Women anthropologists look at women

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, eds. Woman, Culture, and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. xi + 352 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $12.50 (cloth), $3.95 (paper).     

Method and explanation in archaeology: Storming the Bastille

Kelley, Jane H. and Marsha P. Hanen. Archaeology and the Methodology of Science. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. xiii + 437 pp. Including references and index. $29.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Gibbon, Guy. Explanation in Archaeology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. ix + 206 pp. including bibliography and index.     

Feminism in eighteenth-century England

Nietzsche's early work is located in the context of the various nineteenth century attempts to found a secular religion. His own attempt, it is argued, was particularly influenced by the work of Richard Wagner and F.A. Lange. It is premised on the claim that the ordinary rational capacities of most human beings are not sufficient for them to arrive at true beliefs. Philosophers do have the required expertise, but in the absence of widespread recognition of this expertise, it can have little effect on popular belief. Nietzsche therefore seeks a means of making philosophical insight popularly effective by harnessing the non-rational, persuasive power of art. However, the project does not turn out to be well-founded; its failure seems to demonstrate that a ‘secular religion’ thus conceived cannot provide us with a coherent conception of intellectual authority.     

Home and away: constructing family and childhood in the context of working parenthood

Little is known about children's views and experiences of their parents’ work?life reconciliation and how these are negotiated in everyday family practices. This article examines families' experiences of work?life reconciliation from both children's and parents' perspectives, drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study with 14 families in Scotland. Such experiences have implications for the spatial and temporal construction of family and childhood in the UK, where working parenthood is increasingly the norm.     

SPATIAL PATTERNS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET UNION

Analysis of spatial patterns of attained educational levels is helpful in understanding the cultural geography of an area, perhaps especially in the Soviet Union, with its many ethnic groups and stated aim of providing equality of education regardless of ethnicity or sex. The proportion of the population that had completed a higher education was mapped at oblast level from 1970 census data. High rates are found in certain urban areas, Estonia and Latvia, Georgia, and certain sparsely populated areas of the Far North, Siberia, and the Far East. There are regional patterns of disparity between male and female rates of completed higher education and between rural and urban rates, despite Soviet attempts to reduce these inequalities. The distribution of Soviet higher educational institutions conforms generally to the distribution of population, although access to higher education opportunities appears to be geographically limited in some regions. (Maps by Joann L. Krupa, George Mason University.)     

The Legacy of Nineteenth-century Replicas for Object Cultural Biographies: Lessons in Duplication from 1830s Fife

The St Andrews Sarcophagus and Norrie's Law hoard are two of the most important surviving Pictish relics from early medieval Scotland. The entanglement of their later biographies is also of international significance in its own right. Soon after discovery in nineteenth-century Fife, both sets of objects were subject, in 1839, to an exceptionally precocious, documented programme of replication through the enlightened auspices of an under-appreciated antiquarian, George Buist. This well-evidenced case study highlights how and why replicas, things that are widely prevalent in Europe and beyond, are a ‘thick’ and relatively unexplored seam of archaeological material culture that we ignore at our peril. These particular replications also offer new insights into the vision, intellectual and practical energies of early antiquarian societies, and their web of connections across Britain and Ireland.     

Diffused light and sunlight in relation to relief and settlement in high latitudes

The Mameluke or Slave Dynasty of Egypt. By Sir William Muir, K.C.S.I., LL.D., D.C.L., Ph.D. (Bologna). London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 1896.

Hausaland; or, Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan. By Chas. Henry Robinson, M.A. London : Sampson Low and Co., 1896. Pp. 304.

Terre d'Espagne. Par René Bazin. Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1896. Pp. 336. Price 3 fr. 50 c.

The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. By John R. Spears. New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Pp. x + 319.

Parts of the Pacific. By A Peripatetic Parson. London : Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1896. Pp. 388. Price 10s. 6d.

Folk og Natur i Finmarken. Af Hans Reusch. Kristiania : i Kommission hos T. O. Brögger, 1895. Pp. 176. Price 3 Kr.

National Geographic Monographs, prepared under the auspices of the National Geographic Society. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago : American Book Company, 1895. Vol. i., large 8vo, pp. 336. Price $1.50.

Elementary Physical Geography. By Ralph S. Tare, B.Sc., F.G.S.A. New York : Macmillan and Co., 1895. Pp. xxxii + 488; illus. 267 + plates 29. Price 7s. 6d. net.

Ice‐work, Present and Past. By T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., etc., Professor of Geology, University College, London. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Limited, 1896. 8vo, pp. 295. Price 5s.

Ethnology. In Two Parts. I.—Fundamental Ethnical Problems; II.—The Primary Ethnical Groups. By A. H. Keane, F.R.G.S. Cambridge : At the University Press, 1896. Pp. xxx + 442. Price 10s. 6d.

Bibliographie du Congo, 1880–1895. Catalogue méthodique de 3,800 Ouvrages, Brochures, Notices, et Cartes. Par A. J. Wauters. Bruxelles : Administration du Mouvement Géographique, 1895. Pp. 356.

Postal Directory of the Madras Circle, showing the Name of each Village in the, Madras Presidency and of the Post Town through which it is served. First edition. 3 vols. folio, pp. 1506. Madras, 1893 [not for sale].

Pacific Line Guide to South America, containing information for Travellers and Shippers to Ports on the East and West Coasts of South America. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; Liverpool: Rockliff Brothers, 1895. Pp. 157. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Cocoa : All about it. By Historicus. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1896. Pp. 99.