Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Elizabeth A. Povinelli. The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action. J. Finlayson and D.E. Smith (eds). Native Title: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures Zohl dé Ishtar. Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law Donald Denoon. A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea Sarah F. Green. Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek‐Albanian Border Holger Jebens. Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea Verena Keck. Social Discord and Bodily Disorders: Healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea Hotze Lont. Juggling Money: Financial Self‐help Organizations and Social Security in Yogyakarta Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt (eds). Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land David McKnight. Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The Quest for Power in Northern Queensland B. J. Parker and L. Rodseth (eds). Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology and History Alexei Yurchak. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More     

The Rise and Fall of Culture History; Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form

The Rise and Fall of Culture History. R. Lee Lyman. Michael J. O'Brien. and Robert C. Dunnell. New York: Plenum Press, 1997.271pp.
Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form. R. Lee Lyman. Michael J. O'Brien. and Robert C. Dunnell. eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1997.499 p     

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.     

Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind

Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind. Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard. eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. 282 pp.     

Readings in African Popular Culture; Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation

Readings in African Popular Culture. Karin Barber. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.184 pp.
Perspectives on Africa:. Reader in Culture, History, and Representation. Roy R. Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner. eds. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.736 pp.     

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     

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo. eds. New York; Routledge, 1997. 574 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood (ed.). The Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia. Paula Brown. Beyond A Mountain Valley: The Simhu of Papua New Guinea. David B. Edwards. Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. Martha Albertson Fineman. The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies. Vineeta Hoon. Living on the Move: Bhotiyas ofthe Kumaon Himalaya. Ratna Kapoor and Brenda Cossman. Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India. John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald (eds). Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language. Karen Fog Olwig and Kirsten Hastrup (eds). Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object. Adrian Peace. A Time. of Reckoning: The Politics of Discourse in Rural Ireland. Michael G. Peletz. Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller (eds). Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Warren Shapiro and Uli Linke (eds). Denying Biology: Essays on Gender and Pseudo-Procreation. Michele Stephen. A' aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Karen Ask and Marit Tjomsland, (eds) . Women and Islamization: Contemporary Dimensions of Discourse on Gender Relations. Bronwen Douglas . Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology. Britta Duelke . ‘…same but different…’ Vom Umgang mit Vergangenheit: Tradition und Geschichte im Alltag einer nordaustralischen Aborigines ‐ Kommune. Studien zur Kulturkunde Series 108. T. Scarlett Epstein, A. P. Suryanarayana and T. Thimmegowda . Village Voices: Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India. Richard Eves . The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society. C. A. Gregory . Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange. Ghassan Hage . White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. Jennifer Robertson . Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Paul Sillitoe . An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition. Helena Wulff . Ballet Across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers.     

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.     

Water, Culture, and Power: Local Struggles in a Global Context

Water, Culture, and Power: Local Struggles in. Global Context. John M. Donahue and Barbara Rose Johnston. eds. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998.396 pp.     

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.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Cladistics: Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Evolutionary History. — Thomas Duncan and Tod F. Stuessy (eds.). 1984.
Das Phylogenetische System. — Peter Ax. 1984.
Beyond Neo-Darwinism: An Introduction to the New Evolutionary Paradigm. — M.-W. Ho and P. T. Saunders (eds.). 1984.
The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814–1849). — Nicolaas A. Rupke. 1983     

Hair in African Art and Culture

Hair in African Art and Culture. The Museum for African Art, New York, February 9–May 28, 2000 (review venue); Apex Museum, Atlanta, July–September 2000; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, October–December 2000; Museum of African American History, Detroit, January–April 2001; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, May–August 2001.
Hair in African Art and Culture. Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman. eds. New York: The Museum for African Art; Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2000. 192 pp.     

Speaking of Feelings

Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka. eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. 421 pp.
Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Zoltan Kövecses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 223 pp.
The Navigation of Feeling:. Framework for the History of Emotions. William Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 308 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Jon Altman, Frances Morphy and Tim Rowse (eds). Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations of the Reeves Report (Research Monograph No 14). Henner Hess . Mafia and Mafiosi: Origin, Power and Myth. Ross Mallick . Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia. Dennis B. McGilvray . Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health & Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka. Francesca Merlan . Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town. Ogasawara Yuko . Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies. Steven Webster . Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissance.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Warwick Anderson. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Patrice Bidou, Jacques Galinier and Bernard Juillerat (eds). Anthropologie et psychanalyse: Regards croisés. Denise Brennan. What's Love Got to Do With It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Rae Bridgman. StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless. Alex Butler. Feminism, Nationalism and Exiled Tibetan Women. Ian Condry. Hip‐Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization. Jennifer Deger. Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community. Jean Guiart. Les Mélanesiens devant l'économie de marché: du milieu de XIXe siècle à la fin du millénaire. Maria Heimer and Stig Thøgersen (eds). Doing Fieldwork in China. Robert K. Hitchcock, Kazunobu Ikeya, Megan Biesele and Richard B. Lee (eds). Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21^st Century. Charles J‐H Macdonald. Uncultural Behavior: An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines. David Mosse. Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. Louise Purbrick. The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption. Michael Roberts. Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period 1590s to 1815. Jennifer Shennan and Makin Corrie Tekenimatang (eds). One and a Half Pacific Islands: Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themselves. Linda Stone and Paul F. Lurquin. Genes, Culture and Human Evolution. A Synthesis. Reed L. Wadley (ed.). Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Gage Averill . A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Peter Bellwood, James Fox and Daryl Tryon (eds) . The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. James Fox and Clifford Sather (eds) . Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Eyal Ben-Ari . Body Projects in Japanese Childcare. Francesca Bray . Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Susan Brownell . Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. A.T. Dalfovo . Lugbara Proverbs. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds) . Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Anne E. Figert . Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder. J. Goodman, P.E. Lovejoy and A. Sherratt (eds) . Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology. Abdellah Hammoudi . Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism. Chris Healey and David Mearns (eds) . Remaking Maluku - Social Transformation in Eastern Indonesia. Gail Hershatter . Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Sharon E. Hutchinson . Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State. Anastasia N. Karakasidou . Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia 1870–1990. Stephen Muecke . No Road (bitumen all the way). Geoffrey A. Oddie . Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-Swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800–1894. M. Picard and R. E. Wood (eds) . Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies. Veronica Strang . Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values.     

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.