Book reviews

Alan Peacock and Ilde Rizzo (eds) Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994) x + 184 pp, £59.00

Ruth Towse Singers in the Marketplace: The Economics of the Singing Profession (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993) ix + 252 pp, £30.00     

Anthropology and education: History,method and applications to American schooling

Joan I. Roberts and Sherrie K. Akinsanya, eds. Educational Patterns and Cultural Configurations: The Anthropology of Education. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976. xiv + 412 pp. Bibliography, biographical notes, and references. $7.95 paper.

Joan I. Roberts and Sherrie K. Akinsanya, eds. Schooling in the Cultural Context: Anthropological Studies of Education. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976. xiv + 499 pp. Biographical notes and references. $8.95 paper.

Nobou Kenneth Shimahara and Adam Scrupski, eds. Social Forces and Schooling: An Anthropological and Sociological Perspective. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1975. xiv + 358 pp. Biographical notes and references. $6.95 paper.     

Book reviews

Sponsorship, Urban Regeneration and Post‐Communism

Sir Roy Shaw (ed) The Spread of Sponsorship in the Arts, Sport, Education, the Health Service and Broadcasting. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 1993)

Franco Bianchini & Michael Parkinson (eds) Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: The West European Experience (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1993)

Robert M. Reichardt & Georg Muskens (eds) Post‐communism, the Market and the Arts: First Sociological Assessments (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1992)     

2008 Cultural Heritage Legal Summary

Abstract

In the past year acceptance of the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict received significant impetus with the vote of the U. S. Senate to ratify the main Convention and the drafting of legislation by the United Kingdom and New Zealand that would implement the Convention and both Protocols. Efforts by the United States to continue implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property continued with import restrictions imposed under the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (1983). At the end of the year, the dispute between Peru and Yale took an ominous turn, while new amendments enacted by the U. S. Congress in January 2008 to facilitate the recovery of property belonging to state sponsors of terrorism in the United States by victims of terrorism continue to cause problems for several leading American cultural institutions.     

Grey owl's return: Cultural ecology and Canadian indigenous peoples*

Bruce Cox, ed. Cultural Ecology: Readings on the Canadian Indians and Eskimos. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. 331 pp. Maps and appendix. $4.95 (paper).     

Reviews

Books reviewed: P.A. Longley, M.F. Goodchild, D.J. Maguire and D.W. Rhind (eds) Geographical Information Systems Volume 1 Principles and Technical Issues E. Favenc Tales of the Austral Tropics L.B. Leopold Water, Rivers, and Creeks A.B. Knapp, V.C. Pigott, and E.W. Herbert (eds) Social Approaches to an Industrial Past: the Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining M. Crang Cultural Geography J.D. Hansom and J.E. Gordon Antarctic Environments and Resources: a Geographical Perspective C. Hunt Pacific Development Sustained: Policy for Pacific Environments R. Linn Battling the Land: 200 Years of Rural Australia D.E.M. Chapman Natural Hazards E.K. Teather (ed.) Embodied Geographies: Spaces, Bodies and Rites of Passage K.J. Anderson and G.F. Gale (eds) Cultural Geographies P.D. Nunn Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin     

Grappling with life in the urban milieu

Aidan Southall, ed. Urban Anthropology: Cross‐Cultural Studies of Urbanization. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. vi + 489 pp. Tables and bibliography. $4.95 (paper).     

Native Americans discuss ethnicity and politics in Boston

Jeanne Guillemin. Urban Renegades: The Cultural Strategy of American Indians. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. viii + 336 pp. Map and index. $10.95.     

Energy and the evolution of Leslie A. White

Leslie A. White. The Concept of Cultural Systems: A Key to Understanding Tribes and Nations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. xiii + 192 pp. Bibliography. $10.00.     

Society from the perspective of women

Ilsa M. Glazer Shuster. New Women of Lusaka (Explorations in World Ethnology Series). Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1979. xiv ‐ 209 pp. Maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography and index. $4.95 paper.

