Reviews

Gall Midges of Economic Importance. Vol. VIII: Miscellaneous. By W. N ijveldt .
Chemical Fallout: Current Research on Persistent Pesticides. Edited by M. W. M iller and G. C. B erg .
Plant Diseases and their Chemical Control. By E. E vans .
Scientific Writing for Graduate Students. By F. P eter W oodford (ed.).     

BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN

Otte , D.; Endler , J. A. (eds.): Speciation and its consequences. Promp , D. W.: Sozialisation und Ontogenese – ein biosoziologischer Ansatz. Common , I. F. B.: Moths of Australia. Oxnard , Ch . E.; Crompton , R. H.; Lieberman , S. S.: Animal Lifestyles and Anatomies. Niethammer , J.; Krapp , F.: Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas. Kurt , F.: Das Reh in der Kulturlandschaft. Skuhravá , M.; Skuhravý , V.: Atlas of Galls induced by Gall Midges.     

REVIEWS

The Plant in Health and Disease. By W. A. R. D illon W eston and R. E ric T aylor
Svalof 1886–1946. History and Present Problems. Edited by A. A kerman , O. T edin and K. F roier
Gall Midges of Economic Importance. Vol. IV: Ornamental Plants and Shrubs. By H. F. B arnes
L'Hérédité. Par E. G uyénot .
Carotinoide. Von P. K arrer und E. J ucker
Mathematical Biophysics. By N. R ashevsky
Die Larvenformen der Dipteren. Von W. H ennig     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Gall Midges of Economic Importance. Vol. VII. Cereal Crops. By H. F. B arnes
Mosquitoes of North America (North of Mexico). By S tanley J. C arpenter and W alter J. L acasse
Soil Zoology. Proceedings of the University of Nottingham Second Easter School in Agricultural Science, 1955. Edited by D. K eith M ce . K evan
Experimental Design. By W. T. F ederer     

Reviews

Comparative Animal Physiology. By C. L add P rosser et al.
Organisme et Sexualité. By M. C aullery .
Embryos and Ancestors. By G. R. de B eer .
The Association of Ants with Aphids and Coccids. By G. E. J. N ixon .
Soil and Fresh-Water Nematodes. By T. G oodey
Die Überträger pflanzlicher Viruskrankheiten (The vectors of plant viruses). By K urt H einze .
Leaf Curl Disease of Cotton. By S. A. J. T arr .
Introduction to Mycology. By J. A. M ac D onald .
Pesticide Handbook 1951. Edited by D. E. H. F rear .
Pflanzliche Infektionslehre. By E rnst G äumann .
A Dictionary of Biology. By M. A bercrombie , C. J. H ickman and M. L. J ohnson .
Soviet Genetics. By A. G. M orton .
Gall Midges of Economic Importance. Vol. v. Gall Midges of Trees. By H. F. B arnes .
Four Thousand Million Mouths. Scientific Humanism and the Shadow of World Hunger. Edited by F. L e G ros C lark and N. W. P irie .     

Density-dependent egg mortality in early stages of gall induction by the fruit gall midge <Emphasis Type="Italic">Asphondylia aucubae</Emphasis> Yukawa and Ohsaki

Density-dependent mortality has been considered a symptom of intraspecific competition. We examined the occurrence of such mortality in the early stages of gall induction by the gall midge Asphondylia aucubae Yukawa et Ohsaki (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Female midges deposit eggs into young fruit of the dioecious shrub Aucuba japonica Thunberg to induce gall formation. Each host fruit received 0–67 eggs (mean 18.5 eggs) from multiple females, whereas established galls each contained one to ten larvae. Midges suffered intense mortality (65–90%) at the egg stage. Egg mortality occurred even in fruit in which no larvae had hatched, suggesting that this mortality cannot be wholly attributed to larval interference. Egg mortality was affected by fruit size, i.e., resource capacity. Midges distributed more eggs in larger fruit. Egg mortality increased as the per-fruit density increased relative to fruit size. In contrast, the mortality of hatchlings was density-independent. Our results suggest that A. aucubae intensely compete for gall-induction substrates, which are spatiotemporally rare resources.     

