Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Emmanuel Agius and Salvino Busuttil, (eds), Germ-Line Intervention and our Responsibilities to Future Generations Andrew Edgar, Sam Salek, Darren Shickle and David Cohen, The Ethical QALY: Ethical Issues in Healthcare Resource Allocations John McKie, Jeff Richardson, Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the ‘QALY’ Approach Gregory E. Pence, Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? Maxwell J. Mehlman and Jeffrey R. Botkin, (eds), Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality Udo Schüklenk, Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness Philip J. Boyle, (ed), Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcome Data in Context Ellie Lee, (ed), Abortion Law and Politics Today     

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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: Glen Banks and Chris Ballard (eds) . The Ok Tedi Settlement: Issues, Outcomes and Implications. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy (eds) . Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Johanna M. Blows . Eagle and Crow: An Exploration of an Australian Aboriginal Myth. Malcolm Crick , Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and International Tourism. Gary W. Dowsett , Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall and Jocelyn Armstrong (eds) . Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. James Fox (ed.) The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Hamilton, Malcolm B . The Sociology of Religion - Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Andro Iteanu and Eric Schwimmer (eds) . Pane, etje t'ecouterai: Recits et traditions des Orokaiva de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee James Jemut Masing . The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak. Monica Lindh De Montoya . Progress, Hunger and Envy: Commercial Agriculture, Marteting and Social Transformation in the Venezuelan Andes. R.G. Parker and J.H. Gagnon (eds) . Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World R. Parkin . The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy. Raul Pertierra . Explorations in Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography. Carmel Schrire . Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. William Scott Shelley . The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom. Andrew Shyrock . Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Nicholas Thomas . Oceanic Art. Elspeth Young . Third World in The First.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy
Robert F. Weir, Stored Tissue Samples. Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Implications
Glenn McGee, The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach To Genetics
Sarah Franklin and Helena Ragoné, (eds) Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation
David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma and Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci, (eds), Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia
Mark J Hanson and Daniel Callahan, (eds) The Goals Of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform
Erik Parens, (ed), Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications     

Hierarchy and value: An introduction

Martha J. Kaplan. 1995. Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and Colonial Imagination in Fiji. London and Durham: Duke University Press, xviii + 236 pp.

Martha Mundy. 1995. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 317 pp.

Thomas Csordas (ed.). 1994. Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 294 pp.

Philip L. Kohl &; Clare Fawcett (eds). 1995. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 329 pp.

Joanna B. Eicher (ed.). 1995. Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time. Oxford: Berg Publishers. xiv + 316 pp.

Anatoly M. Khazanov. 1995. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 334 pp.

Pertti J. Anttonen &; Reimund Kvideland (eds). 1994. Nordic Frontiers: Recent Issues in the Study of Modern Traditional Culture in the Nordic Countries. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore. 238 pp.

Hugo G. Nutini. 1995. The Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 444 pp.     

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: 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: 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

Andrea de Guttry and Natalino Ronzitti, eds. The Iran‐Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Law of Naval Warfare. 1993. Cambridge, England: Grotius Publications. 573 pp. ISBN 1–857010–13–2. (Available from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, and New York, NY, ISBN 0–521–463025, $190)

David L. Larson. Security Issues and the Law of the Sea. 1993. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 382 pp. ISBN 0–8191–9089–6. $47.50     

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: Rohan Bastin. The Domain of Constant Excess: Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka. Daniel Miller (ed.). Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors. Sujata Patel, Josodhara Bagchi and Krishna Raj (eds). Thinking Social Science in India, Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner.     

Book Reviews

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: William Y. Adams . The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology. G. Aijmer and J. Abbink (eds) Meanings of Violence: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele and Pamela Reynolds (eds) Violence and Subjectivity. Michael Allen . Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland. Charlotte E. Hardman . Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion Among the Lohorung Rai. Sanjay Srivastava . Constructing Post‐Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School. Christina Toren . Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. Andrew Turton (ed.) . Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States.     

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: 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

Books reviewed in this article:
Jennifer Jackson, Truth, Trust and Medicine
Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan (eds.), Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publications
Carl Elliott (ed.), Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Robert M. Veatch, Transplantation Ethics
Barry Hoffmaster (ed.), Bioethics in Social Context
Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society     

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: 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.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Edmunds , L. N. (1988): Cellular and molecular bases of biological clocks. Models and mechanisms for circadian timekeeping (Zelluläre und molekulare Grundlagen biologischer Uhren. Modelle und Mechanismen circadianer Zeitregelung). Stetson , M. H., ed. (1987): Processing of environmental information in vertebrates (Die Wirkung von Umwelteinflüssen auf Wirbeltiere). Poncin , P. (1988): Le contrôle environnemental et hormonal de la reproduction du barbeau, Barbus barbus (L.) et du chevaine, Leuciscus cephalus (L.) (Pisces Cyprinidae), en captivité (Die exogene und hormonelle Kontrolle der Fortpflanzung in Gefangenschaft bei Barbe und Döbel). Miura , T., ed. (1987): Seasonality of birth. Progress in biometeorology Vol. 6 (Die Saisonalität der Geburt. Fortschritte der Biometeorologie Bd. 6). Thorndyke , M. C., & G. J. Goldsworthy, eds. (1988): Neurohormones in invertebrates (Neurohormone bei Wirbellosen). Society for Experimental Biology. Descoins , C., & B. Frerot, eds. (1988): Médiateurs chimiques: comportement et systématique des Lépidoptères. Applications en agronomie (Chemical mediators: behaviour and systematics of Lepidoptera. Applications in agriculture). Fritzsch , B., M. J. Ryan , W. Wilczynski, T. E. Hetherington , & W. Walkowiak, eds. (1988): The evolution of the amphibian auditory system (Evolution des Gehörsystems der Amphibien). Akoev , G. N., N. P. Alekseev , & B. V. Krylov (1988): Mechanoreceptors. Their functional organization (Mechanorezeptoren und ihre Wirkungsweise). Seelen , W. v., G. Shaw , & U. M. Leinhos, eds. (1988): Organization of neural networks; structures and models (Analysen und Modelle zur Gehirnfunktion). Geschwind , N., & A. M. Galaburda, eds. (1984): Cerebral dominance. The biological foundations (Biologische Grundlagen der Hemisphärendominanz). Pöldinger , W., ed. (1987): Aspekte menschlichen Befindens und Verhaltens (Aspects of human feeling and behaviour). Wolf , G., ed. (1989): Fachlexikon ABC Neurobiologie (Dictionary of neurobiology).     

Book Reviews

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.