Dressing and preening the body

Dalby, Liza. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. xi + 384 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Kawakami, Barbara F. Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885–1941. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xvii + 253 pp. including notes, glossary, sources, and index. $19.95 paper.

Rubinstein, Ruth P. Dress Code: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. xii + 314 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $69.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.     

Anthropology,sinophilia and modes of production

Thurston, Anne F., and Burton Pasternak, eds. The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. xv + 161 pp. including reference notes. $22.50 cloth.

Watson, Rubie S. Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xiii + 193 pp. including maps, references, glossary, and index. $37.50 cloth.     

Entering Kenya in search of context

Leo, Christopher. Land and Class in Kenya. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. xii + 244 pp. including bibliography and index. $25.00 cloth, $12.50 paper.

Miller, Norman N. Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1984. x + 180 pp. including illustrations, bibliography, and index. $20.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Bernstein, Henry, and Bonnie K. Campbell, eds. Contradictions of Accumulation in Africa. Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1985. 312 pp. including chapter references. $29.95 cloth.     

Promoting participation—Seeking sustainability: The ITK Dilemma

Moock, Joyce Lewinger and Robert E. Rhoades, eds. Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xix + 278 pp. including index. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Pottier, Johan, ed. Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. London: Routledge, 1993. ix + 222 pp. including index. $18.95 paper.

Thurston, H. David. Sustainable Practices for Plant Disease Management in Traditional Farming Systems. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. xii + 279 pp. including bibliography and indices. $54.50 cloth.     

Women,development, and anthropology: Focus on production and reproduction

Charlton, Sue Ellen M. Women in Third World Development. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984. xiv + 240 pp. including index and references. $30.00 cloth, $11.95 paper.

Anker, Richard, Mayra Buvinic, and Nadia H. Youssef, eds. Women's Roles and Population Trends in the Third World. London: Croom Helm, 1982. 287 pp. including index and references. $33.50 cloth.     

Populism and the development of traditional agriculture

Richards, Paul. Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985. No frontmatter. 192 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $22.50 cloth.

Marten, Gerald G., ed. Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia: A Human Ecology Perspective. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986. xxvi + 358 pp. including figures and tables, chapter references, and index. $36.50 cloth.     

Anthropological Hermeneutics and Indian Religion

Burghart, Richard, and Audrey Cantlie, eds. Indian Religion. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xi + 258 pp. including chapter references. $27.50 cloth.

Marglin, Frédérique Apffel. Wives of the God‐King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. xv + 388 pp. including plates, bibliography, glossary, and index. $29.95 cloth.     

The stubborn persistence of the anthropology of religion

Klass, Morton. Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. xiv + 177 pp. including references and index. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Reynolds, Vernon and Ralph Tanner. The Social Ecology of Religion. Oxford University Press, 1995. viii + 322 pp. including index. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Holm, Jean and John Bowker, eds. Attitudes to Nature. London: Pinter Publishers, 1994. xii + 172 pp. including index. $45.00 cloth, $16.00 paper.     

Visual arts and cultural contexts: History and prehistory

Leppert, Richard. Art and the Committed Eye: The Cultural Functions of Imagery. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1996. xvii + 348 pp. including notes, references, and index. $63.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.

Carr, Christopher and Jill E. Neitzel, eds. Style, Society, and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. xx + 477 pp. including index. $69.50 cloth.     

Film and audience: The falling tree problem

Fowles, Jib. Starstruck: Celebrity Performers and the American Public. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. xiv + 284 pp. including 57 photographs, appendix, notes/bibliography and subject index, $21.95 cloth.

Traube, Elizabeth G. Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender, and Generation in 1980s Hollywood Movies. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1992. xi + 207 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.     

The development anthropology of food crises: Still a long way to go

Huss‐Ashmore, Rebecca and Solomon H. Katz, eds. African Food Systems in Crisis: Part II. Contending with Change. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1990. xiii + 292 pp. including chapter references and index. $78.00 cloth.

Whiteford, Scott and Ann E. Ferguson, eds. Harvest of Want: Hunger and Food Security in Central America and Mexico. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. 264 pp. including chapter references and index. $48.00 cloth.     

Walks on the dark side: “Sick societies,” Interpersonal violence,and anthropology's love affair with the folk society

Edgerton, Robert B., Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Societies. New York: The Free Press, 1992. vii + 278 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth.

Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiii + 614 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper.

Linger, Daniel Touro, Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. x + 289 pp. including appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth.     

Things Japanese: Something old,something new

Bernstein, Gail Lee. Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983. xvii + 199 pp. including maps, photographs. $15.00 cloth.

Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. xi + 315 pp. including notes, references, glossary, index. $18.95 cloth.

Smith, Robert J. Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xii + 176 pp. including notes, bibliography, author ₍and subject indices. $19.95 cloth.

Smith, Robert J., and Ella Lury Wiswell. The Women of Suye Mura. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xxxvii + 293 pp. including maps, photographs, glossary, index. $7.50 paper.     

A contrapuntal commentary

Hanson, E Allan, and Louise Hanson. Counterpoint in Maori Culture. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. ix + 232 pp. including figure, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth.

Breeneis, Donald, and Fred R. Myers, eds. Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific. New York: New York University Press, 1984. xii + 284 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth, $16.50 paper.     

Power,property, and preservation

MacKenzie, Melody Kapilialoha, ed. Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook. Honolulu: Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, 1991. xi + 320 pp. including notes, glossary, table of cases, and index [distributed by University of Hawaii Press]. $25.00 paper.

Price, H. Marcus. Disputing the Dead: U.S. Law on Aboriginal Remains and Grave Goods. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. ix + 136 pp. including appendix and bibliography. $37.50 cloth.

West, Patrick C. and Steven R. Brechin, eds. Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. xxiv + 443 pp. including bibliography and index. $29.95 cloth.     

Human teeth and fossils from the perspective of two manuals

Day, Michael H. Guide to Fossil Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. vi + 432 pp. including maps, tables, photographs, chapter references, glossary, and index. $37.50 cloth.

Hillson, Simon. Teeth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. v + 376 pp. including tables, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and index. $44.50 cloth.     

Rites of the living,transformations of the dead

Huntington, Richard, and Peter Metcalf. Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. xv + 230 pp. including maps, photographs, bibliography, and index. $34.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.

Bloch, Maurice, and Jonathan Parry, eds. Death and the Regeneration of Life. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. x + 236 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 cloth, $8.95 paper.     

Editorial Introduction

Meillassoux, Claude. Alide Dasnois, translator. The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 421 pp. including notes, references, glossary, and index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

McGlynn, Frank and Seymour Drescher, eds. The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. viii + 333 pp. including selected bibliography and index. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.     

More on the Kula: Ethnography,history, and theory

Leach, Jerry W., and Edmund Leach, eds. The Kula, New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xii + 577 pp. including plates, bibliography, index. $79.50 cloth.

Macintyre, Martha. The Kula, A Bibliography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. vi + 90 pp. including author index, appendix. $19.95 cloth.     

Fisherwomen,fisheries policy,and maritime anthropology

Allison, Charlene J., Sue‐Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter. Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xliv + 203 pp. including time‐line, photographs, map, place‐name locator, glossary, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth.

Cole, Sally, Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xvii + 189 pp. including photographs, tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and subject index. $52.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

McGoodwin, James R. Crisis in the World's Fisheries: People, Problems, and Policies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. viii + 235 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and subject index. $35.00 cloth.

Pálsson, Gísli. Coastal Economies, Cultural Accounts: Human Ecology and Icelandic Discourse. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. xvii + 202 pp. including figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 cloth.