Identification of the bona fide DHDPS from a common plant pathogen

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a Gram‐negative soil‐borne bacterium that causes Crown Gall disease in many economically important crops. The absence of a suitable chemical treatment means there is a need to discover new anti‐Crown Gall agents and also characterize bona fide drug targets. One such target is dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS), a homo‐tetrameric enzyme that catalyzes the committed step in the metabolic pathway yielding meso‐diaminopimelate and lysine. Interestingly, there are 10 putative DHDPS genes annotated in the A. tumefaciens genome, including three whose structures have recently been determined (PDB IDs: 3B4U, 2HMC, and 2R8W). However, we show using quantitative enzyme kinetic assays that nine of the 10 dapA gene products, including 3B4U, 2HMC, and 2R8W, lack DHDPS function in vitro. A sequence alignment showed that the product of the dapA7 gene contains all of the conserved residues known to be important for DHDPS catalysis and allostery. This gene was cloned and the recombinant product expressed and purified. Our studies show that the purified enzyme (i) possesses DHDPS enzyme activity, (ii) is allosterically inhibited by lysine, and (iii) adopts the canonical homo‐tetrameric structure in both solution and the crystal state. This study describes for the first time the structure, function and allostery of the bona fide DHDPS from A. tumefaciens, which offers insight into the rational design of pesticide agents for combating Crown Gall disease. Proteins 2014; 82:1869–1883. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Effects of Gall Induction by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Epiblema Strenuana</Emphasis> on Gas Exchange,Nutrients, and Energetics in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Parthenium Hysterophorus</Emphasis>

Gall induction by arthropods results in a range of morphological and physiological changes in their host plants. We examined changes in gas exchange, nutrients, and energetics related to the presence of stem galls on Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae) induced by the moth, Epiblema strenuana Walker (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). We compared the effects of galls on P. hysterophorus in the rosette (young), pre-flowering (mature), and flowering (old) stages. Gall induction reduced the leaf-water potential, especially in flowering stage plants. In young and mature stage plants, galling reduced photosynthetic rates considerably. Gall induction reduced the transpiration rate mostly in mature plants, and this also diminished stomatal conductance. Energy levels in most galls and in shoot tissue immediately below the galls were significantly higher than the energy levels in stem tissue immediately above the galls, indicating that the gall acts as a mobilizing sink for the moth. Galling had significant effects on concentrations of minerals such as boron, chloride, magnesium, and zinc. In galled plants, reduced leaf-water potential and reduced rates of photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance may have altered mineral element levels. These observed effects demonstrate that E. strenuana has the potential to regulate P. hysterophorus.     

Cleavage of oligosaccharides by rat kidney sialidase Influence of substrate structure

The specificity of the sialidase activity present in rat kidney cortex (12 000 × g pellet) was studied with various tritiated oligosaccharidic substrates: (i) αNeuAc2 → 3βGall → 4Glc-itol[³H], αNeuAc2 → 6βGall → 4Glc-itol[³H] and αNeuAc2 → 8αNeuAc2 → 3βGall → 4Glc-itol[³H] from bovine colostrum; (ii) α-NeuAc2 → 6βGall → 4βGlcNAc-itol[³H], αNeuAc2 → 3βGal1 → 4βGlcNAcl → 2αManl → 3βMan1 → 4GlcNAc-itol[³H]. αNeuAc2 → 6βGall → 4βGlcNAcl → 2αManl α 3(βGall → 4GlcNAcl → 2αManl → 6)βManl → 4GlcNAc-itol [³H]et αNeuAc2 → 6βGall → 4βGlcNAcl → 2αManl-3(αNeuAc2 → 6βGall → 4βGlcNAcl → 2αManl → 6)βManl 4GlNAc-itol[³H] isolated from the urine of a patient with mucolipidosis I. The enzyme cleaves α2 → 3 and α2 → 8 linkages at a greater rate than the α2 → 6 bonds. Its activity decreases with the length of the oligosaccharidic chain. Substitution of a glucose moiety by Nacetylglucosamine results in diminished activity. The specificity of rat kidney sialidase differs from that reported for other mammalian of viral sialidases.     

