Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute back issues from June 1999:
Reconstructing ethnicity.
Jun 01, 1999; ... In an academic version of fiddling while Rome burns, postmodern anthropologists deconstruct while other commentators use our concepts to analyse contemporary events (Ahmed & Shore 1995: 12). This is especially so in regard to ethnicity. The news is full of ethnic cleansing and ...
The grandchildren's play at the Mamprusi king's funeral: ritual rebellion revisited in northern Ghana.
Jun 01, 1999; ... At the end of the nineteenth century a cluster of loosely centralized polities occupied parts of that region which is now north-eastern Ghana and southern Bourkina Fasso. The Mamprusi, Dagomba and Nanumba of Ghana and the various Mossi kingdoms of southern Bourkina Fasso, are linked ...
Culture in a sealed envelope: the concealment of Australian aboriginal heritage and tradition in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair.
Jun 01, 1999; ... Anthropology might at first seem to garner some hope and optimism from legislation that protects the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples and gives them ways to regain ownership and control of their traditional lands. In 1976, the Federal Parliament of Australia passed the Aboriginal ...
The aesthetics of kin recognition.
Jun 01, 1999; ... That human beings are capable of two very different kinds of knowing - one rational, the other not - is an old and widespread idea. It is, for example, basic to such intellectual traditions as Buddhism and phenomenology, and is regularly defended by artists and some experimental ...
Piro designs: painting as meaningful action in an Amazonian lived world.
Jun 01, 1999; ... It is yonchi, there is no other name for it! It is all called yonchi, all of it! Clara Flores of Huau village, in exasperated answer to one of my many questions. What questions can be asked of a visual aesthetic system? What sorts of meanings can such a system ...
Tradition, tourism and memory in Malta.
Jun 01, 1999; ... Anthropologists working in the Mediterranean have given increasing attention to the negotiation of history (e.g. Faubion 1993; Herzfeld 1992; Maddox 1993) and the revitalization of rituals and tradition (Boissevain 1992). However, they have paid less attention to the ways memory has been ...
Compassion for one another: constituting kinship as intentionality in Fiji.
Jun 01, 1999; ... Once a week at the primary school outside the village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau, central Fiji, a special assembly was held. Children and teachers gathered in one room - the teachers on a line of chairs facing the children who sat cross-legged on the floor. Usually, a church elder ...
Stonehenge: Making Space.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... BENDER, BARBARA. (Materializing Culture Ser.). xiv, 254 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1998. [pounds]39.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) In this ambitious volume Barbara Bender attempts - and largely succeeds - to find a different way of writing about ...
Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures, 2d ed.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... COCKBURN, AIDAN, EVE COCKBURN & THEODORE A. REYMAN (eds). xxii, 402 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds]70.00 (cloth, [pounds]24.95 (paper) Mummification practised by the ancients was thought to ensure immortality for the dead, as well as ...
Archaeology and the Capitalist World System: A Study from Russian America.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CROWELL, ARON L. with an appendix by Donald W. Clark (Contr. glob. hist. Archaeol. Ser.). xii, 286 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. New York, London: Plenum Press, 1997. $49.50 In the decades immediately following the 1741 voyages of Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov to ...
Sotades: Symbols of Immortality on Greek Vases.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... HOFFMANN, HERBERT. xviii, 205 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]70.00 For anyone familiar with Hoffmann's work on Greek vase-painting, Sotades may at first glance come as something of a surprise. Is it not something of a contradiction for the leading ...
Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory: A Study of the Fuquene and Susa Valleys.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... LANGEBAEK RUEDA, CARL HENRIK. [in Spanish and English]; Spanish translation by Roxanna May Jones (Univ. Pittsb. Mem. Lat. Am. Archaeol. 9). xvi, 215 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Dept of Anthropology; Santafe de Bogota; Univ. de los Andes, 1995 ....
Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... NELSON, SARAH. 240 pp., illus., bibliogr. Walnut Creek, London: AltaMira Press, 1997 In this book, Sarah Nelson ploughs through all the misinformation and red herrings that have been thrown at gender studies in the last ten years to explain exactly what is going on and why. She ...
Lithics After the Stone Age: Handbook of Stone Tools from the Levant.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... ROSEN, STEVEN A. 184 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Walnut Creek, London: AltaMira Press, 1997. [pounds]19.95 (paper) The book addresses four main issues. Its primary purpose is to provide a framework for the interpretation of protohistoric lithic assemblages in the ...
Mas alla del silencio: las fronteras de genero en los Andes.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... ARNOLD, DENISE Y. (ed.). (Parentesco y genero en los Andes 1) (CIASE Res. Ser. 27). 583 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. La Paz: Biblioteca de Estudios Andinos, 1997 This collection of articles on gender relations in the Andes is the product of an international conference on ...
