Models of language choice in Austrian peasant communities: The problem of indeterminacy in the explanation of change in social process

Susan Gal. Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria. Language, Thought and Culture: Advances in the Study of Cognition. New York: Academic Press, 1979, vii + 174 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, appendices.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Youngil Lim, Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching up Ronaldo Munck and Denis O’Hearn (eds), Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm Paul Collins, Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future Stephen A. Vosti and Thomas Reardon (eds), Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation. A Policy and Agroecological Perspective Donald O. Mitchell, Merlinda D. Ingco and Ronald C. Duncan, The World Food Outlook Richard E. Mshomba, Africa in The Global Economy Paul Gifford, African Christianity: Its Public Role Haleh Afshar, Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case Study Anders Corr, No Trespassing: Squatting, Rent Strikes and Land Struggles Worldwide Henny Romijn, Acquisition of Technological Capability in Small Firms in Developing Countries Chandan Mukherjee, Howard White and Marc Wuyts, Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries. Priorities for Development Economics Series Dani Rodrik, The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work? Michelle Miller‐Adams, The World Bank: New Agendas in a Changing World Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandler with Kevin M. Morrison, The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods Miguel Centeno and Patricio Silva (eds), The Politics of Expertise in Latin America Stephen Ellis, The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War Orlando Fals Borda (ed.), People’s Participation: Challenges Ahead Angela Cheater (ed.), The Anthropology of Power: Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures Terje Tvedt, Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomats? NGOs and Foreign Aid Ann C. Hudock, NGOs and Civil Society. Democracy by Proxy? Steven R. Brechin, Planting Trees in the Developing World. A Sociology of International Organisations     

Women and politeness: A new perspective on language and society

Robin Lakoff. Language and Woman's Place. New York, Evanston, San Francisco and London: Harper Colophon Books, Harper & Row Publishers, 1975. 85 pp. Bibliography. $2.25 (paper).     

The social construction of persons within the school and society

Atkinson, Paul. Language, Structure and Reproduction: An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein. New York: Methuen, 1985. No front‐matter 216 pp. including bibliography and index. No price.

LeVine, Robert A., and Merry I. White. Human Conditions: The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. vii + 245 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 cloth.

Lowenthal, Leo. Literature and the Image of Man. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1986. v + 344 pp. including notes to chapters. $24.95 cloth.

Steedman, Carolyn, Cathy Urwin, and Valerie Walkerdine, eds. Language, Gender and Childhood. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. vi + 265 pp. including bibliography, name and subject indices. $18.95 paper.     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Art Gallaher, Jr. and Harland Padfield, Eds. The Dying Community. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (School of American Research), 1980. xiv + 305 pp.

Nancy Dorian. Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xiv + 206 pp     

Books Reviews

Books reviewed: Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz (eds.), The Myth of ‘Ethnic Conflict’: Politics, Economics and ‘Cultural’ Violence. Elazar Barkan, The Guilt of Nations. Jonathan Hearn, Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture. Natividad Gutieérrez, Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State. Mary Anne Perkins, Nation and Word, 1770–1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness. Peter J. S. Duncan, Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and After. Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes (eds.), Multicultural Questions. Clare Mar Molinero, The Politics of Language in the Spanish‐speaking World. Edmund Herzig, The New Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr and Thomas Piazza, The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Alexander J. Motyl, Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr, Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth‐century Black America.     

Book Notes

Books reviewed in this article: Erik Asard and W. Lance Bennett, Democracy and the Marketplace of Ideas: Communication and Government in Sweden and the United States. Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, and Stephane Dion, Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees. William J. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907–1933. James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D. Wald, Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles Over Gay Rights in American Communities. Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett (Eds.), Environmental Policy: Transnational Issues and National Trends. John Carver, Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations (2nd ed.). Larry N. Gerston, Public Policy Making: Process and Principles. Michele M. Hoyman, Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities. David L. Imbroscio, Reconstructing City Politics: Alternative Economic Development and Urban Regimes. Sheldon Kamieniecki, George A. Gonzalez, and Robert O. Vos (Eds.), Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability. Samuel Krislov, How Nations Choose Product Standards and Standards Change Nations. Brian K. Landsberg, Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice. Duncan MacRae, Jr. and Dale Whittington, Expert Advice for Policy Choice. William R. Nester, American Industrial Policy: Free or Managed Markets? William R. Nester, The War for America's Natural Resources. Howard Risher, Charles H. Fay, and Associates, New Strategies for Public Pay: Rethinking Government Compensation Programs.     

Ethnography and policy: Perspectives on reproduction in anthropology and public health

MacCormack, Carol, ed. Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. New York: Academic Press, 1982. x + 293 pp. including illustrations, notes, references, index. $35.00 cloth.