REVIEWS

The New Genetics in the Soviet Union. By P. S. H udson and R. H. R ichens
Trace Elements in Plants and Animals. By W alter S tiles
Actions of Radiations on Living Cells. By D. E. L ea
Biology of Tissue Cells. By A lbert F ischer
Gall Midges of Economic Importance. By H. F. B arnes , Agricultural and Horticultural Handbooks
DDT The Synthetic Insecticide. By T. F. W est , M.Sc., Ph.D. (Lond.), F.R.I.C. and G. A. C ampbell , M.Sc. (Leeds), F.R.I.C.
Danish Review of Game Biology.     

Book Reviews

Michael Kearney. 1996. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Per‐spectwe. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 210 pp.

Don Kulick &; Margaret Wiltson (eds). 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London/New York: Routledge. xvi + 283 pp.

Sandra Wallman et al. 1996. Kampala Women GettingBy: Well‐being in the Time of AIDS. London:James Currey Ltd. 246 pp.

Angelique Haugerud. 1995. The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xvi + 266 pp.

Mary Kay Vaughan. 1997. Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1920–1940. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, xiii + 262 pp.

Robert J. Foster (ed.). 1995. Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcohnial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, vi + 280 pp.

Tom G. Svensson. 1997. The Sámi and Their Land: The Sámi vs the Swedish Crown. Oslo: Novus forlag. 213 pp.

Pamela J. Asquith &; Arne Kalland (eds). 1997. Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. London: Curzon. 220 pp.     

Sugar‐feeding status alters biting midge photoattraction

The biting midge Culicoides sonorensis Wirth and Jones (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) transmits pathogens to both livestock and wildlife. Biting midge surveillance relies heavily on light traps for collection; however, little is known about the light spectra preferences of C. sonorensis midges. A light assay arena was constructed and light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) of various light spectra were used as light sources to evaluate midge photoattraction. A comparison of responses to light spectra indicated the highest proportions of C. sonorensis were attracted to ultraviolet (UV) light and that midges differentiated 10‐nm differences in wavelength. Stronger intensities of UV light resulted in greater attraction. Midges exhibited both sugar‐seeking and escape behaviours under different conditions of sugar supplementation before and during the experiment. These behaviours occurred with lights of 355 nm and 365 nm in wavelength. Based on the results of this study, the attraction of C. sonorensis to light traps can be improved through the use of bright LEDs at 355 nm or 365 nm.     

Classroom Aids

Phillips, Owen The Last Chance Energy Book Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979 142 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by James W. O'Leary.

Nelkin, Dorothy Science Textbook Controversies and the Politics of Equal Time Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1978 174 pp. $12.95 hardcover, $4.94 paper. Reviewed by Russell F. Trimble.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 366 pp. $18.50. Reviewed by Waring B. Hill.

Kaplan, Colin, ed. Rabies: The Facts New York: Oxford University Press, 1977 116 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by L. Wolfinbarger, Jr.

Chanute, Octave Progress in Flying Machines Long Beach, Calif.: Lorenz &; Herweg, Publishers, 1976 308 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by A. D. Goddard.

Hurd, Edith Thacher Look for a Bird New York: Harper &; Row, Publishers, 1977 31 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall.

Young, Louise B. Earth's Aura New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 305 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Steven W. Sokolowski.

Suppe, Frederick, ed. The Structure of Scientific Theories Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977 818 pp. $22.50 cloth, $10 paper. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde, Jr., M.D.

Steele, William O. Talking Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds New York: Harper &; Row, 1978 63 pp. $6.95 Ralph M. Rowlett.

Froman, Robert The Greatest Guessing Game New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978 33 pp. $5.79. Reviewed by Edwin Halfar.

