Toward a new humanism in social science

Maurice Roche. Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. x. + 361 pp. Bibliography and index. $15.50.     

What's in a perspective? The history of mexicanist anthropology

Hewitt de Alcántara, Cynthia. Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. xiv + 224 pp. including footnotes and index. $32.95 cloth.     

Studies in sociolinguistics

William Labov. Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular. Conduct and Communication No. 3. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. xxiv + 412 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $6.95 (paper).

William Labov. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Conduct and Communication No. 4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. xviii + 344 pp. Figures, tables, biliography, and index. $5.95 (paper).     

Theories of the transcendent

Guthrie, Stewart. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xi + 290 pp. including end notes, references, figure credits, and index. $30.00 cloth.

Saler, Benson. Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. x + 292 pp. including bibliography and index. $80.00 cloth.

Torrance, Robert. The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xvii + 367 pp. including bibliography and index. $35.00 cloth.     

Visual arts and cultural contexts: History and prehistory

Leppert, Richard. Art and the Committed Eye: The Cultural Functions of Imagery. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1996. xvii + 348 pp. including notes, references, and index. $63.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.

Carr, Christopher and Jill E. Neitzel, eds. Style, Society, and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. xx + 477 pp. including index. $69.50 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.     

Cross‐cultural psychiatry: Epistemology and applied science

Simons, Ronald C. and Charles C. Hughes, eds. The Culture‐Bound Syndromes: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest. Boston: D. Reidel, 1985. xiv + 516 pp. including glossary, references, and index. No price.

Kleinman, Arthur. Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xii + 264 pp. including appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. $22.00 cloth.     

New perspectives on adolescent fertility

Lancaster, Jane B., and Beatrix A. Hamburg, eds. School‐Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: Biosocial Dimensions. New York: Aldine, 1986. xviii + 403 pp. including figures, chapter references, and index. $39.95 cloth.

Moore, Kristin A., Margaret C. Simms, and Charles L. Betsey. Choice and Circumstance: Racial Differences in Adolescent Sexuality and Fertility. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1986. xiv + 165 pp. including tables, chapter references, and index. $19.95 cloth.