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 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.     

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.     

The Persisting Conflict of Interpretations of Shamanism

Brenda Johnson Clay. Pinikindu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xviii + 173 pp. $14.00.

Edward L. Schieffelin. The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. vi + 243 pp. $12.95, cloth. $4.95, paper.     

Land and man in highland Ethiopia

Allan Hoben. Land Tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. $9.50.     

Book reviews

Teny S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Eds. Technology and the West: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 461.

Jon Agar. Science and Spectacle: The Work ofjodrell Bank in Post‐War British Culture. Harwood, 1998. pp. Xx+260. IIIus., Index., Bibliog.

David Nye. Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), pp. xii + 331.     

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).     

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).     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Paul Riesman. Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography. Translated from the French by Martha Fuller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 297 pp. Notes, glossary and index of Fulani terms, bibliography, general index, illustrations. $25.00.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

What happened in Kuyo Chico

Oscar Núñez del Prado, with the collaboration of William F. Whyte. Kuyo Chico: Applied Anthropology in an Indian Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xxv + 162 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, and index. $9.50.     

Early American technological Edens

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

Publications received 1984–1985

José Manuel Sánchez Ron (1997): INTA. 50 años de ciencia y técnica aeroespacial (Madrid: INTA)

Dieter Hoffmann and Kristie Macrakis (eds.), Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der DDR (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997), pp. 410.

Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker (eds.), Science, Technology and National Socialum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 422.

Keith Wailoo, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth‐Century America, (Baltimore &; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), xii+288 pp., ill.

Richard H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Islands and the Origins of Environmentalism. 1660–1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (HB) and 1996 (PB)), pp. xiv+540.

Peter Galison, Image and Logic. A Material Culture of Mkrophysics. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997) pp. xxv+955.     

Ethnoarchaeology,Pottery, and Technology: Bridging Ethnographic and Archaeological Approaches

Paul Hockings, ed. Principles of Visual Anthropology. The Hague: Mouton/ Chicago: Aldine, 1975. xiii + 521 pp. Photos, indexes, filmography. $24.50.

Karl G. Heider. Ethnographic Film. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1976. xiv + 166 pp. Index, catalog of films. $9.95.     

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.     

Book reviews

Ken Alder. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. xvi+476.

Robert Kanigel. The One Best Way: Frederick Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (New York: Viking, 1997), pp. 675.

Robert P. Crease. Making Physics. A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972 (University of Chicago Press, 1999).     

The anthropology of ethnicity

Frances Henry, ed. Ethnicity in the Americas. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1976. vii + 438 pp. Bibliographical notes and index. $22.50.     

Observing the complex through simple lenses

Lloyd A. Fallers. The Social Anthropology of the Nation State. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1974. xiii + 171 pp. Maps, tables, references, and index. $7.95.