Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: M. Auge and C. Herzlich (eds). The Meaning of Illness. Stanley R. Barrett. Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Method. Steen Bergendorff. Faingu City: A Modern Mekeo Clan in Papua New Guinea. Ben Burt. Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. As told by Michael Kwa'ioloa to Ben Burt. Ann Game and Andrew Metcalfe. Passionate Sociology. Matthew C. Gutmann. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Edvard Hviding. Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Bernard Juillerat. L'Avènement du Père. Rite, représentation, fantasme dans un culte mélanésian. L. Kendall. Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. M. Lock. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America. Daniel Miller. Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach. Alcida Rita Ramos. Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. Stanley J. Tambiah. Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: William Y. Adams . The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology. G. Aijmer and J. Abbink (eds) Meanings of Violence: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele and Pamela Reynolds (eds) Violence and Subjectivity. Michael Allen . Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland. Charlotte E. Hardman . Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion Among the Lohorung Rai. Sanjay Srivastava . Constructing Post‐Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School. Christina Toren . Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. Andrew Turton (ed.) . Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Jeremy Beckett (ed.). Wherever I Go: Myles Lalor's ‘Oral History’. Victor Buchli . An Archaeology of Socialism. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald . Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China. James F. Eder , A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines. Colin Filer (ed.) . Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994. Jill Forshee with Christina Fink and Sandra Cate (eds). Converging Interests: Traders, Travelers, and Tourists in Southeast Asia. Elizabeth Furniss . The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Community. Alfred Gell . The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams. Edited by E. Hirsch Ernest Gellner . Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg Dilemma. Kenneth Henshall . Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi . The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Mark J. Hudson . Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Laura Lee Junker . Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Robert C. Kiste and M. Marshall (eds) . American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment. Bruce M. Knauft . From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology. David MacDougall . Transcultural Cinema. Zoila S. Mendoza . Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Kirstin Pauka . Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra: Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau. Phillip B. Zarilli . When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Power in Kalaripayattu, a South Indian Martial Art. Michael Pinches (ed.) . Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia. Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner (eds) . Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Jane Schneider (ed) . Italy's ‘Southern Question’: Orientalism in One Country. Christopher C. Taylor . Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Sandy Toussaint . Phyllis Kaberry and Me: Anthropology, History and Aboriginal Australia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Robert M. Ariss with Gary Dowsett . Against Death: The Practice of Living with HIV. Thomas Barfield . (ed.). The Dictionary of Anthropology. Donna Birdwell‐Pheasant and D. Lawrence‐Zuñiga . (eds.). House Life‐Space, Place and Family in Europe. Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu . (eds). Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania: Reflections on the Japanese, Dutch, Chinese and Indian Experiences. Donald L. Donham . History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology. Derek Freeman . The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of her Samoan Research. Michael W. Young . Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915–1918. Susan F. Hirsch . Pronouncing and Preserving Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Michael Humphrey . Islam, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora. Richard Jenkins , (ed.). Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability. Sarah Joseph . Interrogating Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Social Theory. Thousand Oaks Verena Keck . (ed.). Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies. Andrew B. Kipnis . Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village. George E. Marcus . (ed.). Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas. Anne Maxwell . Colonial Photography and Exhibitions: Representations of the ‘Native’ and the Making of European Identities. Lise McKean . Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement. Virginia D. Nazarea . (ed.). Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. Mark Nuttall . Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival. Rowena Robinson . Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa. Mena Roces . Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post‐War Philippines. Dorothy Shineberg . The People Trade: Pacific Islander Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865–1930. Daya Somasundaram . Scarred Minds: The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils. Mandy Thomas . Dreams in the Shadows: Vietnamese‐Australian Lives in Transition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin. 1999. 220pp., index, bibliog., $A38.43 (Hc.), ISBN 1–86448‐862‐X. Andrew Walker . The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Ildiko Beller‐Hann and Chris Hann . Turkish Region: State, Market and Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast. Santa Fe Lewis Roberts Binford . Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets. Anne Chambers and Keith Stanley Chambers . Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society. Marcus Colchester and Christian Erni (eds) . Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas in South and Southeast Asia. Michelle Ruth Gamburd . The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids. David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch (eds.) . Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work. Geoffrey Gray (ed.). Jane C. Goodale, Ruth Fink, Jeremy Beckett, L. R. Hiatt, and J. A. Barnes . Before It's Too Late: Anthropological Reflections, 1950–1970. John N. Gray . At Home in the Hills: Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders. Kees Grijns and Peter J. M. Nas (eds) . Jakarta‐Batavia: Socio‐cultural Essays. Stephen Gudeman . The Anthropology of the Economy: Community, Market, Culture. Sarah Lamb . White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India. Michael O'Hanlon and Robert Welsch (eds) . Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s–1930s. Sherry B. Ortner . Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Judy and Tashi Tenzing . Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest. Adrian Peace . A World of Fine Difference: The Social Architecture of a Modern Irish Village. George W. Stocking, Jr . Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. Colin Tatz . Aboriginal Suicide Is Different: A Portrait Of Life and Self‐Destruction. Roger Tol, Kees van Dijk, and Greg Acciaioli (eds) . Authority and Enterprise among the Peoples of South Sulawesi Penny Van Esterik . Materializing Thailand.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Arthur . Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study. Diane J. Austin-Broos. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Mick Broderick (ed.) Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso (eds). Senses of Place. T. Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds). Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds). Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Helen Hardacre. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Margaret Jolly. Women of the Place: Kaslom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu. M.P. Levine, P.M. Nardi and J.H. Gagnon (eds). In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS. Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.) Gender Ritual: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Helen Morton. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood. Herbert Donald Graham Maschner. Darwinian Archaeologies Michael Southon. The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. J. M. Mageo and A. Howard (eds). Spirits in Culture, History and Mind. Virginia Watson. Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lawrence A. Babb . Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture. Roland J.-L. Breton . Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia Alan Tormain Campbell . Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography. Claude Livi-Strauss . The Story of Lynx. Colin Filer (ed.) . The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. Kirsten Hastrup . A Passage to Anthropology: Between Experience and Theory. R.J. Howitt, J. Connell and P. Hirsch (eds) . Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Australasia, Melanesia and Southeast Asia. D.I. Kertzer and P. Lasslett (eds) . Aging in the Past: Demography, Society and Old Age. Patrick Vinton Kirch . Legacy of the landscape. An illustrated guide to Hawaiian archaeological sites. Alessandro Talamonti Written on Stone. The History of Mankind. G. Mathews . What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds. Gananath Obeyesekere . The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz (eds) . Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas (eds) . Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific. Sylvie Poirier . Les Jardins du Nomade: Cosmologie, territoire etpersonne dans le desert occidentale australien. Studies in social and ritual morphology. George W. Stocking Jnr . After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888–1951.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Larsson, P. & Weider , L. J. (eds.) 1995: Cladocera as model organisms in biology. Poncin, P., Berrebi, J., Philippart, C. & Ruwet , J.-Cl. eds, 1993: Biologie des Barbus européens, africains et asiatiques. Birkhead , T. 1993: Great Auk Islands. A field biologist in the Arctic. Expert-Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) (ed.) 1994: Birds of Europe. Packer , C. 1994: Into Africa Norton, B. G., Hutchins, M., Stevens, E. F., Maple, T. L. & Wuichet , J. (eds.) 1995: Ethics on the ark.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Julie Marcus, ed. First in Their Field. Women and Australian Anthropology. Diane Bell, Pat Caplan and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds. Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Jeffrey Minson. Questions of Conduct: Sexual Harassment, Citizenship, Government. Jacques Derrida. Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money. Philip Manning. Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology. James Fentrees and Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Jeremy Rifkin. Beyond Beef. The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. Pierre Lemonnier. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop, eds. Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Uldis Ozolins. The Politics of Language in Australia. Gillian Bottomley. From Another Place. Migration and the Politics of Culture. Richard Maddox. El Castillo. The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town. Grant Evans, ed. Asia's Cultural Mosaic. An Anthropological Introduction. Jean-Paul Dumont. Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jonathan Spencer. A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble. Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Kalpana Ram. Mukkuvar Women. Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Albert B. Robillard, ed. Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Anne Salmond. Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642–1772. Geoffrey Irwin. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Bernard Juillerat, ed. Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in West Sepik. Roger M. Keesing. Custom and Confrontation. The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy. James J. Carrier, ed. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden, eds. Like People You See in a Dream. First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Klaus Neumann. Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. Ron Brunton. The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Maurice Godelier and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Big Men and Great Men. Personifications of Power in Melanesia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael F. Brown. Who Owns Native Culture? Gillian Cowlishaw. Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race Richard Davis (ed.) Woven Histories Dancing Lives: Torres Strait Islander Identity, Culture and History Vanessa L. Fong. Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One‐Child Policy Donna Goldstein. Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown Rodney Harrison. Shared Landscapes: Archaeologies of Attachment and the Pastoral Industry in New South Wales Michael Jackson. In Sierra Leone Phil Jackson. Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human Monique Jeudy‐Ballini and Bernard Juillerat (eds). People and Things: Social Mediations in Oceania E. D. Lewis (ed.). Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend (eds). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective Jane Nadel‐Klein. Fishing for Heritage: Modernity and Loss along the Scottish Coast. Roslyn Poignant. Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle Stuart Robson (ed.). The Kraton: Selected Essays on Javanese Courts Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Carolyn Sargent (eds). Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood Veronica Strang The Meaning of Water Oxford Roy Willis and Patrick Curry. Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Francoise Dussart . The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Han‐Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff . Southeast Asian Urbanism: The Meaning and Power of Social Space. Susan Greenwood . Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. IWGIA . The Indigenous World 1999–2000. Christian Emi (ed.) A. Margaret McArthur . The Curbing of Anarchy in Kunimaipa Society. Edited by Douglas Oliver John McCreery . Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. Diane M. Nelson . A Finger In The Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B . Eicher (eds). Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning. John W. Traphagan . Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan.     

