Studies of human biological variation and adaptation

Chakraborty, Ranajit, and Emoke J. E. Szathmary, eds. Diseases of Complex Etiology in Small Populations: Ethnic Differences and Research Approaches. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1985. xii + 423 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.50 cloth.

Lerner, Michael. On the Nature of Human Plasticity. New York: Cambridge, 1984. xiv + 208 pp. including references and author and subject indices. $49.50 cloth.

Overfield, Theresa. Biologic Variation in Health and Illness: Race, Age, and Sex Differences. Menlo Park, California: Addison‐Wesley, 1985. xiv + 178 pp. including references and index. $18.95 paper.

West, John B., and Sukhamay Lahiri, eds. High Altitude and Man. Bethesda, Maryland: American Physiological Society, 1984. viii + 199 pp. including chapter references and index. $39.00 cloth.     

Archeology and the heritage of man the hunter

Bailey, Geoff, ed. Hunter‐Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: a European Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. viii + 247 pp. including index and composite bibliography. $49.50 cloth.

Price, T. Douglas, and James A. Brown, eds. Prehistoric Hunter‐Gatherers: The Emergence of Cultural Complexity. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. xviii + 450 pp. including chapter references and index. $60.00 cloth.

Schrire, Carmel, ed. Past and Present in Hunter‐Gatherer Studies. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 298 pp. including chapter references and index. $33.00 cloth.     

Subjective society and socially constituted selves

Westen, Drew. Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xvii + 438 pp. including references and index. $57.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.

White, Geoffrey M., and John Kirkpatrick, eds. Person, Self and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1985, vii + 433 pp. including chapter references, chapter glossaries, and index. $38.50 cloth.     

Current perspectives on human evolution: Reaffirming the singular value of fossil evidence

Andrew, Peter, and Jens Lorenz Franzen, eds. The Early Evolution of Man with Special Emphasis on Southeast Asia and Africa. Frankfurt: Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, No. 69, 1984. 277 pp. including chapter references. Price unknown, paper.

Delson, Eric, ed. Ancestors: The Hard Evidence. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1985. xii + 366 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.50 doth.

Smith, Fred H., and Frank Spencer, eds. The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1984. xxii + 590 pp. including chapter references and index. $70.00 cloth.

Tobias, Phillip V., ed. Hominid Evolution: Past, Present and Future. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1985. xxx + 499 pp. including chapter references and index. $38.00 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.     

Drinkers and drunkards

Bennett, Linda A., and Genevieve M. Ames, eds. The American Experience with Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives. New York: Plenum, 1985. xxiv + 490 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.50 cloth.

Brill, Leon, and Charles Winick, eds. The Yearbook of Substance Use and Abuse. Volume III. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1985. 351 pp. including chapter references and indices. $39.95 cloth.     

A curious pair

Alland, Alexander, Jr. Human Nature: Darwin's View. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. x + 242 pp. including index. $25.00 cloth.

Greenwood, P. J., P. H. Harvey and M. Slatkin, eds. Evolution: Essays in Honour of John Maynard Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. vii + 328 pp. including chapter references, publications list and index. $49.50 cloth.     

Through a glass,darkly: Some non‐anthropological approaches to cross‐cultural research

Croll, Elisabeth, Delia Davin, and Penny Kane, eds. China's One‐Child Family Policy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xvi + 237 pp. including individual chapter notes and references and index. $27.50 cloth.

Unschuld, Paul U. Medicine in China: A History of Ideas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xi + 423 pp. including appendix bibliography, and index. $40.00 cloth.     

Metis,missionaries and mediaries: One hundred years of Indian‐white relationships

Castile, George Pierre. The Indians of Puget Sound: The Notebooks of Myron Eells. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. xix + 470 pp. including illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $40.00 cloth.

Peterson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer S. H. Brown, eds. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America. Manitoba Studies in Native History I. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xxii + 266 pp. including illustrations and index. $22.50 cloth.

Iverson, Peter, ed. The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. ix + 277 pp. including illustrations, maps, and index. $21.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Driben, Paul. We Are Metis: The Ethnography of a Halfbreed Community in Northern Alberta. Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada, 2. New York: AMS Press, 1985. xi + 176 pp. including bibliography and index. $32.50 cloth.     

Entering Kenya in search of context

Leo, Christopher. Land and Class in Kenya. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. xii + 244 pp. including bibliography and index. $25.00 cloth, $12.50 paper.

Miller, Norman N. Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1984. x + 180 pp. including illustrations, bibliography, and index. $20.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Bernstein, Henry, and Bonnie K. Campbell, eds. Contradictions of Accumulation in Africa. Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1985. 312 pp. including chapter references. $29.95 cloth.     

