An early classic sculpture from El Tajin,Veracruz, Mexico

Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Trinidad, Mauritius and Beyond. 1992. Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, xii + 208 pp.     

BOO! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex

BOO! Culture, Experience, and the Startle Reflex. Ronald C. Simons. New York and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 272 pp.     

Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication

Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui. eds. Oxford: Oxford International Publishers Ltd., 1996.664 pp.     

Revised age estimates of Australopithecus-bearing deposits at Sterkfontein,South Africa

The Sterkfontein fossil site in South Africa has produced the largest concentration of early hominin fossils from a single locality. Recent reports suggest that Australopithecus from this site is found within a broad paleontological age of between 2.5-3.5 Ma (Partridge [2000] The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 100-125; Partridge et al. [2000a], The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 129-130; Kuman and Clarke [2000] J Hum Evol 38:827-847). Specifically, the hominin fossil commonly referred to as the "Little Foot" skeleton from Member 2, which is arguably the most complete early hominin skeleton yet discovered, has been magnetostratigraphically dated to 3.30-3.33 Ma (Partridge [2000] The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 100-125; Partridge et al. [2000a], The Cenozoic of Southern Africa, Oxford: Oxford Monographs, p. 129-130). More recent claims suggest that hominin fossils from the Jacovec Cavern are even older, being dated to approximately 3.5 Ma. Our interpretation of the fauna, the archeometric results, and the magnetostratigraphy of Sterkfontein indicate that it is unlikely that any Members yet described from Sterkfontein are in excess of 3.04 Ma in age. We estimate that Member 2, including the Little Foot skeleton, is younger than 3.0 Ma, and that Member 4, previously dated to between 2.4-2.8 Ma, is more likely to fall between 1.5-2.5 Ma. Our results suggest that Australopithecus africanus should not be considered as a temporal contemporary of Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus bahrelghazali, and Kenyanthropus platyops.     

The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth

The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1999. 260 pp.     

Female Ascetics in Hinduism; The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States; Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

Female Ascetics in Hinduism. Lynn Teskey Denton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 218 pp.
The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States. Karen Pechilis, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 260 pp.
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal. June McDaniel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 356 pp.     

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols. Caroline Humphrey. with Urgunge Onon. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996.396 pp.     

Time, Narrative, and Cultural Action

Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality. Charles L. Briggs. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 302 pp.     

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese. Anna Wierzbicka. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 318 pp.     

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.460 pp.     

Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future

Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future. Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Rebecca A. Huss-Ashmore. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.326 pp.     

Function, Selection, and lnnateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

Function, Selection, and lnnateness: The Emergence of Language Universals. Simon Kirby. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 156 pp.     

Contraception across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints.

Contraception across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints. Andrew Russell. Elisa J. Sobo. and Mary S. Thompson. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000. 224 pp.     

Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning

Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning. Bradd Shore. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 428 pp.     

Scholarship serving the Nazi state II: Medicine,science and eugenics

Robert N. Proctor, RACIAL HYGIENE: MEDICINE UNDER THE NAZIS, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988, 414 pp. £27.95 and £11.95 (paper).

Benno Muller‐Hill, MURDEROUS SCIENCE, ELIMINATION BY SCIENTIFIC SELECTION OF JEWS, GYPSIES, AND OTHERS, GERMANY 1933–1945, translated by George Fraser, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, 208 pp., £15.00.     

Elites: Choice, Leadership and Succession

Elites: Choice, Leadership and Succession. Joao De Pina-Cabral and Antonia Pedroso de Lima. eds. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000. 253 pp.     

Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place

Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place. Barbara Bender and Margot Winer, eds. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 320pp.     

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control. Susan U. Philips. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 206 pp.     

The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah.

The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in. Maritime Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah. Clifford Sather. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 359 pp.     

Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island

Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on. Danish Island. Andrew Buckser. New Directions in Anthropology, 5. Providence, RI, and Oxford, England: Berghahn Books, 1996. 264 pp.