Book Reviews: General/Theoretical Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World . Felicitas D. Goodman
Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion . William E. Paden     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Om Människans Behov och Värden. (On Man's Needs and Values.) G östa C arlberg
Kultur och Religion. (Culture and Religion.) G östa C arlberg     

Engendering History in Sub-Saharan Africa

Book reviewed in this article:
Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa . Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, eds.
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion . J. Lorand Matory.
Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990 . Henrietta L Moore and Megan Vaughan.     

Trends in Religious Healing and the Integration of Biomedicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States and Around the Globe: A Review

Religion and Healing in America . Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 (cloth and paper). xvi + 535 pp.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States Institute of Medicine . Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2005 (cloth). xx + 337 pp.
Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine . Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Amorok with Marc S. Micozzi, eds. St. Louis: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2005 (cloth and paper). lx + 583 pp.
Negotiating the Holistic Turn: The Domestication of Alternative Medicine . Judith Fadlon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. x + 157 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 REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Textes ethiopiens magico-religieux . D éborah L ifchitz
La Géomancie à l'ancienne Côte des Esclaves . B ernard M aupoil . ( Ibid ., XLII. xxvii, 690 pp. Paris, 1943.)
Raças do Império . M endes C orrêa . (625 pp. Porto, 1943.)
Customary Law of the Haya Tribe . H ans C ory and M. M. H artnoll . (iii, 299 pp. Published for the International African Institute. London, 1945.)
The Anatomy of Lango Religion and Groups . T. T. S. H ayley . (xii, 200 pp. Cambridge and New York, 1947.)     

Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor.

Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor. Stephan Feuchtwang. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2001. 283 pp.     

The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond

The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond. Michelle Hegmon. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000.467 pp.     

Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion.

Why Gods Persist:. Scientific Approach to Religion. Robert A. Hinde. New York: Routledge, 1999. 288 pp.     

Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook

Anthropology of Religion:. Handbook. Stephen D. Glazier. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 542 pp.     

After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia.

After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia. David C. Lewis. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000.320 pp.     

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp.     

Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking

Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. Alice Beck Kehoe. Prospect Heights, 1L: Waveland Press, 2000. 125 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Wetzel, Th. Integrierter Pflanzenschutz und Agroökosysteme.
The Indian Experience
Nagarajan, S. and K. Muralidharan Dynamics of Plant Diseases.
70. Geburtstages von Herrn Prof. Dr. J. Kranz Biochemie des Bodens.
McIntosh R. A., C. R. Welling, and R. F. Park . Wheat rusts—an Alias of Resistance Genes.
Haider, K. Biochemie des Bodens.
Kimber, D., McGregor, D. I., (eds) Brassica Oilseeds: Production and Utilization.
Oropeza, C, F. W. Howard, and G. R. Ashlninier (Eds); Lethal Yellowing: Research and Practical Aspects.
Kreuzer, J Kreuzers Gartenpflanzenlexikon 'Kurz und bũndig'.
Spatz, G. , Freiflächenpflege.
W. Eschiich , Rezension: Funktionelle Pflanzenanatomie .
Iecraemer, W. The family Trichodoridae: Stubby Root and Virus Vector Nematodes.     

Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals.

Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Nabokov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 230 pp.     

The Flexible Feminine in Vietnam: ‘Ordinary’ Goddesses and Extraordinary Ethnography

Book reviewed in this article: Philip Taylor . Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Gays/Justice by Richard Mohr.
Death:Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria , edited by Richard M. Zaner.
The Contraceptive Ethos:Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities Edited by S.F. Spicker, W.B. Bondeson, H.T. Englehardt, Jr., Dordrecht, Holland:D. Reidel.
Made to Order:The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress Edited by Patricial Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.
Reproductive Technologies:Gender, Motherhood and Medicine Edited by Michele Stanworth.
For the Patient's Good:The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma.
'The Physician as Captain of the Ship:A Critical Reappraisal', Philosophy and Medicine , vol. 29. Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Larry R. Churchill, and Alan W. Cross.     

Book Reviews

Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America . Pamela E. Klassen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xv + 316 pp.     

Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion

Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion. John R. Bowen. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn &Bacon, 1998. 272pp.     

Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800–1876

Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800–1876. Terry Rugeley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 384 pp.