Meanings of Violence: A Cross Cultural Perspective.

Meanings of Violence:. Cross Cultural Perspective. Göran Aijmer and Jon Abbink. eds. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 256 pp.     

The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination.

The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. László Kürti. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. 259 pp.     

Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective.

Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from. Cross-Cultural Perspective. Linda B. Arthur. ed. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 224 pp.     

Reviewer's Choice: Book Review Section

Sculpture in America: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.: 201 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003: List Price $1 7.50. Revewed by Wayne Craven.

Buttons: Walker and Company 720 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10019: List Price $3.50. Revewed by Diana Epstein.

Art Lessons on a Shoestring: Parker Publishing Ca.: 1 Village Square, 10 Nyack, New York 10994: List Price $8.95. Revewed by Ruth 1. Peck, Robert 5. Aniello.

Introduction to the Visual Arts: Tudor Publishing Company, 221 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003: List Price $4.95. Revewed by S. Ralph Maurello.

Creating From Clay: Reinhold Book Corporation, 430 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022: List Price $7.50. Revewed by Henry Petterson.

Design by Accident: Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick Street, New York, New York 10014: List Price $3.00. Revewed by James F. O'Brien.

Simple Stage Costumes and How to Make Them: Watson-Guptill Publications 165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036

Basic, Typography: Watson-Guptill Publications, 165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $8.50. Revewed by John R. Biggs.     

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.     

Changing U.S. Urban Neighborhoods: Patterns, Postmodern Analysis, and Policy Relevance

Left Behind in Rosedale: Race Relations and the Collapse of Community Institutions. Scott Cummings. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 223 pp.
The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults. Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1998. 328 pp.
The Anthropology of Lower Income Urban Enclaves: The Case of East Harlem. Judith Freidenberg. ed. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1995. 286 pp.     

Human biology in Papua New Guinea: The small cosmos. People of the great ocean: Aspects of human biology of the early pacific.

Edited by Robert D. Attenborough and Michael P. Alpers. 1993. New York: Oxford University Press. 427 pp. ISBN 0-19-857514-9. $105.00 (cloth). By Philip Houghton. 1996. New York: Cambridge University Press. 292 pp. ISBN 0-521-47166-4. $64.95 (cloth).     

Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools

Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools. Maxine Seller and Lois Weis, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 328 pp.     

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City.

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 374 pp.     

Women's Organizations and the Development of Civil Society

Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Groups in the Middle East. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.224pp.
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 1997.243 pp.
Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Lynn Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.332 pp.
Feminist Nationalism. Lois A. West. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.294pp.     

Marionettes as Recreational Art Activities in the Chicago Parks

Rembrandt Drawings: The Overlook Press New York City 10022 $12.95. Reviewed by B. Haak

The Decoupage Workshop: Doubleday &; Company, Inc. New York City 10017 $12.95. Reviewed by Leslie Linsley

A Cabinetmaker's Notebook: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company New York City 10001 $13.50. Reviewed by James Krenov

Alkema's Scrap Magic: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York City 10016 $12.95. Reviewed by Chester Jay Alkema

Things to Do in a Day Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. $8.95 cloth New York City 10022 $5.95 paper.     

Review article: The challenge of African‐American leadership in an ambiguous world: W.E.B. Du Bois,Carter Woodson,Ralph Bunche and Thurgood Marshall in historical perspective

David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DU BOIS ‐ BIOGRAPHY OF A RACE, 1868–1919, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993, xv + 735 pp., $35.00.

Jacqueline Goggin, CARTER G. WOODSON: A LIFE IN BLACK HISTORY, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xix + 217 pp., $24.95 (£23.70).

Brian Urquhart, RALPH BUNCHE: AN AMERICAN LIFE, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993, 496 pp., $27.50.

Mark V. Tushnet, MAKING CIVIL RIGHTS LAW: THURGOOD MARSHALL AND THE SUPREME COURT, 1936–1961, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, xi + 399 pp., £27.50.     

Comparative Primate Socioecology.

Comparative Primate Socioecology. P. C. Lee. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 412 pp.     

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football. Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.320 pp.     

The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. Jon Michael Spencer. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 169 pp.     

Historical Archaeologies of Global Capitalism and Colonization

The Historical Archaeology of Buenos Aires:. City at the End of the World. Daniel Schavelzon. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 187 pp.
Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador. Ross W. Jamieson. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 244 pp.
Historical Archaeology in Wachovia: Excavating Eighteenth- Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery. Stanley South. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999. 442 pp.
Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground. Uzi Baram and Lynda Carroll. eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 272 pp.     

Women and Human Development.

Women and Human Development. Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 303 pp.     

Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory.

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

Charles Darwin: Interviews and Recollections.

Charles Darwin: Interviews and Recollections. Harold Orel. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 233 pp.     

Luis Hidalgo and his Sculpture in Wax

Early America in Miniatures: The 18th Century: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York City 10016 $10.95 cloth. Reviewed by Marie Woodruff

Designs From Plant Forms: Universe Books New York City 10016 $4.95 paper. Reviewed by John W. Wadsworth

It's Easy to Carve: Doubleday &; Co., Inc. Garden City, New York $5.95 cloth. Reviewed by Frank D. Torre

Printmaking: A Beginning Handbook: Prentice-Hall Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 $9.95 paper $18.95 cloth. Reviewed by William C. Maxwell

The Golden Book of Hand &; Needle Arts … selected from The Family Creative Workshop Western Publishing Co., Inc. New York City 10022 $5.95 paper $10.95 cloth

Contemporary Crafts Market Place 1977–1978 … compiled by the American Crafts Council R. R. Bowker Co. New York City 10036 $15.95 paper