BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (eds) . Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand. Piya Chatterjee . A Time For Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation. Jean and John L. Comaroff (eds) . Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Michael Humphrey . The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma. S. Jaarsma and Marta Rohatynskyj (eds) . Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Gaynor Kavanagh . Dream Spaces: Memory and Museum. Fred R. Myers . Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Nigel A. Stephenson . Kastom or Komuniti: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson (eds) . Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader. Elizabeth Wood‐Ellem . Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900–1965. Michael W. Young and Julia Clark . An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922–39.     

Erhard Eylmann’s Missionary Position

ABSTRACT

The German anthropologist Erhard Eylmann relied heavily on assistance provided by missionaries when he undertook fieldwork in Australia. During two periods at the Hermannsburg mission he developed a strained relationship with Carl Strehlow. In his major work Eylmann wrote a damning critique of missionaries. While there was a level of personal animosity between Eylmann and Strehlow, at the heart of the antagonism were fundamental differences concerning the nature and function of the discipline of anthropology. The missionaries sought anthropological knowledge to promote mutual understanding, above all through language, as a prelude to conversion to Christianity. They proceeded from the assumption that the future of Indigenous Australians would be within the context of the adoption of Christian belief systems. Eylmann in contrast took the view that the differences between Europeans and Indigenous Australians were physical, essential and insuperable. Sceptical about the possibility of achieving mutual understanding, he devoted his fieldwork primarily to describing, recording and collecting for the purpose of assembling a detailed record of a population he believed destined for extinction. Eylmann and German missionary anthropologists such as Strehlow had in common that they stood outside the paradigm of British social evolutionistic thinking which dominated Australian anthropology around the turn of the century at the time. At the same time, the differences in the anthropological endeavours of Eylmann and Strehlow indicate the great breadth of approaches opening up within German anthropology. In particular they point to the emergence of an ‘antihumanist’ turn at the end of the nineteenth century.     

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: Elizabeth A. Povinelli. The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action. J. Finlayson and D.E. Smith (eds). Native Title: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice.     

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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ildiko Beller‐Hann and Chris Hann . Turkish Region: State, Market and Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast. Santa Fe Lewis Roberts Binford . Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets. Anne Chambers and Keith Stanley Chambers . Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society. Marcus Colchester and Christian Erni (eds) . Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas in South and Southeast Asia. Michelle Ruth Gamburd . The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids. David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch (eds.) . Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work. Geoffrey Gray (ed.). Jane C. Goodale, Ruth Fink, Jeremy Beckett, L. R. Hiatt, and J. A. Barnes . Before It's Too Late: Anthropological Reflections, 1950–1970. John N. Gray . At Home in the Hills: Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders. Kees Grijns and Peter J. M. Nas (eds) . Jakarta‐Batavia: Socio‐cultural Essays. Stephen Gudeman . The Anthropology of the Economy: Community, Market, Culture. Sarah Lamb . White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India. Michael O'Hanlon and Robert Welsch (eds) . Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s–1930s. Sherry B. Ortner . Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Judy and Tashi Tenzing . Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest. Adrian Peace . A World of Fine Difference: The Social Architecture of a Modern Irish Village. George W. Stocking, Jr . Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. Colin Tatz . Aboriginal Suicide Is Different: A Portrait Of Life and Self‐Destruction. Roger Tol, Kees van Dijk, and Greg Acciaioli (eds) . Authority and Enterprise among the Peoples of South Sulawesi Penny Van Esterik . Materializing Thailand.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nadia Abu El‐Haj . Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self‐Fashioning in Israeli Society. Arjun Appadurai (ed.) Globalization. Ben Burt and Michael Kwa'ioloa (eds) . A Solomon Islands Chronicle, as Told by Samuel Alasa'a. Michael Kwa'ioloa and Ben Burt . Our Forest of Kwara'ae: Our Life in Solomon Islands and the Things Growing in our Home. Lionel Caplan . Children of Colonialism: Anglo‐Indians in a Postcolonial World. Erve Chambers . Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism. Gaur Desai . Subject to Colonialism: African Self‐Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson (eds) . Re‐Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China. Richard Handler (ed.) . Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology. Steven Harrell (ed.) . Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. Philip Hayward . Tide Lines: Music, Tourism and Cultural Transition in the Whitsunday Islands (and adjacent coast). Michael Herzfeld . Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society. Christopher Houston . Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State. Brij V. Lal (ed.) . Before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development. Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro (eds) . Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. Brian J. McVeigh . Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self‐Presentation in Japan. Marc L. Moskowitz . The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan. David Parker and Miri Song (eds) . Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’. Thomas, C. Patterson . A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. Jude Philp . Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888–1905. A National Museum of Australia Exhibition from the University of Cambridge. Peter Read . Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. Nancy Rosenberger . Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing World. Andrew Russell, Elisa J. Sobo and Mary S. Thompson (eds) . Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints. D. E. Smith (ed.) . Indigenous Families and the Welfare System: Two Community Case Studies. J. Taylor, J. Bern, and K.A. Senior . Ngukurr at the Millennium: A Baseline Profile for Social Impact Planning in South‐East Arnhem Land. J. Taylor and N. Westbury . Aboriginal Nutrition and the Nyirranggulung Health Strategy in Jawoyn Country. David J. Stuart‐Fox . Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali. Murray L. Wax . Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming. Mary Weismantel . Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes.     

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: Arjun Appadurai. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Fear. Adrian Franklin. Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia. Holger Jebens (ed.). Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique. Vivienne Kondos. On the Ethos of Hindu Women: Issues, Taboos and Forms of Expression. Aihwa Ong. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Peter H. Russell. Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English‐Settler Colonialism. Monique Skidmore. Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds). Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates. Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford (eds). Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity.     

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     

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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: Lorraine V. Aragon. Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities and State Development in Indonesia. Jill Forshee. Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travel from Sumba. Joy Hendry. The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook (eds). Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Alice Beck Kehoe. Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. Patrick Vinton Kirch. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. Helen Reeves Lawrence (ed.). Traditionalism and Modernity in the Music and Dance of Oceania: Essays in Honour of Barbara B. Smith. Kin Liu. In One's Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post‐Reform China. Daniel Miller and Don Slater. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Fred Myers (ed). The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Roy Wagner. An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology. Kathy Whimp and Mark Busse. Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse (eds). Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. William Hinton. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. Diane Johnson. Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia: A Noctuary. Thomas M. McKenna. Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines. A.M. Shah, B.S. Baviskar and E.A. Ramaswamy (eds). Social Structure and Change. Volume 5. Religion and Kinship.     

Book reviews

Social Anthropology in Melanesia. A. P. Elkin. (166 pp., 1 map. Oxford University Press, London 1953. A. £. 27/6).

Social Anthropology in Polynesia. Felix M. Keesing. (126 pp. Oxford University Press, London 1953. A. £. 27/6).

Field Notes on Indonesia: South Celebes, 1949–50. Raymond Kennedy. (269 pp., 1 fig., 7 maps and plans. Published by Human Relations Area Files, New Haven 1953. $ 2.00).

Die Erscheinungsformen des Männerhauses und das Klubwesen in Mikro‐nesien. Eine ethno‐soziologische Untersuchung. Erhard Schlesier. (208 pp., 1 map. Mouton & Co., ‘s‐Gravenhage 1953.)

Changing Lapps. A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway. Gutorm Gjessing. (Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 13. London 1954.)

Ausstellung Bauernwerk der alten Weh. Europa‐Asien‐Afrika. Katalog (Veröffentlichungen zum Archiv für Völkerkunde, Band 2. 112 pp. Wien 1954).     

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: 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: 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.     

New Books

Book reviewed in this article: Hauser , M. D. 1996: The evolution of communication. Runciman , W. G., Maynard Smith , J. & Dunbar , R. I. M. (eds) 1996: Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man. Snowdon , C. T. & Hausberger , M. (eds) 1997: Social Influences on Vocal Development. Wyrwicka , W. 1996: Imitation in Human and Animal Behaviour. Waal , F. de & Lanting , F. 1997: Bonobo: The forgotten ape. Witte , G. R. 1997: Der Maulwurf, Talpa europaea. Neuc Brehm-Bücherei Nr. 637.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Kathleen Adams. Art as Politics: Recrafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Partha Chatterjee. A Princely Imposter? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal. Paul D'Arcy. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. John Gray. Domestic Mandala: Architecture of Lifeworlds in Nepal. Claudia Gross, Harriet D. Lyons and Dorothy A. Counts (eds). A Polymath Anthropologist: Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning. Nora Haenn and Richard R. Wilk (eds). The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture and Sustainable Living. Jane Lydon. Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians. Allan Marett. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia. Donald S. Moore. Suffering for Territory: Race, Place and Power in Zimbabwe. Raul Pertierra. Transforming Technologies, Altered Selves: Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines. Han ten Brummelhuis. King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam. Sem Topno. 2004. Musical Culture of the Munda Tribe.     

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.