BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Vandermeer, J. 1989. The Ecology of Intercropping . 237 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U. K. ISBN 0–521–34592–8. Price: USD 59.50.     

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.     

Book reviews

Andrea de Guttry and Natalino Ronzitti, eds. The Iran‐Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Law of Naval Warfare. 1993. Cambridge, England: Grotius Publications. 573 pp. ISBN 1–857010–13–2. (Available from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, and New York, NY, ISBN 0–521–463025, $190)

David L. Larson. Security Issues and the Law of the Sea. 1993. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 382 pp. ISBN 0–8191–9089–6. $47.50     

Анализ устойчивости потомств сортовых популяций кукурузы к пузырчатой головне в третьей генерации самоопыления

Rostliny deseti odr?dových populací kuku?ice a jejich potomstva v S₃ generaci samoopylování byly vyhodnocovány na odolnost k p?vodci sněti kuku?i?né v podmínkách zvý?ené infek?ní hladiny. Na základě stupně napadení kuku?ice chorobou byl pokusný materiál rozdělen do t?íd (I–V), odpovídajících pěti kategoriím odolnosti. Poměrné zastoupení potomstev v populacích r?zně citlivých k parazitu v jednotlivých t?ídách odolnosti ukázalo, ?e heterozygotní odr?dové populace mají ur?itou imunologickou strukturu.

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   Ve slo?ení populací odolněj?í formy p?evládají nad náchylnými. U studovaných populací 82,8–98,5% vy?leněných p?i samoopylování potomstev se soust?eduje do I.–III. t?ídy.     
   
   

Book review

THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF DINOSAURS, edited by Kevin Padian. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986, 378 pp. ISBN 0–521–30328–1.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Rundel, P.W., Smith, A.P. & Meinzer, F.C. (eds.) 1994. Tropical Alpine Environments. Plant form and function. xi + 376 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0–521–42089-X. Price: GBP 65.-.     

Verlauf der Winterruhe bei der Aprikose

Zkoumáním pr?běhu zimního odpo?inku za období 1954–1959 byly zji?těny údaje, na základě kterých je mo?no tvrdit, ?e v podmínkách ji?ního Slovenska meruňka vstupuje do stadia zimního odpo?inku v pr?běhu srpna a ukon?uje toto období během prosince. V uvedených podmínkách pot?ebuje meruňka na jeho p?ekonání 1200–1300 hodin teploty ni??í ne? +6,0°C. Z 11 meruňkových odr?d studovaných na trvání zimního odpo?inku od?ezáním větví a p?ená?ením do skleníkového prost?edí odr?da Ananásová ra?ila pravidelně později o 6–10 dní proti ostatním odr?dám. Tento fakt se shoduje i s praktickými zku?enostmi p?i pěstování meruňky v normálních ekologických podmínkách mírného pásma, kde uvedená odr?da kvete o 3 a? 6 dní později ne? ostatní odr?dy. Na základě pokus? p?i?el autor k závěru, ?e je nemo?né hovo?it o p?ímé závislosti mezi dobou trvání zimního odpo?inku a mrazuvzdorností meruňky. Rostlina po ukon?ení zimního odpo?inku je velmi závislá na teplotních podmínkách prost?edí. P?i p?íznivých teplotních podmínkách zimy (bez kolísání teplot) jsou meruňky schopné odolat mraz?m a? ?20,0°C.     

Über die interferenz des tabakmosaikvirus mit dem gurkenmosaikvirus in der tabakpflanze

Listy Nicotiana tabacum var. Xanthi-nc systémově infikované virem mozaiky okurky (CMV) byly o?kovány purifikátem viru mozaiky tabáku (TMV). Ve srovnání s kontrolními rostlinami byl pozorován vlivem CMV pokles susceptibility k TMV: po?et lézí se sní?il o 64–83%; léze rostly pomaleji a koncentrace TMV v nich byla (ve srovnání s kontrolou po ?estidenní reprodukci TMV) o 72–90% ni??í. Interferen?ní jevy nebyly pozorovány, byl-li ?asový odstup infekce u obou vir? pouze 7 dní, byly v?ak zji?těny p?i ?asovém odstupu inokulací obéma viry 19, 34, 40 a 68 dní. Listová pletiva N. tabacum var. Xanthi-nc systémově infikovaná CMV jeví tedy sní?enou susceptibilitu pro TMV a reprodukce TMV je v nich zpomalena.     

