A new dimension for language

Guss, David M., ed. The Language of the Birds: Tales, Texts, and Poems of Interspecies Communication. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. xv + 361 pp. including notes and sources. $14.50 paper.

Klein, Harriet E. M. and Louisa R. Stark, eds. South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. vi + 863 pp. including chapter notes, chapter references, and index.     

BOOK NOTES

Books reviewed in this article: Burstein, Paul. Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle For Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1985 x+247 0-226-08134-6 $30.00 (hardcover) 0-226-08135-4 $12.95 (softcover). Cochran, Clarke E., et al. American Public Policy: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin's 1985 xvii+430 0-312-03121-1 $24.95 (hardcover). Crozier, Michel. The Trouble With America: Why the System is Breaking Down. Berkeley: University of California Press 1984 xx+156 0-520-05733-3 $7.95 (softcover). Grieson, Ronald E. (editor). Antitrust and Regulation. Lexington, MA: B.C. Heath/Lexington Books 1986 xiii+280 0-669-09301-7 $32.00 (hardcover). Hayward, Jack. The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in France. New York: New York University Press 1986 xv+267 0-8147-3435-9 $35.00 (hardcover). Houseman, Gerald L. State and Local Government: The New Battleground. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1986 xiii+272 0-13-843368-2 $17.95 (softcover). Jackman, Mary R. and Robert W. Jackman. Class Awareness in the United Stages. Berkeley: University of California Press 1986 x+231 0-520-05631-0 $10.95 (softcover). Jones, Catherine. Patterns of Social Policy: An Introduction to Comparative Analysis. New York: Tavistock 1986 ix+229 0-422-77260-7 $14.95 (softcover). Keithly, David M. Breakthrough in the Ostpolitik: The 1971 Quadripartite Agreement. Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1986 xi+247 0-8133-7178-3 $26.50 (softcover). Lisk, Franklyn (editor). Popular Participation in Planning for Basic Needs. New York: St. Martin's Press 1985 ix+277 0-312-63060-3 $29.95 (hardcover). Mann, Charles K. and Barbara Huddleston (eds.). Food Policy: Frameworks for Analysis and Action. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press 1986 xi+243 0-243-34342-9. McCurdy, Howard E. Public Administration: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature. New York: Marcel Dekker 1986 ix +311 0-8247-7518-X $29.75 (hardcover). Miser, Hugh J. and Edward S. Quade (ed.). Handbook of Systems Analysis: Overview of Uses, Procedures, Applications, and Practice. New York: North-Holland 1985 xviii+346 0-444-00918-3 $49.50 (hardcover) Perris Arnold. Music as Propaganda: Art to Persuade, Art to Control. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1985 x+247 0-313-24505-3 $29.00 (hardcover). Quandt, William B. Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics. Washington, B.C.: Brookings Institution 1986 xvi+426 0-8157-7290-4 $32.95 (hardcover) 0-8157-7289-0 $12.95 (softcover). Repetto, Robert (editor). The Globe Possible: Resources, Development and the New Century. New Haven: Yale University Press 1985 xv+538 0-300-03505-5. Reynolds, Helen. The Economics of Prostitution. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas 1986 xi+206 0-398-05161-5 $24.75 (hardcover). Rhodes, R.A.H. The National World of Local Government. Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin 1986 xviii+441 0-04-320170-9 $45.00 (hardcover). Roessner, J. David, et al. The Impact of Office Automation on Clerical Employment, 1985–2000: Forecasting techniques and Plausible Futures in Banking and Insurance. Westport, CT: Quorum/Greenwood Press 1985 xii+297 089930-119-3 $49.95 (hardcover). Rogers, Kathryn S. U.S. Goes Abroad. New York: Praeger 1985 xiii+259 0-03-004354-9 $38.95 (hardcover). Thieblot, Armand J., Jr. Prevailing Mage Legislation: The Davis-Bacon Act, State “Little Davis Bacon” Acts. The Walsh-Healy Act, and the Service Contract Act. Philadelphia: Wharton School Industrial Research Unit/University of Pennsylvania 1986 xii+279 0-89546-055-6 $27.50 (softcover). Wolfe, Christopher. The Rise of Modern Judicial Review: From Constitutional Interpretation to Judge-Made Law. New York: Basic Books 1986 x+392 0-465-07033-7 $24.95 (hardcover).     

