin Filer (ed.) . The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. Kirsten Hastrup . A Passage to Anthropology: Between Experience and Theory. R.J. Howitt, J. Connell and P. Hirsch (eds) . Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Australasia, Melanesia and Southeast Asia. D.I. Kertzer and P. Lasslett (eds) . Aging in the Past: Demography, Society and Old Age. Patrick Vinton Kirch . Legacy of the landscape. An illustrated guide to Hawaiian archaeological sites. Alessandro Talamonti Written on Stone. The History of Mankind. G. Mathews . What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds. Gananath Obeyesekere . The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz (eds) . Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas (eds) . Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific. Sylvie Poirier . Les Jardins du Nomade: Cosmologie, territoire etpersonne dans le desert occidentale australien. Studies in social and ritual morphology. George W. Stocking Jnr . After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888–1951.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Arthur . Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study. Diane J. Austin-Broos. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Mick Broderick (ed.) Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso (eds). Senses of Place. T. Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds). Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds). Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Helen Hardacre. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Margaret Jolly. Women of the Place: Kaslom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu. M.P. Levine, P.M. Nardi and J.H. Gagnon (eds). In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS. Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.) Gender Ritual: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Helen Morton. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood. Herbert Donald Graham Maschner. Darwinian Archaeologies Michael Southon. The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. J. M. Mageo and A. Howard (eds). Spirits in Culture, History and Mind. Virginia Watson. Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Applied Anthropology: Neotropical Wildlife Use and Conservation . John G. Robinson and Kent H. Redford , eds.
Applied Anthropology: Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation . Patrick C. West and Steven R. Brechin , eds.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Jeremy Beckett (ed.). Wherever I Go: Myles Lalor's ‘Oral History’. Victor Buchli . An Archaeology of Socialism. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald . Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China. James F. Eder , A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines. Colin Filer (ed.) . Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994. Jill Forshee with Christina Fink and Sandra Cate (eds). Converging Interests: Traders, Travelers, and Tourists in Southeast Asia. Elizabeth Furniss . The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Community. Alfred Gell . The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams. Edited by E. Hirsch Ernest Gellner . Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg Dilemma. Kenneth Henshall . Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi . The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Mark J. Hudson . Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Laura Lee Junker . Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Robert C. Kiste and M. Marshall (eds) . American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment. Bruce M. Knauft . From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology. David MacDougall . Transcultural Cinema. Zoila S. Mendoza . Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Kirstin Pauka . Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra: Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau. Phillip B. Zarilli . When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Power in Kalaripayattu, a South Indian Martial Art. Michael Pinches (ed.) . Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia. Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner (eds) . Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Jane Schneider (ed) . Italy's ‘Southern Question’: Orientalism in One Country. Christopher C. Taylor . Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Sandy Toussaint . Phyllis Kaberry and Me: Anthropology, History and Aboriginal Australia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Georgina Born. Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde. Sandra Buckley. Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism. JaHyun Kim Haboush. (Introduction, translation and annotation). The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Maurice Hamington. Hail Mary: The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism. Vilsoni Hereniko. Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 12. Douglas W. Hollan and Jane C. Wellenkamp. The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle. Jeremy MacClancy (ed.), Sport, Identity and Ethnicity. June Nash. I Spent My Life in the Mines: the Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner. Rajni Palriwala and Carla Risseeuw , (eds), Shifting Circles Of Support: Contextualizing Kinship and Gender in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. N. Pearson and W. Sanders. Indigenous peoples and reshaping Australian institutions: two perspectives. Peter Rigby. African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: M. Auge and C. Herzlich (eds). The Meaning of Illness. Stanley R. Barrett. Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Method. Steen Bergendorff. Faingu City: A Modern Mekeo Clan in Papua New Guinea. Ben Burt. Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. As told by Michael Kwa'ioloa to Ben Burt. Ann Game and Andrew Metcalfe. Passionate Sociology. Matthew C. Gutmann. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Edvard Hviding. Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Bernard Juillerat. L'Avènement du Père. Rite, représentation, fantasme dans un culte mélanésian. L. Kendall. Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. M. Lock. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America. Daniel Miller. Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach. Alcida Rita Ramos. Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. Stanley J. Tambiah. Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Lissant Bolton. Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu. Rebecca Cassidy. The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newcastle. Kate Fox. The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horse Watchers. Robert J. Foster. Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod and Brian Larkin (eds). Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Leo Howe. Hinduism and Hierarchy in Bali. Bruce M. Knauft. Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After. Linda Sue Lewis. Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds). Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Julie Marcus. The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology. David McKnight. From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Raul Pertierra, Eduardo F. Ugarte, Alicia Pingol, Joel Hernandez and Nikos Lexis Dacanay. Txt‐ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. Urs Ramseyer. The Art and Culture of Bali. Urs Ramseyer and I. Gusti Panji Tisna (eds). Photographs by Rama Surya. Bali: Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Self‐portrait. Anthony Siaguru. In‐House in Papua New Guinea. Peggy Reeves Sanday. Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy. Neil L. Whitehead. Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death.     

Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes

Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. Ruth Osterweis Selig and Marilyn R. London, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. 348 pp.     

Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes.

Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. Ruth Osterweis Selig and Marilyn R. London. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. 348 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Kathleen Adams. Art as Politics: Recrafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Partha Chatterjee. A Princely Imposter? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal. Paul D'Arcy. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. John Gray. Domestic Mandala: Architecture of Lifeworlds in Nepal. Claudia Gross, Harriet D. Lyons and Dorothy A. Counts (eds). A Polymath Anthropologist: Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning. Nora Haenn and Richard R. Wilk (eds). The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture and Sustainable Living. Jane Lydon. Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians. Allan Marett. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia. Donald S. Moore. Suffering for Territory: Race, Place and Power in Zimbabwe. Raul Pertierra. Transforming Technologies, Altered Selves: Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines. Han ten Brummelhuis. King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam. Sem Topno. 2004. Musical Culture of the Munda Tribe.     

Colour symbolism in the lower Congo — A review article

Red‐White‐Black as a Mode of Thought: A Study of Triadic Classification by Colours in the Ritual Symbolism and Cognitive Thought of the Peoples of the Lower Congo. Anita Jacobson‐Widding. (Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology, 1.) Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1979. 396 pp., bibliography, index; 8 plates, map.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Glen Banks and Chris Ballard (eds) . The Ok Tedi Settlement: Issues, Outcomes and Implications. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy (eds) . Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Johanna M. Blows . Eagle and Crow: An Exploration of an Australian Aboriginal Myth. Malcolm Crick , Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and International Tourism. Gary W. Dowsett , Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall and Jocelyn Armstrong (eds) . Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. James Fox (ed.) The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Hamilton, Malcolm B . The Sociology of Religion - Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Andro Iteanu and Eric Schwimmer (eds) . Pane, etje t'ecouterai: Recits et traditions des Orokaiva de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee James Jemut Masing . The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak. Monica Lindh De Montoya . Progress, Hunger and Envy: Commercial Agriculture, Marteting and Social Transformation in the Venezuelan Andes. R.G. Parker and J.H. Gagnon (eds) . Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World R. Parkin . The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy. Raul Pertierra . Explorations in Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography. Carmel Schrire . Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. William Scott Shelley . The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom. Andrew Shyrock . Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Nicholas Thomas . Oceanic Art. Elspeth Young . Third World in The First.