In defence of Vladimir Ilyich Hobson

Lance Davies and Robert Huttenback, MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860–1920, abridged edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, £9.95 paperback.     

Parasites are GO

The Malaria Genome Sequencing Consortium Meeting was held on 5–6 June 2001 in Cambridge, UK, and was followed by a workshop discussing the generation of new parasite-specific gene ontology (GO) terms. Present at the meeting, which focused primarily on malaria, were representatives from the research community, the sequencing centres, including the Sanger Centre (Cambridge, UK) and The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR; Rockville, MD, USA), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI; Cambridge, UK), Plasmo DB and the GO consortium (Cambridge, UK).     

Darstellung einer Kindertrage aus dem Nepeña‐Tal (Peru)

People as Subject. People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Virginia Dominguez. New Directions in Anthropological Writing. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 238 pp.

Literacy and Society, edited by Karen Schous‐boe and Mogens Trolle Larsen. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1989. 247 pp., ill.

Music of Afghanistan. Professional Musicians in the City of Herat. John Baily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 183 pp. Accompanying cassette.

The Hidden Musicians. Music‐making in an English Town. Ruth Finnegan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvii + 378 pp.

Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700–1900. Susan Bayly. South Asian Studies No 43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 463 pp.

Mru. Bergbewohner im Grenzgebiet von Bangladesh. Claus‐Dieter von Brauns und Lorenz G. Löffler. Basel, Boston &; Stuttgart: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1986. 248 Seiten mit Farbtafeln, Schwarz‐Weiß‐Fotos, mehreren Karten, Bibliographie und Glossaren.

Mm. Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh (translated from German by Doris Wagner‐Glenn), 1990. 248 pp. ISBN 0–8176. 1816–3 (U. S.)

Unwrapping Japan—Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective, edited by Eyal Ben‐Ari, Brian Moeran and Jamks Valentine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 237 pp.

Developments in Polynesian Ethnology, edited by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Tungaru Traditions. Arthur Francis Grimble, edited by H.E. Maude, Pacific Islands Monograph Series, 7. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Scottish Crofters: A historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village. Susan Parman. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1990. 169 pp., index.

Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, edited by Sandra T. Barnes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. x + 274 pp.

Spirits from the Margin. Umbanda in Sao Paulo: A Study in Popular Religion and Social Experience. Fernando Giobellina Brumana and Elda Gonzales Martinez. Uppsala: Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 12, 1989. 308 pp.

Die Achuara‐Jivaro: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Organisationsformen am peruanischen Amazonas. Richard Gippelhauser and Elke Mader. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Ethnologischen Kommission, Bd. 5, Sitzungsberichte 550. Bd., 1990. 123 pp.

Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. John Holmes McDowell. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. 206 pp.

The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823. Jennifer S.H. Brown and Robert Brightman. Manitoba Studies in Native History, III. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1988. 266 pages. Index, 3 photos (1 color plate), 5 reproduced pictographs and figures, 2 maps.

Blood Ties, Life and Violence in Rural Mexico. James Greenberg. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text. Stephen Gudeman and Alberto Rivera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 207 pp.

Observing the Economy. C.A. Gregory and J.C. Altman. ASA Research Methods. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. 253 pp.

Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth‐Century Stockholm. Allan Pred. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 298 pp.

Central Borneo: Ethnic Identity and Social Life in a Stratified Society. Jerome Rousseau. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990. 388 pp.

Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology. Simon Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii, 217 pp., plates, maps, figures.     

