Advocacy and the struggle for a better science of anthropology

Spaulding, Philip, ed. Anthropology in Praxis. Calgary, Canada: Department of Anthropology, Occasional Papers in Anthropology and Primatology, 1986. iii + 253 pp. N. P.

Paine, Robert, ed. Advocacy and Anthropology, First Encounters. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985. xiii 4‐ 278 pp. including references. $15.00 paper.

Agar, Michael H. Independents Declared: The Dilemmas of Independent Trucking. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 191 pp. including appendices, literature cited, and index. $24.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

Formal models and formalist economic anthropology: The problem of maximization

Harold K. Schneider. Economic Man; The Anthropology of Economics. New York: The Free Press, 1974. x + 278 pp. Figures, glossary, bibliography, and index. $8.95.     

REVIEWS

Kinship and Social Organization. By W. H. R. Rivers, with Commentaries by Raymond Firth and David M. Schneider. London School of Economic Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 34. The Athlone Press, 1968. Pp. 1–116. Price 30/– English.     

Markets,regions, and the world system: Explorations beyond the local community

Mines, Mattison. The Warrior Merchants: Textiles, Trade, and Territory in South India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiii + 178 pp. including 2 maps, references, glossary, and index. $34.50 cloth.

Plattner, Stuart, ed. Markets and Marketing (Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 4). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xx + 418 pp. including chapter references, 3 maps, and tables and figures throughout. $16.75 paper.

Smith, Joan, Immanual Wallerstein, and Hans‐Dieter Evers, eds. Households and the World Economy: Explorations in the World‐Economy. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1984. 296 pp. including chapter references, tables, and index. $25.00 cloth.     

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.     

Discipline or profession: Anthropology and its guilds

Chambers, Erve. Applied Anthropology: A Practical Guide. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1986. ix + 258 pp., including references and index.

Driben, Paul. Aroland Is Our Home: An Incomplete Victory in Applied Anthropology. New York: AMS Press, 1986. xiv + 185 pp., including chapter notes and index. $32.50 cloth.

Eddy, Elizabeth M. and William L. Partridge, eds. Applied Anthropology in America, Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xiii + 571 pp., including bibliography.

Van Willigen, John. Applied Anthropology: An Introduction. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1986. xviii + 259 pp., including bibliography and index. $36.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.     

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.     

Psychological anthropology so far: Amidst diversity,a search for the bigger issues

George D. Spindler, ed. The Making of Psychological Anthropology. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. xiv + 665 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references cited, photos, biographical sketches, indexes. $27.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.

Erika Bourguignon. Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Differences. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. viii + 375 pp. Figures, notes, references cited, photos, indexes. $14.95.

Philip K. Bock. Continuities in Psychological Anthropology: A Historical Introduction. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1980. xii + 288 pp. Figures, tables, references cited, drawings, index. $15.00 cloth, $7.50 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.     

Native Americans,politics, and frontiers

Ehrenreich, Jeffrey, ed. Political Anthropology of Ecuador: Perspectives from Indigenous Cultures. Albany, New York: The Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Center for the Caribbean and Latin America, 1985. xxvii + 256 pp. including individuals chapter notes and references. Cloth $10.00.

Schmink, Marianne and Charles H. Wood, eds. Frontier Expansion in Amazonia. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1985. xviii + 502 pp. including individual chapter notes and references, and index. $12.00 paper.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Norman Long (ed.), Encounters at the Interface. A perspective on social discontinuities in rural development Eva Poluha, Central Planning and Local Reality: The Case of a Producers Cooperative in Ethiopia. Studies in Social Anthropology No. 23 Harvard Institute for International Development Caleslous Juma, The Gene Hunters: Gerry Rodgers (ed.), Population Growth and Poverty in Rural South Asia Peter Walker, Famine Early Warning Systems: Victims and Destitution Michael Mortimore, Adapting to Drought: Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa Alan Grainger, The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification M. Muqtada (ed.), The Elusive Target. An Evaluation of Target-Group Approaches to Employment Creation in Rural Asia. New Delhi: Ching-yan Lin, Latin America vs East Asia. A Comparative Development Perspective Peter M. Ward (ed.), Corruption, Development and Inequality. Soft Touch or Hard Graft? K.N. Panikkar, Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar, 1836–1921 P. Calvert (ed.), The Central American Security System: North-South or East-West? Stefan Hedlund and Mats Lundahl, Ideology as a Determinant of Economic Systems. Nyerere and Ujamaa in Tanzania     

The anthropologist as historian and as scientist,or the uses of history

Margaret T. Hodgen. Anthropology, History, and Cultural Change. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology No. 52. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974. vii + 108 pp. Tables, maps, references, and index. $4.50 (paper).

