Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Arjun Appadurai. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Fear. Adrian Franklin. Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia. Holger Jebens (ed.). Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique. Vivienne Kondos. On the Ethos of Hindu Women: Issues, Taboos and Forms of Expression. Aihwa Ong. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Peter H. Russell. Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English‐Settler Colonialism. Monique Skidmore. Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds). Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates. Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford (eds). Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity.     

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood (ed.). The Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia. Paula Brown. Beyond A Mountain Valley: The Simhu of Papua New Guinea. David B. Edwards. Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. Martha Albertson Fineman. The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies. Vineeta Hoon. Living on the Move: Bhotiyas ofthe Kumaon Himalaya. Ratna Kapoor and Brenda Cossman. Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India. John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald (eds). Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language. Karen Fog Olwig and Kirsten Hastrup (eds). Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object. Adrian Peace. A Time. of Reckoning: The Politics of Discourse in Rural Ireland. Michael G. Peletz. Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller (eds). Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Warren Shapiro and Uli Linke (eds). Denying Biology: Essays on Gender and Pseudo-Procreation. Michele Stephen. A' aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self.     

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.     

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.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Evolution and Classification: The Reformation of Cladism .—Mark Ridley.
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Drynarioideae (Polypodiaceae) .—M. C. Roos.
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 1 .—Richard Dawkins and Mark Ridley (eds.).
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology, Volume 2 .—R. Dawkins and M. Ridley (eds.) 1985.
An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa .—John J. Lee, Seymour H. Hutner, and Eugene Bovee (eds.).
Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes .—H. G. Moser, W. J. Richards, D. M. Cohen, M. P. Fahay, A. W. Kendall, Jr., and S. L. Richardson (eds.).
Morphometrics in Evolutionary Biology .—F. Bookstein, B. Chernoff, R. Elder, J. Humphries, G. Smith, and R. Strauss.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Dorothy K. Billings. Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific Vangelis Calotychos. Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics Don Handelman. Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events Luke Eric Lassiter. The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography Gaynor Macdonald. Two Steps Forward Three Steps Back: A Wiradjuri Land Rights Journey Sanjay Srivastava (ed.). Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitude: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia Lars Svendsen. A Philosophy of Boredom. Translated by John Irons Paul ten Have. Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology Toon van Meijl and Jelle Miedema (eds). Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific James F. Weiner. Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology Unni Wikan. Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe     

Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.; Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. Michael Cole. Yrjo Engestrom. and Olga Vasquez. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.502 pp.
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Andrew Lock and Charles R. Peters. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.906 pp.     

Book Review Section

Book reviews in this article:
Ecology and Parasitology. Alexander, M. , ed. 1980. Advances in Microbial Ecology
Smith, H. G. 1978. The Distribution and Ecology of Terrestrial Protozoa of Sub-Antarctic and Maritime Antarctic Islands
Taylor, Angela E. R. & Muller, R. , eds. 1980. Vaccines Against Parasites
Kreier, Julius P. , ed. 1980. Malaria
New Textbook of Protozoology Farmer, John N. 1980. The Protozoa: Introduction to Protozoology
Phytoflagellates and Serial Endosymbiosis Theory Cox, Elenor R. , ed. Phytoflagellates
Tappan, Helen . 1980. The Paleobiology of Plant Protists.
Margulis, Lynn. 1981. Symbiosis in Cell Evolution: Life and Its Environment on the Early Earth.
Intercellular Communication and Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Interactions O'Day, Danton H. & Horgen, Paul A. , eds. 1981. Sexual Interactions in Eukaryotic Microbes
Whitson, Gary L. , ed. 1980. Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Interactions in the Cell Cycle.
Invertebrate Texts Alexander, R. McNeill . 1979. The Invertebrates
Barnes, Robert D. 1980. Invertebrate Zoology
Engemann, Joseph G. & (the late) Hegner, Robert W. 1981 Invertebrate Zoology
ATCC Catalogue of Strains Hatt, Harold D. , ed. 1980. The American Type Culture Collection: Catalogue of Strains I.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lawrence A. Babb . Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture. Roland J.-L. Breton . Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia Alan Tormain Campbell . Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography. Claude Livi-Strauss . The Story of Lynx. Colin Filer (ed.) . The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. Kirsten Hastrup . A Passage to Anthropology: Between Experience and Theory. R.J. Howitt, J. Connell and P. Hirsch (eds) . Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Australasia, Melanesia and Southeast Asia. D.I. Kertzer and P. Lasslett (eds) . Aging in the Past: Demography, Society and Old Age. Patrick Vinton Kirch . Legacy of the landscape. An illustrated guide to Hawaiian archaeological sites. Alessandro Talamonti Written on Stone. The History of Mankind. G. Mathews . What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds. Gananath Obeyesekere . The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz (eds) . Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas (eds) . Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific. Sylvie Poirier . Les Jardins du Nomade: Cosmologie, territoire etpersonne dans le desert occidentale australien. Studies in social and ritual morphology. George W. Stocking Jnr . After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888–1951.     

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.     

