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).     

Micronesia: The politics of the colonized

Carl Heine. Micronesia at the Crossroads: A Reappraisal of the Micronesian Political Dilemma. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974. xvi + 210 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $10.00 (cloth); $2.95 (paper).

Daniel T. Hughes and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter, eds. Political Development in Micronesia. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974. 333 pp. Tables, charts, references, and index. $15.00.     

New perspectives on West African women

Niara Sudarkasa. Where Women Work: A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 53. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1973. x + 176 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, plates. $4.00 (paper).

Christine Oppong. Marriage among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 8. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. (Foreword by Meyer Fortes.) xv + 187 pp. Map, tables, appendix, bibliographies, index. $13.95.

Kenneth Little. African Women in Towns: An Aspect of Africa's Social Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. viii + 242 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. $16.50 (cloth), $5.95 (paper).     

Stuttering and stress

Ruby Rohrlich Leavitt. The Puerto Ricans: Culture Change and Language Deviance. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1974. ix + 268 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $4.95 (paper).     

Determinants of role differentiation: The Kibbutz case

Yonina Talmon. Family and Community in the Kibbutz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972 (paper, 1974). xiii + 266 pp. Tables, appendix, references, and index. $12.00 cloth, $3.75 paper.

Lionel Tiger and Joseph Shepher. Women in the Kibbutz. New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1975. vii + 334 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $10.95.     

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.     

Melanesian distributive justice

Paul P. Ekeh. Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. xv + 237 pp. References and index. $8.95.

Erik Schwimmer. Exchange in the Social Structure of the Orakaiva: Tradition and Emergenc Ideologies in the Northern District of Papua. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. ix + 244 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $15.95.     

Pure wax: A one man script

Donald N. Levine. Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. xv+ 229 pp. Maps, tables, charts, appendix, bibliography, and index. $12.50 (cloth).     

British anthropologists and African railwaymen

R. D. Grillo. African Railwaymen: Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. xi + 215 pp. Figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $15.00 (cloth).     

A man and a book

A. Irving Hallowell. Culture and Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974. (First published in 1955.) xiv + 434 pp. Figures, tables and bibliography. $6.95 (paper).     

Inequality and American institutions: The end of innocence

Alan Howard. Ain't No Big Thing: Coping Strategies in a Hawaiian‐American Community. An East‐West Center Book. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1974. xxv +311 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, appendices, references, and index. $10.00.

Donald V. Kurtz. The Politics of a Poverty Habitat. Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1973. xxiv + 243 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $12.50.     

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.     

Hutterites forever

John A. Hostetler. Hutterite Society. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. xiv + 403 pp. Tables, maps, charts, illustrations, appendices, selected bibliography, and index. $14.00.     

Disciplines in search of data: The Australian aborigine viewed through a diversity of lenses

G. E. Kearney, P. R. De Lacey, and G. R. Davidson, eds. The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians. Sydney. John Wiley & Sons Australasia Pty Ltd., 1973. xii + 446 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, and biography. $17.50

John Cawte. Medicine is the Law: Studies in Psychiatric Anthropology of Australian Tribal Societies. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974. xxiv + 260 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $10.50.     

On the brain and human status

Earl W. Count. Being and Becoming Human: Essays on the Biogram. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Behavioral Science Series, 1973. xv + 349 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $14.95 (cloth; $6.95 (paper).

Harry J. Jerison. Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. New York: Academic Press, 1973. xiv + 482 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, index, and bibliography. $25.00.     

The anthropology of modernization and the modernization of anthropology

John J. Poggie, Jr. and Robert N. Lynch, eds. Rethinking Modernization. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1974. xii + 405 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $15.95.     

The urban paradox of a stranger

Rubén E. Reina. Paraná: Social Boundaries in an Argentine City. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1974. xxiv + 390 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $10.00.     

Studies in sociolinguistics

William Labov. Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular. Conduct and Communication No. 3. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. xxiv + 412 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $6.95 (paper).

William Labov. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Conduct and Communication No. 4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. xviii + 344 pp. Figures, tables, biliography, and index. $5.95 (paper).     

The anthropological study of Theravada Buddhism

Richard F. Gombrich. Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. viii + 366 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £4.00 (U.K.).

E. Michael Mendelson. Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. 389 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $19.50.

Melford E. Spiro. Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. iv + 507 pp. Appendix, references, and index. $17.95.

S.J. Tambiah. Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North‐East Thailand. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, Number 2. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975 (First paperback edition), xi + 388 pp. Illustrations, maps, diagrams, tables, bibliography, and index. $6.95 paper.     

Ideology versus economy in culture change

John W. Cole and Eric R. Wolf. The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley: Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1974. xiv + 348 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.