Book Reviews

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General and Ethnology: Samekulturen. Ørnulv Vorren and Ernst Manker
General and Ethnology: The Lapps. Roberto Bosi     

BOOK REVIEW

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Ethnology of Futuna. E dwin G. B urrows.
Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis Island). E dwin G. B urrows.     

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General/Theoretical: The Fishing Culture of the World: Studies in Ethnology, Cultural Ecology and Folklore, Vol. 1.
General/Theoretical: The Fishing Culture of the World: Studies in Ethnology, Cultural Ecology and Folklore, Vol. 2.     

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Ethnology:Archaeology:The Bowen Site: An Archaeological Study of Culture Process in the Late Prehistory of Central Indiana . JOHN T. DORWIN.
Ethnology:The Late Prehistoric Occupation of Northwestern Indiana: A Study of the Upper Mississippi Cultures of the Kankakee Valley . CHARLES H. FAULKNER.
Indiana's Prehistoric Past . B. K. SWARTZ, JR. Muncie     

The Anthropology of Korea: East Asian Perspectives

The Anthropology of Korea: East Asian Perspectives. Mutsuhiko Shima and Roger L. Janelli. eds. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1998. 237 pp.     

An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islands: The Alfred Bühler Collection, Museum der Kulturen, Basel

An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islands: The Alfred Bühler Collection, Museum der Kulturen, Basel. Sylvia Ohnemus. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, and Bathhurst, Australia: Crawford House Press, 1998.430pp.     

Force of Habit: Exploring Everyday Culture

Force of Habit: Exploring Everyday Culture. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren. eds. Lund Studies in European Ethnology, 1. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1996. 172 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Religious Consciousness. By G. S. Ghuyre The World of the First Australians. By R. M. and C. H. Berndt Elkin, A. P. (1964): The Australian Aborigines and How to Understand Them. Angus & Robertson The Basis of Human Evolution. By Bertram S. Kraus. Harper and Row The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico. By Michael D. Coe Masterpieces in the Museum of Primitive Art. Published by the Museum of Primitive Art The Paths of Culture: A General Ethnology. By Kay Birket-Smith Senufo Sculpture from West Africa. By Robert Goldwater The John and Dominique de Memil Collection. The Art Forms of Polynesia. By Archey Gilbert Profiles in Ethnology: A Revision of a Profile of Primitive Culture. By Elman R. Service     

Identity and Gender in Hunting and Gathering Societies

Identity and Gender in Hunting and Gathering Societies. Ian Keen and Takado Yamada. eds. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2001. 263 pp.     

Complex hunter-gatherers: Exception or common phenomenon?

Victor A. Shnirelman is a Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow.     

Book Reviews

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY. The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture. John C. Ewers. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 159.) Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1955. xv, 358 pp., 17 plates, 33 figs. $2.75.
The Indian and the Horse. Frank Gilbert Roe. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. xvi, 434 pp., illus. $5.00.     

The Peabody Museum, Frederic W. Putnam, and the Rise of U.S. Anthropology, 1866-1903

This article explores the intersection of the career of Frederic Ward Putnam with the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard to the history of U.S. archaeology between his appointment as professor in 1866 and his death in 1915. Putnam was also active in institutional developments at Chicago, Berkeley, and New York. [Keywords: Frederic Ward Putnam, U.S. archaeology, Peabody Museum]     

The rise of academic physical anthropology in the United States (1880–1980): A historical overview

This paper surveys the development of physical anthropology in the period from 1880 to 1980, beginning with the founding of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology and the advent of professionalism in anthropology. The growth of physical anthropology within academic anthropology and the effect of the bias toward ethnology and archaeology is considered. Three historical phases are suggested: pre-1900, the pre-academic period of physical anthropology; 1900–1930, the initial development of academic physical anthropology, which witnessed the founding of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists by Hrdli?ka, and of Hooton's program at Harvard University; 1930-present, which has seen the full development of physical anthropology in an academic context.     

The life of Milaraspa in a picture series: A preliminary survey

Irrigation's Impact on Society. Theodore E. Downing &; McGuire Gibson (eds.), Anthropological Papers of The University of Arizona Number 25. Tucson, 1974, 181 pp.

Women: An Anthropological View. Evelyn S. Kessler. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York etc. 1976, 267 pp.

