Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction. Elliott Oring , ed.
Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader. Elliott Oring , ed.     

Book Reviews

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

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.     

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Book Reviewed in this article Outline of a Theory of Practice. Pierre Bourdieu. Richard Nice Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation. Edited by Julian H. Steward, Jane C. Steward and Robert F. Murphy Urban Anthropology: The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex Societies. Richard Basham The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines. Jon C. Altman and John Nieuwenhuysen ‘Whitefella Business’: Aborigines in Australian Politics. Edited by Michael C. Howard Aborigines and Change: Australia in the Seventies. Edited by R. M. Berndt Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians. H. C. Coombs Taim Bilong Mani: The Evolution of Agriculture in a Solomon Island Society. John Connell Agricultural Project Design and Evaluation in an Island Community. Alan Bollard. Zum Beispiel Samoa. Götz Mackensen Peasants and Politics: Grass Roots Reaction to Change in Asia. Edited by D. B. Miller. Edward Arnold Sherpas Through Their Ritual. Sherry B Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court. David M. Engel Thailand: A Rice-Growing Society. Edited by Yoneo Ishii Migrants of the Mountains: The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. William Robert Geddes Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand. Edited by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman and Sanga Sabhasri Early Palaeolithic in South and East Asia. Edited by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Advances In Andean Archaeology. Edited by David L. Browman Simulation Studies in Archaeology. Edited by Ian Hodder Evolutionary Models and Studies in Human Diversity. Edited by Robert J. Meier Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia Principles of Visual Anthropology. Edited by Paul Hockings Tiv Song. Charles Keil Coyoteway. A Navajo Holyway Healing Ceremonial. Karl W. Luckert Spider Woman Stories: Legends of the Hopi Indians. Selected and Interpreted by G. M. Mullett Folklore in the Modern World. Edited by Richard Dorson     

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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     

Primate Ecology and Social Structure Vol. 1: Lorises, Lemurs and Tarsiers: Primate Ecology and Social Structure Vol. 2: New World Monkeys: Primate Ecology and Social Structure Vol. 3: Old World Monkeys and Apes

Primate Ecology and Social Structure Vol. 1: Lorises, Lemurs and Tarsiers. Robert W. Sussman. Needham Heights. MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 1999. 284 pp.
Primate Ecology and Social Structure Vol. 2: New World Monkeys. Robert W. Sussman. Needham Heights. MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000. 207 pp.
Primate Ecology and Social Structure Vol. 3: Old World Monkeys and Apes. Robert W. Sussman. Needham Heights. MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, in press.     

Book Reviews

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General, Applied, and Theoretical: Aging and Society. Volume One: An Inventory of Research Findings . MATILDA WHITE RILEY and ANNE FONER.
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Aging and Society. Volume Two: Aging and the Professions . MATILDA WHITE RILEY, JOHN W. RILEY, JR., and MARILYN E. JOHNSON
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Aging and Society. Volume Three: A Sociology of Age Stratification . MATILDA WHITE RILEY, MARILYN JOHNSON, and ANNE FONER.     

Book reviews

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General Techniques of Cell Culture.
Aging and Human Longevity.     

Book Notices

Butterflies of Lebanon. By T orben B. L arsen
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trichoptera, Lunz am See ( Austria ), September 16–20, 1974. Edited by H ans M alicky
Mosquito Ecology: Field Sampling Methods. By M. W. S ervice
Butterflies: their World, their Life Cycle, their Behaviour. By T homas C. E mmel
Butterfly Culture: a Guide to Breeding Butterflies, Moths and Other Insects. By J ohn L. S. S tone and H. J. M idwinter , with a foreword by J ohnny M orris
Annual Review of Entomology , Vol. 21. Edited by R ay F. S mith , T homas E. M ittler and C arroll N. S mith     

Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine

Doing Science. Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine. Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek. eds. New York/London: Routledge, 2000. viii. 339 pp.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Progress in Phytochemistry , Vol. 2. By L. R einhold and Y. L iwschitz .
Investigation by Experiment. The Institute of Biology's Studies in Biology No. 23. By O. V. S. H eath .
Phytosociology and Ecology of Cryptogamic Epiphytes. By J. J. B arkman .
Les Lichens. By P. O zenda and G. C lausade .
The Lichens of Israel. By M. G alun .
World Pollen Flora. Ed. by G. ERDTMAN. 4. Globulariaceae. By J. P raglowski and K. G yllander .     

Book Reviews

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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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Povoledo, D. and Golterman, H. L. (Ed.). (1975) . Humic Substances. Their Structure and Function in the Biosphere .
Whitton, B. A. (Ed.). (1975) . River Ecology. Studies in Ecology, Vol. 2.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: An Ecological Basis for Water Resource Management W. D. Williams Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Studies in Ecology , Vol. 5, M. J. Smith, O. W. Heal & J. M. Anderson.     

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     

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Books Reviewed in this Article:
The Molecular and Hormonal Basis of Plant-Growth Regulation. By Y a 'A cov L eshem
Plant Tissue and Cell Culture. Ed. by H. E. S treet .
Evolution in the Microbial World. Ed. by M. J. C arlile and J. J. S kehel .
Selected Papers in Phycology. Ed. by J. R. R osowski and B. C. P arker .
The Biology of the Algae. By F. E. R ound .
Biology of Plant Utter Decomposition. 2 volumes. Ed. by C. H. D ickinson and G. J. F. P ugh .
Palms of Malaya. By T. C. W hitmore .
Tree Flora of Malaya. A Manual for Foresters. Malayan Forest Records No. 26. vol. 1 Ed. T. C. W hitmore .
Thrips: their Biology, Ecology and Economic Importance. By T revor L ewis .
Australian Journal of Plant Physiology.
Acta Botanica Indica. Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2: 1973. Chief Editor V. S ingh .     

Rethinking Power and Culture in Anthropology

Who Can Compete against the World? Power-Protection and Buddhism in Shan Woridview. Nicola Tannenbaum. Ann Arbor, MI: Association of Asian Studies, 1995.228 pp.
State Power and Culture in Thailand. E. Paul Durrenberger. ed. Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph, 44. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 200 pp.     

In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies

In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies. Regina Bendix. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.306 pp.     

Ethology and Primates: Some New Directions for the 1970s

Ethological Studies of Child Behaviour. N. Blurton Jones .
Social Communication and Movement: Studies of Interaction and Expression in Man and Chimpanzee. Mario Von Cranach and Ian Vine .
Primate Behavior and the Emergence of Human Culture. Jane Beckman Lancaster .
Precultural Primate Behavior. Emit W. Menzel, Jr .
Behavior of Nonhuman Primates: Modern Research Trends. Vol. IV. Allan M. Schrier and Fred Stollnitz .
Ethology and Psychiatry. Norman F. White .     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article:
The Biology of the Tardigrades, by Ian M. Kinchin
Oecophorine Genera of Australia, Vol 1 The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australia Lepidoptera 3, by Ian F. B. Common
Parasitoids. Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, by H. C. J. Godfray
Predation and Defence amongst Reptiles, by J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
The Hawkmoths of the Western Palaearctic, by A. R. Pittaway
The Brackish Water Fauna of Northwestern Europe, by R. S. K. Barnes
Fishes of the World, by Joseph S. Nelson