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.     

Archaeology advances?

Michael B. Schiffer, ed. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, New York: Academic Press, 1981, 1982, 1983. Vol. IV, xii + 443 pp., $38.00; Vol. V, xiii + 478 pp., $42.00; Vol. VI, xiii + 359 pp., $37.50; Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory: Selections for Students from Volumes 1 through 4, New York: Academic Press, 1982, xiv + 690 pp., $19.95     

Signs of the impending apocalypse?

Allan W. Eister, ed. Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xxii + 370 pp. Tables, figures, chapter notes, references, and index. $14.50.

J. Stillson Judah. Hare Krishna and the Counterculture. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xviii + 301 pp. Tables, figures, references, selected bibliography, glossary, appendix, and index. $14.95.

B. Z. Sobel. Hebrew Christianity: The Thirteenth Tribe. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xi + 413 pp. Chapter notes, bibliography, appendix, notes, references, and index. $12.50.

Edward A. Tiryakian, ed. On the Margin of the Visible: Sociology, the Esoteric, and the Occult. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xv + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, and author index. $9.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Karen L. King : What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; pp. xii + 343. Michael Frassetto , ed.: The Year 1000: Religious and Social Responses to the Turning of the First Millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xi + 278. K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn : Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner : Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002; pp. xi + 321. Patricia Londoño ‐Vega : Religion, Culture and Society in Colombia. Medellín and Antioquia, 1850–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; pp. xiii + 402. Colin Holden : Church in a Landscape. Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Group, 2002; pp. xix + 324. Jeffrey J. Kripal : Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xviii + 412. William James , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Centenary ed. (First published New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902) London and New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. lxiii + 415.     

The Images of Arabs and Jews as a factor in British policy towards Palestine

Moshe Davis and Ben‐Arieh Yehoshua, eds., With Eyes Toward Zion, (Volume III, Western Societies and the Holy Land), New York, Praeger, 1991, 304 pp., $55.00.

Sergio I. Minerbi, The Vatican and Zionism, Conflict in the Holy Land 1895–1925, translated from Hebrew by Arnold Schwartz (Studies in Jewish History Series) (Mus.), New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, 272 pp., $30.00.

Ephraim Even, The Schism in the 1922 Zionist Movement: Why Jabotinsky Established the New Zionist Organization (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Rubin Mass Ltd., 1992, 243 pp.

I. Alfassi, ed., Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization): Collection of Archival Sources and Documents, April 1937‐April 1941, Tel Aviv. Vol. I, 1990, 472 pp.; Vol. II, 1992, 472 pp.

Abraham S. Hyman, The Undefeated, Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 1993,486 pp., $24.95.

Yemima Rosenthal, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Volume 6, 1951, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1991, 916 pp. and Yehoshua Freundlich, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Volume 7, 1952, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1992, 774 pp.

Nitza Ben‐Dov, Notes on Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Contents in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon, New York, E.J. Brill, 1993, 168 pp., $57.25.

Morris, Benny. Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, xxii+470 pp.

Laurence J. Silberstein, ed., New Perspectives on Israeli History, New York, New York University Press, 1991, ix+281 pp.

Itamar Rabinovich, The Road Not Taken: Early Arab‐Israeli Negotiations, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, xi+259 pp., $22.95.

Benny Morris, Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, xii+470 pp.     

Social control,structure and practice

Black, Donald, ed. Toward A General Theory of Social Control. Volume 1: Fundamentals. New York: Academic Press, 1984. xvi + 363 pp. including author and subject indexes, bibliographies, list of contributors. $45.00 cloth.

Black, Donald, ed. Toward A General Theory of Social Control. Volume 2: Selected Problems. New York: Academic Press, 1984. x + 310 pp. including author and subject indexes, bibliographies, list of contributors. S39.50 cloth.     

Wither women and work

Afshar, Haleh, ed. Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985. xvii + 265 pp. including indices and chapter notes and references. $15.95 cloth.

Larwood, Laurie, Ann H. Stromberg, and Barbara A. Gutek, eds. Women and Work: An Annual Review, Vol. 1. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. 312 pp. including chapter references. $29.95 cloth.

Long, Norman, ed. Family and Work in Rural Societies: Perspectives on Non‐wage Labour. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1984. viii + 222 pp. including references and indices. $33.00 cloth; $13.95 paper.     

Patterns of male caregiving behavior among primates

Smuts, Barbara Boardman. Sex and Friendship in Baboons. New York: Aldine Publishing Company, 1985. xvii + 303 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and subject index. $34.95 cloth.

Taub, David M., ed. Primate Paternalism. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1984. xii + 441 pp. including individual chapter references and index. $44.00 cloth.     

Patients and practitioners: Three hundred years of Western medicine

Ludmerer, Kenneth M. Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education. New York: Basic Books, 1985. xv + 346 pp. $21.95 cloth.

Morantz‐Sanchez, Regina Markell. Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xii + 464 pp. $24.95 cloth.

Porter, Roy, ed. Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre‐Industrial Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 356 pp. $49.50 cloth.     

