Reflections on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State

The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada. Eva Mackey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 199 pp.
The White Man's Gonna Getcha. Toby Morantz. Mont-real: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 370 pp.
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. Cole Harris. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. 425 pp.     

"Black Gal Swing": Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of "Race," Nation and Gender. Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe. New York: Routledge, 1999. 221 pp.
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Arthur K. Spears. ed. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999. 242 pp.
Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States. Rainier Spencer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 222 pp.     

The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity

The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity. Camille C. O'Reilly. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.213 pp.     

Looking for Identity in the Muslim World

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Lila Abu-Lughod. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2005. 319 pp.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385 pp.
Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies. Armando Salvatore and Mark LeVine, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 249 pp.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity Making. Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 239 pp.     

Indian Blood: New Lessons in Hindu Statecraft

Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society. Steven M. Parish. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 270 pp.
Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India. David Ludden. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 346 pp.
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992. Shahid Amin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.256 pp.
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Veena Das. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. 230 pp.     

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp.     

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Deborah Reed-Danahay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 240 pp.     

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Deborah Reed-Danahay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 237 pp.     

Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel

Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel . Daniel Lefkowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 316 pp.     

The Limits of Coexistence: Identity Politics in Israel

The Limits of Coexistence: Identity Politics in Israel. Rebecca L. Torstrick. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 284 pp.     

Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland

Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland . Deborah Cahalen Schneider. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 212 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.     

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Jennifer Robertson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.278 pp.     

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.     

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp.     

Engaging History: Historical Ethnography and Ethnology

Book reviewed in this article:
The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll . Lin Poyer. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 298 pp. Early Observations of Marquesan Culture, 1595–1813 . Edwin N. Ferdon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 184 pp.     

Ethnicity in the USSR and the CIS

After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Anatoly M. Khazanov. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 311pp.
Who Gets the Past? Competition for Ancestors among Non-Russian Intellectuals in Russia. Victor A. Shnirelman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966. 98 pp.
In the Soviet House of Culture:. Century of Perestroikas. Bruce Grant. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 225 pp.     

Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture

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

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp.     

Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica . Deborah Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 358 pp.