Book Reviews

Michael Kearney. 1996. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Per‐spectwe. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 210 pp.

Don Kulick &; Margaret Wiltson (eds). 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London/New York: Routledge. xvi + 283 pp.

Sandra Wallman et al. 1996. Kampala Women GettingBy: Well‐being in the Time of AIDS. London:James Currey Ltd. 246 pp.

Angelique Haugerud. 1995. The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xvi + 266 pp.

Mary Kay Vaughan. 1997. Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1920–1940. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, xiii + 262 pp.

Robert J. Foster (ed.). 1995. Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcohnial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, vi + 280 pp.

Tom G. Svensson. 1997. The Sámi and Their Land: The Sámi vs the Swedish Crown. Oslo: Novus forlag. 213 pp.

Pamela J. Asquith &; Arne Kalland (eds). 1997. Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. London: Curzon. 220 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood. Rights for Aborigines. Sarah Colley. Uncovering Australia: Archaeology, Indigenous People and the Public. Kirk Dombrowski. Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). Passage of Change: Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific. Sinclair Dinnen with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Bruce M. Knauft (ed.). Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies. Helen Gremillion. Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. Jean Guiart. Et le masque sortit de la mer: Les pays anciens de Hienghène à Témala, Gomèn et Koumac. Robin Hide. Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and Bibliography. William Mazzarella. Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Louise Meintjes. Sound of Africa: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Sally Merry and Donald Brenneis (eds). Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawaii. Peter J. M. Nas, Gerard A. Persoon and Rivke Jaffe (eds). Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimer Schefold. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Sherry B. Ortner. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture and the Class of 58. Thomas C. Patterson. Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists. Melissa Perry and Stephen Lloyd. Australian Native Title Law. Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson (eds). Photography's Other Histories. Nigel Rapport. I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power. Renato Rosaldo (ed.). Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Regina Scheyvens and Donovan Storey. Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths (eds). Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies. Cecilia Van Hollen. Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Lissant Bolton. Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu. Rebecca Cassidy. The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newcastle. Kate Fox. The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horse Watchers. Robert J. Foster. Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod and Brian Larkin (eds). Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Leo Howe. Hinduism and Hierarchy in Bali. Bruce M. Knauft. Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After. Linda Sue Lewis. Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds). Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Julie Marcus. The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology. David McKnight. From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Raul Pertierra, Eduardo F. Ugarte, Alicia Pingol, Joel Hernandez and Nikos Lexis Dacanay. Txt‐ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. Urs Ramseyer. The Art and Culture of Bali. Urs Ramseyer and I. Gusti Panji Tisna (eds). Photographs by Rama Surya. Bali: Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Self‐portrait. Anthony Siaguru. In‐House in Papua New Guinea. Peggy Reeves Sanday. Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy. Neil L. Whitehead. Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Lorraine V. Aragon. Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities and State Development in Indonesia. Jill Forshee. Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travel from Sumba. Joy Hendry. The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook (eds). Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Alice Beck Kehoe. Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. Patrick Vinton Kirch. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. Helen Reeves Lawrence (ed.). Traditionalism and Modernity in the Music and Dance of Oceania: Essays in Honour of Barbara B. Smith. Kin Liu. In One's Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post‐Reform China. Daniel Miller and Don Slater. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Fred Myers (ed). The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Roy Wagner. An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology. Kathy Whimp and Mark Busse. Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Brenda Johnson Clay. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875–1935 Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal (eds). The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts Sverker Finnström. Living With Bad Surroundings Geoffrey Gray A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris and Marc L. Moskowitz (eds). The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan. Honolulu R. H. Mathews (ed. by Martin Thomas). Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews Martin Nakata. Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines Andie Diane Palmer. Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse Antonia Mills (ed.). ‘Hang Onto These Words’: Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence Hartmut Lutz (ed. and transl.). The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context Michael W. Scott. The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands Mark Stevenson. Many Paths: Searching for Old Tibet in New China Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds). Exchange and Sacrifice Margaret Trawick. Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa Mark P. Whitaker. Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (eds) . Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand. Piya Chatterjee . A Time For Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation. Jean and John L. Comaroff (eds) . Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Michael Humphrey . The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma. S. Jaarsma and Marta Rohatynskyj (eds) . Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Gaynor Kavanagh . Dream Spaces: Memory and Museum. Fred R. Myers . Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Nigel A. Stephenson . Kastom or Komuniti: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson (eds) . Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader. Elizabeth Wood‐Ellem . Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900–1965. Michael W. Young and Julia Clark . An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922–39.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Glen Banks and Chris Ballard (eds) . The Ok Tedi Settlement: Issues, Outcomes and Implications. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy (eds) . Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Johanna M. Blows . Eagle and Crow: An Exploration of an Australian Aboriginal Myth. Malcolm Crick , Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and International Tourism. Gary W. Dowsett , Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall and Jocelyn Armstrong (eds) . Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. James Fox (ed.) The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Hamilton, Malcolm B . The Sociology of Religion - Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Andro Iteanu and Eric Schwimmer (eds) . Pane, etje t'ecouterai: Recits et traditions des Orokaiva de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee James Jemut Masing . The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak. Monica Lindh De Montoya . Progress, Hunger and Envy: Commercial Agriculture, Marteting and Social Transformation in the Venezuelan Andes. R.G. Parker and J.H. Gagnon (eds) . Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World R. Parkin . The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy. Raul Pertierra . Explorations in Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography. Carmel Schrire . Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. William Scott Shelley . The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom. Andrew Shyrock . Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Nicholas Thomas . Oceanic Art. Elspeth Young . Third World in The First.     