Multiplicities of Nomadism and Varieties of Anthropological Theory

Stockard, Janice E. Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860–1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. xv + 221 pp. including maps, appendices, references, and index. $32.50 cloth.

Watson, Rubie S. and Patricia Buckley Ebrey, eds. Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvii + 385 pp. including figures, map, contributors and index. $49.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

Book reviews

James E. McClellen III and Harold Dorn. Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999.404 pages + illustrations + maps + graphs + bibliography + index. $55.00 (hardcover), $18.95 (paperback).

Arnold Pacey. Meaning in Technology (Cambridge, Mass and London, England: MIT Press, 1999), pp. viii+264.     

Women's studies in anthropology: Old debates and new issues

Powers, Maria N. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xv + 241 pp. including reference notes and index. $19.95 cloth.

Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. viii + 285 pp. including notes, and index. $24.95 cloth.

Simms, Margaret C., and Julianne M. Malveaux, eds. Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1986. 302 pp. including chapter references. $12.95 paper.     

Theory,Practice, Life: Rethinking Americanist Anthropology for the Twenty- First Century

Collier, Jane Fishburne, and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako, eds. Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. xiii + 369 pp. including references. $39.50 cloth.

Lamphere, Louise. From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xviii + 390 pp. including references and index. $45.00 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Shaver, Phillip, and Clyde Hendrick, eds. Sex and Gender. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1987. 328 pp. including references. No price.     

Women anthropologists look at women

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, eds. Woman, Culture, and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. xi + 352 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $12.50 (cloth), $3.95 (paper).     

The selves of others

Carrithers, Michael, Collins, Steven, and Lukes, Steven, eds. The Category of the Person. 1985, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. 309 pages. Softcover, $13.95

Marsella, Anthony J., DeVos, George, and Hsu, Francis, L. K., eds. Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives. 1985, Tavistock Publications, New York. 321 pages. Hardcover, $25.00. Softcover, $12.95.

Daniel, E. Valentine, Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way. 1984, University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 320 pages. Hardcover, $29.95.     

Promoting participation—Seeking sustainability: The ITK Dilemma

Moock, Joyce Lewinger and Robert E. Rhoades, eds. Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xix + 278 pp. including index. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Pottier, Johan, ed. Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. London: Routledge, 1993. ix + 222 pp. including index. $18.95 paper.

Thurston, H. David. Sustainable Practices for Plant Disease Management in Traditional Farming Systems. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. xii + 279 pp. including bibliography and indices. $54.50 cloth.     

Walks on the dark side: “Sick societies,” Interpersonal violence,and anthropology's love affair with the folk society

Edgerton, Robert B., Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Societies. New York: The Free Press, 1992. vii + 278 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth.

Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiii + 614 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper.

Linger, Daniel Touro, Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. x + 289 pp. including appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 35(4)

O'Brien, Jay and William Roseberry, eds. Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. x + 288 pp. including references and index. $35.00 cloth.

Gallant, Thomas W. Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. xvi + 267 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Abrahams, Ray. A Place of Their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi + 205 pp. including photographs, charts, bibliography, and index. $59.95 cloth.     

China's Cities: Tradition and change

Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner, eds. The Chinese City Between Two Worlds. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974. xiii + 458 pp. Tables, maps, notes, character list, and index. $18.75.     

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.)     

Collected Essays

ANDREOPOULOS, GEORGE J., and HAROLD E. SELESKY, eds. The Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces, and the Challenge of Recovery. New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 195.$22.50 (US), cloth.

BAKER, RICHARD W., ed. The ANZUS States and Their Region: Regional Policies of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994. Pp. xiii, 228. $57.95 (US), cloth.

BENNETT, W. LANCE, and DAVID L. PALETZ, eds. Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and US Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 307. $15.95 (US).

