Female Ascetics in Hinduism; The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States; Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

Female Ascetics in Hinduism. Lynn Teskey Denton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 218 pp.
The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States. Karen Pechilis, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 260 pp.
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal. June McDaniel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 356 pp.     

The Primitives of Linguistic Meaning

Semantics: Primes and Universals. Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 500 pp.     

Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State

Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State. David Sneath. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 320 pp.     

Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work

Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work. David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch. eds. Oxford: Oxford International Publishers, 2001. 256 pp.     

Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.

Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh. James M. Wilce. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 300 pp.     

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols. Caroline Humphrey. with Urgunge Onon. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996.396 pp.     

The Archaeological Process: An Introduction.; Archaeological Theory Today.

The Archaeological Process: An Introduction. Ian Hodder. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 242 pp.
Archaeological Theory Today. Ian Hodder. ed. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 328 pp.     

Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization

Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Karachi: American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 1998. 262 pp.     

Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change: Navajo Experiences

Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change: Navajo Experiences. Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii. 262 pp.     

Contemporary Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia

Contemporary Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia. Kim Jane Saunders. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.107 pp.     

Revised age estimates of Australopithecus-bearing deposits at Sterkfontein,South Africa

The Sterkfontein fossil site in South Africa has produced the largest concentration of early hominin fossils from a single locality. Recent reports suggest that Australopithecus from this site is found within a broad paleontological age of between 2.5-3.5 Ma (Partridge [2000] The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 100-125; Partridge et al. [2000a], The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 129-130; Kuman and Clarke [2000] J Hum Evol 38:827-847). Specifically, the hominin fossil commonly referred to as the "Little Foot" skeleton from Member 2, which is arguably the most complete early hominin skeleton yet discovered, has been magnetostratigraphically dated to 3.30-3.33 Ma (Partridge [2000] The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 100-125; Partridge et al. [2000a], The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 129-130). More recent claims suggest that hominin fossils from the Jacovec Cavern are even older, being dated to approximately 3.5 Ma. Our interpretation of the fauna, the archeometric results, and the magnetostratigraphy of Sterkfontein indicate that it is unlikely that any Members yet described from Sterkfontein are in excess of 3.04 Ma in age. We estimate that Member 2, including the Little Foot skeleton, is younger than 3.0 Ma, and that Member 4, previously dated to between 2.4-2.8 Ma, is more likely to fall between 1.5-2.5 Ma. Our results suggest that Australopithecus africanus should not be considered as a temporal contemporary of Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus bahrelghazali, and Kenyanthropus platyops.     

An early classic sculpture from El Tajin,Veracruz, Mexico

Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Trinidad, Mauritius and Beyond. 1992. Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, xii + 208 pp.     

Do r/K reproductive strategies apply to human differences?

Reproductive Energetics in Mammals: Edited by A. S. I. Loudon and P. A. Racey. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987.     

Origins of the Human Brain

Origins of the Human Brain. J. P. Changeux and J. Chavaillon. eds. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1995. 321 pp.     

BOO! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex

BOO! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex. Ronald C. Simons. New York and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 272 pp.     

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 Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth

The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1999. 260 pp.     

Writing across the Biology-Culture Gap

Book reviewed in this article:
Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture . Duane Quiatt and Vernon Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 322 pp. The Use of Tools by Human and Non-Human Primates . Arlette Berthelet and Jean Chavaillon , eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 424 pp.     

Complementary Angles and Inclusive Perspectives: Rounding Out Integrative Views of Material Culture

Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean . Eli Barta, ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 244 pp.
Clothing the Pacific . Chloë Colchester. Oxford: Berg, 2003. 215 pp.
Wedding Dress across Cultures . Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson, eds. Oxford: Berg, 2003. 227 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Standard of Care by George J. Annas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Medicine, Money and Morals by Marc A. Rodwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy , British Medical Association. London: BMJ Publishers, 1993
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1992 edited by James M. Huber and Robert F. Almeder. Totawa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1993