Physiological,morphological and allocation plasticity of a semi-deciduous shrub

The main objective of this study was to look into the phenotypic plasticity of the semi-deciduous Mediterranean shrub, Halimium halimifolium. We studied morphological, allocation and physiological traits to determine which characters were more plastic and contribute in a greater extent to the acclimation ability of the species.We present a phenotypic plasticity index for morphological, physiological and allocation traits, which we have applied in the most contrasted plant communities where the species grows naturally. Data published by Díaz Barradas, M.C., García Novo, F. [1987. The vertical structure of Mediterranean scrub in Doñana National Park (SW Spain). Folia Geobotanica Phytotaxonomica 22, 415–433; 1988. Modificación y extinción de la luz a través de la copa en cuatro especies de matorral en el Parque Nacional de Doñana. Monografias Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia 4, 503–516; 1990. Seasonal changes in canopy structure in two mediterranean dune shrubs. Journal of Vegetation Science 1, 31–40.], Díaz Barradas, M.C., Zunzunegui, M., García Novo, F. [1999a. Autoecological traits of Halimium halimifolium in contrasted habitats under Mediterranean type climate. Folia Geobotanica 34, 189–208.] and Zunzunegui et al. [Zunzunegui, M., Díaz Barradas, M.C., García Novo, F. 1997. Autoecological notes of Halimium halimifolium. Lagascalia 19, 725–736. Sevilla, Spain; Zunzunegui, M., Díaz Barradas, M.C., Fernández Baco, L., García Novo, F. 1999. Seasonal changes in photochemical efficiency in leaves of Halimium halimifolium a Mediterranean semideciduous shrub. Photosynthetica 36, 17–31; Zunzunegui, M., Díaz Barradas, M.C., García Novo, F. 2000. Different phenotypic response of Halimium halimifolium in relation to groundwater availability. Plant Ecology 148, 165–174; Zunzunegui, M., Díaz Barradas, M.C., Aguilar, F., Ain-Lhout, F., Clavijo, A., García Novo, F. 2002. Growth response of Halimium halimifolium at four sites with different soil water availability regimes in two contrasted hydrological cycles. Plant and Soil 247, 271–28.] have been re-appraised and combined with original data.Phenotypic plasticity index showed that the highest plasticity of the species was physiological, and especially for the traits related with water control. This high physiological plasticity appears mainly between seasons (September–November) rather than between sites. Plasticity in allocation traits showed intermediate values between physiological and morphological traits.     

Complex societies and anthropology: A perspective from 1979*

The Transition to Statehood in the New World, edited by G. D. Jones and R. R. Kautz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. ix + 254 pp.

The Inca and Aztec States 1400–1800: Anthropology and History, edited by G. A. Collier, R. I. Rosaldo and J. D. Wirth. New York: Academic Press, 1982. xx + 475 pp.

Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms. Frank Salomon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 274 pp.

The Origins and Development of the Andean State, edited by J. Haas, S. Pozorski and T. Pozorski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vi+ 188 pp.

Peruvian Prehistory; An Overview of pre‐lnca and Inca Society, edited by R. W. Keatinge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xvii + 364 pp.     

The influence of Na-humate on the respiration of wheat roots and leaves

Natriumfluorid, monojodacetát a malonát brzdí, pop?ípadě stimulují, dýchání ko?en? p?enice pěstované 2 a? 10 dní v roztoku humátu sodného (100 mg/l) silněji, ne? dýchání ko?en? rostlin pěstovaných ve vodě. Obdobně p?sobí natriumfluorid na dýchání list?. Poměr radioaktivit C¹⁴O₂ uvolněného z glukosy zna?ené v poloze 1 nebo 6 (C₆/C₁) je pr?kazně zvý?en u ko?en?, nikoli v?ak u list?. Změna tohoto poměru je doprovázena zmen?ením celkové radioaktivity C¹⁴O₂ uvolněného ko?eny rostlin ovlivněnými humátem z glukesy specificky i totálně zna?ené. Endogenní respirace (QO₂) ko?en? je p?sobením humátu zesílena o 5–30 %, intensita respirace list? z?stává na stejné úrovni. R?st ko?en? do délky je v prost?edí s humátem intensivněj?í o 20–80 %, r?st list? o 5–15%. Uvedená zji?tění vedou k závěru, ?e v ko?enech rostlin pěstovaných v roztoku humátu vzr?stá podíl glykolysy v respira?ním metabolismu.     

Book review

This Brand of Faith: This Faith of Brand

Faith, Reason, and Earth History: a paradigm of Earth and biological origins by intelligent design, Leonard Brand, 1997, ISBN, 1–883925–6915, USD $34.99, Andrews University Press, 332p. (213 Information Services Building, Berrien Springs, Missouri, 49104–1700, aupress@andrews.edu).

