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.     

Bike Lust: Harleys, Women and American Society.

Bike Lust: Harleys, Women and American Society. Barbara Joans. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 264 pp.     

Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 317 pp.     

Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society

Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in. Polynesian Atoll Society. Keith Chambers and Anne Chambers. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. xx. 283 pp.     

Book Reviews

Natural Antioxidants in Human Health and Disease Edited by Balz Frei Academic Press, San Diego

In Vitro Toxicology Edited by: Shayne Cox Gad Raven Press Ltd.: New York, 290pp ISBN: 0-88167-974-7

Active Oxygen, Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidants Edited by Kunio Yagi Japan Scientific Society Press: Tokyo ISBN 4-7622-6738-4, 1993 CRC Press: Boca Raton ISBN 0-8493-7769-2, 1993 x +372 pages Y 13, 000

Free Radicals, Cardiovascular Dysfunction and Protection Strategies R C Kukreja and M L Hess R G Landes Company: Austin, Texas, USA, 1994

Oxygen and Environmental Stress in Plants (Special issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 102 1994) eds R M M Crawford, G A F Hendry and B A Goodman

Mitochondria: DNA, Proteins and Disease Eds. V. Darley Usmar and A.H.V. Schapira Portland Press Research Monograph V, London, 1994

Human Medicinal Agents From Plants Edited by A. Douglas Kinghorn and Manuel F. Balandrin ACS Symposium Series 534 American Chemical Society: Washington DC, 1993, pp. xii + 356. ISBN 08412 2705 5. $89.95.     

Japanese Perspectives on China

The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China 1862-1945. Joshua A. Fogel. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. 418 pp.
Perspectives on Chinese Society: Anthropological Views from Japan. Suenari Michio. J. S. Eades, and Christian Darnels, eds. Canterbury, England: University of Kent, 1995.374 pp.     

Book Reviews

M icrobial I nteractions and C ommunities Vol. 1. (1982). Edited by A.T. Bull & J.H. Slater. 567 pp. London, New York: Academic Press. £33.80, US $69.50.
B ioactive M icrobial P toducts : S earch and D iscovery (Special Publications of the Society for General Microbiology No. 6) (1982). Edited by J.D. Bu'Lock, L.J. Nisbet & O.J. Winstanley. 148 pp. London and New York: Academic Press. £10.00, US $20.50.
I solation and I dentification M ethods for F ood P oisoning O rganisms (Society for Applied Bacteriology Technical Series No. 17). (1982). Edited by Janet E.L. Corry, Diane Roberts & F.A. Skinner. 406 pp. London and New York: Acadmic Press. £30.00, US $55.50.
P lasmids (Study in Biology No. 142) (1982). M.J. Day. 52 pp. London: Edward Arnold. £2.50.
S mith's I ntroduction T o I ndustrial M ycology 7th Edition (1981). A.H.S. Onions, D. Allsopp & H.O.W. Eggins. 398 pp. London: Edward Arnold. £37.50.     

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race. Melbourne Tapper. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.viii. 163pp.     

History, Memory, and Nation in the (Post)Colonies

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 243 pp.
Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Jeannerte Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.
In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Naomi M. McPherson. ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 264 pp.     

"There Is More to Life than a Glass of Water": Immigration in the Contemporary United States

Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America . Aiwha Ong. California Series in Public Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 333 pp.
Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy . Philip Kretsedemas and Ana Aparacio, eds. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 303 pp.
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration . Richard Alba and Victor Nee. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 359 pp.     

The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora; Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective

The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora . Dale A. Olsen. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004. 323 pp.
Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective . Takeyuki Tsuda. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 431 pp.     

Youthful Vigor and Mature Realism in Ceramic Studies

The Emergence of Pottery: Technology and Innovation in Ancient Societies. William K. Barnett and John W. Hoopes. eds. Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. 286 pp.
The Social Dynamics of Pottery Style in the Early Puebloan Southwest. Michelle Hegmon. Cortez, CO. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (distributed by University of Arizona Press), 1995. 272 pp.     

Bringing the State Back In

Book reviewed in this article:
Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia . Virginia Matheson Hooker , ed. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993. 302 pp. Dissociated Identities: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society . Rita Smith Kipp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. 320 pp.     

BOOK REVIEW…

Books Review in this article:
Dawes, Ben, ed. 1977. Advances in Parasitology. Vol. 15. Academic Press, 111 Fifth Ave., New York NY 10003, USA. xx + 409 pp. $36.25.
Kcan, H . H., Mott, I(. E. S: Russell. A. J. eds. 1978. Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Classic Ii1ccstigation.c. 1'01s. I and 11. Corncll Univ. Press, 124 Roberts PI., Ithaca XY 14850. xxiii + G77 pp. $.50.00.
Reissig, J. L., ed. 1977. Microbial Interactions. Vol. 3 of Receptors and Recognition, Series B. Chapman and Hall, London. + 436 pp. $39.50.
'Taylor, Angela E. R. Sr Muller. R.: eds. 1978. Thc Rclccance of ParaJitology to Human Welfare Today. Symbosiuin .Vo. 16 of the British Society for Pnrasitolo, qy. Blackwell Scientific Puhlications, Osney Mead, Oxford 0 5 2 OEL. England and J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Squaw, Philadelphia PA 191 0.5, L viii + 135 pp. $18.75.     

Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library

Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Gaurav Desai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 216 pp.
On the Postcolony. Achille Mbembe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 274 pp.     

Book review

PRANCE, G.T. ed. (1986): Tropical Rain Forests and the World Atmosphere. American Association for the Advancement of Science Selected Symposium 101. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and London. 105 pp., some figs., paper. 20.50.

LOWE‐McCONNELL, R.H. (1987): Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne. 382 pp. with tables and figs., paper. 12.95 (hardbound 35.00).     

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Abstract

Archaeology for Kids: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Past with 25 Activities . Richard Panchyk. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 2001. 146 pp. $14.95 (paperback). ISBN: 1-55652-395-5.

Teaching about Climate Change . Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn, eds. New Society Publishers/Green Teacher. 2001. iv + 74 pp. $12.95 (paperback). ISBN: 086571-437-1.     

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider.; Filiation and Affiliation.

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider. Richard Feinberg and Martin Ottenheimer. eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 235 pp.
Filiation and Affiliation. Harold W. Scheffler. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2001. 202 pp.     

Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology

Tree Leaf Talk:. Heideggerian Anthropology. James F. Weiner. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 190 pp.
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology. James H. Zammito. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 576 pp.
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Andrew Zimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 364 pp.     

Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia

Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia. David Akin and Joel Robbins. eds. ASAO Monograph Series, 17. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. 284 pp.