Grey owl's return: Cultural ecology and Canadian indigenous peoples*

Bruce Cox, ed. Cultural Ecology: Readings on the Canadian Indians and Eskimos. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. 331 pp. Maps and appendix. $4.95 (paper).     

Ethnicity,world view,and experience in two Mesoamerican communities

Gregory G. Reck. In the Shadow of Tlaloc: Life in a Mexican Village. New York: Penguin Books, 1978. 224 pp. Photographs. $3.95.

Kay B. Warren. The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. xii + 209 pp. Photographs, references and bibliography. $11.95.     

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).     

Sex differences: Genuine and spurious

Corine Hutt. Males and Females. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1972. 158 pp. Figures, references and index. $2.45.

John Money and Anke Ehrhardt. Man & Woman, Boy & Girl. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. xiv + 311 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, glossary, and index. $3.50.

Ann Oakley. Sex, Gender and Society. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. 223pp. Illustrations, figures and references. $2.95.     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 160 pp. $21.50.

T. J. May, ed. Change and Movement: Readings on Internal Migration in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Australian National University Press, for Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1978. xii + 284 pp. $21.95, Aust.     

Japanese culture and society: A feast of perspectives

Eichiro Ishida. Japanese Culture: A Study of Origins and Characteristics. Translated by Teruko Kachi. An East‐West Center Book. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1974. 156 pp. Appendices, bibliographies, and index. $9.00.

Thomas P. Rohlen. For Harmony and Strength: Japanese White‐Collar Organization in Anthropological Perspective. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. 299 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $12.50.

Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William Lebra, eds. Japanese Culture and Behavior: Selected Readings. An East‐West Center Book. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1974. xi + 459 pp. Tables and figures. $5.95 (paper).     

Poems of Science

Abstract

Poems of Science is an anthology which has been edited by Mr J. Heath-Stubbs and Professor P. Salman. Its first edition will be published by Penguin Books Ltd in Spring 1984, and by the kind permission of the two editors and tbe publishers extracts from their Introduction to the anthology as well as a selection of the poems contained in it are reproduced here. These extracts from the Introduction, as well as the choice of poems here printed, were made by the Editor of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. He would like to thank Mr Heath- Stubbs and Professor Salman and Mr MacFarlan of Penguin Books Ltd for the opportunity to present such a wide range of poetry from this remarkable interdisciplinary collection.     

Book reviews

Frontiers

The Predicament of Englishness

The English: a portrait of a people. Jeremy Paxman. Pp. ix + 309. London: Penguin, 1999. Price £7.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 14 026723 9.

New Works in Geography

Introducing Human Geographies. Edited by Paul Cloke, Philip Crang & Mark Goodwin. Pp. 16 + 368. London: Arnold, 1999. Price £19.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 340 69193 X; £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 340 69192 1.

Cities of Difference. Edited by Ruth Fincher & Jane. M. Jacob. Pp. 322. New York: Guildford Press, 1988. Price £16.95 (pbk), ISBN 1 57230 310 7.

Urban Geography. Tim Hall, Pp. 180. London: Routledge, 1998. Price £35.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 415 14084.

Focus on Scotland

Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800‐present. William W. Knox. Pp. 368. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. £14.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 7486 1085 5; £45.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 7486 1084 7.     

Nuclear testing and pacific defence policies

Robert Milliken, No Conceivable Injury, Ringwood, Penguin Books, 1986. $7.95 (paper)

Denys Blakeway & Sue Lloyd‐Roberts, Fields of Thunder: Testing Britain's Bomb, London, Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. $9.95 (paper)

Bengt Danielsson and Marie‐Therese Danielsson, Poisoned Reign: French Nuclear Colonialism in the Pacific, Ringwood, Penguin Books, 1986. $9.95 (paper)

Peter Hayes, Lyuba Zarsky and Walden Bello, American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific, Ringwood, Penguin Books, 1986. $14.95 (paper)

