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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Mead and Samoa. Tb Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. By Derek Morality as a Biological Phenomenon. The Presuppositions of Sociobiological Research. Edited by Gunther S. Stent Lumsden, Charles J. & Edward 0. Wilson. Genes, Mind, and Culture, The Coevolutionary Process The Extended Phenotype. The Gene as the Unit of Selection. By Richard Dawkins. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman The growth of Biological Thought. Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance. By Ernst Mayr. The Building of Brjtish Social Anthropology.W. H. R. Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in the Development of Kinship Studies, 1898–1931.By Ian Langham Abstracts in German Anthropology. Edition Herodot, Gottingen North American Indian Studies. European Contributions. Edited by Pieter Hovens Schierle, Sonja. Funktion einer Survival School fur Stadtische Indianer. Heart of the Earth Survival School: Indianische Alternativschde in Minneapolis, Minnesota Der Tram als Religiose Erfahrung. Untersuchtunder Dargestellt am Beispiel der Irokesen. By Iris Anna Die Felsbilder Neuseelands. By Gottfried Kreuzer and Michael Dunn Jahrbnch des Museums fur Volkerkunde zuLeipzig. Asienwissenschaftliche Beitrage. Edited by Eberhardt Richter and Manfred Taube Mitteilungeu aus dem Museum fur VGlkerkunde zu Leipzig Die Seri hdianer von Sonora, Mexico. By John Skalle Practice and Progress. British Sociology 1950–1980. Edited by Philip Adams World-Systems Analysis. Theory and Methodology. By Terence K. Hopkins The Uses of Social Researck Soeid Investigation in Public Policy-Making. By Martin Bulmer. A Primer on Ethnomethodology. By Kenneth Building Feminist Theory. Essays from Quest, a Feminist Quarterly. By the Quest Staff. Longman Women and Splice. Ground Rules and Social Maps. Edited by Shirley Ardener Malinowski in Mexico. The Economics of a Mexican Market System. By Bronislaw Malinowski Food, Ecology, and Culture. Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices. Edited by J. R. K. Robson. Gordon and Breach Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. Edited by Carol P. MacCormack. Aboriginal Conception Beliefs. By Charles P. Mountford, with a Foreword by W. E. H. Stanner Aboriginal Man Adapting. The Human Biology of Australian Aborigines. By R. L. Kirk Coastal Archaeology in Eastern Australia. Proceedings of the 1980 Valla Conference on Australian Prehistory. Edited by Sandra Bowdler A Grammar of Diyari, South Australia. By Peter Austin The Mayi Languages of the Queensland Gulf Country. By Gavan Breen. My Country of the Pelican Dreaming. The Life of an Australian Aborigine of the Gadjerong, Grant Ngabidj, 1904–1977 Australian Aborigines. The languages and customs of several tribes in the western district of Victoria. By James Dawson. The Diari. By J. G. Reuther. Wreck Bay: An Aboriginal Fishing Community. By Brian J. Egloff. All That Dirt. Aborigines 1938. Edited by Bill Aboriginal Administration in Western Australia,1886–1905. By Leslie R. Marchant. Aboriginal Land Rights. A Handbook. Edited by Nicolas Peterson. The Time of Darkness. Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea. By R. J. Rapanni: Tradition and Survival on Easter Island. By Grant McCall. Sydney, George Allen The Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea. By Patricia Hay and Margaret Tuckson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Land and People of Northeast Brazil. By Manuel Correia de Andrade Development and Dependency. The Political Economy of Papua New Guinea. By Azeem Amarshi Australian Imperialism in the Pacific. The Expansionist Era 1820–1920. By Roger C. Thompson Law and State in Papua New Guinea. By Peter Fitzpatrick The Voice of Tambaran. Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion. By Donald F. Tuzin Social Organization in Aboriginal Australia. By Warren Shapiro The Camp at Wallaby Cross: Aboriginal Fringe Dwellers in Darwin. By Basil Sansom Oenpclli Bark Painting. By The Aboriginal Arts Board. Paul Hamlyn The Languages of Australia. By R. M. W. Dixon The World as a Company Town: Multinational Corporations and Social Change. Edited by Ahmed Idris-Soven Hunters, pastoralists and ranchers. By Tim Ingold Green and Pleasant Land? Social Change in Rural England. By Howard Newby Rural Sociology in the Soviet Union. Its History and Basic Concepts. By Terence M. Cox. C. Hurst Challenging Anthropology: A Critical Approach to Social Anthropology. Edited by David H. Turner and Gavin A. Smith Marxism and Anthropology: The Concept of ‘Human Essence’ in the Philosophy of Marx. By George Markus Ideology and Everyday Life: Anthropology, Neo-marxist Thought, and the Problem of Ideology and the Social Whole. By Steve Barnett and Martin G. Silverman Patterns of the Past: Studies in Honour of David Clarke. Edited by I. Hodder, G. Isaac and N. Hammond     

