DOMINANT KINGS AND FORGOTTEN QUEENS

Islands of History. By M. Sahlins . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xix + 180. Price: US$22.50. Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. By V. Valeri . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvii + 446.     

Translating Malraux

Malraux, A., The Temptation of the West (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 136pp., US$10.95; The Conquerors (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 210pp., US$10.95; The Walnut Trees of Altenburg (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 234pp., £11.95     

On Greenfield's Review of The Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions: A Response

Jack M. Potter. Thai Peasant Social Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.     

Please Destabilize Ethnography Now: Against Anthropological Showbiz-as-Usual

Gregg, Susan Ailing. Foragers and Farmers: Population Interaction and Agricultural Expansion in Prehistoric Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. xx + 275 pp. including index and bibliography. $24.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Hastorf, Christine A., and Virginia S. Popper. Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xii + 236 pp. including chapter references and index. $24.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Pearsall, Deborah M. Paleoethnobotany: a Handbook of Procedures. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. xii + 470 pp. including chapter references and index. $59.95.     

…?… evidence…?…

Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Edited by James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 518pp. $45.00 cloth $19.95 paper.

The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves. By Jed Z. Buchwald (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 428pp. $32.95 paper $75.00 cloth.     

Humanized nature and objective spirit

Valeri, Valerio, (Paula Wissing, transl.) Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xxviii + 446 pp. including notes with references, plates, and index. $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Heesterman, J. C. The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 255 pp. including notes with references and index. $32.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Charlesworth, Max, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, and Kenneth Mad‐dock, eds. Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology. Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xii + 458 pp. including chapter references and index. $35.00 cloth.     

Early American technological Edens

Howard P. Segal, Technological Utopianism in American Culture, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1985     

Review

Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island By Jean Paul Dumont The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1992, pp. 226+xxii, maps and illustrations     

The limits of individualism,the ideology of the west

Louis Dumont. From Mandeville to Marx. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 236 pp. Appendix, notes, and bibliography. $17.50.     

Asia in the history of cartography

The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 226 31635 1. Pp xxiv, 579, 355 illus., 40 coloured plates. US$143.75 (cloth).

The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN 0226 31637 8. Pp xxviii, 1,040, 503 illus., 40 coloured plates. US$195.00 (cloth).     

The Oedipus complex in cultural anthropology today

Spiro, Melford E. Oedipus in the Trobriands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xii + 200 pp. including references and index. $8.00 paper.     

The upper Xingu village is a stage

Thomas Gregor. Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.     

An urban slum revisited

William Foote Whyte. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943.xii + 284 pp. $5.00.     

The peregrinations of pattini

Obeyesekere, Gananath. The Cult of the Goddess Pattini. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. xvii + 629 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00 cloth.     

The place of the symbol in the practice of anthropological reasoning

Marshall Sahlins. Culture and Practical Reason. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xii + 252 pp. Figures, table, references, and index. $17.50.     

Inequality reconsidered

Lloyd A. Fallers. Inequality: Social Stratification Reconsidered. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. xii + 330 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $12.50.     

THICK BEYOND DESCRIPTION ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURE AS TROPE

Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland. By Roy Wagner . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv + 238. Price: US$30. Symbols That Stand For Themselves. By Roy Wagner . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 150.     

Gossip in ethnography

John Beard Haviland. Gossip, Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 260 pp. Tables, diagrams, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.     

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.