Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood (ed.). The Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia. Paula Brown. Beyond A Mountain Valley: The Simhu of Papua New Guinea. David B. Edwards. Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. Martha Albertson Fineman. The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies. Vineeta Hoon. Living on the Move: Bhotiyas ofthe Kumaon Himalaya. Ratna Kapoor and Brenda Cossman. Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India. John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald (eds). Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language. Karen Fog Olwig and Kirsten Hastrup (eds). Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object. Adrian Peace. A Time. of Reckoning: The Politics of Discourse in Rural Ireland. Michael G. Peletz. Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller (eds). Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Warren Shapiro and Uli Linke (eds). Denying Biology: Essays on Gender and Pseudo-Procreation. Michele Stephen. A' aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Brenda Johnson Clay. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875–1935 Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal (eds). The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts Sverker Finnström. Living With Bad Surroundings Geoffrey Gray A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris and Marc L. Moskowitz (eds). The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan. Honolulu R. H. Mathews (ed. by Martin Thomas). Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews Martin Nakata. Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines Andie Diane Palmer. Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse Antonia Mills (ed.). ‘Hang Onto These Words’: Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence Hartmut Lutz (ed. and transl.). The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context Michael W. Scott. The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands Mark Stevenson. Many Paths: Searching for Old Tibet in New China Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds). Exchange and Sacrifice Margaret Trawick. Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa Mark P. Whitaker. Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lawrence A. Babb . Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture. Roland J.-L. Breton . Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia Alan Tormain Campbell . Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography. Claude Livi-Strauss . The Story of Lynx. Colin Filer (ed.) . The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. Kirsten Hastrup . A Passage to Anthropology: Between Experience and Theory. R.J. Howitt, J. Connell and P. Hirsch (eds) . Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Australasia, Melanesia and Southeast Asia. D.I. Kertzer and P. Lasslett (eds) . Aging in the Past: Demography, Society and Old Age. Patrick Vinton Kirch . Legacy of the landscape. An illustrated guide to Hawaiian archaeological sites. Alessandro Talamonti Written on Stone. The History of Mankind. G. Mathews . What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds. Gananath Obeyesekere . The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz (eds) . Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas (eds) . Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific. Sylvie Poirier . Les Jardins du Nomade: Cosmologie, territoire etpersonne dans le desert occidentale australien. Studies in social and ritual morphology. George W. Stocking Jnr . After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888–1951.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Julie Marcus, ed. First in Their Field. Women and Australian Anthropology. Diane Bell, Pat Caplan and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds. Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Jeffrey Minson. Questions of Conduct: Sexual Harassment, Citizenship, Government. Jacques Derrida. Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money. Philip Manning. Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology. James Fentrees and Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Jeremy Rifkin. Beyond Beef. The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. Pierre Lemonnier. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop, eds. Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Uldis Ozolins. The Politics of Language in Australia. Gillian Bottomley. From Another Place. Migration and the Politics of Culture. Richard Maddox. El Castillo. The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town. Grant Evans, ed. Asia's Cultural Mosaic. An Anthropological Introduction. Jean-Paul Dumont. Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jonathan Spencer. A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble. Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Kalpana Ram. Mukkuvar Women. Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Albert B. Robillard, ed. Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Anne Salmond. Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642–1772. Geoffrey Irwin. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Bernard Juillerat, ed. Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in West Sepik. Roger M. Keesing. Custom and Confrontation. The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy. James J. Carrier, ed. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden, eds. Like People You See in a Dream. First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Klaus Neumann. Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. Ron Brunton. The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Maurice Godelier and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Big Men and Great Men. Personifications of Power in Melanesia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Arthur . Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study. Diane J. Austin-Broos. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Mick Broderick (ed.) Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso (eds). Senses of Place. T. Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds). Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds). Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Helen Hardacre. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Margaret Jolly. Women of the Place: Kaslom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu. M.P. Levine, P.M. Nardi and J.H. Gagnon (eds). In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS. Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.) Gender Ritual: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Helen Morton. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood. Herbert Donald Graham Maschner. Darwinian Archaeologies Michael Southon. The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. J. M. Mageo and A. Howard (eds). Spirits in Culture, History and Mind. Virginia Watson. Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Lissant Bolton. Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu. Rebecca Cassidy. The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newcastle. Kate Fox. The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horse Watchers. Robert J. Foster. Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod and Brian Larkin (eds). Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Leo Howe. Hinduism and Hierarchy in Bali. Bruce M. Knauft. Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After. Linda Sue Lewis. Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds). Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Julie Marcus. The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology. David McKnight. From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Raul Pertierra, Eduardo F. Ugarte, Alicia Pingol, Joel Hernandez and Nikos Lexis Dacanay. Txt‐ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. Urs Ramseyer. The Art and Culture of Bali. Urs Ramseyer and I. Gusti Panji Tisna (eds). Photographs by Rama Surya. Bali: Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Self‐portrait. Anthony Siaguru. In‐House in Papua New Guinea. Peggy Reeves Sanday. Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy. Neil L. Whitehead. Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Alan Barnard (ed.) Hunter‐Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology Jeremy Beckett. A Study of Aborigines in the Pastoral West of New South Wales: 1958 MA Thesis with New Introduction and Preface Roy Ellen. On the Edge of the Banda Zone. Past and Present in the Social Organization of a Moluccan Trading Network Thomas Gibson. And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar Michael Goddard. The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock (eds). Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation Bruce Rigsby and Nicolas Peterson (eds). Donald Thomson: The Man and Scholar Joel Robbins. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society Rowena Robinson. Christians of India. New Delhi: Sage Publications Gerald Sider. Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina Monique Skidmore. Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear Jenny B. White. Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey Katharine L. Wiegele. Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Chadwick Allen. Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. Alex Argenti‐Pillen. Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka. Judy Atkinson. Trauma Trials, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia. Susan Debra Blum and Lionel M. Jensen (eds.). China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. William Cummings. Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar. Tony Day. Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia. Greg Gow. The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia. Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver‐Smith (eds). Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. 2002. Helen Morton Lee. Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores. Valentina Napolitano. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living In Urban Mexico. Jean Marc Pidjo. Le Mwa Teâma Mwalebeng et Le Fils du Soleil. Stephen Pyne. Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia. Wilfried Schröder. Ich reiste wie ein Buschmann. (Zum Leben und Wirken des Australienforschers Erhard Eylmann). Life and Scientific Work of the Pioneer of Australian Culture Erhard Eylmann. Michael French Smith. Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea.     