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Book reviewed in this article: Anthropology in Papua New Guinea. Edited by lan Hogbin Politics in New Guinea. Traditional and in the Context of Change: Some Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Ronald M. Berndt and Peter Lawrence Alternative Strategies for Papua New Gulnea. Edited by A. Clunies Ross and J. Langmore Baegu: Social and Ecological Organisation in Malaita, Solomon Islands. By Harold M. Ross The South Sea Islanders and the Quensland Labour Trade. By William T. Wawn. Edited by Peter Corris The Australian Aborigines. By B. A. L. Cranstone Hunters of the Northern Forest. By Richard K. Nelson Tahitians, Mind and Experience in the Society Islands. By Robert I. Levy Ancient Polynesian Society. By Irving Goldman Ilocano Rice Farmers. By Henry T. Lewis La course de pirogues au Laos: an complexe culturel. By Charles Archaimbault The Character of Kinship. Edited by Jack Goody Population Growth: Anthropological Implications. Edited by Brian Spooner Researches into the Physical History of Man. By J. C. Prichard. Edited by G. W. Stocking Human Origins. By D. Weitzman and R. E. Gross Communicating Across Time and Space. By D. Weitzman and R. E. Gross     

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Book reviewed in this article: Spbdic Textures: Studies in Cultural Meaning. Edited by Garan Aijmer. The Huli Response to Illness. By Stephen Frankel. Interpreting Signs of Illness: A Case Study in MedicalSemiotics. By Kathryn Vance Staiano. Development through Liberation: Third World Problems and Solutions. By Gerald J. Kruijer. The Northern Barbarians 100 BC-AD 300. By Malcolm Todd. The Prehistory of Germanic Europe. By Herbert Schutz. New Caledonin or Kanaky? The Political History of a French Colony. By John Connell. Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences. Edited by Joan Cassell Masters of Tradition: Consequences of Customary Land Tenure in Longana, Vanuatu. By Margaret C. Rodman. Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. By Irene Silverblatt. Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in Cattle Country. By Ann McGrath. Aborigines in Sport. By Colin Tatz. Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expressions of Gender in a Melanesian Society. By Miriam Kahn. Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Why Suya Sing: a Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People. By Anthony Seeger. The Social History of Language. Edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter. 'Of the hut that I builded': the Archaeology of Australia's History. By Graham Connah. Conversation in Africa: People, Politics and Practice. Edited by David Anderson and Richard Grove. Te Marae: a Guide to Customs and Protocol. By Hiwi and Pat Tauroa. Reed Metuen. Biological Aspects of Human Migration. Edited by C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor and G.W. Lasker. John Batman and the Aborigines. By Alastair H.Campbell. Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific. By Peter Hempenstall and Noel Rutherford. Marriage and Fertility in Tianjin, China: Fifty Years of Transition. By Burton Pasternak. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea. By William A, Foley. Tongan Music. By Richard Moyle. Voices from the City: Women of Bangkok. By Susanne Thorbek. Just for Living: Aboriginal Perception of Housing in Northeast Australia. By Helen Ross.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Urban Aborigines. By Fay Gale New Zealand Society. Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Stephen D. Webb and John Collette Themes in Culture (Essays in Honour of Morris E. Oder). Edited bv M. D. Zamora. J. M. Mahar, H. Orenstein Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand. By Jane Bunnag A Borneo Childhood Enculturation in Dusun Society. By Thomas Rhys Williams Ritual in Industrial Society. By Robert Bocock. George Allen and Unwin Social Change and Human Behavior: Mental Health Challenges of the Seventies. Edited by George V. Coelho and Eli A Rubinstein Mental Health and Social Change: An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by George V. Coelho Social Anthropology and Language. Edited by Edwin Ardener The