Skeletal biology in the twentieth century: From Piltdown to the present

Spencer, Frank. The Piltdown Papers 1908–1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 282 pp. including references and name and subject indices. $65.00 cloth

Spencer, Frank. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xxvi + 272 pp. including references and name and subject indices. $24.95 cloth

I?can, Mehmet ?a?ar, and Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, eds. Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1989. xv + 315 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.50 cloth.     

Men and masculinities

Sullerot, E., Quels Pères? Quels Fils? (Fayard, 1992), 381pp., 130F., ISBN 2 213 02515 0

Badinter, E., XY: De L'Identité Masculine (Odile Jacob, 1992), 314pp., 130F., ISBN 2 738 10179 8     

A new technique for archaeological field measuring

Bente Magnus and Bj?rn Myhre: Forhistorien. Fra jegergruppe til h?vdingsamfunn. Norges Historie, Bind 1 (Prehistory. From hunting groups to a society of chieftainships. The History of Norway, Vol. 1). J. W. Cappelens Forlag A.S., Oslo 1976. 448 pp., 233 Figs.

Anders Hagen: Norges oldtid. Ny utgave. (Norway in Ancient Times. New edition.) J. W. Cappelens Forlag A.S., Oslo 1977. 332 pp., 86 Figs.     

Reviews

Til kamp for friheden. Sociale opr?r i nordisk middlelalder (For freedom. Social unrest in medieval Scandinavia), edited by Anders, J?rgen Würtz S?rensen and Lars Tvede‐Jensen (Borgsmedjen, Ålborg, 1988), ISBN 87–89123–02–6.

Göran Dahlbäck, I medeltidens Stockholm (In Medieval Stockholm), Monografier utgivna av Stockholms stad 81 (Stockholms medeltidsmuseum Stockholm, 1988), 218 pp., ISBN 91–38–09712–5.

Ole Degn, Christian 4.s kansler. Christen Friis til Kragerup (1581–1639) som menneske og politiker (The chancellor of Christian IV. The life and political activity of Christen Friis‐Kragerup) (Viborg: Udgiverselskabet ved Landsarkivet for N?rrejylland, 1988), 260 pp., ISBN 87–89039–02–05, Dkr. 240.

Ditlev Tamm, Christian den Fjerdes kanslerd (The chancellors of Christian IV) (Copenhagen: Gad, 1988), 176 pp., ISBN 87–12–01692–6, Dkr. 188.

Steffen Heiberg, Christian 4. Monarken, mennesket og myten (Christian IV. The monarch, the man and the myth). (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1988), 476 pp., ISBN 87–01–30864–5, Dkr. 398. All richly illustrated.

Magnus Nyman, Press mot friheten. Opinionsbildning i de svenska tidningama och åsiktsbtytningar om minoriteter 1772–1786 (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studier i idé‐och lärdoms‐historia 3, 1988), Skr. 180.

Thomas Magnusson, Proletar i uniform. Studier kring den värvade armén, arbetsmarknadens kommersialisering och urbaniseringen i frihetstidens västsvenska samhålle (Proletarians in uniform. The professional army, the commercialization of the labour market and the urbanization of eighteenth‐century western Sweden) (Meddelanden från Historiska Institutionen i Göteborg 32, Göteborg, 1987), 208 pp., ISBN 91–7900–359–1.

Anders N?rgaard, Mission und Obrigkeit. Die Dånisch‐hallische Mission in Tranquebar 1706–1845 (Mission and authority. The Danish Halle Mission in Tranquebar 1706–1845). Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen, vol. 22. Herausgegeben von der Deutscher Gesellschaft für Missionswissenschaft (Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn. Gütersloh, 1988), 312 pp., ISBN 3–579–00242–2.

Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands. Interpretations of History (Kentucky University Press, 1987), 257 pp., ill., ISBN 0–8131–1578–7

Tor Egil F?rland, Vi sier intet. Norgei COCOM 1948–53 (No comments. Norway in COCOM. 1948–53) (Oslo, 1988), 390 pp., ISBN 82–530–1432–5.     

