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.     

American Indian ethnohistory: Recent contributions by three historians

Finger, John R. Eastern Band of Cherokees 1819–1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. xiv + 253 pp. including maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Miller, Christopher L. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985. x + 174 pp. including maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00 cloth.

Morrison, Kenneth M. The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki‐Euramerican Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. x + 256 pp. including maps, notes, and index. $24.95 cloth.     

Two studies from the Sioux

Howard, James H. The Canadian Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xvi + 207 pp. including index and bibliography. $15.95 cloth.

Jahner, Elaine A., ed. Lakota Myth, by James. R. Walker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. xii + 428 pp. including index and bibliography. $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

Legitimacy,Honor, and Sexuality in Colonial South America

Long, Norman, and Bryan Roberts. Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ix + 288 pp. including maps, bibliography, and index. $49.50 cloth.

Figueroa, Adolfo. Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xii + 140 pp. including maps, bibliography, appendices, and index. $29.95 cloth.     

On anthropological epistemology: Praxis and critique

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xv + 205 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00 cloth, $13.00 paper.

Ulin, Robert C. Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. xvii + 200 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 cloth.     

A double tragedy: Political authority and male identity in the new guinea highlands

Feil, D. K. Ways of Exchange: The Enga Tee of Papua New Guinea. St. Lucia: Queensland University Press, 1984. xvi + 269 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and index. $37.50 cloth.

Gordon, Robert J., and Mervyn J. Meggitt. Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands: Encounters with Enga. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1985. xii + 283 pp. including bibiography, and index. $35.00 cloth.

Strathern, Andrew. A Line of Power. New York: Tavistock, 1984. vi + 170 pp. including bibliography, and index. $12.95 paper.     

Holism and individualism in ecological anthropology

Rappaport, Roy A. Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, enlarged edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. xviii + 501 pp. including illustrations, appendices, bibliographies, and index. $30.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Ellen, Roy. Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small‐Scale Social Formations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xvi + 324 pp. including bibliography and indices. $42.50 cloth, $13.95 paper.

Jochim, Michael A. Strategies for Survival: Cultural Behavior in an Ecological Context. New York: Academic Press, 1981. x + 233 pp. including bibliography and index. $18.50 cloth.     

Perspectives on North American women

Arrom, Silvia Marina. The Women of Mexico City, 1790–1857. Stanford University Press, 1985. xii + 384 pp. including photographs, appendices, bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth.

Bataille, Gretchen M., and Kathleen Mullen Sands. American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. ix + 209 pp. including bibliography and index. $18.95 cloth.     

Piety and Scepticism

Jarvie, I. C. Rationality and Relativism: In Search of a Philosophy of Anthropology. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. xiii + 157 pp. including bibliography and index. $15.00 cloth.

Evans‐Pritchard, Edward. (André Singer, ed.) A History of Anthropological Thought. New York: Basic Books, xxxvi + 218 pp. including appendix, bibliography, index, and introduction by Ernest Gellner. $16.50 cloth.     

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.     

The social origins of cognition: A basis for reintegrating anthropology and psychology?

Wertsch, James V., ed. Culture, Communication and Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. x + 379 pp. including notes, bibliography, and indices. $42.50 cloth, $14.00 paper.

Rogoff, Barbara, and Jean Lave, eds. Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context. Cambridge: Harvard Unversity Press, 1984. vi + 352 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 cloth.     

Patterns of male caregiving behavior among primates

Smuts, Barbara Boardman. Sex and Friendship in Baboons. New York: Aldine Publishing Company, 1985. xvii + 303 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and subject index. $34.95 cloth.

Taub, David M., ed. Primate Paternalism. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1984. xii + 441 pp. including individual chapter references and index. $44.00 cloth.     

Ex oriente lux revisited

Champion, Timothy, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, and Alasdair Whittle. Prehistoric Europe. New York: Academic Press, 1984. ix + 359 pp. including references and index. $45.00 cloth, $23.50 paper.

Champion, T. C, and J. V. S. Megaw, eds. Settlement and Society: Aspects of West European Prehistory in the First Millennium B.C. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xi + 243 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 cloth.

Ammerman, Albert J., and L. L. Cavalli‐Sforza. The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv + 176 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth.     

Archeology and the heritage of man the hunter

Bailey, Geoff, ed. Hunter‐Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: a European Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. viii + 247 pp. including index and composite bibliography. $49.50 cloth.

Price, T. Douglas, and James A. Brown, eds. Prehistoric Hunter‐Gatherers: The Emergence of Cultural Complexity. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. xviii + 450 pp. including chapter references and index. $60.00 cloth.

Schrire, Carmel, ed. Past and Present in Hunter‐Gatherer Studies. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 298 pp. including chapter references and index. $33.00 cloth.     

The articulation of capitalism and traditional modes of production in Africa

Illife, John. The Emergence of African Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. ix + 113 pp. including reference notes and index. $29.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.

Vercruijsse, Emile. The Penetration of Capitalism: A West African Case Study. London: Zed Books, 1984. vi + 180 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and index. $26.25 cloth, $10.25 paper.

van Ginsbergen, Wim, and Peter Geshiere, eds. Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. xviii + 341 pp. including chapter references and indices. $49.95 cloth.     

Sexual Phallacies

Bouhdiba, Abdelwahab. Sexuality in Islam. Alan Sheridan, transi. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. viii + 288 pp. including notes and bibliography. $42.50 cloth.

Gregor, Thomas. Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xii + 223 pp. including photographs, references, and index. $19.95 cloth.

La Barre, Weston. Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition about Sexuality. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xiii + 140 pp. including reference notes. $22.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.     

The quest for coordinates in space and time

Hall, Edward T. The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1984. 250 pp. including appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. $15.95 cloth; $5.50 paper.

Pinxten, Rik, Ingrid van Dooren, and Frank Harvey. Anthropology of Space: Explorations into the Natural Philosophy and Semantics of the Navajo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xi + 240 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and name and subject indices. $32.50 cloth.     

Multiple discourses among the Bedouin: Fieldwork and the invention of the ethnographic text

Maza, Sarah C. Servants and Masters in Eighteenth‐Century France. The Uses of Loyalty. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983. xiv + 368 pp. including illustrations, appendices, chapter references, sources and bibliography, and index. $32.50 cloth.

Dudden, Faye E. Serving Women. Household Service in Nineteenth‐Century America. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. viii + 344 pp. including chapter references and index. $19.95 cloth.

Rollins, Judith. Between Women. Domestics and Their Employers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985. viii + 261 pp. including chapter references and index. $24.95 cloth.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Issei, Nisei, War Bride. Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple Uni‐verity Press, 1986. xviii + 290 pp. including appendices, chapter references, and index. $29.95 cloth.

Stanley, Liz, ed. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick. Victorian Maidservant London: Virago Press, 1984. vii + 327 pp. including illustrations, appendices, and notes. £5.95 paper ($25 available through Rutgers University Press).

Gordon, Suzanne. A Talent for Tomorrow. Life Stories of South African Servants. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985. xxvii + 294 pp., including glossary, bibliography, index, and photographs by Ingrid Hudson. $16.95 paper (available through Ohio University Press).     

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.     

Contemporary Studies of Ritual in Anthropology and Related Disciplines

Rindos, David. The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 324 pp. including bibliography and index. $32.50 cloth.