Roots of Civilisation. By Alexander Mar-shack Evolution of the Primates. An Introduction to the Biology of Man. By A. B. Chiarelli The Ascent of Man. An Introduction to Human Evolution. By David Pilbeam. Mac-millan Early Hominid Posture and Locomotion. By John T. Robinson Maori Greenstone Pendants in the Australian Museum, Sydney. By D. Wayne Orchi-ston Studies in Oceanic Culture History: Volume 3. Edited by R. C. Green and M. Kelly. The Languages of the Eastern Family of the East New Guinea Highland Stock. Edited by Howard McKaughan The Australian Aborigines. A Portrait of their Soaiety. By Kenneth Maddock Priorities in Melanesian Development. Edited by Ronald J. May Padju Epat: The Ma'anyan of Indonesian Borneo. By A. B. Hudson     

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The Dialectics of Social Life. By Robert F. Murphy Stone Age Economics. By Marshall Sahlins Disconcerting Issue: Meaning and struggle in a resettled Pacific community. By Martin G. Silverman. Social Consequences of Resettlement: The impact of the Kariba resettlement upon the Gwembe Tonga. By Elizabeth Colson Immigration and Social Change: Agricultural settlement of new immigrants in Israel. By Dov Winteraub The Rope of MOka: Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. By Andrew Strathern We, the Navigators. By David Lewis A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands. By James F. O'Connell Sir William MacGregor. By R. B. Joyce Australia in New Guinea. By Lucv P. Mair Bridge and Barrier: The Natural and Cultural History of Torres Strait. Edited by D. Walker O1 Tumbuna. Archaeological excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. By J. Peter White Woman's Role in Aboriginal Society. Edited by Fay Gale Daisy Bates. By Elizabeth Salter Rice and Man: agricultural ecology in Southeast Asia. By Lucien M. Hanks Mythology. Edited by Pierre Maranda Environment and Archeology. By Karl W. Butzer In the Shadow of Man. By Jane Van Lawick Goodall Man and His Ancestors. By Alan Houghton Brodrick The Dawn of Man. By Vincent Megaw and Rhys Jones Anthropology Today.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Buying Back the Land: Organisational Struggle and the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art By Linda Connor, Rick Dingus, Steve Fitch, John Pfahl and Charles Roitz The Gift of Kinship: Structure and Practice in Maring Social Organization Enterprising Women: Ethnicity, Economy, and Gender Relations Edited by Sallie Westwood and Parminder Bhachu Routledge The Culture of Capitalism By Alan Macfarlane Division of Labour By R.E. Pahl Fluid Signs. Being a Person the Tamil Way By E.V. Daniel Women in Rice Farming. Proceedings of a Conference on Women in Rice Farming Systems, the International Rice Research Institute, Manilla Women in Prehistory By Margaret Ehrenberg The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia By R.M. and C.H. Berndt Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective. Essays in Honor of Derek Freeman Edited by G.N. Appell and N.T. Madan Aboriginality: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings and Prints By Jennifer Isaacs To Speak in Pairs. Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia Edited by James J. Fox Hunter-gatherers Today: an Aboriginal Economy in North Australia By J.C. Altman The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies By D.K. Feil Dreaming, Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations Edited by Barbara Tedlock Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea By Paul Sillitoe Peasant Pedlars and Professional Traders: Subsistence Trade in Rural Markets of Minahasa, Indonesia By Ulrich Mai and Helmut Bucholt Creating Culture: Profiles in the study of culture Edited by Diane J. Austin-Broos The How of the Fox: Tropical Forests, the World Bank, and Indigenous People in Central India Robert S. Anderson and Walter Huber And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the Aids Epidemic Randy Shilts     

