Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute back issues from March 2000:
CREATING DIFFERENCE: A CONTEMPORARY AFFILIATION DRAMA IN THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA.(case study from 1997 examines issues of affiliation to groups)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Issues of affiliation to groups, important in Papua New Guinea Highlands ethnography during the 1960s and 1970s, have since been overshadowed by other analytical concerns. But the issues have never gone away and they resound clearly in the life of people there, who are dealing with ...
VAJRA BROTHER, VAJRA SISTER: RENUNCIATION, INDIVIDUALISM AND THE HOUSEHOLD IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONASTICISM.
Mar 01, 2000; ... This article challenges two connected notions in the study of Tibetan Buddhism: that Buddhist monasticism is characterized by a pronounced move towards individualism, systematically detaching monks from relational social life; and that Tibetan Buddhist doctrines of karma represent an ...
ART AND THE RE-PRESENTATION OF THE PAST.(environmental and installation art in context of prehistoric archeological site)
Mar 01, 2000; ... This article considers conceptual links between producing installation art works in the present and interpreting prehistoric lifeworlds. We consider connections between the work of contemporary 'landscape', 'environmental' or 'ecological' artists and an on-going landscape archaeology ...
RISK, RITUAL AND PERFORMANCE.(Bali)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Performance approaches to the interpretation of ritual highlight process, presence, strategy and uniqueness. They are often favourably contrasted to textual approaches said to emphasize meaning, structure and stability. However, this sharp distinction can be maintained only by ignoring the ...
REVISITING BASIC COLOR TERMS.(analysis of paradigm constructed by Berlin and Kay in 1969)
Mar 01, 2000; ... This article revisits the classic paradigm of Berlin and Kay (1969). First, four substantial revisions indicating the current position and appeal to evolution are outlined. Second, the work is placed in its historical context of scholarly thought. Third, the attempt to operationalize the ...
AGENCY, PERSONHOOD AND THE 'I' OF DISCOURSE IN THE PACIFIC AND BEYOND.
Mar 01, 2000; ... Sahlins bases his account of Polynesian 'heroic history' partly on the fact that chiefs used the pronoun 'I' in reference to their whole group. Mosko (1992) argues that Sahlins's consequent emphasis on 'encompassment' as the modality of chiefly action is diametrically opposed to ...
MIGRATION, MONEY AND MASCULINITY IN KERALA.(South India)
Mar 01, 2000; ... This article examines migration, styles of masculinity and male trajectories through the lifecycle in Kerala, South India, in a region with a long history of high migration, most lately to the Persian Gulf states. Ethnography suggests that migration may be integrated into wider identity ...
Marriage by capture.(in ancient Indo-European ideology and literature)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... For the student of marriage by capture (cf. Barnes 1999) Indo-European comparativism provides interesting material that is probably little known among anthropologists. The key work is Dum[acute{e}]zil's Manages indo-europ[acute{e}]ens (1979), which centres on a comparison between Roman and ...
Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: local visions and cosmic drama.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... APOLITO, PAOLO. Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: local visions and cosmic drama; translated by William A. Christian Jr. xii, 267 pp., bibliogr. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. $49.50 In May 1985 the Virgin Mary began appearing to ...
Sacrifices en Islam: espaces et temps d'un rituel.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... BONTE, PIERRE, ANNE-MARIE BRISEBARRE & ALTAN GOKALP (eds). Sacrifices en Islam: espaces et temps d'un rituel (CNRS Anthrop. Set.). 465 pp., illus., bibliogr. Paris: CNRS, 1999 This important book, the result of eight years' collaborative research, is the first wide-ranging ...
Ta[ddot{i}]ga: terre des chamans.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... HAMAYON, ROBERTE N. Ta[ddot{i}]ga: terre des chamans; photographies de Marc Garanger. 215 pp., illus., col. plates, maps, bibliogr. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1997. 450 F This beautifully produced coffee-table book, associated with the documentary film of the same title by the ...
Naven or the other self: a relational approach to ritual action.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... HOUSEMAN, MICHAEL & CARLO SEVERI. Naven or the other self: a relational approach to ritual action (Stud. Hist. Relig. 79). xvi, 325 pp., illus., plates, map, bibliogr. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1998. Nlg 180.5 Naven, the intriguing ritual examined by Bateson in 1936 in his classic ...