Alice Schlegel, ed. Sexual Stratification: A Cross‐Cultural View. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. xix ‐ 371 pp. Tables, bibliography, index.     

The identity of the poor in urban research

Edwin Eames and Judith Granich Goode. Urban Poverty in a Cross‐Cultural Context. New York: The Free Press, 1973. vii + 299 pp. Notes, references, and index. $8.95.     

American education‐the image in the mirror

Solon T. Kimball. Culture and the Educative Process: An Anthropological Perspective. New York: Teachers College Press, 1974. x + 285 pp. $10.00 (cloth).

George D. Spindler, ed. Education and Cultural Process: Toward an Anthropology of Education. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. xii + 559 pp. Tables, figures, appendixes and indexes. $6.95 (paper).     

The apprenticeship in policy

Cyril S. Belshaw. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthropology of Public Policy. New York and Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1976. xvi +342 pp. Index. $16.00 cloth, $10.00 paper.     

Information control: The past and present career of scientific thinking in the European and colonized world

Woods, Robert D. "Teach Them Good Customs”: Colonial Indian Education and Acculturation in the Andes. Culver City, California: Labyrinthos, 1986. v +134 pp. including chapter references and bibliography. $15.00 paper.

Reingold, Nathan and Marc Rothenberg, eds. Scientific Colonialism: A Cross‐Cultural Comparison. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1987. vii + 398 pp. including chapter notes and index. $29.95 paper.

Hill, Carole E., ed. Current Health Policy Issues and Alternatives: An Applied Social Science Perspective. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. 1 + 212 pp. including chapter notes and references. $20.00 cloth, $10.00 paper.     

Culture may be dangerous to your health

Henry P. Lundsgaarde. Murder in Space City: A Cultural Analysis of Houston Homicide Patterns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. x + 269 pp. Photographs, figures, maps, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.     

Producing African-descent: afro-peruvian music,intangible heritage,authenticity and bureaucracy in a Latin American music compilation

ABSTRACT

Policy and actions for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are laced with politics of representation and meaning-making of expressive culture within and outside communities. This article explores how ICH experts, practitioners, activists, and other actors negotiate and re-construct ideas of racial identity and authenticity in one such initiative. Sponsored by CRESPIAL in 2012, the album Cantos y Música Afrodescendientes de América Latina is a compilation of music of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America. Conceived as a project for safeguarding the musical ICH of these communities, it involved participation from thirteen Latin American governments. This paper, centered on the Peruvian participation in this project, studies the bureaucratic intricacies of this project, exploring how ideas on racial identity and authenticity overlap with political agendas and administrative requirements in order to produce a unified representation of ‘Afro-Latin American’ music. My analysis highlights 1) the local knowledge systems that inform the ideas of racial identity and authenticity advanced by the project’s actors; 2) their adopted strategies within Peru’s bureaucratic network of heritage management; and 3) the positionality, capacity and agency of each actor for achieving their particular goals in this collaborative project.     

Ecological idealism and the peasant village

Alan R. Beals. Village Life in South India: Cultural Design and Environmental Variation. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1974. 189 pp. Figures, illustrations, suggested reading, and index. $7.50 (cloth), $2.95 (paper).     

Hill and valley minorities in Northern Thailand

William Robert Geddes. Migrants of the Mountains: The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xviii +274 pp. $21.25.

James W. Hamilton. Pwo Karen: At the Edge of Mountain and Plain. St. Paul: West Publishing Co. The American Ethnological Society, Monograph no. 60, 1976. xxiii + 354 pp. $12.95.     

Nomadism,Pastoralism, Ecology,and Grazing Lands

J. Aschenbrenner and L. R. Collins, eds. The Processes of Urbanism: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. x + 424 pp. $40.00.

E. Eames and J. G. Goode. Anthropology of the City: An Introduction to Urban Anthropology. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1977. viii + 344 pp.

R. G. Fox. Urban Anthropology: Cities in Their Cultural Settings. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1977. xiii + 176 pp.     

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).