Jewish in America or the Search for an Identity

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America. Karen Brodkin. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 243 pp.
Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America. Jack Glazier. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 245 pp.
Portrait of the American Jewish Community. Norman Linzer. David J. Schnall. and Jerome A. Chanes. eds. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 220 pp.
From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Rakhmiel Peltz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 269 pp.     

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.     

"Our" Anthropology of Technoscience?

The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers. Gary Downey. New York: Routledge, 1998. 288 pp.
Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit. eds. New York: Routledge, 1998. 358 pp.
Modest_Witness. Second_Millennium. FemaleMan^©_Meets_OncoMouse^™. Feminism and Technoscience. Donna Haraway. New York: Routledge, 1996 361 pp.
Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in. Digital World. Stefan Helmreich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 314 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.     

The Inside Story

How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Maurice E. F. Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.205 pp.
Explaining Culture:. Naturalistic Approach. Dan Sperber. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 175 pp.
Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 323 pp.
Mind as Action. James V. Wertsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 203 pp.     

Culture and the Future

Culture:. Problem That Cannot Be Solved. Charles W. Nuckolls. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 301 pp.
Culture as Given, Culture as Choice. Dirk van der Elst with Paul Bohannan. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press Inc., 1999. 236 pp.
Culture: Beacon of the Future. D. Paul Schafer. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. 272 pp.     

Nearby Ethnography from the American Heartland

Scipio Storytelling: Talk in. Southern Indiana Community. Margaret Read MacDonald. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996. 246 pp.
Following Old Fencelines: Tales from Rural Texas. Lee Winniford. College Station: Texas. &. University Press, 1998.262 pp.
Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky's Burley Belt. John van Willigen and Susan C. Eastwood. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 223 pp.
Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts. Catherine Henshaw Knott. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 314 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.     

I Shop, Therefore I Am

The Shopping Experience. Pasi Folk and Colin Campbell eds. London: Sage, 1997. 212 pp.
. Theory of Shopping. Daniel Miller. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 180 pp.
Shopping, Place and Identity. Daniel Miller. Peter Jackson. Nigel Thrift. Beverly Holbrook. and Michael Rowlands. London: Routledge, 1998. 214 pp.     

Changing U.S. Urban Neighborhoods: Patterns, Postmodern Analysis, and Policy Relevance

Left Behind in Rosedale: Race Relations and the Collapse of Community Institutions. Scott Cummings. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 223 pp.
The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults. Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1998. 328 pp.
The Anthropology of Lower Income Urban Enclaves: The Case of East Harlem. Judith Freidenberg. ed. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1995. 286 pp.     

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.     

From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey

Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk. Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii. 212 pp.
From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiv. 308 pp.     

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives; African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory; Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent. eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. xii. 510pp.
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii. 287 pp.
Reading Birth and Death:. History of Obstetric Thinking. Jo Murphy-Lawless. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. viii. 343pp.     

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.     

Notes on the Plague Years: AIDS in Marseilles, Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS, The AIDS Crisis: A Documentary History, and Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency

Notes on the Plague Years: AIDS in Marseilles. Bernard Paillard (Berkeley Frank, trans.). New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1998. xxx. 293 pp.
Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS. Renée T. White. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. xii. 215 pp.
The AIDS Crisis:. Documentary History. Douglas A. Feldman and Julia Wang Miller. eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. xlii. 266 pp.
Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Cristiana Bastos. Bloomington: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx. 225 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.     

Personal Meaning, Self-Representation, and Agency in Some Recent Works

Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of. Three-Year-Old. Jean L. Briggs. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 275 pp.
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture. Nancy J. Chodorow. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 320 pp.
Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds. Dorothy Holland. William Lachicotte Jr. Debra Skinner. and Carol Cain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 349 pp.     

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics and Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. Margaret Lock and Patricia A. Kaufert. eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii +364 pp.
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific. Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly. eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv. 305 pp.     

On the Question of Heritage and Hierarchy in British Social Anthropology

On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. N. J. Allen. W. S. F. Pickering. and W. Watts Miller. eds. New York: Routledge, 1998. 224 pp.
Marcel Mauss:. Centenary Tribute. Wendy James and N. J. Allen. eds. New York: Berghahn Press, 1998. 260 pp.
Taboo, Truth, and Religion: Franz Baermann Steiner Selected Writings, vol. 1. Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 279 pp.
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation: Franz Baermann Steiner Selected Writings, vol. 2. Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 296 pp.     

The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings and Essential Subtleties of the Silver Sea: The Yin-hai jing-wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology.

The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings. Dominik Wujastyk. ed. and trans. New Delhi: Penguin Classics, 1998 (paper), xvi. 389 pp.
Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The Yin-hai jing-wei:. Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology. Jürgen Kovacs and Paul U. Unschuld. annotators and trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii. 503 pp.