Vevers, Gwynne Octopus, Cuttlefish and Squid New York: McGraw Hill, 1978 295 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Donald Schwartz.     

Detection of African horse sickness virus in Culicoides imicola pools using RT‐qPCR

African horse sickness (AHS) is an infectious, non‐contagious arthropod‐borne disease of equids, caused by the African horse sickness virus (AHSV), an orbivirus of the Reoviridae family. It is endemic in sub‐Saharan Africa and thought to be the most lethal viral disease of horses. This study focused on detection of AHSV in Culicoides imicola (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) pools by the application of a RT‐qPCR. Midges were fed on AHSV‐infected blood. A single blood‐engorged female was allocated to pools of unfed nulliparous female midges. Pool sizes varied from 1 to 200. RNA was extracted and prepared for RT‐qPCR. The virus was successfully detected and the optimal pool size for the limit of detection of the virus was determined at a range between 1 to 25. Results from this investigation highlight the need for a standardized protocol for AHSV investigation in Culicoides midges especially for comparison among different studies and for the determination of infection rate.     

Ancestor guardian figures and ancestral baskets among the bakuta

Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan. Ladislav Holy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 243 pp.

The Bedovin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power. Emrys L. Peters (edited by Jack Goody and Emmanuel Marx). Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 310 pp.

Kinship, Honour and Solidarity: Cousin Marriage in the Middle East. Ladislav Holy. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. 143 pp.

Marriage among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan. Hastings Donnan. Delhi and Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988. 231 pp.

Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement Julie M. Peteet. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 245 pp.

Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands. Robert I Levy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991 /1975/. 547 pp.

Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands. Raymond Firth (with Mervyn McLean). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvii + 307 pp.

Migration from Kalimantan to Madagascar. Otto Chr. Dahl. Oslo: Norwegian University Press/ The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1991. 143 pp.

Land Filled With Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari. Edwin N. Wilmsen. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xviii + 402 pp.

The Creative Communion. African Folk Models of Fertility and the Regeneration of Life, edited by Anita Jacobson‐Widdinc and Walter van Beek. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology, 15. Uppsala, 1990. 351 pp.

When the Grass is Gone: Development Interventions in African Arid Lands, edited by P. T. W. Baxter. Seminar Proceedings No. 25. Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1991. 214 pp.

Women at a Loss: Changes in Maasai Pastoralism and their Effects on Gender Relations. AUD Talle. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, 19. Stockholm: Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 1988.

The Poison in the Gift Ritual, Prestation and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village. Gloria Goodwin Raheja. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 286 pp.

The Assembly of Listeners. Jains in Society, edited by Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii + 328 pp.

Tibetan Buddhist Nuns. History, Cultural Norms and Social Reality. Hanna Havnevik. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. 1991. 251 pp.

The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomblé. Jim Wafer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 219 pp.

Völkerkunde im Nationalsozialismus: A spekte der An‐passung, Affinität und Behauptung einer wissenschaft‐lichen Disziplin. Hans Fischer. Hamburger Bei‐träge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 7. Berlin &; Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1990. 312 pp. List of ethnologists in Germany from 1933 (Austria from 1938) to 1945.

Buskar och fåglar: en socialantropologisk studie av gorale, brrgsfolket i södra Polen. Melcher Ekstro‐mer. Lund Monographs in Social Anthropology 1. Lund: Lund University Press, 1991.

Die Völker Nordsibiriens unter sowjetischer Herrschaft. Adelheid Weiser. Kulturanthropologische Studien Bd. 16. Hohenschäfdarn bei München: Klaus Renner Verlag, 1989. 325 pp.

Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradoxes of Change in the Life Course, edited by Paul Spencer. ASA Monographs 28. London: Routledge, 1990. xii + 222 pp.     

Science Activities and the Retarded Child

Cobb, Vicki Lots of Rot New York; J. B. Lippincott, 1981 35 pp. $9.95 trade, $9.89 library. Reviewed by Frances B. Spuler.