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The Ieland of Menatruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea. By Ian Hogbin Anthropology in Oceania: Essays presented to Ian Hogbin. Edited by L. R. Hiatt and C. Jaywardena Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion. By Roy Wagner The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. By Paula Brown Physical Anthropology of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. By R. A. Littlewood Change and Development in Rural Melanesia. Edited by Marion Ward A Study in Structural Semantics: The Siriono Kinship System. By Harold W. Scheffler and Floyd G. Lounsbury Three Styles in the Study of Kinship. By J. A. Barnes Socialization: The Approach from Social Anthropology. Edited by Philip Mayer Primitive Law, Past and Present. By A. S. Diamond The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Edited by T. O. Beidelman Essays on the Caste Syetem. By Celestin Bouglé Religious Experience: its nature and function in the human psyche. By Walter Houston Clark Man for Humanity. On Concordance vs Discord in Human Behavior. Edited by H Masserman and J. J. Schwab. Charles C. Thomas The Emergence of Man. By John E. Pfeiffer Papers in Economic Prehistory: Studies by Members and Associates of the British Academy Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture. Edited by E. S. Higgs Yirawala, Artist and Man. By Sandra le Brun Holmes Science and Archaeology. Edited by Robert H. Brill Tongues of Men and Angela. By William J. Samarin. Macmillan Biology: A Search for Order in Complexity. By J. N. Moore and H. S. Slusher Moko: or Maori Tattooing. By H. G. Robley. Chapman and Hall Frozen Tombs: the Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen. By Sergei I. Rudenko Anthropology for our Times. By Lois Brauer Cover     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Evolution of Human Sexuality. By Donald Symons. The Sisterhood of Man. The Impact of Women's Changing Roles on Social and Economic Life Around the World. By Kathleen Newland. Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa. Sarah LeVine, in collaboration with Robert A. LeVine. New Women of Lusaka, By Ilsa M. Glazer Schuster. The Politics of Anthropology, edited by Gerrit Huizer and Bruce Mannheim. System, Structure and Contradiction: The Evolution of ‘Asiatic’ Social Formations. Jonathan Friedman. Toward a Cultural Theory of Education and Schooling. Edited by Frederick Gearing and Lucinda Sangree. The Public School Phenomenon 597–1977. By Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. The Religion, Spirituality, and Thought of Traditional Africa. By Dominique Zahan. Community, Self, and Identity. Edited by Bhabagrahi Misra and James Preston. Les Dieux et Les Hommes. Etude des Cultes d'un village du Tirunelveli, Inde du Sud. By Marie Louise Reiniche. Anutan Concepts of Disease: A Polynesian Study. By Richard Feinberg, with a forward by Dr Carleton Gajdusek. In the Shadow of Tlaloc: Life in a Mexican Village. By Gregory R. Reck. Protein from the Sea: Technological Change in Philippine Capture Fisheries. By Alexander Spoehr. The Ainu: The Past in the Present. By Fred C. C. Peng and Peter Geiser. From Field to Factory: Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal. By Morton Klass. Lightning meets the West Wind. The Malaita Massacre. By Roger M. Keesing and Peter Corris. Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat. By Paula L. Rubel and Barbara Rosman. Villagers at war: Some Papua New Guinean exyeriences in World War II. By Neville K. Robinson. Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean. By Malcolm Cross. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. By Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn-Levine. The Child in the City. By Colin Ward, with photographs by Ann Golzen and others. 'It's Coming Yet …' An Aboriginal Treaty Within Australia Between Australians. By Stewart Harris, for the Aboriginal Treaty Committee. The Street is Their Home: The Hobos' Manifesto. By Jim Ward. Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86, By M. F. Christie. Songs of the Pintupi. Musical Life in a Central Australian Society. By Richard M. Moyle Shuckin' and Jivin’: Folktore from Contemporary Black Americans. By Daryl Cumber Dance. The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in the Architecture and the Applied Arts. By Philip Steadman A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter. By David Seaman. Climatic Races and Descent Groups. By Grover S. Krantz. Views of the Past. Essays in Old World Prehistory and Paleoanthropology. Edited by Leslie G. Freeman. Tools and Tillage. A Journal of the History of the Implements of Cultivation and other Agricultural Processes. Volume III:3. Edited by Grith Lerche, Alexander Fenton and Axel Steensberg Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The Chetro Ketl Collection. By R. Gwinn Vivian, Dulce N. Dodgen, and Gayle H. Hartman. Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology. Edited by Payson D. Sheets and Donald K. Grayson. Fossils in the Making: Vertebrate Taphonomy and Palaeoecology. Edited by Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Andrew P. Hill.     