Kayan religion: ritual life and religious reform in central Borneo.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... ROUSSEAU, JEROME. Kayan religion: ritual life and religious reform in central Borneo (Verh. K. Inst. Taal-, Land- Volkenk. 180). x, 352 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibiogr. Leiden: KILTV Press, 1998. Nlg 60 (paper) Religious reform among Southeast Asian peoples has lately been a ...
Eyewitness to discovery: first-person accounts of more than fifty of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... FAGAN, BRIAN M. (ed.). Eyewitness to discovery: first-person accounts of more than fifty of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries. x, 493 pp., illus., col. plates, maps, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [pounds]19.99 I wonder how many ...
The Cahokia chiefdom: the archaeology of a Mississippian society.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... MILNER, GEORGE R. The Cahokia chiefdom: the archaeology of a Mississippian society (Smithson. Ser. archaeol. Inqy). xvi, 216 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Washington, London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. [pounds]31.25 The Mississippian site of Cahokia and the ...
Ancient monuments of the Mississippi valley.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... SQUIER, EPHRAIM G. & EDWIN H. DAVIS. Ancient monuments of the Mississippi valley; edited and with an introduction by David J. Meltzer (Smithson. Class. Anthrop.). iv, 316 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Washington, London: Smithsonian Institution, 1998. [pounds]46.75 (cloth), [pounds]23.25 ...
Our gendered past: archaeological studies of gender in southern Africa.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... WADLEY, LYN (ed.). Our gendered past: archaeological studies of gender in southern Africa. x, 379 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997. R.79.95 (paper) This is a fascinating and informative book about how archaeology, ethnology ...
Sexuality in Islam.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... BOUHDIBA, ABDELWAHAB. 1998. Sexuality in Islam. Translated by Alan Sheridan. viii, 288 pp., bibliogr. London: Saqi Books. [policy]l4.95 (paper) The sexual ethics of Muslims have deteriorated from an ideal model embodied in the Prophet Muhammad's vision of the world. Sometimes ...
Donor insemination: international social science perspectives.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... DANIELS, KEN & ERICA HAIMES (eds). Donor insemination: international social science perspectives. xii, 185 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Cambridge: University Press, 1998. [pounds]37.50 (cloth), [pounds]13.95 (paper) This is an excellent book which suffers from a rather boring cover ...
The ceramics of R[acute{a}]quira, Colombia: gender, work, and economic change.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... DUNCAN, RONALD J. The ceramics of R[acute{a}]quira, Colombia: gender, work, and economic change. xx, 233 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. $49.95 As the only book in English about village pottery production in Colombia, this ...
Complementariedad entre hombre [gamma] mujer: relaciones de g[acute{e}]nero desde la perspectiva amerindia.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PERRIN, MICHEL & MARIE PERRUCHON (eds). Complementariedad entre hombre [gamma] mujer: relaciones de g[acute{e}]nero desde la perspectiva amerindia (Col. Abya-Yala 43). 183 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Quito: ediciones Aby-Yala, 1997 Gender relations amongst Amerindian societies are a ...
Denying biology: essays on gender and pseudo-creation.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... SHAPIRO, WARREN & ULI LINKE. Denying biology: essays on gender and pseudo-creation. 250 pp., bibliogrs. Lanham, London: University Press of America, 1996. $54.00 (cloth), $39.50 (paper) There is one rather good essay in this collection, and two that are reasonably interesting: ...
La pluralit[acute{e}] des mondes: vers une autre anthropologie.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... CHRISTIAN K. H[oslash]JBJERG AFFERGAN, FRANCIS. La pluralit[acute{e}] des mondes: vers une autre anthropologie. 288 pp., bibliogr. Paris: Albin Michel, 1997. 140 F Depicting the crisis of anthropology has been a recurring theme in the discipline's self-examination ...
Virtualizm: a new political economy.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... CARRIER, JAMES G. & DANIEL MILLER (eds). Virtualizm: a new political economy, vi, 222 pp., illus., map, tables, biblogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1998. [pounds]39.99 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper) This volume (along with Carrier's previous collection critiquing the Western market ...
Discovering anthropology: a resource guide for teachers and students.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... COLEMAN, SIMON & BOB SIMPSON (eds). Discovering anthropology: a resource guide for teachers and students [fifth edition]. vi, 102 pp. London. Royal anthropological Institute, etc. 1998. [pounds]12.00 Discovering anthropology is probably not the kind of book that is going to be ...
