On the Question of Heritage and Hierarchy in British Social Anthropology

On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. N. J. Allen. W. S. F. Pickering. and W. Watts Miller. eds. New York: Routledge, 1998. 224 pp.
Marcel Mauss:. Centenary Tribute. Wendy James and N. J. Allen. eds. New York: Berghahn Press, 1998. 260 pp.
Taboo, Truth, and Religion: Franz Baermann Steiner Selected Writings, vol. 1. Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 279 pp.
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation: Franz Baermann Steiner Selected Writings, vol. 2. Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 296 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.     

Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution; East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession; Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada, and the United States

Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution. Vincanne Adams. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii. 251 pp.
East African Doctors:. History of the Modern Profession. John lliffe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii+ 336 pp.
Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada, and the United States. Judith T. Shuval and Judith H. Bernstein. eds. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. + 220 pp.     

The Inside Story

How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Maurice E. F. Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.205 pp.
Explaining Culture:. Naturalistic Approach. Dan Sperber. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 175 pp.
Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 323 pp.
Mind as Action. James V. Wertsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 203 pp.     

The Cutting Edge and the History of Anthropology

The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence. Robert R. Alford. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.168 pp.
. History of Anthropological Theory. Paul Erickson with Liam D. Murphy. Calgary, Alberta: Broadview Press, 1998. 254 pp.
An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Robert Layton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.242 pp.     

Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam

. History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Wael B. Hallaq. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 294 pp.
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Judith E. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 216 pp.
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Susan F. Hirsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 355 pp.
The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf. Nathan J. Brown. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 258 pp.     

An Introduction to Japanese Society: Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies: The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure

An Introduction to Japanese Society. Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 285 pp.
Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies. Yuko Ogasawara. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 221 pp.
The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure. Sepp Linhart and Sabine Fruhstuck. eds. Albany. State University of New York Press, 1998. 398 pp.     

From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey

Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk. Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii. 212 pp.
From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiv. 308 pp.     

Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring.

Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring. Pauline Lipman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 334 pp.     

The Liberationist Catholic Church in Brazil

Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and the Struggle for the Amazon. Madeleine Cousineau Adriance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 202 pp.
Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church. Carol Ann Drogus. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 226 pp.
Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil. Robin Nagle. New York: Routledge, 1997. 224 pp.
The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity. Manuel A. Vasquez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 302 pp.     

Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities

Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities. Kendall M. Thu and E. Paul Durrenberger. eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 20X pp.     

Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780–1950.

Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among. Central Indian Community, 1780-1950. Saurabh Dube. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 308 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.     

Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health and Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka.; Relocated Lives: Displacement and Resettlement in the Mahaweli Project, Sri Lanka.; Amiable Incoherence: Manipulating Histories and Modernities in a Batticaloa Hindu Temple.

Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience. Cheryl Mattingly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 192 pp.     

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control. Susan U. Philips. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 206 pp.     

More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces

More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces. Ann E. Kingsolver. ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. 222 pp.     

Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba

Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba. Joel C. Kuipers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 185 pp.     

Book Review Section: Reviewer's Choice

Art and the Seafarer: The Viking Press, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022: List Price $28.00. Reviewed by Hans Jurgen Hansen.

Sculpture with a Torch: University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis 14, Minnesota: List Price $2.95. Reviewed by John Rood.

Contemporary Art with Wood: Crown Publishers, Inc.: 419 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016: List Price $6.95. Reviewed by Dona 2. Meilach.

All Around-the-House Art and Craft Book: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02107: List Price $5.00. Reviewed by Patricia Z. Wirtenberg.

Creative Ink Drawings: Watson-Guptill Publications 165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $10.50. Reviewed by Paul Hogarth.

Lithography for Artists: Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016: List Price $1.75. Reviewed by Stanley Jones.

Graphic Arts Encyclopedia: McGraw-Hill Book Company 330 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $16.50. Reviewed by George A. Stevenson.

100 Watercolor Techniques: Watson-Guptill Publications 165 West 46rh Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $15.00. Reviewed by Norman Kent.     

"Our" Anthropology of Technoscience?

The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers. Gary Downey. New York: Routledge, 1998. 288 pp.
Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit. eds. New York: Routledge, 1998. 358 pp.
Modest_Witness. Second_Millennium. FemaleMan^©_Meets_OncoMouse^™. Feminism and Technoscience. Donna Haraway. New York: Routledge, 1996 361 pp.
Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in. Digital World. Stefan Helmreich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 314 pp.     

Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory.

Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Alfred Gell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 271 pp.