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.     

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.     

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.     

American Indian ethnohistory: Recent contributions by three historians

Finger, John R. Eastern Band of Cherokees 1819–1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. xiv + 253 pp. including maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Miller, Christopher L. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985. x + 174 pp. including maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00 cloth.

Morrison, Kenneth M. The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki‐Euramerican Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. x + 256 pp. including maps, notes, and index. $24.95 cloth.     

Metaphors and fault lines: Case studies of HIV/AIDS in Haiti and Uganda

Farmer, Paul. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiv + 338 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth. Barnett, Tony and Piers Blaikie. AIDS in Africa: Its Present and Future Impact. New York: Guilford Press, 1992. ix + 193 pp. including references and index. $18.95 paper.     

On anthropological epistemology: Praxis and critique

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xv + 205 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00 cloth, $13.00 paper.

Ulin, Robert C. Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. xvii + 200 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 cloth.     

Dressing and preening the body

Dalby, Liza. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. xi + 384 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Kawakami, Barbara F. Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885–1941. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xvii + 253 pp. including notes, glossary, sources, and index. $19.95 paper.

Rubinstein, Ruth P. Dress Code: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. xii + 314 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $69.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.     

Justice,aggression, and theatre: Contradictions and conflict in the modern world

Cohen, Ronald L. ed. Justice: Views from the Social Sciences. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1986. xii + 283 pp. including chapter references and subject and author indices. $32.50 cloth.

Gilmore, David D. Aggression and Community: Paradoxes of Andalusian Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. xvi + 218 pp. including map, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $24.50 cloth.

Wagner‐Pacifici, Robin Erica. The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xi + 360 pp. including appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Gorecki, Jan. Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. x + 165 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50 paper.     

Ethnicity,politics, and history in Mexico and Central America

Wilson, Richard. Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi’ Experiences. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xiv + 373 pp. including tables, figures, photographs, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $32.95 cloth.

Frye, David. Indians into Mexicans: History and Identity in a Mexican Town. Austin; University of Texas Press, 1996. viii + 250 pp. including figures, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Hale, Charles R. Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894–1987. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1994. ix + 296 pp. including tables, figures, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth.     

Religion,society, and culture

Morris, Brian. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ix + 369 pp. including chapter notes and references, selected bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Webster, Graham. Celtic Religion in Roman Britain. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1987. 205 pp. including chapter notes and references, photographs and illustrations, abbreviations, classical sources, selected bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth.

Weller, Robert P. Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. viii + 215 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $22.50 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.     

Editorial Introduction

Meillassoux, Claude. Alide Dasnois, translator. The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 421 pp. including notes, references, glossary, and index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

McGlynn, Frank and Seymour Drescher, eds. The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. viii + 333 pp. including selected bibliography and index. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.     

Anthropology and the Artifacts of Medical Practice

Brown, Paula. Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xix + 296 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $36.00 cloth.

Tuzin, Donald. The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiii + 256 pp. including notes, maps, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Biersack, Aletta, ed. Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. xiv + 440 pp. including collected bibliography, other works cited, and index. $59.50 cloth.     

Cultural survival: Lessons from the native North Americans

Champagne, Duane. American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival. Cambridge: Cultural Survival, Inc., 1989. 160 pp. including references. $19.95 cloth, $10.00 paper.

Cohen, Fay G. Treaties on Trial: The Continuing Controversy over Northwest Indian Fishing Rights. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. vii + 256 pp. including notes and index. $20.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Fahey, John. The Kalispel Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. vii + 248 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95 cloth.

Thornton, Russell. We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ix + 95 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and index.     

The social origins of cognition: A basis for reintegrating anthropology and psychology?

Wertsch, James V., ed. Culture, Communication and Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. x + 379 pp. including notes, bibliography, and indices. $42.50 cloth, $14.00 paper.

Rogoff, Barbara, and Jean Lave, eds. Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context. Cambridge: Harvard Unversity Press, 1984. vi + 352 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 cloth.     

The Archaeology of High Culture and ItsDiscontents

Alexander, R. D. The Biology of Moral Systems. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1987. xx + 301 pp. including bibliography, name index, and subject index. $34.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Ingold, Tim. Evolution and Social Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xv + 431 pp. including notes, bibliography, name index, and subject index. $54.50 cloth, $15.95 paper.     

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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.     

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.     

Rites of the living,transformations of the dead

Huntington, Richard, and Peter Metcalf. Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. xv + 230 pp. including maps, photographs, bibliography, and index. $34.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.

Bloch, Maurice, and Jonathan Parry, eds. Death and the Regeneration of Life. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. x + 236 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 cloth, $8.95 paper.     

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.