Production and reproduction: A reprise

Michael B. Schiffer, ed. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory. New York: Academic Press. 1978, 1979, 1980. Vol. I: xv+426 pp., $24.50; Vol. II, xii + 340 pp., $28.50; Vol. III, xii + 448 pp., $39.50.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Israel Bartal : The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772–1881, trans. Chaya Naor . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 [2002]; pp. vi + 203. Jay R. Berkowitz : Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004; pp. 333. George Bernard : The King's Reformation. Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005; pp. xii + 736. Madeleine Biardeau : Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess. Trans. Alf Hiltebeitel , James Walker , and Marie ‐Louise Reiniche . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. 358. 108 halftones, 10 figures, 3 maps. T. Patrick Burke : The Major Religions: An Introduction with Texts, 2d ed. Malden, Oxford, and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2004 [1996]; pp. xix + 380. Lorne L. Dawson , ed.: Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader. Malden, MA, Oxford, and Melbourne: Blackwell Publishing, 2003; pp. 312. Carl W. Ernst : Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Ian Forrest : The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005; pp. vii + 277. Ian Hunter , John Christian Anderson , and Cary J. Nederman , eds: Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Catholic Christendom, 300–1700. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2005; pp. xii + 205. Marion Maddox : God Under Howard: The Rise of The Religious Right in Australian Politics. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005; pp. 386. Arthur F. Marotti : Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti‐Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2005; pp. xii + 307. Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless , eds: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003; pp. 224. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby , eds: Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. 307. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby , ed.: The Hindu World. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. pp. 657. Karla Poewe : New Religions and the Nazis. New York and London: Routledge, 2006; pp. xii + 218. Adam Possamai : Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyperreal Testament. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005; pp. 176. Janine Tasca Sawada : Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth‐Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, 2004: pp. 432. Stefanie B. Siegmund : The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006; pp. xxii + 624, 2 maps, 9 figures. Anna M. Silvas : The Asketikon of St Basil the Great, Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; pp. xx + 517, 1 map, 7 appendices. Michael Strmiska (ed.): Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC‐CLIO, 2005; pp. ix + 382. Robert A. F. Thurman and the AIBS team , trans.: The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara). New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and Columbia University's Centre for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, 2004. pp. 368. Claire Walker : Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. xii + 247. R. Willis and P. Curry : Astrology, Science, and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004; pp. v + 170. John Witte , Jr . and Robert Kingdon : Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin's Geneva: Volume 1: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage. Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Cambridge: William B. Eeardmans Publishing Company, 2005; pp. xxxii + 512.     

Food and behavior: Finding common ground among the disciplines

Barker, Lewis M., ed. The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. Westport, Connecticut: AVI Publishers, 1982. xv + 268 pp. including chapter references and index $27.50 cloth.

Galler, Janina R., ed. Nutrition and Behavior. New York: Plenum, 1984. xviii + 514 pp. including chapter references, glossary, and index. $49.50 cloth.     

American education‐the image in the mirror

Solon T. Kimball. Culture and the Educative Process: An Anthropological Perspective. New York: Teachers College Press, 1974. x + 285 pp. $10.00 (cloth).

George D. Spindler, ed. Education and Cultural Process: Toward an Anthropology of Education. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. xii + 559 pp. Tables, figures, appendixes and indexes. $6.95 (paper).     

Reviews

Sam Smiles, The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. x + 252 pp., 128 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–300–05814–4. £35.00.

Marcia Pointon (ed.), Art Apart: Art Institutions and Ideology Across England and North America, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. 292 pp., 39 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–7190–3918–5. f 10.99.

Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff (eds.), Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, London: Routledge and Minneapolis: the University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xx + 301 pp., 26 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–09274–4. £14.99.

Sheena Mackellar Goulty, Heritage Gardens. Care, Conservation and Management, London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 176 pp., 82 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–07474–6. £19.99.

Anne Fahy (ed.), Collections Management, London and New York: Rontledge, 1995. xii + 304 pp., 2 figs. ISBN 0–415–11283–4. £19.99.

Annie E. Coombes, Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. vii + 280 pp., 112 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–300‐ 05972–8. £35.00.

Lesley Hoskins (ed.), The Papered Wall. The History, Patterns and Techniques of Wallpaper, London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 256 pp., 185 col. and 157 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–500–23695‐X. £32.00.     

Food and famine: Looking for answers

White, Philip, and Nancy Selvey, eds. Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease, Volume 10: Malnutrition—Determinants and Consequences. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1984. xvi + 494 pp. including references, index. $96.00 cloth.

Robson, John R. K., ed. Famine: Its Causes, Effects, and Management. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1981. x + 170 pp. including photographs, references, index. $30.95 cloth.     

Anthropology and the Artifacts of Medical Practice

Brown, Paula. Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xix + 296 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $36.00 cloth.

Tuzin, Donald. The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiii + 256 pp. including notes, maps, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Biersack, Aletta, ed. Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. xiv + 440 pp. including collected bibliography, other works cited, and index. $59.50 cloth.     

Piety and Scepticism

Jarvie, I. C. Rationality and Relativism: In Search of a Philosophy of Anthropology. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. xiii + 157 pp. including bibliography and index. $15.00 cloth.

Evans‐Pritchard, Edward. (André Singer, ed.) A History of Anthropological Thought. New York: Basic Books, xxxvi + 218 pp. including appendix, bibliography, index, and introduction by Ernest Gellner. $16.50 cloth.     

Justice,aggression, and theatre: Contradictions and conflict in the modern world

Cohen, Ronald L. ed. Justice: Views from the Social Sciences. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1986. xii + 283 pp. including chapter references and subject and author indices. $32.50 cloth.

Gilmore, David D. Aggression and Community: Paradoxes of Andalusian Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. xvi + 218 pp. including map, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $24.50 cloth.

Wagner‐Pacifici, Robin Erica. The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xi + 360 pp. including appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Gorecki, Jan. Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. x + 165 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50 paper.     

Anthropology,revolution, and development

Green, Edward C., ed. Practicing Development Anthropology. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1986. xi + 283 pp. including tables, figures, and acknowledgements. $26.50 paper.

Banerjee, Diptendra, ed. Marxian Theory and the Third World. New Delhi/Beverly Hills/London: Sage Publications, 1985. 325 pp. including chapter references and list of contributors. No price.     

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).