Men Owen the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... GOHEEN, MIRIAM. xx, 252 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press; London: Eurospan, distributors, 1996. [pounds]39.95 (cloth), [pounds]19.95 (paper) Miriam Goheen's ethnography of the kingdom of Nso' in the Cameroonian Grassfields is a welcome addition to ...
Buying and Selling Power: Anthropological Reflections on Prostitution in Spain.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... HART, ANGIE. x, 256 pp., bibliogr. Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. [pounds]45.50 This book on street prostitution in a derelict neighbourhood of an eastern Spanish town is written in an 'autobiographical style.' The style does not enhance the content. Hart is ...
Gendered Colonialisms in African History.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... HUNT, NANCY ROSE, TESSIE P. LIU & JEAN QUARAERT (eds). x, 138 pp., illus., maps. Oxford, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. [pounds]13.99 (paper) For over a decade anthropologists and historians, with somewhat different priorities, have resourcefully converged in colonial studies to ...
Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... LIPSET, DAVID. (Camb. Stud. social cult. Anthrop. 106). xviii, 335 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]50.00 (cloth), [pounds]17.95 (paper) American anthropologists have been struggling with the nature of culture throughout most of this century ....
Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... MAYNES, MAY JO et at. (eds). x, 374 pp., bibliogrs. New York, London: Routledge, 1996. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper This volume is the result of the 1992 inaugural conference 'Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Comparative and Historical Perspectives' of the ...
American Gay.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... MURRAY, STEPHEN G. x, 337 pp., tables, bibliogr. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996. [pounds]39.95 (cloth), [pounds]13.50 (paper) While the bulk of social science research on homosexuality has slowly shifted away from analysing it as a category of deviant behaviour, ...
Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... PRIEUR, ANNICK. xvi, 293 pp., illus., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997 Mema is the queen mother of a group of young transvestite male prostitutes in Nezahualcoytol, a city that has been swallowed in the sprawl of Mexico City. Mema's sponsorship of the jotos ...
Mauss: hier et aujourd'hui.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... BERTHOUD, G. & G. BUSINO (eds). (Rev. eur. Sci. Sociales 34:105). 279 pp., bibliogrs. Geneve, Paris: Librairie Droz, 1996 The recent renewal of interest in Mauss has been exemplified by a number of international conferences. It is from one of these that this edited collection is ...
Being There: The Necessity of Fieldwork.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... BRADBURD, DANIEL. (Smithson. Ser. Ethnogr. Inqy). xviii, 186 pp., illus., bibliogr. Washington, London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. [pounds]25.25 (cloth), [pounds]12.50 (paper). Daniel Bradburd has written an odd, albeit enjoyable, account of his fieldwork experiences ...
Just Words: Law, Language and Power.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CONLEY, JOHN M. & WILLIAM M. O'BARR. (Lang. & legal Disc. Ser.). xvi, 168 pp., bibliogr. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998. [pounds]27.95 (cloth), [pounds]10.50 (paper) The avowed intention of the authors is to capitalize on a juncture in the ongoing research into ...
Unlimited Means: Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... GOWDY, JOHN (ed.). xxxi, 342 pp., bibliogr. Washington: Island Press, 1998 The subtitle of this book suggests that it is a collection of empirical and comparative studies of hunter-gatherers, and some of the readings support this interpretation: we find Lorna Marshall on Bushman ...
Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... HILTEBEITEL, ALF & BARBARA D. MILLER (eds). foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere. xvi, 297 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1998. $21.95 (paper) This is a very valuable collection of essays. Three are on China (including Hong Kong), two on Japan, one on ...
Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... JACKSON, MICHAEL (ed., intro.). x, 278 pp., illus., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1996 What we have here is one of a growing number of quietly published books whose approach to the human condition expands our understanding of what ethnography can do, and of what ...
An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... LAYTON, ROBERT. xii, 241 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]38.00 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper) It takes a certain amount of courage to write an introduction to anthropological theory given the fragmentation of the subject over the last two decades or ...
Biosocial Perspectives on Children.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... PANTER-BRICK, CATHERINE (ed.). (Biosoc. Soc. Symp. Set. 10). xii, 160 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds]35.00 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper) This is a collection of five essays plus a longish Introduction by the editor, who also contributes a ...
Lire Levi-Strauss: le deploiement d'une intuition.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... SCUBLA, LUCIEN. 337 pp., illus., bibliogr. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1998. 160F As the title meetly indicates, Scubla's book is a close reading of Levi-Strauss's work, spreading over most of his publications from 1950 to Histoire de lynx. The focus, however, is on a single facet of ...
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of North America 1, North America, part 1.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... TRIGGER, BRUCE G. & WILCOMB E. WASHBURN (eds). xx, 564 pp., illus., maps, bibliogrs. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1996. [pounds]40.00 In the preface the editors state their goal as to 'summarize existing knowledge rather than to present the results of original research or to pioneer ...