A History of Ethnology. Fred W. Voget. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York etc. 1975. ix + 879 pp. US $ 17.95.

Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan. Mark Slobin. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 54. Tucson: The University of Arizona press 1976. xiv + 297 pp., 8 maps, 56 illustrations, bibliography and index.

Java‐Masken. Der Tanz auf einem Bein. Heinz Lucas. Erich Röth Verlag. Kassel. 1973, pp. 347, ill.     

Coronado’s Route to Quivira 1541

Abstract

The oft-discussed historical question as to Coronado’s route of march in 1541 from the Rio Grande pueblos to the settlements of Quivira is re-examined in light of documentary research, hitherto unpublished, by the late J. R. Swanton of the Bureau of American Ethnology. A collation of all available narratives casts strong doubt on Schroeder’s 1962 theory that the expedition at no time traveled south of the Canadian River, and instead supports older interpretations by Hodge, Bolton, and others who maintained that the expedition separated far south of that stream. The documentary evidence, like that from archaeology, supports the view that the 16th century province of Ouivira was the home of ancestral Wichita Indians residing in central Kansas along the great bend of the Arkansas River.     

Race and the Concept of Progress in Nineteenth Century American Ethnology

While nineteenth century American ethnologists relied on the word "evolution" more than the word "progress" to define their theory of culture, their theory of evolution nonetheless implied a teleological projection that was no more than a paeon for Anglo-Saxon race achievement. Believing that failures in earlier stages of evolution had limited brain size and quality of the "inferior races," they suggested that, for all practical purposes, the Caucasian was the lone man in evolution. While the Caucasian maintained an active, progressive role in modifying the environment, the lower races broke into the modern world as mere "survivals" from the past, mentally and physiologically unable to shoulder the burdens of complex civilization. Ethnology became a means through which both scientists and social scientists sought to estimate the relative value of the races, delineate social categories, and help justify the dynamics of race legislation.     

Historical aspects of F. W. putnam's systematic studies on fishes

Summary As a student and collaborator of Louis Agassiz on the study of fishes, F. W. Putnam gave promise of becoming a leading ichthyologist with special interest in taxonomy generally and the Etheostomidae in particular. While he was noted briefly in these fields, contributed a number of minor papers, and aided in the posthumous publications of some of Agassiz's work on fishes, he neither reached his original goal nor completed his major projected works. For in 1874 he switched careers and was appointed Curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and is remembered today primarily as a founder of American archaeology rather than as a systematic ichthyologist.Paper read at the 19th annual meeting of the Society of Systematic Zoology, New York City, 27 December 1967. Quotations are taken from the F. W. Putnam papers in the Archives of Harvard University, with permission of the Archives and the Putnam family.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology. Edited by Mary Douglas. Cosomologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Vahtion in Inner New Guinea. By Fredrik Barth Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. By Roger Lewin Child of Vietnam. By Uyen Loewald Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. By Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley Conflict in Catalonia: Images of an Urban Society. Edited by Gary W. McDonogh An International History of the Vietnam War, Volume II, The Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1961-65. By R.B. Smith. Macmillan Wage Labour and Social Change: The Proletariat in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Michael Pinches Gender and Kinship: Essays toward a Unified Analysis. Edited by Jane Fishburn Collier and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako The Cyclades in the Bronze Age By R.L.N. Barber African Civilisations. Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: An Archaeological Perspective. By Graham Connah Sepik River Societies: A Historical Ethnography of the Chrmbri and their Neighbours. By Deborah Gewertz A World Like Our Own. Man and Nature in Madagascar. By Alison Jolly Science Encounters the Indian. 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology. By Robert E. Bieder Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behaviour. By Gehan Wijeyewardene The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany. Edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld. Anthropology at Home. Edited by Anthony Jackson Man the Paradoxical Primate: A Solution to Human Bipedalism. Written, designed and produced by Jordi Fuentes. Human Evolution: an Introduction for the Behaviouml Sciences. By Graham Richards. Anthropology in South Australia Edited by C. Anderson and P. Sutton Singular Paths: Old Men Living Alone. By Robert L. Rubenstein Meyer Fortes: Religion, Mortality and the Person -Essays on Tallensi Religion. Edited and with an introduction by Jack Goody.