Sense and Sense Making in the Caucasus

A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya . Anna Politkovskaya. Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, trans., with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp.
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus:. World-System Biography . Georgi M. Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 416 pp.
Chechnya: Life in. War-Torn Society . Valery Tishkov. Tatiana Sokolova, trans., with. foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 284 pp.     

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory. Paul Rabinow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 201 pp.     

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa.

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. Charles Piot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 220 pp.     

Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India

Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India. Emma Tarlo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 360 pp.     

Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice

Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice. Bent Flyvbjerg. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1998. 290 pp.     

Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland

Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.195 pp.     

The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India

The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. David Gordon White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 596 pp.     

Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa.

Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa. Stuart A. Altmann. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. 609 pp.     

Women in Cairo

Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo:. View from the Household. Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar. eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. 189 pp.
Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo. Unni Wikan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 333 pp.     

Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance

Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance. Deborah Wong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 336 pp.     

Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India. Wendy Doniger. Chicago, EL: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 376 pp.     

Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World

Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in. Transnational World. Steven Kemper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 263 pp.     

A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania

. Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania. Philip W. Setel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.308 pp.     

Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa

Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa . Adam Ashforth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 396 pp.     

In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community

In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community. Anne M. O. Griffiths. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.328 pp.     

Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry

Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry . Jane L. Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 207 pp.     

On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups

On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups. Sue Boinski and Paul A. Garber. eds. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000. 811 pp.     

Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa.

Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa. Caroline H. Bledsoe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii. 396 pp.     

Reform and Revolution in Mexico

Book reviewed in this article:
Spent Cartridges of Revolution: An Anthropological History of Namiquipa, Chihuahua . Daniel Nugent. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993. 225 pp. Planificación Regional y Reforma Agraria . Angel Palerm. Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericano, Gernika, 1993. 420 pp.     

The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power

The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in. World of Power. Edwin N. Wilmsen and Patrick McAllister. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 210 pp.