The human evolution caper and a bird's‐eye view of it

Gordon Hewes. The Origin of Man. Basic Concepts in Anthropology Series. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1973. 60 pp. Figures and reference. $1.40 (paper).

S. L. Washbum and Ruth Moore. Ape into Man: A Study of Human Evolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. xii + 196 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. $3.95 (paper).     

On the challenge of relevance

Thomas Weaver, ed. To See Ourselves: Anthropology and Modern Social Issues. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1973. 485 pp. Illustrations, tables, and index. $6.50 (paper).     

Education as a cultural process

John Collier, Jr. Alaskan Eskimo Education: A Film Analysis of Cultural Confrontation in the Schools. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. v + 130 pp. Illustrations, index and bibliography. $2.75 (paper).

Nancy Modiano. Indian Education in the Chiapas Highlands. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 128 pp. Illustrations and index. $2.75 (paper).

Harry F. Wolcott. The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. vii + 334 pp. Tables, charts and references. $4.95 (paper).     

On information and significance,possession and property,force and power

C. F. Hockett. Man's Place in Nature. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1973. 739pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes on sources, and index. $12.95.     

On the brain and human status

Earl W. Count. Being and Becoming Human: Essays on the Biogram. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Behavioral Science Series, 1973. xv + 349 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $14.95 (cloth; $6.95 (paper).

Harry J. Jerison. Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. New York: Academic Press, 1973. xiv + 482 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, index, and bibliography. $25.00.     

Depressed areas and suppressed minorities

Michael J. Harner, ed. Hallucinogens and Shamanism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. xv + 200 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $8.50 (cloth), $1.95 (paper).     

Views of traditional archaeology

Gordon R. Willey, ed. Archaeological Researches in Retrospect. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers, 1974. xix + 296 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, and glossary. $9.95 (cloth), $5.95 (paper).

Gordon R. Willey and Jeremy A. Sabloff. A History of American Archaeology. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1974. xix + 252 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, bibliography, and index. $4.95 (paper).     

Current approaches to teaching introductory physical anthropology

Joseph B. Birdsell. Human Evolution: An Introduction to the New Physical Anthropology. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1972. xiii + 546 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, and index. $9.95

Bobby J. Williams. Evolution and Human Origins: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. ix + 277 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $10.95.     

Progress and pitfalls in survey methodology

William M. O'Barr, David H. Spain, and Mark A. Tessler, eds. Survey Research in Africa: Its Applications and Limits. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1973. x + 349 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, bibliography, and index. $15.00 (doth), $4.95 (paper).     

Clearing Up After the Science Wars: A Response to Emily A. Schultz

Melville J. Herskovits. Life in a Haitian Valley. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1971 [1937]. xviii + 371 pp. Appendices, references, and index. $2.50, paper.

Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits. Trinidad Village. New York: Octagon Press, 1976 [1947]. viii + 351 pp. Illustrations, appendices, references, and index. $15.00.     

Cultural ecology in the subarctic

Richard K. Nelson. Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival Among the Alaskan Kutchin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.xv + 339 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $10.50.     

More substance on subsistence

Bernard Nietschmann. Between Land and Water. New York: Seminar Press, 1973. xiv + 279 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, glossary, references, and index. $14.00.

James Ward, producer‐editor, and Brian Weiss, anthropologist‐photographer. The Turtle People. Los Angeles: B & C Films. Twenty‐six minutes. Color and sound. $310.00 (purchase price), $25.00 (rental fee).     

New Indians,new edition

Wendell H. Oswalt. This Land Was Theirs: A Study of the North American Indian, Second Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1973. xx + 617 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $13.00.     

On the origins and organization of South Italian poverty

John Davis. Land and Family in Pisticci. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 48. London: The Athlone Press, 1973. ix + 200 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, reference's, and index. $10.50.     

What happened in Kuyo Chico

Oscar Núñez del Prado, with the collaboration of William F. Whyte. Kuyo Chico: Applied Anthropology in an Indian Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xxv + 162 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, and index. $9.50.     

Job training and unemployment: Is Southwestern jiving me again?

Harland Padfield and Roy Williams. Stay Where You Were: A Study of Unemployables in Industry. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1973. xviii + 282 pp. Figures, tables, and appendix. $7.50 (cloth), $3.25 (paper).     

You are what you eat: New approaches to economic prehistory

E. S. Higgs, ed. Papers in Economic Prehistory. Studies by Members and Associates of the British Academy Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. x + 219 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography and index. $15.50.     

The Japanese character

George A. De Vos. Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese. With Contributions by Hiroshi Wagatsuma, William Caudill, and Keiichi Mizushima. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. xv + 612 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.     

Anthropology of women: The natural history stage

Carolyn J. Matthiasson, ed. Many Sisters: Women in Cross‐Cultural Perspective. New York: The Free Press, 1974. xxi + 433 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $15.00

Yolanda Murphy and Robert F. Murphy. Women of the Forest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. xii + 236 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $10.00 (cloth); $3.45 (paper).     

Changing views of women in society, 1975

Ernestine Friedl. Women and Men: An Anthropologist's View. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975. xi + 148 pp. Illustrations, map, references, and relevant case studies. $3.50 (paper).

M. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies. The Female of the Species. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1975. x + 432 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, references, and index. $15.00 (cloth), $6.50 (paper).

Evelyn Reed. Woman's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975. xviii + 491 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, and index. $15. (cloth), $4.95 (paper).