Mayaness at Its Most Complex

Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D.: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1989 . Jeremy A. Sabloff and John S. Henderson , eds.
The Ceramics of Tikal: Vessels from the Burials, Caches, and Problematical Deposits . T. Patrick Culbert .     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Evolution and Classification: The Reformation of Cladism .—Mark Ridley.
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Drynarioideae (Polypodiaceae) .—M. C. Roos.
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 1 .—Richard Dawkins and Mark Ridley (eds.).
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology, Volume 2 .—R. Dawkins and M. Ridley (eds.) 1985.
An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa .—John J. Lee, Seymour H. Hutner, and Eugene Bovee (eds.).
Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes .—H. G. Moser, W. J. Richards, D. M. Cohen, M. P. Fahay, A. W. Kendall, Jr., and S. L. Richardson (eds.).
Morphometrics in Evolutionary Biology .—F. Bookstein, B. Chernoff, R. Elder, J. Humphries, G. Smith, and R. Strauss.     

Book reviews

William T. Burke. The New International Law of Fisheries: UNCLOS 1982 and Beyond. 1994. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. 382 pp. ISBN 0–19–825251‐X (cloth), $105.00.

Jon M. Van Dyke, Durwood Zealke, and Grant Hewison, eds. Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century: Ocean Governance and Environmental Harmony. 1993. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 504 pp. ISBN 1–55963–241–0 (cloth), $55.00. ISBN 1–55963–242–9 (paper), $27.50.     

A Gifted Amateur: The Case of George Washington Ellis

George Washington Ellis published Negro Culture in West Africa in 1914 in response to the social gospel prophets' racist and stereotypical perspectives of West Africa and Africans. In so doing. Ellis attempted to shift the discourse from one that emphasized African barbarism to one that repudiated the idea of African inferiority. Unwittingly, however, Ellis preached a brand of romantic racialism—a benign doctrine that was commonplace in the racial discourse of African American elites at the Turn of the Century. Asa consequence, his loyalties were divided between 19th-century ethnological science and the "new ethnology" of Franz Boas. [Keywords: George Washington Ellis, history of racism, antiracism, African American anthropology, social gospel prophets]     

The Continuing Demographic Transition

The Continuing Demographic Transition. Gavin W. Jones. Robert M. Douglas. John C. Caldwell. and Rennie D'Souza. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 454 pp.     

Culture and Sexual Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on AIDS; AIDS Crossing Borders: The Spread of HIV among Migrant Latinos; AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

Culture and Sexual Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on AIDS. Han ten Brummelhuis and Gilbert Herdt. eds. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1995 (paper). xxvii. 355 pp.
AIDS Crossing Borders: The Spread of HIV among Migrant Latinos. Shiraz I. Mishra. Ross F. Conner. J. Raul Magaña. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,1996(cloth). +214 pp.
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. George C. Bond. John Kreniske. Ida Susser. Joan Vincent. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997 (paper), xv. 234 pp.     

Coping with the Anthropology of Tourism

Coping with Tourists: European Reactions to Mass Tourism. Jeremy Boissevain. ed. Oxford, England: Berghahn Books, 1996. 264 pp.
International Tourism: Identity and Change. Marie- Frangoise Lanfant, John B. Allcock. and Edward M. Bruner. eds. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 1995. 246 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Hutchings, M. J., John, E. A., and Stewart, A. J. A. (eds.) The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity. xiii + 434 pp. Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford. ISBN 0‐632‐05713‐0. Price: USD 47.66     

City and Countryside in an Environmental Context

Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 429 pp.
From Principles to Practice: Indigenous People and Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America. Andrew Gray. Alejando Parellada. and Hellen Newing. eds. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1998. 303 pp.     

Southwestern Archaeological Thought

Book reviewed in this article:
Themes in Southwest Prehistory . George J. Gumerman, ed.
The Ancient Southwestern Community: Models and Methods for the Study of Prehistoric Social Organization . W. H. Wills and Robert D. Leonard, eds.     

Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations across Time and Space

Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations across Time and Space. John W. Fountain and Rolf M. Sinclair, eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 579 pp.     

A Survey of Introductory Biology Courses and Staffing in Departments of Biology,Botany, and Zoology

Information and Control in the Living Organism. An Elementary Introduction B. HASSENSTEIN London: Chapman &; Hall. £1.30 Reviewed by O. Lowenstein

Inequalities and Optimal Problems in Mathematics and the Sciences G. Stephenson London: Longmans. £1.50 Reviewed by O. Lowenstein

Ecology of Leaf Surface Microorganisms Edited by T. F. Preece and C. H. Dickinson pp. xvii+640 London and New York: Academic Press. 1971 £9.00 Reviewed by R. Warren

Mathematics for Ecologists I. Chaston Pp. 132 London: Butterworths. £2.20 Reviewed by B. Dudley

Beginning Ecology H. J. Killick Pp. ix+121+35figs Ibadan: Ibadan University Press Price in Nigeria 12/- Reviewed by J. G. Vaughn

An Experience with Organisms D. L. Murray Pp. x+209+24 figs Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Inc. £1.75 An Experience with Cells D. L. Murray and H. E. Bushe Pp. viii + 193+56figs Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Inc. £1.40 Reviewed by G. W. Shaw1

A Practical Course in Biology W. Belfield and M. Dearden Pp. xiii + 174 and figs Oxford: Pergamon Press. £1.50 Reviewed by John H. Gray

Food Tests; Book 2 Enzymes; Book 3 Soil D. G. Mackean Pp. 32 each London: John Murray 1970 £0.25 each. Teachers' notes £0.30 each Reviewed by John A. Barker

Nutrition and Food Science Reviewed by E. A. Nanson

Biobits and Dore-Smith Atomunits Principles of Model Construction I. Smith, M. J. Smith and C. F. Dore Pp. 48+31 figs London: Capital Biotechnic Developments Ltd., Heinemann. Free Reviewed by J. M. Ashworth

Museums in Education Education Survey 12 Department of Education and Science Pp. 55 + 10 plates London: HMSO. 1971. £0.50 Reviewed by I. M. Evans

Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation William Coleman London: Wiley History of Science Series. 1971 £3.50 hardback. 7£1.75 paperback Reviewed by Sydney Smith

Storage and Retrieval of Biological Information Reviewed by R. W. J. Keay     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology, Volume 3. —R. Dawkins and M. Ridley (eds).
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 3. —R. Dawkins and M. Ridley (eds).     

The Anthropology of Globalization (with Notes on Neomedievalism, and the End of the Chinese Model of the Nation-State)

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 320 pp.
Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Néstor García Canclini. George Yúdice. trans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 200 pp.
The Anthropology of Globalization:. Reader. Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. eds. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 498 pp.     

Book Reviews

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     

The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896–1898) of Siegfried Passarge: Nineteenth Century Khoisan and Bantu-Speaking Peoples

The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896–1898) of Siegfried Passarge: Nineteenth Century Khoisan and Bantu-Speaking Peoples. Edwin N. Wilmsen. ed. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1997. 332 pp.     

Relationship between tooth and long bone size

Canonical correlations between tooth and long bone dimensions showed a greater correlation for Anglo-Saxons and apes than for Nineteenth Century Londoners, i.e., coefficients of 0.75 for gorilla, 0.72 for chimpanzee, 0.69 for orang-utans, 0.74 for Anglo-Saxons, but 0.53 for Nineteenth Century Londoners. Although based upon limited sample sizes and limited metrical profiles of teeth and long bones, the data support the thesis that modern Europeans are under reduced selection pressure to maintain tooth size compared with apes or ancient man.     

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson. eds. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 488 pp.     

Rethinking in African Studies

Book reviewed in this article:
Living under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa . Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts, eds.
African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach . Elliot Fratkin, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Eric Abella Roth, eds.
Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa . Roy Richard Grinker.     

Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication

Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui. eds. Oxford: Oxford International Publishers Ltd., 1996.664 pp.