Book Reviews

Michael Kearney. 1996. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Per‐spectwe. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 210 pp.

Don Kulick &; Margaret Wiltson (eds). 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London/New York: Routledge. xvi + 283 pp.

Sandra Wallman et al. 1996. Kampala Women GettingBy: Well‐being in the Time of AIDS. London:James Currey Ltd. 246 pp.

Angelique Haugerud. 1995. The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xvi + 266 pp.

Mary Kay Vaughan. 1997. Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1920–1940. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, xiii + 262 pp.

Robert J. Foster (ed.). 1995. Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcohnial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, vi + 280 pp.

Tom G. Svensson. 1997. The Sámi and Their Land: The Sámi vs the Swedish Crown. Oslo: Novus forlag. 213 pp.

Pamela J. Asquith &; Arne Kalland (eds). 1997. Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. London: Curzon. 220 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Jeremy Beckett (ed.). Wherever I Go: Myles Lalor's ‘Oral History’. Victor Buchli . An Archaeology of Socialism. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald . Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China. James F. Eder , A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines. Colin Filer (ed.) . Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994. Jill Forshee with Christina Fink and Sandra Cate (eds). Converging Interests: Traders, Travelers, and Tourists in Southeast Asia. Elizabeth Furniss . The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Community. Alfred Gell . The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams. Edited by E. Hirsch Ernest Gellner . Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg Dilemma. Kenneth Henshall . Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi . The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Mark J. Hudson . Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Laura Lee Junker . Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Robert C. Kiste and M. Marshall (eds) . American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment. Bruce M. Knauft . From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology. David MacDougall . Transcultural Cinema. Zoila S. Mendoza . Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Kirstin Pauka . Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra: Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau. Phillip B. Zarilli . When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Power in Kalaripayattu, a South Indian Martial Art. Michael Pinches (ed.) . Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia. Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner (eds) . Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Jane Schneider (ed) . Italy's ‘Southern Question’: Orientalism in One Country. Christopher C. Taylor . Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Sandy Toussaint . Phyllis Kaberry and Me: Anthropology, History and Aboriginal Australia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: M. Auge and C. Herzlich (eds). The Meaning of Illness. Stanley R. Barrett. Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Method. Steen Bergendorff. Faingu City: A Modern Mekeo Clan in Papua New Guinea. Ben Burt. Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. As told by Michael Kwa'ioloa to Ben Burt. Ann Game and Andrew Metcalfe. Passionate Sociology. Matthew C. Gutmann. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Edvard Hviding. Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Bernard Juillerat. L'Avènement du Père. Rite, représentation, fantasme dans un culte mélanésian. L. Kendall. Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. M. Lock. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America. Daniel Miller. Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach. Alcida Rita Ramos. Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. Stanley J. Tambiah. Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood. Rights for Aborigines. Sarah Colley. Uncovering Australia: Archaeology, Indigenous People and the Public. Kirk Dombrowski. Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). Passage of Change: Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific. Sinclair Dinnen with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Bruce M. Knauft (ed.). Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies. Helen Gremillion. Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. Jean Guiart. Et le masque sortit de la mer: Les pays anciens de Hienghène à Témala, Gomèn et Koumac. Robin Hide. Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and Bibliography. William Mazzarella. Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Louise Meintjes. Sound of Africa: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Sally Merry and Donald Brenneis (eds). Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawaii. Peter J. M. Nas, Gerard A. Persoon and Rivke Jaffe (eds). Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimer Schefold. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Sherry B. Ortner. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture and the Class of 58. Thomas C. Patterson. Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists. Melissa Perry and Stephen Lloyd. Australian Native Title Law. Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson (eds). Photography's Other Histories. Nigel Rapport. I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power. Renato Rosaldo (ed.). Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Regina Scheyvens and Donovan Storey. Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths (eds). Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies. Cecilia Van Hollen. Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Francoise Dussart . The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Han‐Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff . Southeast Asian Urbanism: The Meaning and Power of Social Space. Susan Greenwood . Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. IWGIA . The Indigenous World 1999–2000. Christian Emi (ed.) A. Margaret McArthur . The Curbing of Anarchy in Kunimaipa Society. Edited by Douglas Oliver John McCreery . Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. Diane M. Nelson . A Finger In The Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B . Eicher (eds). Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning. John W. Traphagan . Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael F. Brown. Who Owns Native Culture? Gillian Cowlishaw. Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race Richard Davis (ed.) Woven Histories Dancing Lives: Torres Strait Islander Identity, Culture and History Vanessa L. Fong. Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One‐Child Policy Donna Goldstein. Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown Rodney Harrison. Shared Landscapes: Archaeologies of Attachment and the Pastoral Industry in New South Wales Michael Jackson. In Sierra Leone Phil Jackson. Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human Monique Jeudy‐Ballini and Bernard Juillerat (eds). People and Things: Social Mediations in Oceania E. D. Lewis (ed.). Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend (eds). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective Jane Nadel‐Klein. Fishing for Heritage: Modernity and Loss along the Scottish Coast. Roslyn Poignant. Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle Stuart Robson (ed.). The Kraton: Selected Essays on Javanese Courts Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Carolyn Sargent (eds). Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood Veronica Strang The Meaning of Water Oxford Roy Willis and Patrick Curry. Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Reading the Skin: Adomment, Display and Society among the Wahgi Michael O'Hanlon Crisis in the World's Fisheries: Peoples, Problems and Policies James R. McGoodwin Return to Tahiti: Bligh's Second Breadfruit Voyage Douglas Oliver Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family Matthews Masayuki Els Tatuatges dels Fang de l'-Africa Occidental Jordi Sabater Pi and J. Oriol Sabater Coca Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces Edited by Rosalyn Diprose and Robyn Ferrell Cultural alternatives and a feminist anthropology: An analysis of culturally constructed gender interests in Papua New Guinea Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz Dual Classification Reconsidered: Nyamwezi Sacred Kingship and Other Examples Serge Disease of Society: Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS D. Nelkin, D.P. Willis and S.V. Parris (eds) Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon (translated by Paula Wissington) Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey The Song of the Flying Fox. The Public and Esoteric Knowledge of the Important Men of Kandingei about Totemic Songs, Names, and Knotted Cords (Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea) Jürg Wassmann, (trans. Dennis Q. Stephenson) Boroko, Papua New Guinea Art and Identity in Oceania Eds. Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson The Language of Things Eds. Pieter ter Keurs and Dirk Schmidt Rijkmuseum voor Volkenkunde     