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Notes and news

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Gilbert Herdt (Ed.)‐ Berkeley and Los Angeles: University or California Press. 1984. xvii + 409 pp.

Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Shirley Brice Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. 421 pp. £ 25.00.

Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High‐caste Women in Nepal. Lynn Bennett. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. xiii + 353 pp.

Riligiöst Funktionsträger in Nuristan. Jürcen Frembgen. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissen‐schaftsverlag, 1983. xx+195 pp., diagrams, maps, bibliography, index.

Lakota Belief and Ritual. James R. Walker. Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. xxix + 329 pp. $ 21.50.

A Special Caste? Tamil Women of Sri Lanka. ElSE Skjønsberg. London: Zed Press, 1982. iii+143 pp.

Old‐Timers and New‐Comers: Politics and Ethnicity in a Sudanese Community. Sharif Harir. Bergen: African Savannah Studies, Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology, No. 29. 1983. viii+ 134 pp.

Trends in Nordic Tradition Research. Studia Fen‐nica 27. Lauri Honko and Pekka Laaksonen (eds). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1983. 260 pp.

Kitchen Table Society. Marianne Gullestad. Oslo: Universitets Forlaget. 1984.

Indonesia and Malaysia: Scandinavian Studies in Contemporary Society. Thommy Svensson and Per Sørensson (eds). Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Studies on Asian Topics No. 5, London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1983, 282 pages.

Culture History and African Anthropology: a Century of Research in Germany and Austria. Jorgenzwer‐Nemann. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 6. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsa‐liensis, 1983. 170 pp., figures, bibliography, index.

Managing Culture Contact: The Organisation of Swedish Immigration Policy. Morris Aaron Fred. Eifo English Series Report No 6. Stockholm: Commission for Immigrant Research, 1983. iii + 129 pp.

Evil Eye or Bacteria: Turkish Migrant Women and Swedish Health Care. Lisbeth Sachs. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology No. 12, 1983. xx + 257 pp.

The Traveller Gypsies. Judith Okely. Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 254, Index. Glossary.

Nuristani Buildings. Lennart Edelberg. Jutlan‐dic Archaeological Publications XVIII. 1984, Aarhus: Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, Moesgård. xxvii + 223 pp., map.