Machiavellian Intelligence II: Extensions and Evaluations.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... WHITEN, ANDREW & RICHARD W. BYRNE (eds). xii, 403 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]55.00 (cloth), [pounds]19.95 (paper) It is rare that an edited volume has a sequel, yet this book is that for Machiavellian intelligence: social expertise and ...
Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... ARISS, ROBERT M. xvi, 219 pp., bibliogr. Amsterdam: Gordon & Breach, 1997. $22.00 (paper) Robert Ariss charges anthropologists with being slow to appreciate the significance of the AIDS epidemic. Perhaps it is true that, initially at least, they mostly used their methods and ...
The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CECIL, ROSANNE (ed.). xii, 226 pp., tables, bibliogr. Oxford, Washington: Berg, 1996. [pounds]29.95 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper) Given that both birth and death are important themes for anthropological inquiry, it is significant that we have previously lacked an ...
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... DAVIS-FLOYD, ROBBIE E. & CAROLYN F. SARGENT (eds). xii, 510 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1997. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper) Dedicated to Brigitte Jordan, who pioneered the anthropology of childbirth in the 1970s, this ...
The Origin of Dreams.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... GRIFFIN, JOSEPH. vi, 169 pp., illus. Worthing: The Therapist, 1997 The author, a research psychologist, takes a biosocial perspective on dreaming and substantially informs his analysis by an introspective analysis of his own dreams, with some reported study of the dreams of ...
Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... LAWRENCE, CHRISTOPHER & STEVEN SHAPIN (eds). viii, 342 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998. [pounds]43.95 (cloth), [pounds]15.25 (paper) The conjunction of topics put together in this collection of essays might appear counter-intuitive. Science, ...
Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... PRINGLE, ROSEMARY. x, 240 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.95 (paper) This is an intelligent, innovative, learned - and witty - book. The author manages to steer a course between her feminist convictions and the kind of radical ...
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of 'O.'.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... RHODE, ERIC. 230 pp., illus., bibliogr. Binghamton: esf Publishers, 1998 The author describes himself as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist and the core analytical perspectives used are based on the work of Freud, Bion and Klein. However, he ranges freely through the fields of ...
Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... BOWEN, JOHN R. xii, 271 pp., illus., bibliogr. Boston, London: Allyn & Bacon, 1998 Best known for his work on the Muslim Gayo of Sumatra, Bowen has produced a book designed largely as a text for undergraduate courses on the anthropology of religion. Such books are commonly ...
Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... GOLDSTEIN, MELVYN & MATTHEW T. KAPSTEIN (eds). Orville Schell. x, 207 pp., illus., bibliogr. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1998. [pounds]30.00 (cloth), [pounds]11.95 (paper) Recent Western works on Tibetan Buddhism have emphasized two linked 'realities' to ...
Mythology, Spirituality, and History in an Amazonian Community.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... GRAY, ANDREW. (The Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru 1). xxvi, 324 pp., illus., bibliogr. Providence, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996. [pounds]40.00 This book is the first volume of a trilogy on the Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru. It covers the main topics of a traditional ethnography, but ...
Pilgrimage in Tibet.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... MCKAY, ALEX (ed.). xii, 228 pp., illus., map, bibliogr. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998. [pounds]35.00 The field of Tibetan pilgrimage studies has been rapidly expanding, especially since the revival of pilgrimage practices in Tibetan areas under Chinese control. Much previous work ...
The Myth and Ritual Theory: An Anthology.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... SEGAL, ROBERT A. x, 473 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. [pounds]50.00 (cloth), [pounds]15.99 (paper) This is a monumental collection of essays and abstracts of texts, all concerned with a most classical theme in symbolic studies - the debate on the relation (if ...
People of the Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission: A Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... BOYD, ROBERT. (Stud. Anthrop. N. Am. Ind.). xii, 396 pp., illus., bibliogr. Nebraska: Univ. Press; London: Academic & Univ. Publishers Group, 1996. [pounds]47.50 This is a volume in the University of Nebraska's 'Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indian Series', ...
African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CAPLAN, PAT. xiv, 267 pp., illus., map, bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 1997. [pounds]45.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) Pat Caplan describes this book as a personal narrative which presents the life history and worldview of Mohammed, a Swahili peasant man from Mafia ...
Survival and Profit in Rural Java: The Case of an East Javanese Village.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CEDERROTH, SVEN. xi, 301 pp., tables, bibliogr. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1995 Too little attention has been paid to the landless villagers in Java, so this ethnography is welcome. It deals with a mountain village in East Java, near enough to Malang City so that villagers can ...