The eternal trail: a tracker looks at evolution

The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks at Evolution by Martin Lockley, September 1999. Perseus Books, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. xvii+334p., US$26–00.     

The last days of American colonial slavery

Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), BRITISH CAPITALISM AND CARIBBEAN SLAVERY, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 345 pp., £25.00.

Robin Blackburn, THE OVERTHROW OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1776–1848, London: Verso, 1988, 560 pp., £12.95 (paper).

J. R. Ward, BRITISH WEST INDIAN SLAVERY, 1750–1834. THE PROCESS OF AMELIORATION, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, 320 pp., £30.00.     

Açaí palm management disturbs seed rain and soil seed bank of an Amazonian estuarine forest

The exploitation of non-timber forest products has been proposed as a sustainable way to exploit tropical forests, but such an opportunity remains to be proved. Here, we examine the impact of intensive açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea) management on the seed rain and soil seed bank in an estuarine forest landscape with a long history of forest management by locals in the Amazon region. Seed rain (100 80 cm² collectors) and soil seed bank (100 30 cm² samples) were monitored through a year across 20 forest stands, covering a gradient of açaí stem density (50–3575 açaí stems per ha). Seed rain and bank were dominated by açaí seeds (85.5%–85.8%) and by excluding them, seed rain and bank were low density and species poor, capturing a tiny subset from the local (17.91%–19.40%) and landscape woody flora (11.82%–14.55%). Moreover, autochthonous and vertebrated-dispersed predominated as well as those from tree species considered useful by locals. Overall, açaí stem density positively affected açaí seed abundance in the seed rain and negatively affected seed pools in the bank in relation to abundance of seeds and vertebrated dispersed, while adult tree species richness and density and accessibility to forest stands were associated with more diversified seed pools. Thereby, forest stands are exposed to different levels of açaí management (high vs. low intensity) supported taxonomically distinct seed pools. Our results suggest that açaí intensification disturbs seed rain and soil seed bank with potential impacts on forest regeneration and the forest integrity standards required to consider açaí fruit production as sustainable according to current legislation.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Majer, J. D. (ed.) Animals in primary succession: The role of Fauna in Reclaimed Lands . 1989. xii + 547 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0–521–33400–4. Price: GBP 60.-.     

Geographic distribution and demography of Pithecia aequatorialis (pitheciidae) in Peruvian Amazonia

To study the geographic distribution and demographic characteristics of Pithecia aequatorialis in Peruvian Amazonia, we undertook surveys and transect census in three river basins (Río Itaya, Río Tigre and Río Curaray) between 2004 and 2008. A total of 123 groups of P. aequatorialis was encountered during 1623 km of transect walks. Group size was uniform among the three areas (3.4–3.6 individuals), but surprisingly, population densities were higher in the area with strong hunting pressure (Río Itaya: 7.8 ind./km², vs. 5.6 and 5.9 km² in the Río Tigre and Río Curaray basins, respectively). The most common group composition included an adult pair with one offspring. Groups with more than one adult male and/or female accounted for 35% of sightings. Our observations extend P. aequatorialis range in Peru further south to the area between the Río Tigre and Río Corrientes, but exclude the area to the north between the Río Curaray and Río Napo. These findings are in contrast to previous distribution maps. P. aequatorialis was rarely seen in interspecific association during our censuses. Am. J. Primatol. 71:964–968, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Book reviews

Walter A. Jackson, GUNNAR MYRDAL AND AMERICA'S CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL ENGINEERING AND RACIAL LIBERALISM, 1938–1987, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990, xxi + 447pp., $38.45.

Sissela Bok, ALVA MYRDAL: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR, Reading, MA: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Co., 1991, xvi + 375pp., $22.00 and $12.95 (paper).

David W. Southern, GUNNAR MYRDAL AND BLACK WHITE RELATIONS: THE USE AND ABUSE OF AN AMERICAN DILEMMA 1944–1969, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1987, xviii + 338pp., $37.50.

Elazar Barkan, THE RETREAT FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF RACE IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xxii + 508pp., £37.50.

Dorothy Ross, THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xxii + 508pp., £35.00 and £16.95 (paper).