Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ethnology: A Chief is a Chief by the People: The Autobiography of Stimela Jason Jingoes. Stimela Jason Jingoes .
Ethnology: Family Law and Litigation in Basotho Society. Sebastian Poulter .
Ethnology: Chieftainship and Legitimacy: An Anthropological Study of Executive Law in Lesotho. Ian Hamnett .     

Book Reviews

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Ethnology: Differentiation and Co-operation in an Israeli Veteran Moshav. ELAINE BALDWIN.
Ethnology: Family and Community in the Kibbutz. YONINA TALMON.     

Ethnology: Inkonze: Magico-Religious Beliefs of Contact-Traditional Chipewan Trading at Fort Resolution, NWT, Canada. DAVID MERRILL SMITH

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Ethnology: The Middle Ground: Social Change in an Arctic Community, 1967–1971. JOEL S. SAVISHINSKY and SUSAN B. FRIMMER .
Ethnology: Leadership Among the Southwestern Ojibwa . JAMES G. E. SMITH.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ethnology: Australian Aboriginal Paintings in Western and Central Arnhem Land: Temporal Sequences and Elements of Style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek Art. E. J. Brandl
Ethnology: Kilenge Art and Life: A Look at a New Guinea People. Philip J. C. Dark     

Anthropology and History in Southern Europe

Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control . David I. Kertzer
E1 Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town . Richard Maddox     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
General/Theoretical Anthropology:Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics . R. W. Connell.
General/Theoretical Anthropology:Women and the Politics of Empowerment . Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen     

Culture of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements

Culture of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements. Sonia E. Alvarez. Evelina Dagnino. and Arturo Escobar. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.459 pp.     

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua.; Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism.

After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Florence E. Babb. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 304 pp.
Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 443 pp.     

Science Studies: Beyond the War Zone

Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology. Susan Leigh Star. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 421 pp.
Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones. Nelly Oudshoorn. London: Routledge, 1994. 195 pp.
Science and Technology in. Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts. David J. Hess. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. 306 pp.     

Book Notes

Abstract

All-Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 306 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education New York: Harper & Row, 1990. 204 pages. $18.95 hardcover.     

New Anthropological Perspectives on Southeastern Indians

Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. Margaret Bender. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 187 pp.
Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity. Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach. eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. 151 pp.
Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Circe Sturm. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 249 pp.     

Looking for Identity in the Muslim World

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Lila Abu-Lughod. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2005. 319 pp.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385 pp.
Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies. Armando Salvatore and Mark LeVine, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 249 pp.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity Making. Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 239 pp.     

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Deborah Reed-Danahay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 240 pp.     

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention . Michele Rivkin-Fish. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2006. 253 pp.     

The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development

The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development. Eric Ross. New York: Zed Books, 1998.264 pp.     

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.     

The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania

The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. Gail Kligman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 373 pp.     

The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp.

The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. 219 pp.     

Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel

Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel . Daniel Lefkowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 316 pp.     

Indian Blood: New Lessons in Hindu Statecraft

Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society. Steven M. Parish. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 270 pp.
Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India. David Ludden. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 346 pp.
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992. Shahid Amin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.256 pp.
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Veena Das. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. 230 pp.