Making Their Way: Four Books on Youth, Culture, and Identity

Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 257 pp.
Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Ralph Cintron. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 264 pp.
Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers. Niobe Way. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 310 pp.
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Tobias Hecht. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 267 pp.     

Indigenous Peoples, State-Sanctioned Knowledge, and the Politics of Recognition

Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition . Bruce G. Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 248 pp.
Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgement Process . Mark Edwin Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 355 pp.
Gambling and Survival in Native North America . Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. 202 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.     

History, Memory, and Nation in the (Post)Colonies

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 243 pp.
Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Jeannerte Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.
In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Naomi M. McPherson. ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 264 pp.     

Migration, Transnationalism, and Belonging: Movements in the Nation-State

Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp.
When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. Sheba Mariam George. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005. 259 pp.
In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 327 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.     

Political Violence, Narrative, and Memory

Lords of the Lebanese Marclies: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society. Michael Gilsenan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 377 pp.
Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Ted Swedenburg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. 259 pp.     

Personal Meaning, Self-Representation, and Agency in Some Recent Works

Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of. Three-Year-Old. Jean L. Briggs. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 275 pp.
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture. Nancy J. Chodorow. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 320 pp.
Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds. Dorothy Holland. William Lachicotte Jr. Debra Skinner. and Carol Cain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 349 pp.     

Drugs, Violence, and Moral Panic in Urban America

Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals. Mark S. Pleisher. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 332 pp.
Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence. Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 303 pp.     

An early classic sculpture from El Tajin,Veracruz, Mexico

Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Trinidad, Mauritius and Beyond. 1992. Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, xii + 208 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.     

Centers, Margins, and Women in South Asia

Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Nita Kumar. ed Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994.239 pp.
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion and Culture. Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.250 pp.
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during the British Rule. Kumari Jayawardena New York: Routledge, 1995.310 pp.     

Yanomamology, Missiology, and Anthropology

The Yanomami and Their Interpreters: Fierce People or Fierce Interpreters? Frank A. Salamone. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. 117 pp.
Spirit of the Rainforest:. Yanomamö Shaman's Story. Mark Ritchie. Chicago: Island Lake Press, 1996. 271 pp.
Yanomamö Interactive: The Ax Fight. Peter Bella. Napoleon Chagnon. and Gary Seaman. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Multimedia Series Windows/Macintosh CDROM. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1997.     

The Ojibwa Woman.; Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887–1934.; Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835.

The Ojibwa Woman. Ruth Landes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 248 pp.
Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934. Katherine M. B. Osburn. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 165 pp.
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Theda Perdue. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 252 pp.     

Women's Health, Women's Lives

What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health. Lesley Doyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii. 280 pp.
Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Carolyn F. Sargent and Caroline Brettell. eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966. + 370 pp.
Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence. Paul Farmer. Margaret Connors. and Janie Simmons. eds. Monroe, ME: Common Courage, 1966. xxi. 473 pp.
Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS-Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women. E. J. Sobo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. ix. 232 pp.
Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico. Kaja Finkier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. xix. 238 pp.     

The Connecting Sea: History, Anthropology, and the Mediterranean

The Corrupting Sea:. Study of Mediterranean History. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 761 pp.
Mediterranean:. Cultural Landscape. Predrag Matvejević. Michael Henry Heim. trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 218 pp.
. Mediterranean Society. An Abridgment in One Volume. Shlomo D. Goitein. Jacob Lassner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 503 pp.     

The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death; Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America

The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death . Timothy Taylor. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002. 353 pp.
Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America . Lyman L. Johnson, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 354 pp.     

Studying Schools, Studying Ourselves: Ethnographic Perspectives on Educational Reform

Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 319 pp.
How It Works: Inside. School-College Collaboration. Sidney Trubowitz and Paul Longo. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. 172 pp.
Studying Your Own School: An Educator's Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research. Gary L. Anderson. Kathryn Herr. and Ann Sigrid Nihlen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1994. 203 pp.     

The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle; Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video

The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle. Fatimah Tobing Rony. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. 300 pp.
Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video. Catherine Russell. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.391 pp.     

Speaking through Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java: Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia

Speaking through Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java. Laine Berman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 256 pp.
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. J. Joseph Errington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.216 pp.