Fields of play

A review of Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative, and Ecological Perspectives, edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 274 pp., $80.00, hard bound; $32.95, paperback.     

Book reviews

Walter A. Jackson, GUNNAR MYRDAL AND AMERICA'S CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL ENGINEERING AND RACIAL LIBERALISM, 1938–1987, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990, xxi + 447pp., $38.45.

Sissela Bok, ALVA MYRDAL: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR, Reading, MA: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Co., 1991, xvi + 375pp., $22.00 and $12.95 (paper).

David W. Southern, GUNNAR MYRDAL AND BLACK WHITE RELATIONS: THE USE AND ABUSE OF AN AMERICAN DILEMMA 1944–1969, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1987, xviii + 338pp., $37.50.

Elazar Barkan, THE RETREAT FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF RACE IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xxii + 508pp., £37.50.

Dorothy Ross, THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xxii + 508pp., £35.00 and £16.95 (paper).     

Chimpocentrism revisited

A review of The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives, edited by S.T. Parker, R.W. Mitchell, and H.L. Miles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 419 pp., $85 hardbound     

The World of Darkness

Bowden, Charles Killing the Hidden Waters Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977 174 pp., $9.96 Reviewed by Malcolm F. Farmer

Cogswell, Howard L. Water Birds of California Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977 416 pp., $5.75 paper Reviewed by Karl L. Trever

Grant, Edward Physical Science in the Middle Ages New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977 128 pp., $4.95 Reviewed by Emanuel D. Rudolph

Piltz, Albert, and Robert Sund Creative Teaching of Science in the Elementary School, 2d ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1977 310 pp., $7.95 Reviewed by Herbert H. Grossman

Lucas, David J., Harold I. James, John Simpson A First Science Dictionary: College Edition New York: Crane, Russak &; Company, Inc., 1977 206 pp., $8.50 Reviewed by Lawrence P. Eblin

Gribben, John, ed. Climatic Change New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 280 pp., $37.50 cloth, $11.95 paper Reviewed by Waring B. Hill

Caroe, G.M. William Henry Bragg 1862–1942: Man and Scientist New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 212 pp., $16.95 Reviewed by Gilbert Wright

Rowe, Mary Budd Teaching Science as Continuous Inquiry: A Basic New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978 509 pp., $16.00 Reviewed by Elmer F. Kohlmiller

Branley, Franklyn M. Color: From Rainbows to Lasers New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1978 87 pp., $8.95 Reviewed by Van E. Neie

McNutt, Kristen W., and David R. McNutt Nutrition and Food Choices Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1978 506 pp., $10.36 Reviewed by Manfred Kroger

Allen, Arthur James A Whaler and Trader in the Arctic: 1895–1944 Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1978 213 pp., $5.95 paper Reviewed by Vagn Flyger

Coleman, William Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation, rev. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 187 pp., $13.95 cloth, $5.95 paper Reviewed by Donald J. Zinn     

Book Review

Gould, Stephen Jay Ontogeny and Phylogeny Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977 501 pp., $18.50     

Exploring in the stream of behavior

Review of Observing Interaction: An Introduction to Sequential Analysis, 2nd Edition, by Roger Bakeman and John M. Gottman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiii + 207 p., 32 fig., 19 tab., $24.95 (soft), $54.95 (hard).     

744. STAUNTONIA ANGUSTIFOLIA

Stauntonia angustifolia (Wall.) Wall. ex Christenh., formerly Holboellia angustifolia Wall. is described and illustrated. Its recent history in cultivation in Cambridge is discussed.     

Darstellung einer Kindertrage aus dem Nepeña‐Tal (Peru)

People as Subject. People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Virginia Dominguez. New Directions in Anthropological Writing. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 238 pp.

Literacy and Society, edited by Karen Schous‐boe and Mogens Trolle Larsen. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1989. 247 pp., ill.

Music of Afghanistan. Professional Musicians in the City of Herat. John Baily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 183 pp. Accompanying cassette.

The Hidden Musicians. Music‐making in an English Town. Ruth Finnegan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvii + 378 pp.

Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700–1900. Susan Bayly. South Asian Studies No 43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 463 pp.

Mru. Bergbewohner im Grenzgebiet von Bangladesh. Claus‐Dieter von Brauns und Lorenz G. Löffler. Basel, Boston &; Stuttgart: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1986. 248 Seiten mit Farbtafeln, Schwarz‐Weiß‐Fotos, mehreren Karten, Bibliographie und Glossaren.