Perspectives on the family and social change: Asia and the Middle East

Hanley, Susan B., and Arthur P. Wolf, eds. Family and Population in East Asian History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985, xx + 360 pp. including reference notes and index. $45.00 cloth.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, ed. Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, xii + 356 pp. including chapter notes. $24.50 cloth, $11.95 paper.

Schrijvers, Joke Therese. Mothers for Life: Motherhood and Marginalization in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka. Delft: Eburon, 1985. xiv + 273 pp. including photographs,. glossary, and references, (n.p.)     

Anthropological Hermeneutics and Indian Religion

Burghart, Richard, and Audrey Cantlie, eds. Indian Religion. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xi + 258 pp. including chapter references. $27.50 cloth.

Marglin, Frédérique Apffel. Wives of the God‐King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. xv + 388 pp. including plates, bibliography, glossary, and index. $29.95 cloth.     

The uses of biology

Boyd, Robert, and Peter J. Richerson. Culture and the Evolutionary Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. vii + 331 pp. including references and author and subject indices. $29.95 cloth.

Butterworth, George, Julie Rutkowska, and Michael Scaife, eds. Evolution and Developmental Psychology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xxiv + 205 pp. including chapter references and index. $27.50 cloth.     

Studying healing practices by geographical region

Parsons, Claire D., ed. Healing Practices in the South Pacific. The Institute for Polynesian Studies. Distributed by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1985. xiv + 250 pp. including references, index and maps. $22.50 cloth.

du Toit, Brian M., and Ismail H. Abdalla, eds. African Healing Strategies. New York: Trado‐Medic Books, 1985. x + 279 pp. including chapter references, and illustrations. $39.95 cloth, $20.00 paperback.     

Earth science and archaeology

Rapp, George, Jr., and John A. Gifford. eds. Archaeological Geology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. xvii + 435 pp. including figures, chapter references, appendix, and index. $35.00 cloth.

Stein, Julie K., and William R. Farrand, eds. Archaeological Sediments in Context. Orono: University of Maine, Center for the Study of Early Man, Peopling of the Americas Edited Volume Series 1, 1985. xi + 147 pp. including figures, chapter references, and index. $19.00 paper.     

The social origins of cognition: A basis for reintegrating anthropology and psychology?

Wertsch, James V., ed. Culture, Communication and Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. x + 379 pp. including notes, bibliography, and indices. $42.50 cloth, $14.00 paper.

Rogoff, Barbara, and Jean Lave, eds. Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context. Cambridge: Harvard Unversity Press, 1984. vi + 352 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 cloth.     

Ex oriente lux revisited

Champion, Timothy, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, and Alasdair Whittle. Prehistoric Europe. New York: Academic Press, 1984. ix + 359 pp. including references and index. $45.00 cloth, $23.50 paper.

Champion, T. C, and J. V. S. Megaw, eds. Settlement and Society: Aspects of West European Prehistory in the First Millennium B.C. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xi + 243 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 cloth.

Ammerman, Albert J., and L. L. Cavalli‐Sforza. The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv + 176 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth.     

Gender collections: Three approaches to the subject

Frese, Pamela R. and John M. Coggeshall, eds. Transcending Boundaries: Multi‐Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gender. New York: Bergin and Garvey, 1991. xvi + 208 pp. including chapter references and index. $42.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Jolly, Margaret and Martha Macintyre, eds. Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 296 pp. including collected bibliography and index. $49.50 cloth.

Sanday, Peggy Reeves and Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, eds. Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. viii + 350 pp. including chapter references and indices. $36.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.     

Anthropology,sinophilia and modes of production

Thurston, Anne F., and Burton Pasternak, eds. The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. xv + 161 pp. including reference notes. $22.50 cloth.

Watson, Rubie S. Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xiii + 193 pp. including maps, references, glossary, and index. $37.50 cloth.     

‘Dirty old ladies,’ mothers,and others: Age and gender in cultural and biological perspectives

Brown, Judith K., and Virginia Kerns, eds. In Her Prime: A New View of Middle‐Aged Women. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey, 1985. xii + 217 pp. including individual chapter bibliographies and combined index. $25.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Davis, Dona Lee. Blood and Nerves: An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause. St. Johns, Newfoundland: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1983. x + 234 pp. including maps, appendices, and bibliography. $9.00 paper.

Rossi, Alice S., ed. Gender and the Life Course. New York: Aldine, 1985. xxi + 368 pp. including chapter references and author and subject indices. $34.94 cloth; $15.95 paper.