Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ethnology: The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village . Miriam Sharma.
Ethnology: The Politics of Passion: Structure and Strategy in Sikh Society . Harry Izmirlian, Jr.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
General/Theoretical Anthropology:Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics . R. W. Connell.
General/Theoretical Anthropology:Women and the Politics of Empowerment . Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen     

Culture of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements

Culture of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements. Sonia E. Alvarez. Evelina Dagnino. and Arturo Escobar. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.459 pp.     

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua.; Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism.

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Florence E. Babb. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 304 pp.
Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 443 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.     

Book Notes

Abstract

All-Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 306 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education New York: Harper & Row, 1990. 204 pages. $18.95 hardcover.     

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.     

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.     

Looking for Identity in the Muslim World

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Lila Abu-Lughod. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2005. 319 pp.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385 pp.
Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies. Armando Salvatore and Mark LeVine, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 249 pp.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity Making. Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 239 pp.     

Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration.

Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration. Cris Shore. New York: Routledge, 2000. 258 pp.     

Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument

Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument. Pat Caplan. ed. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers, 1995. 248 pp.     

The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice

The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice . Jacqueline Solway, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 260 pp.     

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention . Michele Rivkin-Fish. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2006. 253 pp.     

The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics

The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Friend Harding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 336 pp.     

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Jennifer Robertson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.278 pp.     

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Deborah Reed-Danahay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 240 pp.     

Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy

Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy. John Patrick Diggins. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 334 pp.     

The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development

The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development. Eric Ross. New York: Zed Books, 1998.264 pp.     

The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania

The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. Gail Kligman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 373 pp.     

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Saba Mahmood. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 233 pages.