The caste system of India on the skids: Totaled by democracy and a dynamic economy?

Anand Chakravarti. Contradiction and Change: Emerging Patterns of Authority in a Rajasthan Village. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xii + 234 pp. Tables, diagrams, maps, appendixes, references, and index. $9.00.

D. B. Miller. From Hierarchy to Stratification: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality in a North Indian Village. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xviii + 229 pp. Diagrams, illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, and index. $9.75.     

Symbolism rehashed and symbolism rethought

Edmund R. Leach. Culture and Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1976. 105 pp.

Dan Sperber. Rethinking Symbolism. Translator, Alice L. Morton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. xiii + 153 pp.     

Interpretive anthropology

Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby, eds. Meaning in Anthropology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. xii + 255 pp. Bibliography, index. $17.50.

Anthony Giddens. New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretive Sociologies. New York: Basic Books. 1976. 192 pp. Bibliography, index. $10.95.     

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.     

Teaching social science models

Ralph L. Beals. The Peasant Marketing System of Oaxaca, Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. ix + 419 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. $20.00.

Scott Cook and Martin Diskin, eds. Markets in Oaxaca, Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976. 285 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, and index. $9.95.     

The origin of the four stages theory: A contribution to the history of social evolutionary thought

Ronald L. Meek. Social Science and the Ignoble Savage. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. v + 249 pp. Index. $17.50.     

Anthropology and working class life

W. H. Form. Blue Collar Stratification: Auto Workers in Four Countries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. i‐xx + 335 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $17.00.

J. D. Edelstein and M. Warner. Comparative Union Democracy: Organization and Opposition in British and American Labor Unions. London: George Allen, Unwin, Ltd. 1976. i‐ix + 378 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

L. B. Rubin. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family. New York: Basic Books, 1976. i‐xiii +268 pp. Bibliography, and index. $11.95.     

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.     

Consuming relationships 1

Fred Hirsch. Social Limits to Growth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. xi + 208 pp. $10.00. Paperback edition, 1978. $3.95. A Twentieth Century Fund Study.     

Large studies,small populations

Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, eds. Kalahari Hunter‐Gatherers: Studies of the !Kung San and Their Neighbors. Cambridge: 1976. Harvard University Press, xx + 408 pp. Maps, figures, tables, illustrations.     

The city as a set of problems: A non‐synthesizing approach to understanding urban places

Neil C. Kalt and Sheldon S. Zalkind. Urban Problems: Psychological Inquiries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. v + 543 pp. Author index, subject index. $13.00 cloth, $8.00 paper.     

Ethnicity,political development and modernization in Africa

Nelson Kasfir. The Shrinking Political Arena: Participation and Ethnicity in African Politics, with a Case Study of Uganda. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976. xvi + 323 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $23.50.     

Myth,social reality,and the urban poor

J. E. Perlman. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. xxi + 341 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, references, and bibliography. $19.50.     

A case history in the transformation of rural Europe: Fuenterrabía

Davydd J. Greenwood. Unrewarding Wealth: The Commercialization and Collapse of Agriculture in a Spanish Basque Town. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. x + 223 pp. Tables, figures, epilogue, notes, references, appendix, and index. $16.95.     

Anthropology and education: History,method and applications to American schooling

Joan I. Roberts and Sherrie K. Akinsanya, eds. Educational Patterns and Cultural Configurations: The Anthropology of Education. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976. xiv + 412 pp. Bibliography, biographical notes, and references. $7.95 paper.

Joan I. Roberts and Sherrie K. Akinsanya, eds. Schooling in the Cultural Context: Anthropological Studies of Education. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976. xiv + 499 pp. Biographical notes and references. $8.95 paper.

Nobou Kenneth Shimahara and Adam Scrupski, eds. Social Forces and Schooling: An Anthropological and Sociological Perspective. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1975. xiv + 358 pp. Biographical notes and references. $6.95 paper.     

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.     

Constructing the Past

Ronald L. Grimes. Symbol and Conquest: Public Ritual and Drama in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976. 281 pp. $16.50.     

Sociocultural research contributions to alcohol studies: More apparent than real

B. Kissin and H. Begleiter, eds. Social Aspects of Alcoholism. The Biology of Alcoholism. Vol. 4. New York: Plenum Press, 1976. xxiv + 643 pp. List of contributors, contents of earlier volumes, chapter references, index.

J. Leland. Firewater Myths. Monograph No. 11. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1976. xv + 158 pp. Tables, charts, bibliography, index of subjects.

J. B. Roebuck and W. Frese. The Rendezvous: A Case Study of an After‐Hours Club. New York: The Free Press, 1976. x + 278 pp. Bibliography, index.

E. E. LeMasters. Blue‐Collar Aristocrats: Life‐Styles at a Working‐Class Tavern. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. ix + 218 pp. Footnotes to chapters, index.     

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.     

Organized industrial workers in Bangalore India

Mark Holström. South Indian Factory Workers: Their Life and Their World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. xi+ 158 pp. $14.95.