Books

Book reviews in this article:
S tudies of S ea M ammals in S outh L atitudes . J. K. Ling and M. M. Bryden (eds.).
E xploitation of M arine C ommunities . R. M. May (ed.).
H andbook of M arine M ammals . Volume 3. The Sirenians and Baleen Whales. Sam H. Ridgway and Richard Harrison (eds.).
I nternational R egulation of W haling : F rom C onservation of W haling F rom C onservation of W hales and R egulation of W hale -W atching . Vols. 1 and 2. Patricia Birnie (ed.).
M arine M ammals and F isheries . J. R. Beddington, R. J. H. Beverton and D. M. Lavigne (eds.).
T he E lements of G raphing D ata . William S. Cleveland.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Peter Eseli . Eseli's Notebook. Translated from Kala Lagaw Ya into English, edited and annotated by Anna Shnukal and Rod Mitchell with Yuriko Nagata Michaele Thurgood Haynes. Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas. Stefan Helmreich. Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. Webb Keane. Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society. Don Kulick. Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Laura Rival (ed.). The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism. Richard Shweder (ed.). Welcome to Middle Age (And Other Cultural Fictions). David E. Sutton. Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life. William Washabaugh. Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Arthur . Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study. Diane J. Austin-Broos. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Mick Broderick (ed.) Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso (eds). Senses of Place. T. Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds). Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds). Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Helen Hardacre. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Margaret Jolly. Women of the Place: Kaslom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu. M.P. Levine, P.M. Nardi and J.H. Gagnon (eds). In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS. Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.) Gender Ritual: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Helen Morton. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood. Herbert Donald Graham Maschner. Darwinian Archaeologies Michael Southon. The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. J. M. Mageo and A. Howard (eds). Spirits in Culture, History and Mind. Virginia Watson. Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.     

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.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Fruit flies, their biology, natural enemies and control. Volume A. A.S. Robinson and G.H.S. Hooper (eds.). Martin R. Speight and David Wainhouse: Ecology and Management of Forest Insects.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (eds) . Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand. Piya Chatterjee . A Time For Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation. Jean and John L. Comaroff (eds) . Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Michael Humphrey . The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma. S. Jaarsma and Marta Rohatynskyj (eds) . Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Gaynor Kavanagh . Dream Spaces: Memory and Museum. Fred R. Myers . Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Nigel A. Stephenson . Kastom or Komuniti: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson (eds) . Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader. Elizabeth Wood‐Ellem . Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900–1965. Michael W. Young and Julia Clark . An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922–39.     

After Writing Culture

After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology. Allison James. Jenny Hockey. and Andrew Dawson. eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. 274 pp.     

RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

BAUER, H-C. & BERTHOLD, P. 1996. Die Brutvogel Mitteleuropas: Bestand und Gefahrdung.
BEYNON, P.H., FORBES, N.A. & HARCOURT-BROWN. N.H. (eds). 1996. Manual of Raptors. Pigeons and Waterfowl.
BIRD. D.M., VAKIAND. D.E. & NEGRO, JJ. (eds) 1996. Raptors in Human landscapes: Adaptations to built and cultivated environments.
BLACK, J.M. (ed.). 1996. Partnerships in Birds: The study of monogamy.
CLEMMONS, J.R. & BUCHHOLZ, R. (eds). 1997. Behavioural Approaches to Conservation in the Wild.
DEL, HOYO, J,. Elliot, A. & SARGATAL. J. (eds). 1996. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 3: Hoatzin to Auks.
GERLACH, J. (ed.). Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles. 1997. Seychelles Red Ilata Book 1997.
HANININOS. G. & AKHIOTIS. T. 1997. The Birds of Greece.
HEATHER. B. & ROBERTSON, H. 1996. The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand.
HURFORD. C. & LANSDOWN, P. 1995. Birds of Glamorgan.
LAMHERT. F. & WOODCOCK, M. 1996. Pittas, Broadbills and Asities.
LANDMANN. A. 1996. Der Hausrotschwanz.
MLIKOVSKY. J. (ed.). 1995. Tertiary Avian Localities of Europe.
OLIOSO, G. 1996. Oiseaux de Vaucluse et de la Drdme ProvenCal.
PAIN, D.J. & PIENKOWSKI. M.W. (eds). 1997. Farming and Birds in Europe. The Common Agricultural Policy and its implications for bird conservation.
PALM. S. 1997. The Origin of Flapping Flight in Birds.
PANOW, E.N. 1996. Die Wiirger der Palaarktis.
REASTALL, R. 1996. Munias and Mannikins.
STANDLEY, P, BUCKNELL, N.J., SWASH, A. & COLLINS, I.D. 1996. The Birds of Berkshire.
STEYN. P. 1996. Nesting Birds: The breeding habits of southern African birds.
VAN DEN BRINK, H., VAN DIJK, A., VAN Os, B. & VENEMA, P. 1996. Broedvogels van Drenthe.
ZIMMRRMAN, D.A., TURNER. D.A. & PEARSON. D.J. 1996. Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania.     

Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture

Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture. John Bowen and Roger Petersen. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 266 pp.