The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990

The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. Gail K. Sheffield. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. 223 pp.     

Negotiating a Multicultural Canon: Finding the "Indian" in American Indian Law

The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Bruce Elliot Johansen. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 410 pp.
Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800. Robert A. Williams Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 192 pp.     

To Live Heroically: Institutional Racism and American Indian Education

To Live Heroically: Institutional Racism and American Indian Education. Delores J. Huff Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 211 pp.     

Speaking through Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java: Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia

Speaking through Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java. Laine Berman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 256 pp.
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. J. Joseph Errington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.216 pp.     

The Languages of Native North America

The Languages of Native North America. Marianne Mithun. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.773 pp.     

Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages

Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages. Gunter Senft. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.324 pp.     

An Introduction to the Languages of the World

An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Anatole V. Lyovin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.492 pp.     

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages. Cecil H. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 259 pp.     

Crow Indian Photographer: The Work of Richard Throssel

Crow Indian Photographer: The Work of Richard Throssel. Peggy Albright. with Introduction by Joanna Cohan Scherer. Plates, with Commentaries by Barney Old Coyote. Jr., Mardeen Hogan Plainfeather, and Dean Curtis Bear Claw. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. 248 pp.     

Recognizing Gay and Lesbian Speech

Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages. William L. Leap. ed. Luxembourg: Gordon and Breach, 1995. 360 pp.
Word's Out: Gay Men's English. William L. Leap. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 181 pp.     

Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam

. History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Wael B. Hallaq. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 294 pp.
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Judith E. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 216 pp.
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Susan F. Hirsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 355 pp.
The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf. Nathan J. Brown. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 258 pp.     

Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in the United States

Bilingual Education for Hispanic Students in the United States . Joshua A. Fishman and Gary D. Keller , eds. New York: Teachers College Press, 1982. x + 502 pp. $18.95 (paper).
Bilingualism and Language Contact: Spanish, English, and Native American Languages . Florence Barkin, Elizabeth A. Brandt , and Jacob Ornstein-Galicia , eds. New York: Teachers College Press, 1982. xiii + 320 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects . Jon Amastae and Lucia Elias-Olivares , eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. x + 434 pp. $14.00 (paper).
The New Bilingualism: An American Dilemma . Martin Ridge , ed. Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by Center for Study of the American Experience. The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, May 1980. Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1981. 272 pp. $20.00 (cloth).     

Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World and Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in. Chaotic World. Gay Becker. Berkeley: University of California Press,1997.xii. 264pp.
Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda. Susan Reynolds Whyte. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv. 258 pp.     

The Liberationist Catholic Church in Brazil

Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and the Struggle for the Amazon. Madeleine Cousineau Adriance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 202 pp.
Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church. Carol Ann Drogus. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 226 pp.
Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil. Robin Nagle. New York: Routledge, 1997. 224 pp.
The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity. Manuel A. Vasquez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 302 pp.     

American Indian Narrative

Traditions of the Arapaho. George Dorsey and Alfred Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxx + 487 pp.
Traditions of the Caddo. George Dorsey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxiv + 133 pp.     

Planet of the Normates

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 200 pp.
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 400 pp.
Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.315pp.     

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety.; Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India.; Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition.

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety. Srimati Basu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 306 pp.
Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 286 pp.
Women, Family, and Child Care in India:. World in Transition. Susan C. Seymour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.323 pp.     

The Ojibwa Woman.; Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887–1934.; Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835.

The Ojibwa Woman. Ruth Landes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 248 pp.
Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934. Katherine M. B. Osburn. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 165 pp.
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Theda Perdue. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 252 pp.     

Arab and Muslim America: Emergent Scholarship, New Visibility, Conspicuous Gap in Academe

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock. eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pp.
Family and Gender among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge. eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 19961996. 327 pp.
Arabs in America: Building. New Future. Michael W. Suleiman. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 355 pp.
Without Forgetting the Imam. Linda S. Walbridge. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 242 pp.     

Cultural History in the Native Northeast

Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 301 pp.
Historic Contact: Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States in the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries. Robert S. Grumet. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 514 pp.