Mangay‐Maglacas, A., and H. Pizurki, eds. The Traditional Birth Attendant in Seven Countries: Case Studies in Utilization and Training. Geneva: World Health Organization Public Health Papers 75, 1981. 211 pp. including appendices, references. Sw. fr. 15.00.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein (eds), Readings in Planning Theory, 2nd Edition Noel Castree and Bruce Braun (eds), Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics Thomas V. Cech, Principles of Water Resources; History, Development, Management and Policy Jonathan Crush and David McDonald (eds),Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa K. O’Connor, R. Stimson and M. Daly, Australia's Changing Economic Geography. A Society Dividing B. Roberts and D. Wadley (eds), Planning for Sustainable Industry Sima Williamson, David Brunckhorst and Gerard Kelly, Reinventing the Common: Cross‐Boundary Farming for a Sustainable Future     

Estranging Ireland: The underground self of the Irish free state in Joseph O’Neill’s Land Under England

Land Under England is an out of print, rarely-cited Irish science fiction novel by the author Joseph O’Neill. Written at a time of crisis in Irish society in the 1930s, the novel has been relatively ignored in studies of the literature of the period. Although critics of science fiction tend to situate the novel as a purely anti-fascist work, taking its cues from events happening in Europe, this article places the novel firmly within its postcolonial Irish context, opening up the text to alternative readings based on the writings of Irish historians, as well as Marxist, cultural materialist and postcolonial critics. The article also utilises documents such as work written by O’Neill in his capacity as a civil servant, letters to the author from the controversial author Francis Stuart, and reviews contemporary to the publication of the novel.     

Macro‐ethno‐economics

William S. Hall and Roy O. Freedle. Culture and Language: The Black American Experience. New York: Halsted Press, 1975. 191 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography and index. $10.95.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern (eds), Global Public Goods. International Cooperation in the 21st Century Edward Clay and Olav Stokke (eds), Food Aid and Human Security Mirjam van Reissen, EU ‘Global Player’: The North–South Policy of the European Union Sheila Page (ed.), Regions and Development: Politics, Security and Economics John Bailey and Roy Godson (eds), Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the US–Mexican Borderlands Peter Soderbaum, Ecological Economics Charles David Smith, Ecology, Civil Society and the Informal Economy in North West Tanzania Peter P. Mollinga (ed.), Water for Food and Rural Development. Approaches and Initiatives in South Asia Roger Jeffrey and Nandini Sundar (eds), A New Moral Economy for India’s Forests? Discourses of Community and Participation Rekha Wazir (ed.), The Gender Gap in Basic Education: NGOs as Change Agents Gail Wilson, Understanding Old Age: Critical and Global Perspectives Bhanoji Rao, East Asian Economies: The Miracle, A Crisis and The Future Jayati Ghosh, and C. P. Chandrasekhar, Crisis as Conquest, Learning from East Asia     

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.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Sandra Halperin, War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited John Keane, Global Civil Society? Gerd Junne and Willemijn Verkoren (eds), Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges Michael Edwards, Civil Society Gordon Crawford, Foreign Aid and Political Reform Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (eds) , Culture and Public Action Henry A. Giroux, The Abandoned Generation: Democracy beyond the Culture of Fear Dennis Dijkzeul and Yves Beigbeder (eds), Rethinking International Organizations: Pathology and Promise Jane Collins, Threads, Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü, Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China     

Paradigms and other speculative instruments of social anthropology

T. O. Beidelman, ed. The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans‐Pritchard. London: Tavistock Publications (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 1974. ix + 440 pp. Figures, references, and index. $20 (cloth), $8.75 (paper).

Victor Turner. Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974. 309 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $16.50.     

Review Article: Hot War,Cold War,New War

STANLEY KARNOW. Vietnam, A History. New York: Penguin, 1984. Pp. xi, 752. $10.95 (US); GABRIEL KOLKO. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, The United States, and the Modern Historical Experience. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Pp. xvi, 628. $25.00 (US); TIMOTHY J. LOMPERIS. The War Everyone Lost-and Won: America's Intervention in Vietnam's Twin Struggles. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 192. $22.50 (US); R.B. SMITH. An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 429. $25.00 (US); HARRY O. SUMMERS, Jr. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. New York: Dell, 1984. Pp. 288. $3.95 (US).     

Coming of age in applied archaeology

Thomas F. King, Patricia Parker Hickman, and Gary Berg. Anthropology in Historic Preservation. New York: Academic Press, 1977. xi +344 pp. $15.00.

Michael B. Schiffer and George J. Gumerman, eds. Conservation Archaeology. New York: Academic Press, 1977. xxi + 495 pp. $19.50.     

Lost and Found: the Woman Writer in the Eighteenth Century

Jennifer Summit, Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589 Jane Spencer, Aphra Behn's Afterlife Harriet Guest, Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750’1810 Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Cliona O Gallchoir and Penny Warburton (eds), Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700’1830     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article:
Roger S. Ahilbrandt, Jr. and James V. Cunningham, A New Public Policy for Neighborhood Preservation