Michael O'Connor, To Live in Peace, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1985. $9.50 (paper).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Juliet Clifford and Gavin Osmond, World Development Handbook Charles Knight & Co. John White, Regional Development Banks. A Study of Institutional Style Overseas Development Institute Keith Griffin (ed), Financing Development in Latin America Milton C. Taylor (ed), Taxation for African Economic Development Hutchinson Educational Ramgopal Agarwala, An Econometric Model of India 1948–1961 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd Earl M. Kulp, Rural Development Planning - Systems Analysis and Working Method Alessandro Pizzorno (ed), Political Sociology Penguin Modern Sociology Readings     

Towards a trickster science/fiction: complexifying boundaries with Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres

ABSTRACT

This article highlights an intersection between the science fiction of Neal Stephenson and the science philosophy of Michel Serres. As two of the most prolific contemporary advocates of the communication between literature and science, Serres and Stephenson employ permutations of the trickster figure as a potent lens on the epistemological transformations that occur when boundaries are crossed and static systems perturbed. Allegorizing the birth of science and rational consciousness as the intervention of a trickster, Stephenson finds in hackers and couriers the same generative force that Serres associates with the Greek god Hermes and the figure of the parasite. With particular attention to Stephenson’s postcyberpunk novel Snow Crash (Stephenson, Neal. 1992. Snow Crash. London: Penguin Books) and Serres’ Hermes series (1969–1980), the concept of the trickster will be explored as both a personification of the kinship between creation mythologies, information theory, anthropology, and modern physics, and as the template for a productive transdisciplinary mode of cultural inquiry.     

Knowledge and society

Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: The Social Construction of Reality, Allan Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 1967, 249 pp. S8.50. Also (1967) as Anchor Paperback $1.25.     

THE APPROPRIATION OF TERRA NULLIUS

The Law ofthe Land. By Henry Reynolds. Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 1987. Pp. xii + 225. Price: $12.95     

Review Article: The Basque Diaspora in the New World

Richard Overy. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2004. Pp. xl, 848. £25.00.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: A. Beer, A. Maude and W. Pritchard, Developing Australia's Regions: Theory and Practice K. Beesley, H. Millward, B. Ilbery and L. Harrington (eds), The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change Alexander R. Cuthbert (ed.), Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design Ian Burnley and Peter Murphy, Sea Change: Movement from Metropolitan to Arcadian Australia     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Urban Economics, by David W. Rasmussen. The Modern City: Readings in Urban Economics, ed. David W. Rasmussen and Charles T. Haworth. Urban Geography: A Social Perspective, by David Herbert. The City: Problems of Planning, ed. Murray Stewart.     

Braudel's grammar of civilizations

I. A History of Civilizations. By Fernand Braudel (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), xl + 573 pp.

II. Ecrits sur l'histoire II. By Fernand Braudel (Paris: Flammarion, 1994), 270 pp.     

Beyond the Vietnam Principle

K. Buchanan, Out of Asia: Asian Themes. 1958–66, Sydney University Press, 1968, pp. 320, $6.75. H. G. Gelber, The Australian American Alliance: Costs and Benefits, Penguin, 1968, pp. 160, 85c. G. Greenwood and N. Harper, Australia in World Affairs, 1961–1965, F. W. Cheshire for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1968, pp. viii + 503, $8.75. T. B. Millar, Australia's Foreign Policy, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1968, pp. xiv + 361, $4.95. T. B. Millar (ed.), Australian‐New Zealand Defence Co‐operation, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968, pp. ix + 125, $3.75. R. J. O'Neill, Indo China Tragedy, 1945–54, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 56. M. Teichmann (ed.), New Directions in Australian Foreign Policy: Ally Satellite or Neutral?, Penguin, 1969, pp. 212, $1.00. D. Vital, The Inequality of States: A Study of the Small Power in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 198, $5.10. A. Watt, Vietnam: an Australian Analysis, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. ix + 177, $3.50.     

Early history of the state — West and east

Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.549. UK £12.95 (paper).

John A. Hall, Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, London, Penguin Books, 1986, pp.272. $14.95 (paper).     

What a labor government is

Carol Johnson The Labor Legacy: Curtin. Chifley. Whitlam. IJawke, Sydney. Allen and Unwin, 1989, pp. 143. $14.95 (paper)

Graham Maddox The Hawke Government and Labor Tradition, Ringwood, Penguin, 1989, pp.232. $14.99 (paper)