Language life or language death: A matter of perspective in an endangered linguistics

Lamb, Sydney M. and E. Douglas Mitchell, eds. Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xii + 411 pages, hardcover $45.00.

Robins, R. H. and E. M. Uhlenbeck, eds. Endangered Languages. New York: Berg Publishers, 1992. xiv + 273 pages, hardcover $39.50.     

New Books about the North

Jernsletten, Reymert, Storm and Aarseth (eds.): Festskrift til Ørnulv Vorren. Tromsø Museums Skrifter XV. Tromsø 1994. 399 pages.

Kvist, Roger (ed.).‐ Føredrag vid Nordiska Samehistoriska Symposiet i Lövånger 13–14 februari 1995. Forskningsrapporter från Historiska institutionen vid Umeå universitet 9‐ Umeå 1995.189 pages.

Bjørklund, Møller and Reymer (eds.):7fre Barents Region. In the series Way North, Tromsø Museum, The University of Tromsø. 1995. 80 pages.     

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.     

Book reviews

D. J. Shepherd: Funerary Ritual and Symbolism. An Interdisciplinary Interpretation of Burial Practices in Late Iron Age Finland. BAR International Series 808. Oxford. 1999. ISBN 1 84171 113 6. 133 pages, 19 maps.

Vladimir N. Bulatov, Russkij Sever, Vols. 1–3. Archangel 1997–99. Izdatel'stvo Pomorskogo Universiteta. 352+352+336 pages.     

Review and comment

The Formation of Islamic Art. By Oleg Grabar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. 233 pages; 131 illustrations.     

Educational and other books received

SCOTLAND

A Development Plan for Scotland. By G. McRobbie. Planning. Vol. XXIX No. 476. 8 ½×5 ½. Pp. 30. London: Political and Economic Planning, 1963. 4s. 6d.

The Contour Road Book of Scotland. By H. R. G. Inglis, revised and extended by R. M. G. Inglis. 6 ½ × 3 ½. Pp. 28 + xx + 288 + 16. 4 pages of black and white maps. 24 pages of coloured maps. 146 pages of profile diagrams. Edinburgh: Gall &; Inglis, 1963. 8s. 6d.

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland. By A. C. O'Dell and K. Walton. 9 ¾ × 6 ¼. Pp.xii+ 353. One folding coloured map. 49 plates. 94 figures. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson &; Sons Ltd., 1962. 50s.

Scotland's Eastern Coast. By L. Scott‐Moncrieff. 8 ¾ × 5 ½. Pp. xiv + 214. 41 plates. 2 end‐paper maps. Edinburgh: Oliver &; Boyd, 1963. 25s.

The Fortified House in Scotland. Volume Two, Central Scotland. By N. Tranter. 8 ½ × 5 ½. Pp. 183. 97 drawings. Edinburgh: Oliver &; Boyd, 1963. 25s.     

Book review

Miriam Wright: A Fishery for Modern Times. The State and the Industrialization of the Newfoundland Fishery, 1934–1968, The Canadian Social History Series, Ottawa 2001, 196 pages     

Anthropological perspectives on death and mourning

Loring M. Danforth with photography by Alexander Tsearas. The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. 1982. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 170 pages (text) with 31 photographs. $30.00 cloth, $12.50 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.     

Re-placing gender? Reflections on 15 years of Gender,Place and Culture

This article reflects on Gender, Place and Culture (GPC) from 1994 to mid-2008, to highlight some of the key subjects and debates which have been delimited and progressed within its pages. Launched simultaneously with the cultural turn in human geography, GPC proceeded to raise important questions about identity and difference, effectively reflecting but also driving a number of transformative intellectual and political agendas. This reflection will focus on three interrelated sites of such activity: empirical, theoretical and political. Empirically, numerous articles have examined the ways gender is lived, in and across spaces and these have been enlivened by approaches highlighting masculinities, sexualities and embodiment. Theoretically these subjects have been informed by post-colonial and post-structural frameworks, directing discussion towards multiple identities, reflexivity, research practice, performativity, material cultures, positionality and the nature of academic knowledge. In addition, GPC has registered progressive political concerns for justice and equality, though the nature and extent of its political import has been legitimately questioned from without and within the pages of the journal. The resolution of the many dilemmas associated with the ways gender is lived, thought about and practiced has not always been successful in the pages of GPC, and the ongoing reality of Anglo-American dominance, the persistence of women's inequality and the tension between discursive and political activism, remains. However, in re-placing gender over the last 15 years, GPC has been a journal of serious and path-breaking scholarship which has further legitimized the value of feminist geography.     