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Book reviewed in this article: People Without Government. An Anthropology of Anarchism. By Harold Barclay The Anarchists of Casas Viejas. By Jerome R. Mintz Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation. By Paul Ricoeur. Edited, translated and introduced by John B. Thompson The Anthropological Circle. Symbol, Function, History. By Marc Auge Sciences and Cultures. Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences. Edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana Australian Sociologies. By Diane J. Austin. George Allen & Unwin Social Inequality in Australian Society. By John S. Western Which Way Is Up? Essays on Class, Sex and Culture. By R. W. Connell. George Allen and Unwin The Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology, Volume 1, January 1983. Edited by Graham E. Connah Pacific Cultural Material in New Zealand Museums. By Roger Neich A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul. By Peter White with James F. Connell The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land. By Carmel Schrire Reward and Punishment in Arnhemland 1962–1963. By Edgar Wells Daughters of the Dreaming. By Diane Bell We Are Bosses Ourselves. The Status and Role of Aboriginal Women Today. Edited by Fay Gale Sorcerers and Healing Spirits. Continuity and Change in an Aboriginal Medical System. By Janice Reid Languages of Kinship in Aboriginal Australia. Edited by Jeffrey Heath, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. By Bob Dixon Vanuatu: Politics, Economics and Ritual in Island Melanesia. Edited by Michael Allen Gifts and Commodities. By C. A. Gregory The Political Economy of the South Pacific. By Michael C. Howard To Find the Baruya Story. A film by Allison and Marek Jablonko and Stephen Olsson. Her Name Came on Arrows. A film by Allison and Marek Jablonko and Stephen Olsson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology. Edited by Mary Douglas. Cosomologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Vahtion in Inner New Guinea. By Fredrik Barth Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. By Roger Lewin Child of Vietnam. By Uyen Loewald Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. By Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley Conflict in Catalonia: Images of an Urban Society. Edited by Gary W. McDonogh An International History of the Vietnam War, Volume II, The Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1961-65. By R.B. Smith. Macmillan Wage Labour and Social Change: The Proletariat in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Michael Pinches Gender and Kinship: Essays toward a Unified Analysis. Edited by Jane Fishburn Collier and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako The Cyclades in the Bronze Age By R.L.N. Barber African Civilisations. Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: An Archaeological Perspective. By Graham Connah Sepik River Societies: A Historical Ethnography of the Chrmbri and their Neighbours. By Deborah Gewertz A World Like Our Own. Man and Nature in Madagascar. By Alison Jolly Science Encounters the Indian. 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology. By Robert E. Bieder Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behaviour. By Gehan Wijeyewardene The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany. Edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld. Anthropology at Home. Edited by Anthony Jackson Man the Paradoxical Primate: A Solution to Human Bipedalism. Written, designed and produced by Jordi Fuentes. Human Evolution: an Introduction for the Behaviouml Sciences. By Graham Richards. Anthropology in South Australia Edited by C. Anderson and P. Sutton Singular Paths: Old Men Living Alone. By Robert L. Rubenstein Meyer Fortes: Religion, Mortality and the Person -Essays on Tallensi Religion. Edited and with an introduction by Jack Goody.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Towards an Archaeology of Mind . An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 30 November, 1982. By Colin Renfrew Claude Levi-Strauss. The Bearer of Ashes . By David Pace Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropolog in the Comparative Study of Cultures. Histories. Religions, and Texts . By James A. Boon World View . By Michael Kearney. Chandler & Sharp Fantasy and Symbol. Studies in Anthropological Interpretation . Edited by R.H. Hook Consciousness and Causality: A Debate on the Nature of the Mind . By D.M. Armstrong and Norman Malcolm The Logic of Culture. Advances in Structural Theory and Methods . Edited by Ino Rossi Michael Foucaull and the Subversion of Intellect. By Karlis Racevskis Bones, Ancient Men and Modern Myths . By Lewis R. Binford Shipwreck Anthropology . Edited by Richard A. Gould. A School of American Research Book Quaternary Coastlines and Marine Archaeology Towards the Prehistory of Land Bridges and Continental Shelves . Edited by P.M. Masters and N.C. Flemming The Hunger for Salt. An Anthropological, Physiological and Medical