Annemarie deWaal Malefijt. Images of Man: A History of Anthropological Thought. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. ix + 383 pp. Bibliography and index. $10.00 (cloth); $3.50 (paper).     

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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael Fleet, The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy. Richard E. Feinberg and Contributors, Between Two Worlds, The World Bank's Next Decade. US-Third World Policy Perspectives No. 7. World Bank, Recovery in the Developing World. The London Symposium on the World Bank's Role. OECD, Financing and External Debt of Developing Countries Stanley Please, The Hobbled Giant. Essays on the World Bank. Robert Cassen and Associates, Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force. W. Arthur Lewis, Racial Conflict and Economic Development. Gunnar M. Serbe, Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan. A Study of Economic Adaptations in the New Haifa Scheme. Victor S. D'Souza, Economic Development, Social Structure and Population Growth. Mark Hnlmström, Industry and Inequality. The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. S. M. Ghanem, OPEC. The Rise and Fall of an Exclusive Club. Shelagh Weir, Qat in Yemen: Consumption and Social Change. Ray Bromley (ed.), Planning for Small Scale Enterprises in Third World Cities. Ian Smillie, No Condition Permanent: Pump-Priming Ghana's Industrial Revolution. The ‘Geneva Group’, How to Run Small Development Projects. Val Curtis, Women and the Transport of Water. Marcia M. Gowen, with the assistance of Herbert A. Wade, Renewable Energy Assessments: An Energy Planner's Manual. Deepak Lai and Martin Wolf (eds), Stagnation, Savings and the State. T. G. Weiss, Multilateral Development Diplomacy in UNCTAD. Rune Skarstein and Samuel W. Wangwe, Industrial Development in Tanzania: Some Critical Issues. Ian Livingstone, Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. Franceses Bray, The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies. Saadet Deger, Military Expenditure in Third World Countries: The Economic Effects. K. J. Davey, Financing Regional Government: International Practices and their Relevance to the Third World. Stella Lowder, Inside Third World Cities. H. A. Reitsma and J. M. G. Kleinpenning, The Third World in Perspective.     

Defining a common ground for research: Psychological anthropology and education

Charles Harrington. Psychological Anthropology and Education: A Delineation of a Field of Inquiry. New York: AMS Press, 1979. xii + 232 pp. Index, annotated bibliography. $15.00.     

Museums,markets, and modern anthropology

Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. History of Anthropology Volume III. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. viii + 258 pp. including chapter references and index. $25.00 cloth.

Hatcher, Evelyn Payne. Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. With an Introduction by E. Adamson Hoebel. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xviii + 286 pp., including ethnographic notes and index, glossary, bibliography, and indices. $28.00 cloth; $13.75 paper.

Jules‐Rosette, Benneta. The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective. Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. New York: Plenum Press, 1984. xviii + 266 pp. including figures, references, index, and appendices. $32.50 cloth.     

To what are humans adapting?

Emilio F. Moran, Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. xv + 404 pp. $25.00 cloth, $13.50 paper.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Ange Wieberdink, Troubled Waters: The Ambivalence of South–North Partnerships in Research for Development — A Case Study. Nicholas Stern, Jean‐Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey Rogers, Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen. Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier (eds), Development and Local Knowledge. Michael Klein and Tim Harford, The Market for Aid. David Ellerman, Helping People Help Themselves. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Deborah Leipziger, The Corporate Responsibility Code Book. Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. Fay Chung, Re‐Living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle. Norma Kriger, Guerrilla Veterans in Post‐War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics 1980–1987. Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Craig Acerneaux and David Pion‐Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Rhoda E. Reddock (ed.), Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses. Partha Nath Mukherji and Chandan Sengupta (eds), Indigeneity and Universality in Social Sciences: A South Asian Response. Tamar Horowitz, Bella Kotik‐Friedgut and Stefani Hoffman (eds), From Pacesetters to Dropouts: Post‐Soviet Youth in Comparative Perspective.     

REVIEW

Society and the Dance: The Social Anthropology of Process and Performance. Edited by Paul Spencer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. x + 214. Price: $A22.00 (paperback), $A66.50 (hardback).     

Human societies as corporate entities

M. G. Smith. Corporations and Society: The Social Anthropology of Collective Action. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1975. 383 pp. Tables, bibliography and index. $17.50.