An African classical age: eastern and southern Africa in world history.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... EHRET. CHRISTOPHER. An African classical age: eastern and southern Africa in world history, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. xviii, 354 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia; Oxford: James Currey, 1998. [pounds]35.00 Chris Ehret has spent his career ...
De la costa a la sierra: las Huastecas.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... ESCOBAR OHMSTEDE, ANTONIO. De la costa a la sierra: las Huastecas, 1750-1900 (Hist. Puebl. indig. M[acute{e}]x.).253 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Tlalpan: CIESAS, 1998 The series 'History of the Indian population of Mexico' aims to offer a different reading of the ...
Rock music.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... FAGG, M.C. Rock music (Occ. Paps. Technol. 14). xii, 94 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, 1997. [pounds]16.95 Rock music! Just the thing for anthropologists seeking another link between the distant past, the present and even the future -- a link found on every ...
Language and solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg dilemma.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... GELLNER, ERNEST. Language and solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg dilemma. xx, 209 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 1998. [pounds]35.00 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper) This posthumous publication is the work of one distinguished continental ...
Landless and hungry: access to land in early and traditional societies.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... HARING, B. & R. DE MAAIJER (eds). Landless and hungry: access to land in early and traditional societies; proceedings of a seminar ... x, 198 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogrs. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1998. Dfl.45 (paper) Anthropological literature has long accustomed ...
The wake of the unseen object: travels through Alaska's native landscapes.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... KIZZIA, TOM. The wake of the unseen object: travels through Alaska's native landscapes. x, 278 pp., map. Lincoln, NE, London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. [pounds]14.00 (paper) First published in 1991, this book derives its title from the Yupik Eskimo word, Qavlunaq, used ...
Cannibals: the discovery and representation of the cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... LESTRIGNANT, FRANK. Cannibals: the discovery and representation of the cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne; translated by Rosemary Morris. vii, 247 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. [pounds]39.50 'A feast!' declares Stephen Greenblatt on the back cover ...
Contested natures.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... MACNAGHTEN, PHIL & JOHN URRY. Contested natures. ix, 307 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Sage, 1998. [pounds]49.50 (cloth), [pounds]15.99 (paper) Environmentalism may well be the reigning civil concern of the close of the twentieth century. Governments, national and international ...
Hormones, health, and behavior: a socioecological and lifespan perspective.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PANTER-BRICK, C. & C. M. WORTHMAN (eds). Hormones, health, and behavior: a socioecological and lifespan perspective. x, 290 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 1999. [pounds]45.00 Comprising an overview chapter and seven contributed chapters, this book ...
Red Jacket, Seneca chief.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PARKER, ARTHUR CASWELL. Red Jacket, Seneca chief; drawings by Jack Moment; intro, by Thomas S. Abler. xxviii, 228 pp., illus. Lincoln, NE, London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. $10.00 (paper) The reprint of this book is a welcomed addition to layman, high school student, ...
Social cartography: mapping ways of seeing social and educational change.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PAULSTON, ROLLAND G. (ed.). Social cartography: mapping ways of seeing social and educational change. xxvi, 456 pp., illus., bibliogrs. New York, London: Garland, 1996 'When I first heard about social cartography in 1992, I was dubious to say the least', writes Joseph Seppi (P ....
Folk mammalogy of the Northern Pimans.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... REA, AMADEO M. Folk mammalogy of the Northern Pimans; sketches by Sheridan Oman, linguistic consultant Culver Cassa xxiv, 286 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. $45.00 Amadeo Rea has raised the bar on standards for ethnobiological study and ...
How to kill a dragon: aspects of Indo-European poetics.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... WATKINS, CALVERT. How to kill a dragon: aspects of Indo-European poetics. xvi, 613 PP., bibliogr. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [pounds]45.00 Anthropology is meant to be a comparative discipline, but it is striking how seldom it refers to one of the best ...
Being there: fieldwork in anthropology.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... WATSON, C.W. (ed.). Being there: fieldwork in anthropology (Anthrop., Cult, Soc. Ser.). viii, 169 pp., bibliogrs. London, Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999. [pounds]35.00 (cloth), [pounds]11.99 (paper) Being there reveals fieldwork as subjective; reflexivity towers over ...
Making ethnic ways: communities and their transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... BRAVMANN BILL. Making ethnic ways: communities and their transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950 (Social Hist. Afr. Ser.). xiv, 283 pp., illus., bibliogr. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman; Oxford: James Currey, 1998. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper) This book, part of the ...