Sheaffer, Robert The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981 242 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by R. F. Trimble.

Taylor, Ron The Story of Evolution New York: Warwick Press, 1981 80 pp. $9.90. Reviewed by A. Gilbert Wright.

D'Ignazio, Fred Small Computers: Exploring Their Technology and Future New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 146 pp. $8.90. Reviewed by Judith A. Douville.

Stwertka, Eve, and Albert Stwertka Industrial Pollution: Poisoning Our World (Impact Books) New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 96 pp. $7.45. Reviewed by Robert H. Bell.

Claypool, Jane Alcohol and You (Impact Books) New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 96 pp., $ 7.45. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde, Jr., M.D.

The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy, 2d ed. Leon Schlossberg, illustrator George D. Zuidema, editor Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980 115 pp. $17.50 hardcover, $10.95 paperback. Reviewed by Carl Gans.

Harper &; Row's Complete Field Guide to North American Wildlife, western edition (Assembled by Jay Ellis Ransom) New York: Harper &; Row, 1981 809 pp. $12.95 vinyl, $17.50 cloth. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash.

Houdini Miracle Mongers and their Methods: A Complete Exposé Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981 240 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by R. F. Trimble.

Rublowsky, John Born in Fire: A Geological History of Hawaii New York: Harper &; Row, Publishers, 1981 84 pp. $9.95 ($9.89 library ed.). Reviewed by M. Grant Gross.

Lampton, Christopher Meteorology: An Introduction (Impact Books) New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 96 pp. $7.45. Reviewed by Ira W. Geer.

Fields, Alice Satellites New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 48 pp. $6.90. Reviewed by Frances B. Spuler.     

In Memoriam: Rafael Karsten 1879–1956

Feminism and Anthropology. Henrietta Moore. Feminist Perspectives Series. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell and Polity Press, 1988. 246 pp.

Sous le signe de l'ours. Mythes et temporalité chez les Ojibwa septentrionaux. Désveaux, Emmanuel. Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1988. 304 p. ‐ pl.: ill., graph, carte.

Coast Salisk Essays. Wayne Suttles. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1987. 320 pp.

The Mataco of the Gran Chaco: An Ethnographic Account of Change and Continuity in Mataco Socio‐Economie Organization. Alvarsson, Jan Åre. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1988. 314 pp. 15 pp. plates, 12 maps, 31 tables, 17 figures.

Morally United and Politically Divided: The Chinese Community of Penang. Claes Hallgren. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, ix, 199 pp.

In the Stockholm Art World. Deborah Ericson. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1988. 179 pp.

Twenty Girls: Growing up, Ethnicity and Excitement in a South London Microculture. Helena Wulff. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1988. xii + 193 pp.

Central Planning and Local Reality: The Case of a Producers Cooperative in Ethiopia. Eva Poluha. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1989.

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Lila Abu‐Luchod. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 317 pp.

Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society, edited by Soraya Altorki and Camillia Fawzi El‐Solh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988. xii, 184 pp. $14.95 (paper).

The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe, edited by Tomas Gerholm and Georg Yngve Lithman. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. 293 pp. ISBN 07201 18667.

Iranian Immigrants and Refugees in Norway. Zahra Kamalkhani. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 43. Bergen: University of Bergen, 1988. 214 pages.

What Gifts Engender: Social Relations and Politics in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea. Rena Lederman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 291 pp. 1986.

Class and Culture in Urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community. Lionel Caplan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. ix+ 296 pp.

The Good Things of Life: A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture of the Yoruba People. Roland Hallgren. Leberød: Plus Ultra, 1988. pp. 198.

The Kazaks of China. Essays on an Ethnic Minority, edited by Linda Benson and Ingvar Svanberg. Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia 5. Stockholm: Almqvist &; Wiksell, International, 1988. xii + 250 pp. SEK. 147.00.

Culture, Identity, and Politics. Ernest Gellner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. viii, 189 pp.

Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist. Alan Dundes. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xvi + 216 pp.

