Making Their Way: Four Books on Youth, Culture, and Identity

Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 257 pp.
Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Ralph Cintron. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 264 pp.
Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers. Niobe Way. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 310 pp.
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Tobias Hecht. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 267 pp.     

Migration, Transnationalism, and Belonging: Movements in the Nation-State

Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp.
When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. Sheba Mariam George. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005. 259 pp.
In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 327 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.     

Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times

Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times. Daniel A. Yon. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 175 pp.     

Centers, Margins, and Women in South Asia

Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Nita Kumar. ed Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994.239 pp.
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion and Culture. Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.250 pp.
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during the British Rule. Kumari Jayawardena New York: Routledge, 1995.310 pp.     

Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.; Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. Michael Cole. Yrjo Engestrom. and Olga Vasquez. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.502 pp.
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Andrew Lock and Charles R. Peters. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.906 pp.     

Audit Society: Rituals of Verification: Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

Audit Society: Rituals of Verification. Michael Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.183 pp.
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. Marilyn Strathern. ed. New York: Routledge, 2000. 310 pp.     

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe. with additional contributors. New York and London: New York University Press, 1997. 331 pp.     

Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution; East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession; Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada, and the United States

Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution. Vincanne Adams. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii. 251 pp.
East African Doctors:. History of the Modern Profession. John lliffe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii+ 336 pp.
Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada, and the United States. Judith T. Shuval and Judith H. Bernstein. eds. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. + 220 pp.     

Combined Review: Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier and Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 296 pp.
Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England. Jeanette Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 264 pp.     

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.     

Black Diversity in New York City: West Indians, Haitians, African Americans

Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. Nancy Foner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.312 pp.
Trends in Ethnic Identification among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants to New York City. Flore Zephir. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 248 pp.     

Culture and Class in Papua New Guinea

Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary. David Lipset. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 335 pp.
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference. Deborah B. Gewertz and Frederick K. Errington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 179 pp.     

Women's Organizations and the Development of Civil Society

Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Groups in the Middle East. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.224pp.
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 1997.243 pp.
Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Lynn Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.332 pp.
Feminist Nationalism. Lois A. West. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.294pp.     

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.     

An Introduction to Japanese Society: Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies: The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure

An Introduction to Japanese Society. Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 285 pp.
Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies. Yuko Ogasawara. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 221 pp.
The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure. Sepp Linhart and Sabine Fruhstuck. eds. Albany. State University of New York Press, 1998. 398 pp.     

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp.     

Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion; Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories

Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Morton Klass and Maxine K. Weisgrau. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 416 pp.
Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories. Graham Cunningham. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 126 pp.     

Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities

Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities. Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way, eds. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 409 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.