Analysis . By Derek Denton, Springer Verlag Climate and History. Studies in Past Climates and Their Impact on Man . Edited by T.M.L. Wigley, M.J. Ingram, G. Farmer Climatic Change in Later Prehistory . Edited by Antony Harding Short and Long-Term Changes in Climate . Volume I & II by Felix G. Sulman Social Science Research and Climate Change. An Interdisciplinary Appraisal . Edited by Robert S. Chen. Elise Boulding and Stephen H. Schneider Population and Society: A Sociological Perspective . By Carl F. Grindstaff Growth and Structure of Human Population in the Presence of Migration . By M. Sivamurthy Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao. A Study Environment, Culture, and Society in Northern Luzon . By Harold C. Conklin World View. By Michael Kearney. Chandler & Sharp, Shingu. A Study of a Japanese Fishing Ccommunity . By Arne Kalland Sala'ilua. A Samoan Mystery . By Bradd Shore Parenthood and Social Reproduction. Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa . By Esther N. Goody Law As Process, An Anthropological Approach . By Sally Falk Moore Law and Social Change in Papua New Guinea . Edited by David Weisbrot, Abdul Paliwala and Akilagpa Sawyerr Aborigines and the Law: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Egglestbn . Edited by Peter Hanks and Bryan Keon-Cohen The Firm and the Formless: Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia . By Hans Mol Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley . By Paddy Roe. Edited by Stephen Muecke Banggaiyerri: The Story of Jack Sullivan as told to Bruce Shaw . By Bruce Shaw The Aboriginal Economy in Town and Country . By E. K. Fisk     

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Book reviewed in this article: Walter Benjamin. By Julian Roberts Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism (Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences Series). By James Schmidt Phenomenology in Practice and Theory. Edited by William S. Hamrick Advocacy and Anthropology, First Encounters. Edited by Robert Paine A Plague of Caterpillars. A Return to the African Bush. By Nigel Barley The Innocent Anthropologist. Notes from a Mud Hut. By Nigel Barley So Much That Is New. Baldwin Spencer 1860–1929: A Biography. By D.J. Mulvaney and J.H. Calaby The Native Tribes of Western Australia. By Daisy Bates Women, Employment and Development in the Arab World. Edited by Julinda Abu Nqsr Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. By Lawrence S. Grossman The History and Social Influence of the Potato. By Redcliffe Salaman Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present. By Bernard Campbell Philosophy and Archaeology. By Merrilee H. Salmon The Psychosocial Interior of the Family.3rd Edition, Edited by Gerald Handel The Artificial Family. A Consideration of Artificial Insemination by Donor. By R. Snowden and G.D. Mitchell Maternal and Child Health in Rural Kenya. An Epidemiological Study. Edited by J.K. van Ginneken and AS. Muller Maternal Bonding. By Wladyslaw Sluckin, Martin Herbert and Alice Sluckin The Continuum Concept. By Jean Liedloff Wives and Midwives, Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia. By Carol Laderman Human Sexuality: Contemporary Controversies. Edited by Harold Feldman Australian Women and the Political System. Edited by Marian Simms Singapore: Struggle for Success. By John Drysdale. George Allen and Unwin     

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Book reviewed in this article: Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship. By Maurice Bloch. The Anthropology of Pre-Capitalist Societies. Editesd by Joel S. Kahn and Josep R. Llobera. Marx: The First Hundred Years. Edited by David McLellan. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. By Anthony Giddens, Contemporary Social Theory. Introduction to the Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Edited by Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin. Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Is There a Future for Marxism? By Alex Gallinicos. Marx, Marginalism & Modern Sociology. From Adam Smith to Max Weber. By Simon Clarke. Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. By Karl Marx. Volume 3. Introduced by Ernest Mandel. Translated by David Fernbach. Beyond Marxism? Interventions After Marx. Edited by Judith Allen and Paul Patton. Max Weber and Karl Marx. By Karl Löwith. Edited with an introduction by Tom Bottomore and William Authwaite. In the Active Voice. By Mary Douglas. Essays in the Sociology of Perception. Edited by Mary Douglas. Dar La Vida Por La Vida: La Agrupacion Chilena de Detenidos Desaparecidos (Ensayo de Antropolgía Simbólica). By Hernán Vidal. Pattern of the Past. Studies in Honour of David Clarke. Edited by Ian Hodder, Glynn Isaac and Norman Hammond. Coast and Estuary: Archaeological Investigations on the North Coast of New South Wales at Wombah and Schnapper Point. By Isabel Mc Bryde. Early Native Americans: Prehistoric Demography, Ecology and Technology. Edited by David L. Browman. World Anthropology Series. The Moth Hunters. Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian Alps. By Josephine Flood. Plants and People. Aboriginal Uses of Plants on Groote Eylandt. By Dulcie Levitt. The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African cave taphonomy. By C. K. Brain. Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. By L. R. Binford. Paleolithic Reflections. Lithic Technology and Excavations among Australian Aborigines. By Brian Hayden. Future Directions in the Study of the Arts of Oceania. Edited by Judith Huntsman. Material Culture. Styles, Organization and Dynamics of Technology. Edited by Heather Lechtman and Robert Merrill. The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections. Edited by Anne-Marie Cantwell, James B. Griffin and Nan A. Rothschild. Physical Anthropology of European Populations. Edited by Ilse Schwidetzky, Brunetto Chiarelli and Olga Necrasov. Physiological and Morphological Adaptation and Evolution. Edited by William A. Stini. Human Variation. Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups. By Stephen Molnar. The Yindjibarndi Language. By F. J. F. Wordick. Pacific Linguistics Series C — No. 71. Basic Materials in Mara: Grammar, Texts and Dictionary. By Jeffrey Heath. Pacific Linguistics Series C — No. 60. Aborigines and Schooling: Essays in honour of Max Hart. Edited by Bill Menary with an introduction by Paul Finnane. Northern Australia: Options and Implications. Edited by Rhys Jones. The Affinal Relationship System. A New Approach to Kinship and Marriage among the Australian Aborigines at Port Keats. By Aslaug and Johannes Falkenberg. Body, Land and Spirit: Health and Healing in in Aboriginal Society. Edited by Janice Reid. Studies in Society and Culture Series. The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin. By Carolyn Fishel Sargent. Your Land Is Our Land: Aboriginal Land Rights. By Kenneth Maddock. An Australian Original. Aborigines, Land and Land Rights. Edited by Nicolas Peterson and Marcia Langton. AIAS 42 New Series. Oedipus in the Trobriands. By Melford E. Spiro. Feminine Sexuality. Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne. Edited by Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose. Translated by Jacqueline Rose. Gender at Work. By Ann Game and Rosemary Pringle. Photography by Helen Grace. The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949–1980. By Phyllis Andors. Broken Earth. The Rural Chinese. By Steven W. Mosher. Japan and Australia. Two Scieties and Their Interaction. Edited by Peter Drysdale and Hironobu Kitaoji. A Northern Prospect. Australian Papers on Japan. Edited by Harold Bolitho and Alan Rix. The Women of Suye Mura. By Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell. Taro. A Review of Colocasia Esculenta and Its Potentials. Edited by Jaw-Kai Wang. Roots in the Earth. Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. By Paul Sillitoe. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation. The Rise of a Karāva Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500–1931. By Michael Roberts. Sri Lankan Fishermen. Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society. By Paul Alenxander.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology . By Jack Goody Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Diet and Culture . Edited by Norge W. Jerome. Randy F. Kandal and Gretel H. Pelto An Anthropological Perspective . Edited by Jack O. Waddell and Michael W. Everett Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea . Edited by Mac Marshall Colonialism and Foreign Ownership of Capital. A Trade Theorists View . By Bharat R. Hazari, Croom Helm Human Resource Development An Annotated Bibliography on Social & Cultural Influences . Compiled by Nat J. Colleta and Trudy A. Todd Traditional Housing in African Cities. A Comparative Study of Housing in Zaria, Ibadan, and Marrakech . By Friedrich Schwerdtfeger The Yoruba Today . By I. S. Eades. Changing Cultures Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Traditions and Invention in Mende Story Performance. By Donald Cosentino Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist. No Hilling Place . By Manda Cesara Woman's Worth. Sexual Economics and the World of Women . By Lisa Leghorn and Katherme Parker Women and Dualism. A Sociology of Knowledge Analysis . By Lynda M. Glennon Trucanini. Queen or Traitor? By Vivienne Rae Ellis Aborigines and Uranium and Other Essays . By Colin Tatz Aboriginal Futures. A Review of Research and Developments and Related Policies in the Education of Aborigines. A Summary . By B. H. Watts Australian Aborigines in the News. Traditional Music of Torres Strait . Recorded by Jeremy Beckett Aboriginal Sound Instruments . Recorded, edited and annotated by Alice M. Moyle Songs from North Queensland . Recorded, edited and annotated by Alice M. Moyle Songs of the Kimberleys . Recorded, annotated and compiled by Alice M. Moyle Djambidj. An Aboriginal Song Series from Northern Australia . Performed by Frank Gurr-manarnana and Frank Malkorde (singers) and Sam Gumugun (didjeridu), Goethe Institute, Canberra Studies in