When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators … More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. ALAN Dundes and Carl R. Pagter. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987. 271 pp.     

Communitas and schismo‐genesis: The Andean Pilgrimage reconsidered

Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. Fredrik Barth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, xii, 95 pp., map, fig. h/b, £ 17.50, $27.95.

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies. D. K. FEIL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 313 pp. £30.00.

Language Socialization Across Cultures edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 274 pp.

Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma. American Tribal Religions Volume 10. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 347 pp.

Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God. Ekkehart Ma‐lotki, Michael Lomatuwavma. American Tribal Religions Volume 11. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp.

Pilgrims in the Andes: Regional Culls in Cusco. Michael J. Sallnow. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. xiii + 351 pp. $29.95.

The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction: an Analysis of a Tanzanian Village. Ulla Vuorela. 234 pp. Monograph of the Finnish Society for Development Studies no. I. Helsinki, 1987.

The Dynamics of Productive Relationships: African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective. A. F. Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xix + 321 pp. £25.00.

Rumblings on Soil Conservation. An Essay from Kenya. Wilhelm Östberg. Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority, 1987. 83 pp. SEK 20.‐.

Religion, Development and African Identity, edited by K. H. PETERSEN. Seminar Proceedings No. 17. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987. 163 pp. £10.

Aspects of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow, edited by Robert Gary Minnich. Bergen: Studia University Bookstore, 1987.

Hvad Mutter Gjør er Alltid Viktig. Om å vtere kvinne og mann i en nordnonk bygd i 1970‐årene. Lisbet Holtedahl. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1.986. 224 pp.

Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community. Anthony P. Cohen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. ix + 216 pp., maps, figures, photographs, illustrations, appendixes, references, index, £22.95.

The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth‐Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. James Clifford. Cambridge (Mass.) &; London: Harvard University Press. 1988. xii +, 381 pp.

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1988. vi +, 157 pp.

Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle‐Class Life. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Löfgren, (transl. Alan Crozier, Foreword John Gillis). New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. ix + 321 pp.     

Science Summaries…

Ricciuti, Edward R. Plants in Danger New York: Harper &; Row, 1979 86 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Emanuel D. Rudolph.

Dock, George, Jr. Audubon's Birds of America New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 170 pp. $19.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper. Reviewed by Karl L. Trever.

Hogg, Margaret E. Animals in Schools: Vertebrates Exeter, N. H.: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1979 (U.S.) 100 pp. $6.25. Reviewed by Carl Gans.

Busch, Phyllis S. Cactus in the Desert New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1979 34 pp. $6.95, Reviewed by Emanuel D. Rudolph.

Ricciuti, Edward R. Wildlife of the Mountains (Wildlife Habitat Series) New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 232 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Vagn Flyger.

Sutton, Ann and Myron Wildlife of the Forests (Wildlife Habitat Series) New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 232 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Gilbert Wright.

Valenti, Christopher Keeping a Marine Aquarium: A Manual Newark: University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program, 1979 38 pp. $2.50 softcover (bulk discount). Reviewed by Donald J. Nash.

Simon and Schuster Complete Guide to Freshwater and Marine Aquarium Fishes New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977 295 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Harold W. Puffer.     

Hierarchy and value: An introduction

Martha J. Kaplan. 1995. Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and Colonial Imagination in Fiji. London and Durham: Duke University Press, xviii + 236 pp.

Martha Mundy. 1995. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 317 pp.

Thomas Csordas (ed.). 1994. Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 294 pp.

Philip L. Kohl &; Clare Fawcett (eds). 1995. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 329 pp.

Joanna B. Eicher (ed.). 1995. Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time. Oxford: Berg Publishers. xiv + 316 pp.

Anatoly M. Khazanov. 1995. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 334 pp.

Pertti J. Anttonen &; Reimund Kvideland (eds). 1994. Nordic Frontiers: Recent Issues in the Study of Modern Traditional Culture in the Nordic Countries. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore. 238 pp.

Hugo G. Nutini. 1995. The Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 444 pp.