Hard times for culture theory in South Asia

Khare, R. S. The Untouchable as Himself. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv + 189 pp. including bibliography and index. $34.50 cloth.

Fox, Richard G. Lions of the Punjab: Culture in the Making. Berkeley: University of California Press, xv + 259 pp. including appendix, reference notes, and index. $29.95 cloth.

Barth, Fredrik and Miangul Jahanzeb. The Last Wali of Swat: an Autobiography as Told to Fredrik Barth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. 199 pp. including photographs, references and index. $30.00 cloth.

Moore, Erin. Conflict and Compromise: Justice in an Indian Village. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xviii + 137 pp. including glossary, bibliography, and index. $23.25 cloth, $11.25 paper.     

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.     

Oil age ethnographies: Alaskan anthropologists address the world

Fienup‐Riordan, Ann. Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1990. xxii + 269 pp. including notes, references, and index. $25.00 cloth, $11.95 paper.

Jorgensen, Joseph G. Oil Age Eskimos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xix + 401 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and index. $40.00 cloth.

Oswalt, Wendell H. Bashful No Longer: An Alaskan Eskimo Ethnohistory, 1778–1988. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. xviii + 270 pp. including notes, references, and index. $21.95 cloth.     

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.     

Contrasting approaches to ethnohistory in Africa: Vansina,Dillon, Ferguson

Vansina, Jan. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. xx + 428 pp. including appendix, notes/references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $17.50 paper.

Dillon, Richard D. Ranking and Resistance: A Precolonial Cameroonian Polity in Regional Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiii + 310 pp. including appendix, references, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Ferguson, James. The Anti‐politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 320 pp. including notes, references, and index. $49.50 cloth.     

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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.     

From archaics to Angel

Buikstra, Jane E., (Ed.). A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel. Center for American Archaeology, Scientific Papers Number 6, 1990. xiii + 210 pp. including chapter references. Paper.

Conroy, Glenn C. Primate Evolution. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990. xiv + 492 pp. including appendices, references, credits, glossary, and index. $34.95 paper.

Trinkaus, Erik, (Ed.). The Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural Adaptations in the Later Pleistocene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xv + 285 pp. including references and index. $49.50 cloth.     

The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe

Sherzer, Joel. Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 281 pp. including references and index. $39.50 cloth.

Heider, Karl G. Indonesian Cinema: National Culture on Screen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. x + 154 pp. including bibliography and index. $28.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.     

Anthropology Made New: Writing Against and Without Culture

Ferguson, R. Brian, and Neil L. Whitehead, eds. War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. xiv + 303 pp. including appendix, collected references, and index. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Brown, Michael F., and Eduardo Fernandez. War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xv + 280 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 cloth.

Williams, Brackette F. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1991. xix + 322 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 cloth, $18.50 paper.     

Interstitial women: East African experiences

Kilbride, Philip Leroy and Janet Capriotti Kilbride. Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and Children at Risk. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. xv + 271 pp. including references and index. $29.95 cloth.

White, Luise. The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xiii + 285 pp. including notes, references, and index. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 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.     

Language and politics: Investigations of language and speech by social and cultural anthropologists

Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. vii + 305 pp. including index. $44.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Merlan, Francesca and Alan Rumsey. Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991; xvii + 387 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $59.50 cloth.     

Written on the heavens: Recent studies in archaeoastronomy

Aveni, Anthony F., ed. The Lines of Nazca. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. xii + 343 pp. including references, appendices, and index. $60.00 cloth.

Aveni, Anthony F., ed. World Archaeoastronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii + 504 pp. including chapter references and index. $125.00 cloth.     

Africa Bewitched

Anderson, Robert. Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1996. x + 454 pp. including index. $34.74 paper.

Hahn, Robert A. Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. viii + 327 pp. including references and index. $30.00 cloth.

Kleinman, Arthur. Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii + 314 pp. including appendix, notes, references, and index. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.     

Dance arenas,dance events

Katrina Hazzard‐Gordon. Jookin’: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African‐American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. xiii + 226 pp. including bibliographic end notes and index. $24.95.

Jane K. Cowan. Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xv + 252 pp. including references and index. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

A sense of scent: A review of two books dealing with primate endocrinology

Stoddart, D. Michael. The Scented Ape: The Biology of Human Odour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ix + 286 pp. including glossary, references, and index. $80 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Ziegler, Toni E. and Fred B. Bercovitch, eds. Socioendocrinology of Primate Reproduction. New York: Wiley‐Liss, 1990. viii + 217 pp. including chapter references and index. $72.50 cloth.     

Toward critical population anthropology

Handwerker, W. Penn, ed. Births and Power: Social Change and the Politics of Reproduction. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. 227 pp. including chapter references. $27.50 paper.

Landers, John, and Vernon Reynolds, ed. Fertility and Resources. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. vii + 199 pp. including chapter references and index. $59.50 cloth.     

Animals Old and New. Multiple Perspectives on the Meaning of Beasthood

Caton, Hiram, ed. The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock. Lan‐ham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1990. xiii + 351 pp. including references and index. $38.75 cloth, $22.75 paper.

Monberg, Torben. Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 9. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xix + 449 pp. including appendixes, references, and index. $42.00 cloth.

Lindstrom, Lamont. Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. xvi + 224 pp. including references and index. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.     

Metaphor and performance: Thought and action in contemporary anthropology

Bauman, Richard, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 130 including chapter references and index. $34.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.

Fernandez, James W., Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. xvi + 304 pp. including chapter references and index., price unmarked.

Peacock, James L., The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xii + 124 including chapter references and index. $24.95 cloth, $6.95 paper.     

The ambiguity of reason

Levine, Donald N. The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 248 pp. including figures, appendix, references, and index. $25.00 cloth.

Overing, Joanna, ed. Reason and Morality. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985. viii + 277 pp. including figures, chapter references and notes, name indèx, and subject index. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Sperber, Dan. On Anthropological Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. viii + 107 pp. including notes, references, and index. $24.95 cloth; $8.95 paper.