BONANNO, ALESSANDRO, LAWRENCE BUSCH, WILLIAM H. FRIEDLAND, LOURD GOUVEIA, and ENZO MINGIONE, eds. From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Pp. viii, 294. $17.95 (US).

CALDWELL, DAN and TIMOTHY J. MCKEOWN, eds. Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor Alexander L. George. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xi, jzz. $65.00 (US).

CALLAGHY, THOMAS M., and JOHN RAVENHILL, eds. Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 573. $18.50 (US), paper.

CHAN, MING K., ed. Precarious Balance: Hong Kong between China and Britain, 1842–1992. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xi, 235. $22.00 (US).

CLOUGH, CECIL H. and P. E. H. HAIR, eds. The European Outthnrst and Encounter: The First Phase, c.1400–c.1700: Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on His 85th Birthday. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp. 348. £19.50, paper.

CUETO, MARCOS, ed. Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 171. $24.95 (US).

DALLMEYER, DORINDA G., ed. Reconceiving Reality: Women and International Law. Washington, D.C.: The American Society of International Law, 1993. Pp. xiv, 283. $18.00 (US).

DEMKO, GEORGE J. and WILLIAM B. WOOD, eds. Reordering the World: Geopolitical Perspectives on the Twenty-first Century. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 350. $59.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper.

EMMER, P. C. and M. MORNER, eds. European Expansion and Migration: Essap on the Intercontinental Migration from Africa, Asia, and Europe. New York and Oxford: Berg, 1992, dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 312. $4.8.00 (US), paper.

ENGELS, DAGMAR, and SHULA MARKS, eds. Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India. London: British Academic Press; dist., New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 349. $59.50 (US).

FISHER, STEPHEN, ed. Man and the Maritime Environment. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1994. Pp. X, 233. A12.50, paper.

FUKUI, KATSUYOSHI and JOHN MARKAKIS, eds. Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa. London: James Currey; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 242. $49.95 (US), cloth.

GINSBURGS, GEORGE, ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN and OLES M. SMOLANSKY, eds. Russia and America: From Rivary to Reconciliation. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp xi, 353. $19.95 (US), paper.

HAGLUND, DAVID G., S. NEIL MACFARLANE, and JOEL J. SOKOLSKY, eds. NATO's Eastern Dilemmas. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. x, 231. $44.95 (US), paper.

SUTTER, ROBERT G. and WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, eds. Taiwan in World Affairs. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 328. $49.95 (US), cloth.     

Tragic Elements in Calderón's La Dama Duende

Abstract

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.     

Unsocial analyses: Habitus,Hegemony, and self

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 330 pp. including appendix, references, and index. $39.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Comaroff, Jean and John Comaroff. Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xx + 414 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Crapanzano, Vincent. Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. ix + 386 pp. including notes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.     

Visions of the cosmos: Recent explorations of new world cosmology

Freidel, David, Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993. 543 pp. including chapter references and index. $30:00 cloth.

Farrer, Claire R. Living Life's Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmo‐vision. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1991. xiii + 274 pp. including chapter references and index. $24.95 cloth.

Dover, Robert V. H., Katharine E. Seibold, and John H. McDowell, eds. Andean Cosmologies Through Time: Persistence and Emergence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1992. viii + 274 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 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.     

Angels,Illusions, Hydras,and Chimeras: Violence and Humanity

Gibson, Kathleen R. and Tim Ingold, eds. Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii + 483 pp. including index. $69.95 cloth.

Wallman, Joel. Aping Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xii + 191 pp. including notes, references, and indices. $44.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

Editorial Introduction 39(4): The Fabric of 40,000 Years of Integrated and National Disciplinary Epistemologies

Roberts, D. F., N. Fujiki, and K. Torizuka, eds. Isolation, Migration and Health. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xii + 267 pp. including index. $69.95 paper.

Birdsell, Joseph B. Microevolutionary Patterns in Aboriginal Australia: Gradient Analysis of Clines. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii + 469 pp. including references and index. $125.00 cloth.