Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond; New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere

Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond. Walter Armbrust. ed. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2000. 378 pp.
New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. Dale Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 213 pp.     

Culture and Class in Papua New Guinea

Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary. David Lipset. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 335 pp.
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference. Deborah B. Gewertz and Frederick K. Errington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 179 pp.     

Anthropological Perspectives on Technology.

Anthropological Perspectives on Technology. Michael Brian Schiffer. ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. 242 pp.     

Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York; The Culture of Health: Asian Communities in the United States; Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia

Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York. Zibin Guo. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii. 173 pp.
The Culture of Health: Asian Communities in the United States. Grace Xueqin Ma. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. + 165 pp.
Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia. Gil Soo Han. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.292 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.     

Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion; Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories

Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Morton Klass and Maxine K. Weisgrau. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 416 pp.
Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories. Graham Cunningham. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 126 pp.     

Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race; German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler

Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 332 pp.
German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler. Uli Linke. New York: Routledge, 1999. 274 pp.     

Arab and Muslim America: Emergent Scholarship, New Visibility, Conspicuous Gap in Academe

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock. eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pp.
Family and Gender among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge. eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 19961996. 327 pp.
Arabs in America: Building. New Future. Michael W. Suleiman. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 355 pp.
Without Forgetting the Imam. Linda S. Walbridge. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 242 pp.     

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives on Human Biology

Building. New Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives on Human Biology. Alan Goodman and Thomas L. Leatherman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1999 pp.     

Preventing and Controlling Cancer in North America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective; Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies: A Guide to the Science and Politics of an Emerging Medical Field

Preventing and Controlling Cancer in North America:. Cross-Cultural Perspective. Diane Weiner. ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. xvii. 245 pp.
Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies:. Guide to the Science and Politics of an Emerging Medical Field. David J. Hess. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xxi. 260 pp.     

Authenticating (and Inauthenticating) Local Moral Worlds: Ethnographies of Interpersonal Experience

Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless. Robert Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 308 pp.
Women in the American Welfare Trap. Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 206 pp.
Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in. Manhattan Residence. Alisse Waterston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 235 pp.
Sidewalk. Mitchell Duneier. with photographs by Ovie Carter New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 383 pp.     

The Common Ground of Contested Space: Historical Archaeology and American Landscapes

Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape. Rebecca Yamin and Karen Bescherer Metheny, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. 292 pp.
Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era. Paul A. Shackel. New York: Plenum Press, 1996. 217 pp.     

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety.; Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India.; Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition.

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety. Srimati Basu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 306 pp.
Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 286 pp.
Women, Family, and Child Care in India:. World in Transition. Susan C. Seymour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.323 pp.     

Combined Review: Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier and Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 296 pp.
Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England. Jeanette Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 264 pp.     

Men and Masculinities

Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. Eduardo P. Archetti. New York: Berg, 1999. 212 pp.
Football Hooligans: Knowing the Score. Gary Armstrong. New York: Berg, 1998. 361 pp.
Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence and Ritual in Gisu Society. Suzette Heald. New York: Routledge, 1999. 192 pp.
What It Means to Be. Man: Reflections on Puerto Rican Masculinity. Rafael L. Ramírez. translated by Rosa E. Casper. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999 139 pp.     

Eldoret: An African Poetics of Technology

Eldoret: An African Poetics of Technology. Richard M. Swiderski. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. 228 pp.     

China's Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage

Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in. Chinese Village 1949–1999 . Yan Yunxiang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 289 pp.
Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy . Vanessa Fong. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 242 pp.
On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China . Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 355 pp.     

"Black Gal Swing": Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of "Race," Nation and Gender. Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe. New York: Routledge, 1999. 221 pp.
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Arthur K. Spears. ed. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999. 242 pp.
Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States. Rainier Spencer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 222 pp.     

Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms

Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms. Evelyn Jacob. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 223 pp.     

The Last Passage: Recovering a Death of Our Own

The Last Passage: Recovering. Death of Our Own. Donald Heinz. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. 296 pp.