Procesos rurales e historia regional (sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz).(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CHENAUT, VICTORIA (ed.). 223 pp., tables, bibliogr. Tlalpan: CIESAS, 1996 In this brief volume, editor Victoria Chenaut has gathered seven previously unpublished articles on the Totonac people and their fascinating but understudied region of Mexico in central Veracruz. As the ...
Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... CREED, GERALD W. xvi, 304 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds]49.50 (cloth), [pounds]17.95 (paper) Crossing the Balkan mountains and into the Danubian valley, your car follows up and down the low hills, in a rhythm ...
Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... DONNAN, HASTINGS & GRAHAM MCFARLANE (eds). xii, 242 pp., bibliogrs. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. [pounds]9.95 (paper) British social anthropology has been trying to engage with public policy-related issues in Britain for some time now. This is, on the one hand, ...
African Crossroads: Intersections Between History and Anthropology in Cameroon.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... FOWLER, IAN & DAVID ZEITLYN (eds). (Career. Stud. 2). xxviii, 213 pp., illus., bibliogr. Providence, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996. [pounds]30.00 (cloth), [pounds]11.95 (paper) This collection is the culmination of a project to honour Sally Chilver's work on Cameroon history and ...
Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... GELLNER, DAVID N. & DECLAN QUIGLEY (eds). xvi, 364 pp., illus., plates, maps, tables, bibliogr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [pounds]45.00 The six contributors to this innovative and ethnographically rich volume bravely take on issues of caste anew. Conscious of the charge ...
Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... HANN, C.M. x, 277 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds]45.00 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper) Property was a fundamental concept of anthropology until recent decades. Hann and contributors want to reclaim and renew the tradition. He proposes we should move to 'a ...
Parle, je t'ecouterai: recits et traditions des Orokaiva de Papouasie-Novelle-Guinee.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... ITEANU, ANDRE & ERIC SCHWIMMER. 260 pp., plates, map, bibliogr. Paris: Gallimard, 1996. 140 FF The Orokaivas are inhabitants of the Oro province of New Guinea, studied by Eric Schwimmer and Andre Iteanu for almost thirty years. A long time makes for good acquaintance and a good ...
Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya: 1880-1952.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... MACKENZIE, A. FIONA D. (Int. Afr. Libr. 19). xiv, 286 pp., tables, bibliogr. Edinburgh: Univ. Press for the International African Institute, 1998. [pounds]29.95 (cloth), [pounds]14.95 (paper) Murang'a District in central Kenya provides the setting for this stirring study of ...
Le cheikh de la nuit - Sanaa: organization des souks et societe citadine.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... MERMIER, FRANCK. 256 pp., map, bibliogr. Aries: Sinbad/Acres Sud, 1997. 128 FF The market of Sanaa, one of the most ancient cities of the Arab world and the present capital of Yemen, is the subject of this monograph. Mermier continues an anthropological tradition brought to ...
Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... MORRIS, RICHARD. xxii, 237 pp., plates, bibliogr. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1997 With this book Morris joins the ranks of those who examine memorial traditions in order to gain access to the culture of the memorializers. On the premiss that 'responses to death ...
King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain Through African Eyes.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... PARSONS, NEIL. xviii, 322 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Chicago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998 In September, 1895, a delegation of three chiefs from Bechuanaland arrived in England. They had come because they feared Cecil Rhodes's designs on their territories, and with ...
The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... RIVAL, LAURA (ed.). xiv, 315 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1998. [pounds]39.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) When I read Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, I knew for certain that the black forces were doomed as soon as the ents came in on Gandulf's side: what ...
Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... SENFT, GUNTER (ed.). (Oxf. Stud. anthrop. Ling. 11). xii, 324 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogrs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]50.00 Traditionally, work on human spatial cognition has assumed that humans construct space in a fundamentally egocentric and ...
Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Places.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... SPYER, PATRICIA (ed.). (Zones Relig. Ser.). x, 262 pp., bibliogrs. New York, London: Routledge, 1998. [pounds]40.00 Border fetishisms is a significant collection of articles, some of which are quite exceptional. The book begins with an attempt by the editor to propose an overall ...
An Introduction to Japanese Society.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... SUGIMOTO, YOSHIO. xxii, 285 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.95 (paper) This volume is a most useful addition to the relatively small number of text books which give a reasonably comprehensive coverage of Japanese ...
Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... TAPPER, RICHARD. xviii, 429 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1997. [pounds]45.00 This book is the fruit of a lifetime of anthropological and historical research on the Shahsevan, a nomadic people of Iran. It is empirically detailed and theoretically ...
The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers.(Review)
Jun 01, 1999; ... TORRES, GABRIEL. xii, 243 pp., illus., map, tables, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]34.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) What makes this ethnographic study of the politics of tomato work in the south of Jalisco so valuable is that it interweaves a whole bag of ...