Medical anthropology and the analysis of health policy

Donahue, John. The Nicaraguan Revolution in Health. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey, 1986. xi + 156 pp. including illustrations, references, and index. $27.95 cloth.

Justice, Judith. Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. vi + 202 pp. including appendices, notes to pages, bibliography, and index. $29.95 cloth.

Low, Setha. Culture, Politics, and Medicine in Costa Rica. Bedford Hills, New York: Redgrave, 1985. vii + 131 pp. including appendix, references, and index.     

La revolution aujourd'hui

Paolo Viola, Il crollo dell ‘antico regime. Politica e antipolitica nella Francia della Rivoluzione, Rome, Donzelli, 1993, 221 p., ISBN 88–7989–008–5.

Paolo Viola, E’ legale perché lo voglio io. Attualità della Rivoluzione francese, Rome‐Bari, Laterza, 1994, 162 pages, ISBN 88–420–4388–5     

Comments on ideas around prehistoric societies positivism and dialectics

Inga Hägg: Die Textilfunde aus dem Hafen von Haithabu (The Textile Finds from the Harbour of Haithabu). Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu, Bericht 20. Neumünster 1984. 290 pp., 108 Figs.

Jóhannes Jóhansen: Studies in the Vegetation History of the Faroe and Shetland Islands. Annales societatis scientiarum færoensis. Supplementum XI. Tórshavn 1985. 117 pages, 10 plates, 19 figs.

Asbj?rn E. Herteig (ed.): The Bryggen Papers, Supplementary Series No. 1. 1985. 100 pp., 46 figs.     

Comments on immigration in archaeological contexts

VESTNORDISK BYGGESKIKK GJENNOM TO TUSEN ÅR. Tradisjon og forandring fra romertid til det 19. århundre. (West Nordic building customs from the Roman Period to the 19^th century). Editors: Bj?rn Myhre, Bjarne Stoklund and Per Gjaerder. Arkeologisk museum i Stavanger—skrifter vol. 7. Stavanger 1982. 287 pages. 264 figures and 5 tables. Summaries in English.     

La technologie a l'Ecole du Louvre

Séminaires de l'Ecole du Louvre, Science, technique et industrie. Un patrimoine, des perspectives, La Documentation française, Paris 1983, 320 pages.     

Like an oasis in the desert: The Israel consulate in Munich, 1948–1953

Yosef Gorny, Zionism and the Arabs 1882–1948: A Study in Ideology Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, 342 pp., U.S. $67., U.K.£35.

Robert S. Wistrich, The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Littman Library, 1989, 696 pp.

Shabtai Teveth, Ben‐Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886–1948, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. 967 pages.

Jehuda Reinharz, Hashomer Hatzair in Germany, 1931–1939, Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim Publishing House, Ltd., 1987, 246 pp.

Benjamin Akzin: From Riga to Jerusalem — A Memoir (Hebrew), The Zionist Library, Jerusalem, 1989, 369 pp; Herzl Rosenblum, Drops from the Sea (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1987, 207 pp; Dr. Meir Kahan, Carry a Fire to Kindle (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1988, 221 pp.

Uri Bar‐Joseph, Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 1987, x+254pp.,£25.     

New maps and atlases

GENERAL

All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas. By Preston E. James. 9 × 6. xiii + 622 pp. 35 maps/figures. Odyssey Press, Indianapolis, 1972. $6.lb50.

The Conceptual Revolution in Geography. By W.K.D. Davies. 9 1/2 × 6 1/2. 416 pp., 35 figures. tables, references, bibliography. University of London Press, 1972. £4.lb85.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Ice Age in Britain. By B. W. Sparks and R. G. West. 9 1/2 × 6 1/4. 302 pp. 44 plates, references, index. Methven, London, 1972. £5.lb50.

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY

Man, Environment and Disease in Britain: A Medical Geography of Britain through the ages. By G. Melvyn Howe. 8 3/4 × 5 3/4. 285 pp. 16 plates, 91 figures, maps and tables. David and Charles, Newton Abbott, 1972. £4.lb75.

Medical Geography: Techniques and Field Studies. Ed. N. D. McGlashan. 9 1/2 × 6 1/2, 336 pp. 86 figures. Methuen, London, 1972. £4.lb50.

Sheila Bain

EDUCATIONAL

The U.S.S.R. By G. Melvyn Howe. 6 7/8 × 8 1/4, 110 pp., 55 maps, 40 plates. Book list, tables, index. Hulton, Amersham, 1972. 80p.

