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.     

Still searching for urban anthropology

Abner Cohen, ed. Urban Ethnicity. London: Tavistock Publications. Association of Social Anthropologists, Monograph No. 12, 1974. xxiv + 391 pp. Tables, references, and index. $16.00.

George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper, eds. Anthropologists in Cities. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. viii + 261 pp. Charts and bibliography. $6.95 (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.     

Ethnicity as adaptation: Strategies and systems

John W. Bennett, ed. The New Ethnicity: Perspectives from Ethnology. 1973 Proceedings of The American Ethnological Society. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1975. xi + 334 pp. Tables, figures, and references. $9.95.

Leo A. Despres, ed. Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies. World Anthropology: An Interdisciplinary Series. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. (Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Company.) xii + 221 pp. Tables, figures, biographical notes, and indexes. $12.50.     

Anthropological genetics: A new frontier

M. H. Crawford and P. L. Workman, eds. Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973. xv + 509 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $20.00.     

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.     

Book notes

Paul Boreham, Alec Pemberton and Paul Wilson, (eds.), The Professions in Australia, A Critical Appraisal. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1976, pp. 290 + vii, $8.50, $12.95 cloth.

Goldstein, Ray, and Alley, Rod, (eds.), Labour in Power: Promise and Performance, Price Milburn for New Zealand University Press, Wellington, 1975, pp. 200, $3.96.     

Tragic Elements in Calderón's La Dama Duende

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Ricardo Landeira. El género policíaco en la literatura española del siglo XIX. Universidad de Alicante, 2001. 142 pp.

Armine Kotin Mortimer and Katherine Kolb, eds. Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii + 316 pp. $39.95.

Madeleine Dobie. Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism. Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 234 pp. $49.50.

Daniel Murphy. Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001. 263 pp. $43.50.

Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxii + 367 pp. $59.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.     

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.     

Hill and valley minorities in Northern Thailand

William Robert Geddes. Migrants of the Mountains: The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xviii +274 pp. $21.25.

James W. Hamilton. Pwo Karen: At the Edge of Mountain and Plain. St. Paul: West Publishing Co. The American Ethnological Society, Monograph no. 60, 1976. xxiii + 354 pp. $12.95.     

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.     

New ways of organizing complex data: Multidimensional scaling

A. Kimball Romney, Roger N. Shepard and Sara Beth Nerlove, eds. Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences. New York: Seminar Press, 1972. Volume One: xvi + 261 pp. Figures and index. $12.95. Volume Two: xvi + 323 pp. Tables, figures and index. $14.75.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Psychologists on culture and thought

Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner. Culture and Thought: A Psychological Introduction. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. vii + 227 pp. Figures, references, and indexes. $8.95 (paper).

J. W. Berry and P. R. Dasen, eds. Culture and Cognition: Readings in Cross‐Cultural Psychology London: Methuen (New York: Barnes & Noble), 1974. xiv + 487 pp. Figures, tables, references, and indexes. $17.00 (cloth), $8.50 (paper).     

Demographic anthropology

John F. Marshall and Steven Polgar, eds. Culture, Natality and Family Planning. Chapel Hill: Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, 1976. xiii + 301 pp. Tables.

Bernice A. Kaplan, ed. Anthropological Studies of Human Fertility. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976. v + 146 pp. $8.95.     

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.