Museums,markets, and modern anthropology

Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. History of Anthropology Volume III. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. viii + 258 pp. including chapter references and index. $25.00 cloth.

Hatcher, Evelyn Payne. Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. With an Introduction by E. Adamson Hoebel. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xviii + 286 pp., including ethnographic notes and index, glossary, bibliography, and indices. $28.00 cloth; $13.75 paper.

Jules‐Rosette, Benneta. The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective. Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. New York: Plenum Press, 1984. xviii + 266 pp. including figures, references, index, and appendices. $32.50 cloth.     

Fisherwomen,fisheries policy,and maritime anthropology

Allison, Charlene J., Sue‐Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter. Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xliv + 203 pp. including time‐line, photographs, map, place‐name locator, glossary, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth.

Cole, Sally, Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xvii + 189 pp. including photographs, tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and subject index. $52.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

McGoodwin, James R. Crisis in the World's Fisheries: People, Problems, and Policies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. viii + 235 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and subject index. $35.00 cloth.

Pálsson, Gísli. Coastal Economies, Cultural Accounts: Human Ecology and Icelandic Discourse. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. xvii + 202 pp. including figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 cloth.     

Science,anthropology, and the study of communication

Charles F. Hockett. The View From Language: Selected Essays 1948–1974. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1977. Tables, figures, references, bibliography, and index. $15.00.     

Gender,Race, and Rumours: Re-examining the 1943 Race Riots

Focusing on three riots of the World War II era – those of Beaumont (Texas), Detroit, and New York's Harlem – this essay examines the rumours that sparked these disturbances to uncover the gendered ideologies that underlie racial violence. In these rumour narratives, women appear as either rape victims or tortured mothers, while men appear as either depraved rapists or noble protectors. The deployment of these images helped forge a defensive collective identity that facilitated the outbreak of violence. Because racial and gender ideologies were intimately linked, the author argues, race riots must be analysed through the lens of gender in order to be fully understood.     

The anthropology of modernization and the modernization of anthropology

John J. Poggie, Jr. and Robert N. Lynch, eds. Rethinking Modernization. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1974. xii + 405 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $15.95.     

Modernization,colonialism, and the new anthropology of sport

Abstract

Anthropologists Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell, and Thomas Carter have recently contributed a theoretically- and empirically-updated account of sport anthropology, the burgeoning, heterogenous, productive field dedicated to the myriad forms of sport and physical activity in human societies. This essay dialogically relates their contribution with previous conceptions of sport anthropology to better understand the interconnections between global and local contexts of physical culture and the relations between anthropological inquiry and important issues like social power, biopolitics, and colonialism. The essay specifically highlights the authors’ contextualization of assumptions of modernization and categorizations of “primitive” and “pre-modern” sport, arguing that a postcolonial approach to sport anthropology results in a more inclusive, nuanced framework for studying the anthropological dimensions of physical culture.     

Race,culture, and national identity

Wade, Peter. Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xv + 415 pp. including appendices, references, and index. $58.00 cloth.

Wetherell, Margaret and Jonathan Potter. Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. ix + 246 pp. including appendices, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $15.00 paper.     

Race,Gender, Science and Citizenship

This paper argues that the history of embodiment of human racial and gendered differences must be seen as part of the history of liberal citizenship and its limits. The author suggests that a science of similarity and difference can never be a reliable guide to questions of rights. The consequences of this conclusion for our understanding of science and the gendered body are addressed in the second half of the paper, in an effort to clear the way for a more adequate and inclusionary model of citizenship and rights.     

Transnational corporations and anthropology

Richard J. Barnet and Ronald E. Müller. Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. 508 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $4.95 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.     

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.     

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.