Topics in Geography. A series of books by various authors. 8 3/4 × 8 1/2. Paperbound. Macmillan, 1970–1971. 50p.

London. By Oswald Hull. 72 pages.

Transport. By Oswald Hull. 72 pages.

Food, Clothing and Shelter. By Leonard W. Stevens. 79 pages.

Towns. By P. M. Turner. 80 pages.

Hulton's Practical Geography Series Book 4 Advanced Techniques and Statistics. By Philip A. Sauvain, 10×7 1/2, 164 pp., Plates, Maps and Diagrams. Hulton, Amersham, 1972. £1.lb20.

Geographical Studies in Western Europe. By T. W. Randle. 9 3/4 × 7 1/2, 170 pp., 145 figures, 57 plates. Oliver &; Boyd, Edinburgh, 1971. £1.lb25.

A Notebook of Physical Geography. By K. Briggs. 9 3/4 × 7 3/8, 109 pp. Numerous illus. And diagrams, exercises. University of London Press, 1972. 60p.

East Africa in Colour. By D. C. Money. 7 1/4 × 9 3/4. 60 pp. 113 figures. Evans Brothers, London, 1972. 60p.

Geography from Space. By E. C. Barrett. 11 1/4 × 8 1/4. 95 pp. Numerous illus. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1972. 95p.

A Physical and Human Geography of the British Isles. By F. R. Dobson and M. E. Virgo. 6 1/4 × 9 1/4. 152 pp. Numerous illus. English Universities Press, London, 1972. 90p.     

A critical assessment of South Asian highland ethnography

Christoph von Fürer Haimendorf (ed). Asian Highland Societies in Anthropological Perspective. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi; Distributed in USA by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. 1981. 265 pages. $30.00.     

Imago Mundi bibliography

A Guide to historical cartography. A selected Annotated List of references on the history of Maps and Map making. Compiled by W. W. Ristow and C. E. LeGear. The Library of Congress, Reference Department, Map Division. Washington 1954. 18ff. Mimeogr.

Ancient science and modern civilisation. George Sarton. Published by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1954. 111 p.

Carlo F. Capello. Studi sulla cartografia Piemon‐tese. I. Il Piemonte nella cartografia pre moderna (con particolare riguardo alla cartografia Tolemaica). Università degli studi di Torino, facoltà di magistero Scritti vari: vol. III. Facs. 1. Torino 1952. 157 p. + 90 Tav.

The Madaba Mosaic Map with introduction and commentary. By Michael Avi‐Yonah. Jerusalem. 1954. 80 p., with the Madaba map 1–10 plates. Colour reprod. 4°, Jerusalem 1953.

Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance. 1420–1620. By Boies Penrose. Cambridge, Massachus. 1952. IX + 369. Illustr.

Amerigo Vespucci nel V centenario della nascita. Numero speciale della Revista geographica Italiana. A cura della Società di studi Geografici. Firenze 1954, 95 p.

Carte geografiche cinquecentesche a stampa della Biblioteca Marciana e della biblioteca del Museo Correr di Venezia. Istituto Veneto di scienza lettere ed arti Venezia, Venezia 1954. 63 p.

Alte Europäische Städte‐Bilder. 24 farbige Blätter nach Georg Braun und Franz Hogenberg. Eingeleitet von Ruthardt Oehme.— Ein farbiges Tauchnitz‐Buch. 1954. Haarlem. 1954. 120 pp.

B. van't Hoff. Jacob van Deventer, Keizerlijk‐Koninklijk Geograf. ’s‐Gravenhage 1953. 89 p. 3 Reproductions.

Kodama, Sakuzaemon; Takakura, Shinichiro; Kudo, Chôhei: Ezo ni kansuru Yasokaishi no hôkoku: Jesuit Reports on Yezo. Separate print from: Reports on the Study of Civilisation in Northern Japan, University of Hokkaido, Vol. IX, Sapporo, March 1954, 95 pages, 13 reproductions.

Ayusawa, Shintaro: Mateo Ritchi no sekaizu ni kansuru shiteki kenkyu—Kinsei Nippon ni okeru sekai chiri chishiki no shuryu—A Historical Study of Matteo Ricci's World Map—On the Main Current of the Knowledge of World Geography in the Age of Tokugawa. In: The Journal of Yokohama Municipal University, August 15th, 1953 No. 18; 239+14 pages, 31 reproductions.