Comments on Nordic animal style ‐ background and origin

Jernvinna på M?sstrond i Telemark (Bloomery Ironmaking in M?sstrond, Telemark). I. Martens, En studie i teknikk, bosetning og ?konomi. A. M. Rosenqvist, Kjemiske og mineralogiske unders?kelser. Norske Oldfunn XIII. Universitetets Oldsaksamling. Oslo 1988. 189 pp., 55 figs.     

Anthropology and women in development the Leiden experiment

The following publications of the Research Center Women and Development, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, State University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, are reviewed:

I De Beij, Ilsa. Van Noot Tot Noodzaak: het belong van karite voor vrouwen in een Gourounsi—dorp in Boven‐Volta. Leiden, 1982, 126 pp., n.p.¹

II Most van Spijk, Marileen van der. Eager to Learn: An Anthropological Study of the Needs of Egyptian Village Women; Report of an Experiment. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982, 84 pp. n.p.

III Most van Spijk, Marileen van der. Who Cares For Her Health? An Anthropological Study of Women's Health Care in a Vilage in Upper Egypt. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982. 99 pp., n.p.

IV Most van Spijk, Marileen van der, Hoda Youssef Fahmy, and Sonja Zimmermann, Remember to be Firm: Life Histories of Three Egyptian Women. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982. 79 pp., n.p.

V Postel, Els and Joke Schrijvers (eds.) A Woman s Mind is Longer than a Kitchen Spoon: Report on Women in Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1980.146 pp. + Appendices, n.p.

VI Risseeuw, Carla. The Wrong End of the Rope: Women Coir Workers in Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1980. 253 pp. + Appendices, n.p.

VII Samarasuriya, Shireen, Who Needs Tourism? Employment for Women in the Holiday‐Industry of Sudugama, Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1982. 85 pp. n.p.     

Application of Visual Archaeological Landscape Analysis: Some Results

Sverre Marstrander (eds.): Acts of the International Symposium on Rock Art. The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Oslo. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, Bergen, Troms? 1978. 248 pp.

Helge I. H?eg, Hans‐Emil Lidén, Aslak Liest?l, Petter B. Molaug, Erik Schia, Christina Wiberg: De arkeologiske utgravninger i Gamlebyen, Oslo. Bind I. Feltet ‘Mindets tomt’. Stratigrafi, topografi, daterende funngrupper. (The Archaeological Excavations in Gamlebyen, Oslo. Vol. I. Site ‘Mindets tomt’. Stratigraphy, Topography, Dating Artefact Groups). Universitetsforlaget, Oslo‐Bergen‐Troms?. 265 pp., 9 Pls., 287 Figs. English summary.     

From the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean to the Plane Chart of the Atlantic: Cartometric Analysis and Modelling Maps of Portugal in the Eighteenth Century: From National Perspectives to Foreign Contributions

Handritade kartor över Sverige i Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket. Katalog av Åke Davidson (Handgezeichnete Karten von Schweden in der Universitätsbibliothek zu Uppsala), Acta Bibliothecae R. Universitatis Upsaliensis, X (Uppsala, 1956), 136 pp., 5 tabs.

Franti?ek Roubik, Soupis map Ceských Zemí. Svacek 2, ?eskoslovenská Akademie Věd. (Praha, 1955), 311 pp.

R. Oehme, Joannes Georgius Tibianus. Ein Beitrag zur Kartographie und Landesbeschreibung Südwestdeutschlands im 16. Jahrhundert, Forschungen zur deutschen Landeskunde. Veröffentlichungen des Zentralanschluses für deutsche Landeskunde und der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, 91 (Remagen/RH., 1951), 154 p., 17 tabs.

