Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts… Showbiz.

Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts… Showbiz. James A. Boon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 361 pp.     

Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology

Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology . Sydel Silverman, eds. New York: AltaMira Press, 2004. 258 pp.     

History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia

History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, vols. & 2. Frank Spencer. ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 1,195 pp.     

History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology

History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology. Donald L. Donham. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 240 pp.     

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays toward. More Inclusive History of Anthropology . Richard Handler, ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 315 pp.     

Book Review Essay

Book reviewed in this article: Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldan (eds) , Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology.     

Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History

Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History. Bradley J. Parker and Lars Rodseth, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 294 pp.     

Why Read about the Old Masters?

Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. N. J. Allen. Methodology and History in Anthropology, vol. 6. David Parkin, series ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 172 pp.
Durkheim Reconsidered. Susan Stedman Jones. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 288 pp.     

Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Brooke Larson and Olivia Harris. eds., with Enrique Tandeter. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995 428 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Linguistic Anthropology: Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique . Lois Foster and David Stockley . Multilingual Matters, No. 37.
Past and Present: The Construction of Aboriginality . Jeremy R. Beckett , ed.     

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI, 1998; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, December 4, 1999-February 2000; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, April 20-July 16, 2001; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, August 27, 2000-January 16, 2001; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, March-May 2001; Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK, June-September 2001; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT, October 2001-January 2002.
Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles. Barbara A. Hail. ed. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 2000. 135 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Dreaming. 40.000 years of Aboriginal History . Edited by Jennifer Isaacs Radio Power. A History of 3ZZ Access Radio . By Joan Dugdale Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia Introduction to Australian Society: A Sociological Perspective . By Donald Edgar The New South Wales Wheat Frontier. 1851 to 1911 . By M. E. Robinson Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Heroin in Australia . By David Hirst Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland. The Quest for Gaia. A Book of Changes . By Kit Pedler Drinking Careers. Occupations, Drinking Habits, and Drinking Problems . By Martin A. Plant Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin. Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality . By Jean-Louis Flandrin. Translated by Richard Southern Changing Images of the Family . Edited by Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff Department of Anthropology, Western Australian Museum. Give and Take. Exchange in Wola Society . By Paul Sillitoe Department of Prehistory and Anthropoloy, S.G.S. Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System . By Morton Klass David Mearns Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide. Anthropological Structures of Madness in Black Africa . By I. Sow. Translated by Joyce Diamenti Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry . By George Devereux Department of Anthropology, University of Otago. Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics . By J. A. Barnes Department of Sociology, University of N.S.W. Arnold Van Gennep. The Creator of French Ethnography . By Nicole Belmont Department of Prehistory anrf Anthropology, Australian National University. Man, Mind, and Science. A History of Anthropology . By Murray J. Leaf Department of Sociology, University of N.S.W. The Conceptualisation and Explanation of Processes of Social Change . Edited by David Riches School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University. Day of Shining Red. An Essay on Understanding Ritual . By Gilbert Lewis Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University. Living Archaeology . By R. A. Gould. New Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of New England Experimental Determinatiou of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis . By Lawrence H. Keeley Division of Prehistory, La Trobe University. Archaeological Constructs. An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology . By Jean-Claude Gardin Division of Prehistory, La Trobe University. The Performing Arts. Music and Dance . Edited by John Blacking and Joann W. Kealiinohomoku Department of Sociology, University of New England.     

Book reviews

Seeing anthropology Karl G. Heider, Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film. Boston: Allyn &; Bacon, 1997. xx+347 pp., photographs, maps, glossary, bibliography; with two half‐inch NTSC videotapes totalling 3hrs., 11 mins. US $37.75 nett.

History and politics Faris, James C. Navajo and Photography: A Critical History of the Representation of an American People; xv, 392 pp., 263 illus., notes, appendix, bibliography, index. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. $39.95 (hdbd.)

The Anthropology of Visual Communication Canevacci, Massimo, Antropologia della comunicazione visuale. Genova: Costa &; Nolan, 1995. 260 pp., photographs, bibliography. Lire 34,000, paper.     

Processes in the formation of ancient world systems

Thomas C. Patterson is Professor of Anthropology and History at Temple University, Philadelphia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Archaeology: The Civilization of the Mayas . J. ERIC S. THOMPSON. Field Museum of Natural History Popular Series. Anthropology, 25.
Archaeology: Jmetic Lubton: Some Modern and Pre-Hispanic Maya Ceremonial Customs in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico . THOMAS A. LEE, JR. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, 29.     

The Cutting Edge and the History of Anthropology

The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence. Robert R. Alford. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.168 pp.
. History of Anthropological Theory. Paul Erickson with Liam D. Murphy. Calgary, Alberta: Broadview Press, 1998. 254 pp.
An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Robert Layton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.242 pp.     

Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State

Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Sharon E. Hutchinson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 408 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Karen Ask and Marit Tjomsland, (eds) . Women and Islamization: Contemporary Dimensions of Discourse on Gender Relations. Bronwen Douglas . Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology. Britta Duelke . ‘…same but different…’ Vom Umgang mit Vergangenheit: Tradition und Geschichte im Alltag einer nordaustralischen Aborigines ‐ Kommune. Studien zur Kulturkunde Series 108. T. Scarlett Epstein, A. P. Suryanarayana and T. Thimmegowda . Village Voices: Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India. Richard Eves . The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society. C. A. Gregory . Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange. Ghassan Hage . White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. Jennifer Robertson . Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Paul Sillitoe . An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition. Helena Wulff . Ballet Across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen. A History of Anthropology Hildred Geertz and Ida Bagus Made Togog. Tales from a Charmed Life: a Balinese Painter Reminisces Jean Guiart. Une Clé de la Société Canaque: Les Réseaux d'Identité Partagée Ingjerd Hoem. Theatre and Political Process: Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand Lawrence Kalinoe and James Leach (eds) Paul Memmott (ed.) Take2: Housing Design in Indigenous Australia Andrew Metcalfe and Ann Game. The Mystery of Everyday Life Hirokazu Miyazaki. The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge Christer Norström. ‘They Call for Us’. Strategies for Securing Autonomy among the Paliyans, Hunter‐gatherers of the Palni Hills, South India Marilyn Strathern. Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge Jennifer Vanderbes. Easter Island Jo Anne van Tilburg. Among Stone Giants. The Life of Katherine Routledge and her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island     

Where Have All Their Lineages Gone? Cattle and Descent Among the Nuer

Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer not only served as the paradigm of "segmentary lineage systems," but it also inspired a wide range of ethnographic literature which contributed to the elaboration of "descent theory." The Nuer ethnography was reanalyzed many times and most recently it was declared that the "segmentary lineage system" constituted a "representational model" only, quite different from the actors' "operational rules" (Holy 1979a). Despite the remarkable insight that it proved in the formation of Nuer local groups and the mechanics of Nuer politics, Holy's analysis falls short of a satisfactory reinterpretation of the Nuer polity for those interested in comparison because it restricted itself to local groups and failed to tackle the Nuer concepts of buth, thok dwiel and mar, central to Evans-Pritchard's interpretation. By relegating lineages to the status of "representation," Holy further obscures the course of comparative analysis since he does not provide any criterion to discover when lineages belong to the "representational" or the "operational" levels. Using a different conceptual framework, it is demonstrated that the groups which Evans-Prit chard interpreted as lineages are not "representations" but are in fact defined around cattle. It is concluded that the Nuer simply did not have any lineages, segmentary or not.