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.     

Survivorship and fecundity of Argulus bengalensis (Crustacea; Branchiura) under laboratory conditions

The Life table features and the fecundity schedule of the fish louse Argulus bengalensis (Branchiura: Argulidae) were estimated under laboratory conditions using Cirrhinus mrigala as the model host. The cohort-based Life table revealed that survival of A. bengalensis declines as a function of age. Life expectancy was observed to be 34?days for a newly emerged adult. The mean number of eggs produced per egg strip was 86 (±8.89 S.E.). The sex ratio 2:1 was biased towards males. The net reproductive rate (R₀) varied between 50 and 487 while the cohort generation time (T_c) ranged between 24 and 26?days. The intrinsic rate of increase (r) was 0.14–0.23, while the finite rate of increase (λ) remained between 1.16 and 1.28. The Life table features and the fecundity schedule of A. bengalensis are comparable with congenerics of temperate regions. Early reproduction (between 21 and 23?days) and an extended postreproductive phase (47?days) of females are characteristic of A. bengalensis and a reflection for survival under uncertain conditions and a parasitic mode of life.     

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: Rohan Bastin. The Domain of Constant Excess: Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka. Daniel Miller (ed.). Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors. Sujata Patel, Josodhara Bagchi and Krishna Raj (eds). Thinking Social Science in India, Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Postgate, J. 1994. The Outer Reaches of Life .
Puytorac, P. de (ed.) 1994. Infusoires Ciliés, Systématique. In: Grassé, P.-P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie, Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie     

The anthropological dilemma of the small town: A review article

Jonathan Baker (ed.). 1997. Rural‐Urban Dynamics in Francophone Africa. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 201 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Richardson, D. M. (ed.). 1998. Ecology and biogeography of Pinus .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Ildiko Beller‐Hann and Chris Hann . Turkish Region: State, Market and Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast. Santa Fe Lewis Roberts Binford . Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets. Anne Chambers and Keith Stanley Chambers . Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society. Marcus Colchester and Christian Erni (eds) . Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas in South and Southeast Asia. Michelle Ruth Gamburd . The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids. David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch (eds.) . Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work. Geoffrey Gray (ed.). Jane C. Goodale, Ruth Fink, Jeremy Beckett, L. R. Hiatt, and J. A. Barnes . Before It's Too Late: Anthropological Reflections, 1950–1970. John N. Gray . At Home in the Hills: Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders. Kees Grijns and Peter J. M. Nas (eds) . Jakarta‐Batavia: Socio‐cultural Essays. Stephen Gudeman . The Anthropology of the Economy: Community, Market, Culture. Sarah Lamb . White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India. Michael O'Hanlon and Robert Welsch (eds) . Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s–1930s. Sherry B. Ortner . Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Judy and Tashi Tenzing . Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest. Adrian Peace . A World of Fine Difference: The Social Architecture of a Modern Irish Village. George W. Stocking, Jr . Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. Colin Tatz . Aboriginal Suicide Is Different: A Portrait Of Life and Self‐Destruction. Roger Tol, Kees van Dijk, and Greg Acciaioli (eds) . Authority and Enterprise among the Peoples of South Sulawesi Penny Van Esterik . Materializing Thailand.     

Book reviews

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians Aby Warburg. Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America. Trans. and introduced by Michael P. Steinberg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. 114 pp., illus., biblio.

Through Navajo Eyes (again) Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Sol Worth and John Adair, with a new foreword, introduction, afterword, and illustrations by Richard Chalfen. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. 406 pages, 85 halftones, $24.95 (paperbound).

Cartographic Encounters Lewis, G. Malcolm (ed.). Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998:338 pp., index, 58 illus. $60.00 (hdbd.).

Photojournalism and Foreign Policy Perlmutter, David D., Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Icons of Outrage in International Crises. Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 1998. xvii + 162 pp., plates, illus., biblio., index. US $55.00 (hdbd.).

Sensuous Scholarship Stoller, Paul. Sensuous Scholarship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997: xviii+166 pp., illus., filmography, index. US $36.50 (hdbd.), $16.50 (paper).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A Field Guide to the Acacias of Kenya by Malcolm Coe & Henk Beentje Life Strategies of Succulents in Deserts: with special reference to the Namib Desert by D. J. von Willert, B. M. Eller, M. J. A. Werger, E. Brinckmann and H.-D. Ihlenfeldt. Global Warming: who is taking the heat? by Gerald Foley. Restoring the Land: environment and change in post-apartheid South Africa, ed. by Mamphela Ramphele & Chris McDowell. At the Desert's Edge: oral histories from the Sahel, ed. by Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker. Panos Publications Ltd., London, pp. viii + 248.12.95. 1991. New Hope for Africa: with a bicycle from Nairobi to Kariba by Merfyn Temple. The Biology of Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates, ed. by David J. Patterson & Jacob Larsen. The Balance of Nature? Ecological issues in the conservation of species and communities, by Stuart L. Pimm. Economics for the Wilds: wildlife, wildlands, diversity and development, ed. by Timothy M. Swanson and Edward B. Barbier.     