T. E. Layng, Sixteenth‐century maps relating to Canada. A Check‐List and Bibliography (Ottawa, 1956), XXVI + 283 pp.

Dainville, François de, Cartes anciennes de l'église de France (Paris, 1956), 4°, 323 pp., with figures and XVI plates.

Takejirô Akioka, Nippon Chizu Shi (A History of Cartography of Japan) (Tôkyô, 1955), 10 + 217 pp., 1 facsimile map, 1 fullsize coloured map, 72 plates and 40 ills, in the text     

REVIEW

Arne Skj?lsvold: Slettab? i Ogna. Forel?pig orientering om en boplass med bosetning fra yngre steinalder og bronsealdet. (Slettab? in Ogna. Preliminary publication of a settlement from Late Stone Age and Bronze Age). Viking XXXVI 1972. 74 pp. 30 Figs. English summary     

Présidente: le grand défi. Femmes,politique et médias

Mathieu, J.‐L., La Défense de l'environnement en France (Presses Universitaires de France, 1994), 128pp., 45F., ISBN 2 1304 5939 0

Prendiville, B., Environmental Politics in France (Westview, 1994), xiii‐190pp., $27.00, ISBN 0 8133 8822 8. Translated from L'Ecologie, la politique autrement? Culture, sociologie et histoire des écologistes (L'Harmattan, 1993), 200pp., 110F., ISBN 2 7384 1864 3     

Technologie et culture roumaines

Istoria gîndirii ?i creatiei ?tiintifice ?i tehnice române?ti (Histoire de la pensée et de l'oeuvre scientifique et technique roumaine), Academia Republicii Socialiste România, vol. I, ?t. Pascu et collab., Ed.Acad., Bucarest, 1982, 391 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Karen L. King : What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; pp. xii + 343. Michael Frassetto , ed.: The Year 1000: Religious and Social Responses to the Turning of the First Millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xi + 278. K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn : Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner : Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002; pp. xi + 321. Patricia Londoño ‐Vega : Religion, Culture and Society in Colombia. Medellín and Antioquia, 1850–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; pp. xiii + 402. Colin Holden : Church in a Landscape. Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Group, 2002; pp. xix + 324. Jeffrey J. Kripal : Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xviii + 412. William James , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Centenary ed. (First published New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902) London and New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. lxiii + 415.     

Public policy and anthropology

Michael V. Angrosino, ed. Do Applied Anthropologists Apply Anthropology? Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1976. 136 pp. $4.50 paper.

John H. Bodley. Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. Menlo Park, California: Cummings Publishing Company, 1976. 246 pp. Bibliography and index. $4.50 paper.

Peggy Reeves Sanday, ed. Anthropology and the Public Interest: Field‐work and Theory. New York: Academic Press, 1976. xxviii + 363 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $19.50.     

Ethnogenesis in Africa: Some models of unity and diversity

Asante, Molefi Kete, and Kariamu Welsh Asante, eds. African Cultures: the Rhythms of Unity. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985/x + 270 pp. including references and index. $35.00 cloth.

Ismagilova, R. N. Ethnic Problems of the Tropical Africa: Can They Be Solved? Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. 302 pp. including references, selected bibliography, and index. $5.45 cloth.

Zwernemann, Jurgen. Culture History and African Anthropology. A Century of Research in Germany and Austria. Stockholm: Almqvist, 1983. 170 pp. including bibliography and index. SEK 95.00.     

The Vinland Map,R. A. Skelton and Josef Fischer

Philipp Apian, 24 Bairische Landtafeln von 1568. Facsimile edition in colour offset. Munich, 1966 DM 380..

Journals and other documents on the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. Transl. &; ed. by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York, The Heritage Press (1963).

Bo Bramsen, Gamle Danmarkskort. En historisk oversigt med bibliografiske noter for perioden 1570–1770. K?benhavn, Gr?nholt Pedersen forlag, 1965. pp. 160 c 100 maps. D.kr. 85. (Danish)

Karl Heinz Burmeister, Sebastian Münster, eine Bibliographie. Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler Verlag. 1964. pp. 143, 22 ill., DM 93.60.