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: Robert M. Ariss with Gary Dowsett . Against Death: The Practice of Living with HIV. Thomas Barfield . (ed.). The Dictionary of Anthropology. Donna Birdwell‐Pheasant and D. Lawrence‐Zuñiga . (eds.). House Life‐Space, Place and Family in Europe. Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu . (eds). Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania: Reflections on the Japanese, Dutch, Chinese and Indian Experiences. Donald L. Donham . History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology. Derek Freeman . The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of her Samoan Research. Michael W. Young . Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915–1918. Susan F. Hirsch . Pronouncing and Preserving Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Michael Humphrey . Islam, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora. Richard Jenkins , (ed.). Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability. Sarah Joseph . Interrogating Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Social Theory. Thousand Oaks Verena Keck . (ed.). Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies. Andrew B. Kipnis . Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village. George E. Marcus . (ed.). Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas. Anne Maxwell . Colonial Photography and Exhibitions: Representations of the ‘Native’ and the Making of European Identities. Lise McKean . Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement. Virginia D. Nazarea . (ed.). Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. Mark Nuttall . Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival. Rowena Robinson . Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa. Mena Roces . Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post‐War Philippines. Dorothy Shineberg . The People Trade: Pacific Islander Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865–1930. Daya Somasundaram . Scarred Minds: The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils. Mandy Thomas . Dreams in the Shadows: Vietnamese‐Australian Lives in Transition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin. 1999. 220pp., index, bibliog., $A38.43 (Hc.), ISBN 1–86448‐862‐X. Andrew Walker . The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Daniel Cooper Alarcon . The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination. Johann P. Arnason . Social Theory and Japanese Experience: The Dual Civilization. Fernando Coronil . The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. Carrie B. Douglass . Bulls, Bullfighting and Spanish Identities. Leela Dube . Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South-East Asia. Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui (eds) . Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Melvyn C. Goldstein . The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Robert Hobbs . Hong Kong Now! Hal. B. Levine . Constructing Collective Identity: A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand Jews, Maori and Urban Papua New Guineans. Torben Retbell, (ed.) . East Timor: Occupation and Resistance. Anne Salmond . Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773–1815. Cathy A. Small . Voyages - From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. William Washabaugh (ed.) . The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality. Robert L. Welsch (ed.). An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition 1909–1913.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram, eds. Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada. John Davis. Exchange. Buckingham Joel S. Kahn and Francis Loh Kok Wah, eds. Fragmented Vision: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Malaysia. Pierre Bourdieu. The Logic of Practice. Marjorie Garber. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures Zohl dé Ishtar. Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law Donald Denoon. A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea Sarah F. Green. Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek‐Albanian Border Holger Jebens. Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea Verena Keck. Social Discord and Bodily Disorders: Healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea Hotze Lont. Juggling Money: Financial Self‐help Organizations and Social Security in Yogyakarta Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt (eds). Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land David McKnight. Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The Quest for Power in Northern Queensland B. J. Parker and L. Rodseth (eds). Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology and History Alexei Yurchak. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More