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.     

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.     

Toward better scientific presentation

Day, Robert A. 1979: How to Write and Publish a Scientific-Paper. 160 pp. ISI Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0 894950088 (cloth), ISBN 0894950061 (paperback). Price USD 15.00 and 8.95, respectively.
Cremmins, Edward T. 1982: The Art of Abstracting. 145 pp. ISI Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0894950150. Price USD 13.95 (paperback).
Barnes, Gregory A. 1982: Communication Skills for the Foreign-Born Professional. ISI Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0894950134 (cloth). ISBN 0894950142 (paperback). Price USD 18.95 and 13.95, respectively.     

Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism

Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism. Jody Shapiro Davie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.163 pp.     

Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City

Desis in the House:Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Sunaina Maira. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. 256 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.     

Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico

Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico. Arlene M. Davila. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. 302 pp.     

Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia

Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia . Nicole Constable, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 232 pp.     

Bioethics in Social Context

Bioethics in Social Context. Barry Hoffmaster. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.vii. 234 pp.     

War and Slavery in Sudan

War and Slavery in Sudan. Jok Madut Jok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 240 pp.     

AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Americas

AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Americas. Stephanie Kane. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 222 pp.     

Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica

Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica. Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary A. Joyce. eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 300 pp.     

Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record

Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record. Alison E. Rautman. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 283 pp.     

War in Guatemala and Exile in Florida

Book reviewed in this article:
Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy . Victor Perera. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 382 pp. Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida. Allan F. Burns. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 208 pp.     

Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina

Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina. Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 467 pp.     

Transcending AIDS: Nurses and HIV Patients in New York City

Transcending AIDS: Nurses and HIV Patients in New York City. Peggy McGarrahan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994 (cloth and paper). ix + 199 pp.     

Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence

Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in. Manhattan Residence . Alisse Waterston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xi + 235 pp.     

Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American Culture

Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp.
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp.
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp.     

Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan

Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan. Ping-Chun Hsiung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 182 pp.     

Culture and Resistance at Work

Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in. Caribbean Workplace. Kevin A. Yelvington. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. 286 pp.
The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Devon G. Pena. Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, 1997.460 pp.
Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender, and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry. Susan Tiano. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 260 pp.