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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.     

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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.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Jon Altman, Frances Morphy and Tim Rowse (eds). Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations of the Reeves Report (Research Monograph No 14). Henner Hess . Mafia and Mafiosi: Origin, Power and Myth. Ross Mallick . Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia. Dennis B. McGilvray . Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health & Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka. Francesca Merlan . Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town. Ogasawara Yuko . Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies. Steven Webster . Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissance.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Francoise Dussart . The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Han‐Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff . Southeast Asian Urbanism: The Meaning and Power of Social Space. Susan Greenwood . Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. IWGIA . The Indigenous World 1999–2000. Christian Emi (ed.) A. Margaret McArthur . The Curbing of Anarchy in Kunimaipa Society. Edited by Douglas Oliver John McCreery . Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. Diane M. Nelson . A Finger In The Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B . Eicher (eds). Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning. John W. Traphagan . Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan.     

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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Karen Ask and Marit Tjomsland, (eds) . Women and Islamization: Contemporary Dimensions of Discourse on Gender Relations. Bronwen Douglas . Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology. Britta Duelke . ‘…same but different…’ Vom Umgang mit Vergangenheit: Tradition und Geschichte im Alltag einer nordaustralischen Aborigines ‐ Kommune. Studien zur Kulturkunde Series 108. T. Scarlett Epstein, A. P. Suryanarayana and T. Thimmegowda . Village Voices: Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India. Richard Eves . The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society. C. A. Gregory . Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange. Ghassan Hage . White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. Jennifer Robertson . Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Paul Sillitoe . An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition. Helena Wulff . Ballet Across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers.     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Elizabeth A. Povinelli. The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action. J. Finlayson and D.E. Smith (eds). Native Title: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Julie Marcus, ed. First in Their Field. Women and Australian Anthropology. Diane Bell, Pat Caplan and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds. Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Jeffrey Minson. Questions of Conduct: Sexual Harassment, Citizenship, Government. Jacques Derrida. Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money. Philip Manning. Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology. James Fentrees and Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Jeremy Rifkin. Beyond Beef. The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. Pierre Lemonnier. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop, eds. Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Uldis Ozolins. The Politics of Language in Australia. Gillian Bottomley. From Another Place. Migration and the Politics of Culture. Richard Maddox. El Castillo. The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town. Grant Evans, ed. Asia's Cultural Mosaic. An Anthropological Introduction. Jean-Paul Dumont. Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jonathan Spencer. A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble. Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Kalpana Ram. Mukkuvar Women. Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Albert B. Robillard, ed. Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Anne Salmond. Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642–1772. Geoffrey Irwin. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Bernard Juillerat, ed. Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in West Sepik. Roger M. Keesing. Custom and Confrontation. The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy. James J. Carrier, ed. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden, eds. Like People You See in a Dream. First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Klaus Neumann. Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. Ron Brunton. The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Maurice Godelier and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Big Men and Great Men. Personifications of Power in Melanesia.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nadia Abu El‐Haj . Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self‐Fashioning in Israeli Society. Arjun Appadurai (ed.) Globalization. Ben Burt and Michael Kwa'ioloa (eds) . A Solomon Islands Chronicle, as Told by Samuel Alasa'a. Michael Kwa'ioloa and Ben Burt . Our Forest of Kwara'ae: Our Life in Solomon Islands and the Things Growing in our Home. Lionel Caplan . Children of Colonialism: Anglo‐Indians in a Postcolonial World. Erve Chambers . Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism. Gaur Desai . Subject to Colonialism: African Self‐Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson (eds) . Re‐Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China. Richard Handler (ed.) . Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology. Steven Harrell (ed.) . Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. Philip Hayward . Tide Lines: Music, Tourism and Cultural Transition in the Whitsunday Islands (and adjacent coast). Michael Herzfeld . Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society. Christopher Houston . Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State. Brij V. Lal (ed.) . Before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development. Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro (eds) . Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. Brian J. McVeigh . Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self‐Presentation in Japan. Marc L. Moskowitz . The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan. David Parker and Miri Song (eds) . Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’. Thomas, C. Patterson . A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. Jude Philp . Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888–1905. A National Museum of Australia Exhibition from the University of Cambridge. Peter Read . Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. Nancy Rosenberger . Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing World. Andrew Russell, Elisa J. Sobo and Mary S. Thompson (eds) . Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints. D. E. Smith (ed.) . Indigenous Families and the Welfare System: Two Community Case Studies. J. Taylor, J. Bern, and K.A. Senior . Ngukurr at the Millennium: A Baseline Profile for Social Impact Planning in South‐East Arnhem Land. J. Taylor and N. Westbury . Aboriginal Nutrition and the Nyirranggulung Health Strategy in Jawoyn Country. David J. Stuart‐Fox . Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali. Murray L. Wax . Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming. Mary Weismantel . Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Gage Averill . A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Peter Bellwood, James Fox and Daryl Tryon (eds) . The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. James Fox and Clifford Sather (eds) . Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Eyal Ben-Ari . Body Projects in Japanese Childcare. Francesca Bray . Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Susan Brownell . Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. A.T. Dalfovo . Lugbara Proverbs. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds) . Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Anne E. Figert . Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder. J. Goodman, P.E. Lovejoy and A. Sherratt (eds) . Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology. Abdellah Hammoudi . Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism. Chris Healey and David Mearns (eds) . Remaking Maluku - Social Transformation in Eastern Indonesia. Gail Hershatter . Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Sharon E. Hutchinson . Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State. Anastasia N. Karakasidou . Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia 1870–1990. Stephen Muecke . No Road (bitumen all the way). Geoffrey A. Oddie . Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-Swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800–1894. M. Picard and R. E. Wood (eds) . Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies. Veronica Strang . Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi (ed.) . Confronting Fiji Futures. Dwight B. Heath . Drinking Occasions: Comparative Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture. Alphonso Lingis , Dangerous Emotions. Chris Lyttleton . Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand. Jeannette Marie Mageo (ed.) . Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Serena Nanda . Gender Diversity: A Crosscultural Perspective. Douglas Raybeck . Looking Down the Road: A Systems Approach to Future Studies. Tim Rowse . Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Lissant Bolton. Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu. Rebecca Cassidy. The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newcastle. Kate Fox. The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horse Watchers. Robert J. Foster. Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod and Brian Larkin (eds). Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Leo Howe. Hinduism and Hierarchy in Bali. Bruce M. Knauft. Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After. Linda Sue Lewis. Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds). Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Julie Marcus. The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology. David McKnight. From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Raul Pertierra, Eduardo F. Ugarte, Alicia Pingol, Joel Hernandez and Nikos Lexis Dacanay. Txt‐ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. Urs Ramseyer. The Art and Culture of Bali. Urs Ramseyer and I. Gusti Panji Tisna (eds). Photographs by Rama Surya. Bali: Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Self‐portrait. Anthony Siaguru. In‐House in Papua New Guinea. Peggy Reeves Sanday. Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy. Neil L. Whitehead. Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Jeremy Beckett (ed.). Wherever I Go: Myles Lalor's ‘Oral History’. Victor Buchli . An Archaeology of Socialism. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald . Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China. James F. Eder , A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines. Colin Filer (ed.) . Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994. Jill Forshee with Christina Fink and Sandra Cate (eds). Converging Interests: Traders, Travelers, and Tourists in Southeast Asia. Elizabeth Furniss . The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Community. Alfred Gell . The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams. Edited by E. Hirsch Ernest Gellner . Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg Dilemma. Kenneth Henshall . Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi . The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Mark J. Hudson . Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Laura Lee Junker . Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Robert C. Kiste and M. Marshall (eds) . American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment. Bruce M. Knauft . From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology. David MacDougall . Transcultural Cinema. Zoila S. Mendoza . Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Kirstin Pauka . Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra: Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau. Phillip B. Zarilli . When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Power in Kalaripayattu, a South Indian Martial Art. Michael Pinches (ed.) . Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia. Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner (eds) . Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Jane Schneider (ed) . Italy's ‘Southern Question’: Orientalism in One Country. Christopher C. Taylor . Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Sandy Toussaint . Phyllis Kaberry and Me: Anthropology, History and Aboriginal Australia.     

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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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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.     

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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.