Pacific Languages and Cultures in Honour of Bruce Biggs . Edited by J. Hollyman and A. Pawley The Three Twins. The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic . By Brenda E. F. Beck The Masked Media. Aymara Fiestas and Social Interaction in the Bolivian Highlands . By Hans C. Buechler The Play of the Gods, Locality, Ideology, Structure and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town . By Äkos Östör Principles and Practice of Human Physiology . Edited by O. G. Edholm and J. S. Weiner Monumenta Brittannica or A Miscellany of British Antiquities (Parts One and Two) . By John Aubrey. Edited by John Fowles Environmental Archaeology . By Myra Shackley     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Destruction of Aboriginal Society. Outcasts in White Australia. The Remote Aborigines. By C. D. Rowley Chariots of the Gods? By Erich von Daniken Archaeology of the Gallus Site, Koonalda Cave. Edited by R. V. S. Wright Fighting with Food. Leadership, values and social control in a Massim society. By Michael W. Young One Father, One Blood. Descent and Group Structure Among the Melpa People. By Andrew Strathern Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea. By Douglas Newton Papua New Guinea. Prospero's Other Island. Edited by Peter Hastings The Human Aviary. A Pictorial Discovery of New Guinea. By George Holton and Kenneth E. Read A Revised Linguistic Survey of Australia. Edited by W. J. Oates and Lynette F. Oates Notes on the Bandjalang Dialect Spoken at Coraki and Bungawalbin Creek, N.S.W. By Nils M. Holmer Papers on the Languages of Australian Aboriginals. Contributions by B. J. Blake A Partial Vocabulary of the Ngalooma Aboriginal Tribe. By Harold Aubrey Hall Dating Techniques for the Archaeologist. Edited by Henry N. Michael and Elizabeth K. Ralph The Aborigine Today. Edited by B. Leach. Paul Hamlyn     

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Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange . By Annette B. Weiner. ‘Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man . Edited by Roger M. Keesing. Birds of My Kalam Country: Mnmon Yad Kalam Yakt . By Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer. Australian Aboriginal Concepts . Edited by L. R. Hiatt. Killing Me Softly: The Destruction of a Heritage . Phyl and Noel Wallace. Thomas Nelson (Australia). Mediterranean Family Structures . Edited by J. G. Peristiany. Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana: the Railway-men of Secondi . By Richard Jeffries. Language and Thought. Anthropological Issues . Edited by W. C. McCormack and S. A. Wurm. The Anthropology of the Body . Edited by John Blacking. Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction . Edited by Esther N. Goody. Ethics in Social and Behavioural Research . By Edward Diener and Rick Crandall. Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginnings to the Present . Edited by R. P. Schaedel, J. E. Hardoy and N. S. Kinzer. Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea . By Virginia Drew Watson and J. David Cole. Fire and Hearth: A Study of Aboriginal Usage and European Usurpation in South-western Australia . By Sylvia J. Hallam. Art in Society . Edited by Michael Greenhalgh and Vincent Megaw. Form in Indigenous Art: Schematization in the Art of Aboriginal Australia and Prehistoric Europe . Edited by Peter J. Ucko. Stone Tools as Cultural Markers: Change, Evolution and Complexity . Edited by R. V. S. Wright. Early Hydraulic Civilisation in Egypt. A Study in Cultural Ecology . By Karl W. Butzer.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Understanding Our Culture. By Wendell H. Oswalt The Elementary Structuree of Kinehip Claude Uvi-Strauss. Translated by J. H. B Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. By Louis Dumont. Translated by Mark Sainsbury Religion, Politics and History in India: Collected Papers in Indian Sociology. By Louis Dumont Australian Aboriginal Anthropology: Modern Studies in the Social Anthropology of the Australian Aborigines. Edited by Ronald M. Berndt Aboriginal Advancement to Integration: Conditions and Plans for Western Australia (Aborigines in Australian Society 5). By H. P. Schapper The Dugum Dani. By Karl G. Heider Myths and Legends of Torres Strait. Land Tenure in the Pacific. Edited by Ron Crocombe The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841–1844. Edited by Dorothy Shineberg. Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga. By Noel Rutherford Traditional Maori Clothing . By S. M. Mead. A. H. and A. W. Reed A Portuguese Rural Society. By Jose Cuti-neiro Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Fieldwork. By William J. Samarin The Roots of Mankind. By John Napier The Treponematosis of Tahiti. Its origin and evolution: a study of the sources. By Isaac van der Sluis. B. M. Israel N.V Aspects of Prehistory. By Grahame Clark The Archaeology of Early Man. By J. M. Coles and E. S. Higgs Fashion of Law in New Guinea. Edited by B. J. Brown Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal. By Dick Roughsey. A. H. and A. W. Reed