Mm. Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh (translated from German by Doris Wagner‐Glenn), 1990. 248 pp. ISBN 0–8176. 1816–3 (U. S.)

Unwrapping Japan—Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective, edited by Eyal Ben‐Ari, Brian Moeran and Jamks Valentine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 237 pp.

Developments in Polynesian Ethnology, edited by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Tungaru Traditions. Arthur Francis Grimble, edited by H.E. Maude, Pacific Islands Monograph Series, 7. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Scottish Crofters: A historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village. Susan Parman. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1990. 169 pp., index.

Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, edited by Sandra T. Barnes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. x + 274 pp.

Spirits from the Margin. Umbanda in Sao Paulo: A Study in Popular Religion and Social Experience. Fernando Giobellina Brumana and Elda Gonzales Martinez. Uppsala: Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 12, 1989. 308 pp.

Die Achuara‐Jivaro: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Organisationsformen am peruanischen Amazonas. Richard Gippelhauser and Elke Mader. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Ethnologischen Kommission, Bd. 5, Sitzungsberichte 550. Bd., 1990. 123 pp.

Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. John Holmes McDowell. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. 206 pp.

The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823. Jennifer S.H. Brown and Robert Brightman. Manitoba Studies in Native History, III. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1988. 266 pages. Index, 3 photos (1 color plate), 5 reproduced pictographs and figures, 2 maps.

Blood Ties, Life and Violence in Rural Mexico. James Greenberg. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text. Stephen Gudeman and Alberto Rivera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 207 pp.

Observing the Economy. C.A. Gregory and J.C. Altman. ASA Research Methods. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. 253 pp.

Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth‐Century Stockholm. Allan Pred. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 298 pp.

Central Borneo: Ethnic Identity and Social Life in a Stratified Society. Jerome Rousseau. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990. 388 pp.

Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology. Simon Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii, 217 pp., plates, maps, figures.     

Communitas and schismo‐genesis: The Andean Pilgrimage reconsidered

Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. Fredrik Barth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, xii, 95 pp., map, fig. h/b, £ 17.50, $27.95.

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies. D. K. FEIL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 313 pp. £30.00.

Language Socialization Across Cultures edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 274 pp.

Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma. American Tribal Religions Volume 10. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 347 pp.

Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God. Ekkehart Ma‐lotki, Michael Lomatuwavma. American Tribal Religions Volume 11. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp.

Pilgrims in the Andes: Regional Culls in Cusco. Michael J. Sallnow. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. xiii + 351 pp. $29.95.

The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction: an Analysis of a Tanzanian Village. Ulla Vuorela. 234 pp. Monograph of the Finnish Society for Development Studies no. I. Helsinki, 1987.

The Dynamics of Productive Relationships: African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective. A. F. Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xix + 321 pp. £25.00.

Rumblings on Soil Conservation. An Essay from Kenya. Wilhelm Östberg. Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority, 1987. 83 pp. SEK 20.‐.

Religion, Development and African Identity, edited by K. H. PETERSEN. Seminar Proceedings No. 17. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987. 163 pp. £10.

Aspects of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow, edited by Robert Gary Minnich. Bergen: Studia University Bookstore, 1987.

Hvad Mutter Gjør er Alltid Viktig. Om å vtere kvinne og mann i en nordnonk bygd i 1970‐årene. Lisbet Holtedahl. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1.986. 224 pp.

Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community. Anthony P. Cohen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. ix + 216 pp., maps, figures, photographs, illustrations, appendixes, references, index, £22.95.

The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth‐Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. James Clifford. Cambridge (Mass.) &; London: Harvard University Press. 1988. xii +, 381 pp.

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1988. vi +, 157 pp.

Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle‐Class Life. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Löfgren, (transl. Alan Crozier, Foreword John Gillis). New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. ix + 321 pp.     

Short reviews

Michael Reich, Racial Inequality: A Political—Economic Analysis, Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1981, xii + 345 pp. $57.95.

Bradley R. Schiller, The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, third edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice‐Hall, 1981, x + 244 pp., £5.15.

Thomas Sowell, Markets and Minorities, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, xi + 141 pp., $6.00.

Phyllis A. Wallace, Black Women in the Labor Force, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England, The MIT Press, 1980, xv + 163 pp. $12.50.     

Complex societies and anthropology: A perspective from 1979*

The Transition to Statehood in the New World, edited by G. D. Jones and R. R. Kautz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. ix + 254 pp.