Book Reviews

Teach Yourself Genetics R. J. BERRY pp. xi+164, 24 figs. London: The English Universities Press Ltd, 1965. 7s. 6d. Reviewed by G. Haskell

The Tissues of The Body (5th ed.). SIR W. E. LE GROS CLARK xi+423 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. 55s. Reviewed by P. C. Williams

Nuffield Biology Texts and Teachers' Guides I. Introducing Living Things II. Life and Living Processes HI. The Maintenance of Life IV. Living Things in Action Longmans/Penguin 1966. Volume V, to be published April 1967—not reviewed. Reviewed by John Mattocks and Peter Prosser

Animal Biology A. J. GROVE and G. E. NEWELL In collaboration with J. D. CARTHY and E. H. MERCER University Tutorial Press. 7th Edition. 38s. 6d. Reviewed by W. H. Freeman     

Further Readings in Geomicrobiology

The Biology of Cyanobacteria. N. G. Carr and B. A. Whitton (eds.). Botanical Monographs, Vol. 19. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, U.K., 1982 (also University of California Press), xi + 688 pp., $75.00 (U.S.); £42.00 sterling, hardcover.

Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Its Origin and Evolution. J. William Schopf (ed.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1983. With 67 tables, 97 figures, and 47 photographs, xxv + 543 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $42.50.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Daniel Cooper Alarcon . The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination. Johann P. Arnason . Social Theory and Japanese Experience: The Dual Civilization. Fernando Coronil . The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. Carrie B. Douglass . Bulls, Bullfighting and Spanish Identities. Leela Dube . Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South-East Asia. Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui (eds) . Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Melvyn C. Goldstein . The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Robert Hobbs . Hong Kong Now! Hal. B. Levine . Constructing Collective Identity: A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand Jews, Maori and Urban Papua New Guineans. Torben Retbell, (ed.) . East Timor: Occupation and Resistance. Anne Salmond . Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773–1815. Cathy A. Small . Voyages - From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. William Washabaugh (ed.) . The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality. Robert L. Welsch (ed.). An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition 1909–1913.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Seeliger, U. (ed.). 1992. Coastal Plant Communities of Latin America. xx + 392 pp. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-12 634550-3. Price: USD 75.-. Short reviews R. Pott (ed.). 1989. Rintelner Symposium I. Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft 1 , 165 pp. Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft, Institut für Geobotanik, Nienburger Str. 17, D-3000 Hannover, Germany. ISBN 3-88452-775-4. Price: not indicated. R. Pott (ed.). 1991. Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft 3 , 291 pp. ISBN 3-88452-776-2. Price: DEM 55.-. Hügin, Gerhard & Henrichfeise, Alfons. 1992. Naturschutzbewertung der badischen Oberrheinaue. Vegetation und Wasserhaushalt des rheinnahen Waldes. 48 pp + maps. Schriftenreihe für Vegetationskunde 24. Bundesforschungsanstalt für Naturschutz und Landschaftsökologie, Bonn-Bad Godesberg. ISBN 3-7843-2072-4. Preis DEM 10.-. Duhme, F., Lenz, R. & Spandau, L. (eds). 1992. 25 Jahre Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsökologie in Weihenstephan mit Prof Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Haber. Landschaftsökologie Weihenstephan 6. Freunde der Landschaftsökologie Weihenstephan, Ziegelgasse 19, D-8050 Freising, Germany. ISBN 3-922318-06-1. Price: not indicated.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Brenda Johnson Clay. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875–1935 Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal (eds). The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts Sverker Finnström. Living With Bad Surroundings Geoffrey Gray A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris and Marc L. Moskowitz (eds). The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan. Honolulu R. H. Mathews (ed. by Martin Thomas). Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews Martin Nakata. Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines Andie Diane Palmer. Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse Antonia Mills (ed.). ‘Hang Onto These Words’: Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence Hartmut Lutz (ed. and transl.). The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context Michael W. Scott. The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands Mark Stevenson. Many Paths: Searching for Old Tibet in New China Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds). Exchange and Sacrifice Margaret Trawick. Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa Mark P. Whitaker. Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka     

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.     

Hierarchy and value: An introduction

Martha J. Kaplan. 1995. Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and Colonial Imagination in Fiji. London and Durham: Duke University Press, xviii + 236 pp.

Martha Mundy. 1995. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 317 pp.

Thomas Csordas (ed.). 1994. Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 294 pp.

Philip L. Kohl &; Clare Fawcett (eds). 1995. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 329 pp.

Joanna B. Eicher (ed.). 1995. Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time. Oxford: Berg Publishers. xiv + 316 pp.

Anatoly M. Khazanov. 1995. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 334 pp.

Pertti J. Anttonen &; Reimund Kvideland (eds). 1994. Nordic Frontiers: Recent Issues in the Study of Modern Traditional Culture in the Nordic Countries. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore. 238 pp.

Hugo G. Nutini. 1995. The Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 444 pp.     

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 review

Microbial Geochemistry, W. E. Krumbein (ed.). Blackwell Scientific Publications, Inc., Palo Alto, California, 1983. 336 pp. $60.00     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Chadwick Allen. Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. Alex Argenti‐Pillen. Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka. Judy Atkinson. Trauma Trials, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia. Susan Debra Blum and Lionel M. Jensen (eds.). China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. William Cummings. Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar. Tony Day. Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia. Greg Gow. The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia. Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver‐Smith (eds). Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. 2002. Helen Morton Lee. Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores. Valentina Napolitano. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living In Urban Mexico. Jean Marc Pidjo. Le Mwa Teâma Mwalebeng et Le Fils du Soleil. Stephen Pyne. Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia. Wilfried Schröder. Ich reiste wie ein Buschmann. (Zum Leben und Wirken des Australienforschers Erhard Eylmann). Life and Scientific Work of the Pioneer of Australian Culture Erhard Eylmann. Michael French Smith. Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea.