Human Nature: A Critical Reader; The Biological Basis of Human Behavior

Human Nature:. Critical Reader. Laura Betzig. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.489 pp.
The Biological Basis of Human Behavior. Robert W. Sussman. ed. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1997.451 pp.     

The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons

The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons. Pearl Katz. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. xii. 251 pp.     

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Richard H. Robbins. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. 421 pp.     

The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory.; Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene.

The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Julie Cruikshank. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 211 pp.
Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene. Robert Jarvenpa. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1998. 210 pp.     

Korean American Economy and Society

Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York. Pyong Gap Min. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.134pp.
The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Kyeyoung Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.228 pp.
On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America. In-Jin Yoon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.274 pp.     

Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture

Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. Glenn Davis Stone. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. 256 pp.     

Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups

Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 289 pp.     

The Study of Social Structure.

The Study of Social Structure. M. G. Smith. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man, 1998. 246 pp.     

Earth Worm: Biomass Measurement: A Science Activity for Middle School

Ridgely, Robert S. A Guide to the Birds of Panama Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976 394 pp., $15.00. Reviewed by Karl L. Trever

Weiner, Michael A. Man's Useful Plants New York: Macmillan Co., 1976 137 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Carolyn M. Levin

Bendick, Jeanne How Animals Behave New York: Parents Magazine Press, 1976 64 pp., $4.96. Reviewed by Robert Deitchman

Bayne, B. L., ed. Marine Mussels: The Ecology and Physiology New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 506 pp., $49.50. Reviewed by Brother Nicholas Sullivan

Brown, Vinson The Explorer Naturalist Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1976 288 pp., $10.00. Reviewed by Paul F. Connor

Sheldon, William G. The Wilderness Home of the Giant Panda Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1975 196 pp., $12.50. Reviewed by Harold W. Puffer

Rudolph, Joachim (translated by H. C. Grinter) Chemistry for the Modern Mind New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1973 359 pp., $8.95. Reviewed by Donald Schwartz     

The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation from Natural History

The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation from Natural History. Russell L. Ciochon and Richard A. Nisbett. eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. 246 pp.     

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Remaking. World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery. Veena Das. Arthur Kleinman. Margaret Lock. Mamphele Ramphele. and Pamela Reynolds. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 294 pp.     

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Remaking. World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery. Veena Das. Arthur Kleinman. Margaret Lock. Mamphela Ramphele. and Pamela Reynolds. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. viii. 294 pp.     

Book Reviews*

Book Reviewed in this article Outline of a Theory of Practice. Pierre Bourdieu. Richard Nice Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation. Edited by Julian H. Steward, Jane C. Steward and Robert F. Murphy Urban Anthropology: The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex Societies. Richard Basham The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines. Jon C. Altman and John Nieuwenhuysen ‘Whitefella Business’: Aborigines in Australian Politics. Edited by Michael C. Howard Aborigines and Change: Australia in the Seventies. Edited by R. M. Berndt Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians. H. C. Coombs Taim Bilong Mani: The Evolution of Agriculture in a Solomon Island Society. John Connell Agricultural Project Design and Evaluation in an Island Community. Alan Bollard. Zum Beispiel Samoa. Götz Mackensen Peasants and Politics: Grass Roots Reaction to Change in Asia. Edited by D. B. Miller. Edward Arnold Sherpas Through Their Ritual. Sherry B Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court. David M. Engel Thailand: A Rice-Growing Society. Edited by Yoneo Ishii Migrants of the Mountains: The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. William Robert Geddes Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand. Edited by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman and Sanga Sabhasri Early Palaeolithic in South and East Asia. Edited by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Advances In Andean Archaeology. Edited by David L. Browman Simulation Studies in Archaeology. Edited by Ian Hodder Evolutionary Models and Studies in Human Diversity. Edited by Robert J. Meier Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia Principles of Visual Anthropology. Edited by Paul Hockings Tiv Song. Charles Keil Coyoteway. A Navajo Holyway Healing Ceremonial. Karl W. Luckert Spider Woman Stories: Legends of the Hopi Indians. Selected and Interpreted by G. M. Mullett Folklore in the Modern World. Edited by Richard Dorson     

The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics

The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics. John D. Early and John F. Peters. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2000 323 pp.     

Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors, Volume 2.

Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors, Volume 2. William Labov. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 572 pp.     

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1.; The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 571 pp.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 455 pp.     

Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility

Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility . Robert P. Janesand Gerald T. Conaty, eds. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. 196 pp.     

The Dictionary of Anthropology.; Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life.; A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.

The Dictionary of Anthropology. Thomas Barfield. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. 626 pp.
Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life. Tim Ingold. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997. 1128 pp.
. Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Michael Payne. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1996. 644 pp.     

Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination

Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination. Peter P. Schweitzer. Megan Biesele. and Robert K. Hitchcock. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.498 pp.     

Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology

Technology and Social Agency: Outlining. Practice Theory for Archaeology. Marcia-Anne Dobres. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.300 pp.