The Inca and Aztec States 1400–1800: Anthropology and History, edited by G. A. Collier, R. I. Rosaldo and J. D. Wirth. New York: Academic Press, 1982. xx + 475 pp.

Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms. Frank Salomon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 274 pp.

The Origins and Development of the Andean State, edited by J. Haas, S. Pozorski and T. Pozorski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vi+ 188 pp.

Peruvian Prehistory; An Overview of pre‐lnca and Inca Society, edited by R. W. Keatinge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xvii + 364 pp.     

Book review

R. R. Churchill and A. V. Lowe, The Law of the Sea (Manchester, U. K., and Dover, NH: Manchester University Press, 1984), 322 pp.; tables. $25.00.

James K. Sebenius, Negotiating the Law of the Sea (Cambridge, MA, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1984), 251 pp.; tables. $20.00     

FOSSIL WOOD OF ROBINIA AND GLEDITSIA FROM THE TERTIARY OF MONTANA

Prakash , U., E. S. Barghoorn , and R. A. Scott . (Harvard U., Cambridge, Mass.) Fossil wood of Robinia and Gleditsia from the Tertiary of Montana . Amer. Jour. Bot. 49(7): 692–696. Illus. 1962.—Fossil woods representing 2 genera of the Leguminosae, Robinia Linnaeus and Gleditsia Clayton, have been identified from Tertiary beds in southern Montana. These woods are noteworthy owing to their exceptionally fine structural preservation and from the standpoint of their paleogeographical distribution. Neither genus now lives in the region of Montana.     

The self‐conscious South

Richard Gray, WRITING THE SOUTH, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, xiv + 333pp., £12.95 ($15.95) (paper).     

Essay review: The Correspondence of the young Darwin

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume I, 1821–1836; Volume II, 1837–1843 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 1986).     

Cultural diversity and schooling

Ashley H. Robins, BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN PIGMENTATION, (Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology, 7), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiii + 253 pp., £37.50.

Ulfried Geuter, THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGY IN NAZI GERMANY. Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, v‐xxi + 335 pp., npl.

Clare Midgley, WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY. THE BRITISH CAMPAIGNS, 1780–1870, London: Routledge, 1992, xii + 281 pp., £37.50.

Maryinez Lyons, THE COLONIAL DISEASE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SLEEPING SICKNESS IN NORTHERN ZAIRE, 1900–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi + 335 pp., £50.00.

Wim van Binsbergen, TEARS OF RAIN: ETHNICITY AND HISTORY IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992, 495 pp., £45.00.

Albert B. Robillard (ed.) SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, London: Kegan Paul International, 1992, xvi + 507 pp., £45.

Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) ‘VIVA’: WOMEN AND POPULAR PROTEST IN LATIN AMERICA, London: Routledge, 1993, 270 pp., £12.99 pb; £40.00 hb.

Cindi Katz and Janice Monk (eds) FULL CIRCLES: GEOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN OVER THE LIFECOURSE, London: Routledge, 1993, 317 pp., £12.99 pb; £40 hb.

Hans van Amersfoort and Hans Knippenberg (eds), STATES AND NATIONS. THE REBIRTH OF THE ‘NATIONALITIES QUESTION’ IN EUROPE, Netherlands Geographical Studies 137, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1991, 189 pp., Dfl. 29.50.

Elizabeth D. Huttman, Wim Blauw and Juliet Saltman (eds), URBAN HOUSING SEGREGATION OF MINORITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, xiii + 431 pp., npl.

Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano (eds) JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM RELOCATION TO REDRESS, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992, 264 pp., $17.95 US (paper only).

David J. O'Brien and Stephen S. Fugita, THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991, 178 pp., £8.99 (paper).

Paul James Rutledge, THE VIETNAMESE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, 173 pp., npl.     

Scholarship serving the Nazi State I: Studying the East

Michael Burleigh, GERMANY TURNS EASTWARDS: A STUDY OF OSTFORSCHUNG IN THE THIRD REICH, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, xii + 351 pp., £25.00.     

Essay review: History of agriculture and the study of heredity — a new horizon

Nicholas Russell, Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); Deborah Fitzgerald, The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890–1940 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989); Jack R. Kloppenburg, First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).     

Beyond kangaroo cuisine

A review of Marsupial Nutrition, by Ian D. Hume. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 434 pp, $54.95, softbound.