Itinerarium orbis Christian!. Der älteste Reise‐atlas der Welt. Facsimile, publ. by Schuler Verlags‐gesellschaft, Stuttgart. 1965. Introd. by A. Fauser and T. Seifert. 267 maps and views. 20 x 27 cm. DM 30.—

The Fry &; Jefferson Map of Virginia and Maryland. Facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings with an index. Published for the Harry demons Publication Fund of the University of Virginia. Charlottes‐ville, the University Press of Virginia, 1966. pp. 48; 2 x 4 reproductions, each 40 x 63 cm. In jacket, 35 x 24 cm. Printed in 500 copies.

Karol Buczek: The History of Polish Cartography from the 15th to the 18th Century. Translated by Andrzej Potocki. Cracow and Warsaw. 1966. 135 pages text, 60 plates, 1 table.

Sebastian Münster: Mappa Europae. Facsimile. Edited by Klaus Stopp. Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler Verlag, 1965, pp. 21, 24 sheets, 2 folded maps. DM 36.‐.

G. R. Crone, Maps and their makers. London, Hutchinson University Library, 1966, pp. xiv + 192. Illustrated. 11/6 paperback.

L. A. Goldenberg, Semen Uljanovi? Remezov, Siberian cartographer and geographer, 1642‐after 1720. Nauka, Moskva, 1965. pp. 260, ill, 3 folded reproduction. 20 x 13 cm. Russian. 3 Rbl.

Francesco Bonasera, Forma veteris urbis Ferrariae. Comune di Ferrara, Centro di studi sul rina‐scimento Ferrarese. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1965. pp. 105, xxvi ill. 31 x 21 cm. 6000 Lire.

The History of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer and his “Spieghel der Zeevaerdt”; (in colour facsimile). By Dr. C. Koeman, Lecturer in History of Cartography, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Lausanne, Sequoia S.A., 1964. Facsimile, 12in. x 16Jin. (305 mm. x413 mm.) in case; Introduction, 8 3/4 in. x 11 in. (123 mm. x 800 mm.); 72 pp., 25 pls. price £40.     

What France?

Cordellier, S. [et al.], L'Etat de la France 1992 (La Découverte, 1992), 635pp., 149F., ISBN 2 7071 2100 2

Kimmel, A., Vous avez dit France? Pour comprendre la société française actuelle (Hachette/CIEP, 1992), 191pp., 106F., ISBN 2 01 018890 X     

Chirac: Digne héritier du gaullisme ou vieux routard rad‐soc?

Biffaud, O. and Mauduit, L., La Grande Méprise, (Grasset, 1996), 279 pp., 119 F., ISBN 2 246 52321 4

Chariot, J., Pourquoi Jacques Chirac? (Éditions de Fallois, 1995), 331 pp., 125 F., ISBN 2 87706 254 6

Perrineau, P. and Ysmal, C. (eds), Le Vote de crise: L'élection présidentielle de 1995 (Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1995), 349 pp., 144 F., ISBN 2 7246 0678 7     

Sartre: The media and the ends

Boulé, J.‐P., Sartre médiatique: la place de l'interview dans son ?uvre (Minard, 1992), 262pp., 270F., ISBN 2 85210 045 2

Scriven, M., Sartre and the Media (St. Martin's Press, 1993), 152pp., £35, ISBN 0 333 55813 8     

Reply to the comments on Rock Carvings in Østfold

Thorleif Sj?vold: Åse‐anlegget på And?ya. Et nord‐norsk tun‐anlegg fra jernalderen. (The Åse‐complex on And?ya. An Iron Age House‐Site Complex in North Norway). Acta Borealia. B. Humaniora, No. 12. Universitetsforlaget, Troms?/Oslo/Bergen 1971. 34 pp. 14 figs