Archaic states.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... FEINMAN, GARY M. & JOYCE MARCUS (eds). Archaic states (Sch. am. Res. adv. Scm. Ser.). xiv, 427 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1998. $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper) These idea-filled papers, based on an Advanced Seminar held in ...
Telling Maya tales: Tzotzil identities in modern Mexico.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... GOSSEN, GARY H. Telling Maya tales: Tzotzil identities in modern Mexico. xxxiv, 309 pp., illus., bibliogr. New York, London: Routledge, 1999. [pounds]13.99 (paper) Although Gossen claims from the title to be looking at Tzotzil identities, the tales in this book are primarily ...
Crossing borders: changing social identities in southern Mexico.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... GRIMES, KIMBERLY M. Crossing borders: changing social identities in southern Mexico. xiv, 191 pp., maps, bibliogr. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper) Crossing borders is an engaging ethnography of Putla de Guerrero, a modest-sized city in ...
Sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns, and Africans: race and self-determination in international law.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... GROVOGUI, SIBA N'ZATIOULA. Sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns, and Africans: race and self-determination in international law (Borderlines 3). xii, 282 pp., bibliogr. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. [pounds]38.00 Professor Grovogui practised law in Guinea ...
Merchants and migrants: ethnicity and trade among Yunnanese Chinese in southeast Asia.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... HILL, ANN MAXWELL. Merchants and migrants: ethnicity and trade among Yunnanese Chinese in southeast Asia (Yale SE Asia Stud. Monogr. 47). viii, 178 PP., maps, bibliogr. New Haven: Yale University SE Asia Studies, 1998. $32.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper) This fascinating monograph ...
Cities and citizenship.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... MARK HOLMSTR[ddot{O}]M HOLSTON, JAMES (ed.). Cities and citizenship. x, 260 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Durham, NC, London: Duke University Press, 1999. [pounds]34.00 (cloth), [pounds]11.95 (paper) This collection of essays is about 'the importance of cities in the ...
Fighting for faith and nation: dialogues with Sikh militants.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... MAHMOOD, CYNTHIA KEPPLEY. Fighting for faith and nation: dialogues with Sikh militants. xii, 314 pp., illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. $39.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) Should ethnography give voice to assassins, even camouflaged as ...
Rural revolt in Mexico: US. intervention and the domain of subaltern politics.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... NUGENT, DANIEL (ed.). Rural revolt in Mexico: US. intervention and the domain of subaltern politics; expanded edition, foreword by William C. Roseberry. xxii, 384 pp., bibliogr. Durham, NC, London: Duke University Press, 1998. [pounds]56.95 (cloth), [pounds]18.95 (paper) When ...
Being ourselves for you: the global display of cultures.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... STANLEY, NICK. Being ourselves for you: the global display of cultures (Mat. Cult. Ser.). 212 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. London: Middlesex University Press, 1998. [pounds]14.95 (paper) Nick Stanley's book makes exciting reading for anyone interested in the ambiguity of ...
Rigobetra Mench[acute{u}] and the story of all poor Guatemalans.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... STOLL, DAVID. Rigobetra Mench[acute{u}] and the story of all poor Guatemalans. xxii, 336 PP., maps, tables, bibiogr. Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press, 1999, [pounds]20.00 Following his controversial revisionist account of the Guatemalan armed conflict, Between two armies in the ...
Patrons of Maori culture: power, theory and ideology in the Maori renaissance.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... WEBSTER, STEVEN. Patrons of Maori culture: power, theory and ideology in the Maori renaissance. 275 pp., Illus., bibliogr. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1998. NZ$39.95 (paper) I find this book informative, challenging, deeply concerned with serious issues. It is also ...
Papuan borderlands: Hull, Duna, and Ipili perspective an the Papua New Guinea highlands.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... BIERSACK, ALETTA (ed.). Papuan borderlands: Hull, Duna, and Ipili perspective an the Papua New Guinea highlands. xii, 440 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. $59.50 This volume's central point (italicized for good measure in the ...
Carnival, canboulay and calypso: traditions in the making.(Brief Article)(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... COWLEY, JOHN. Carnival, canboulay and calypso: traditions in the making. 293 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 1996, [pounds]35.00 Students of the Trinidad carnival will value this history of its development under British conquest until the 1920s. Examining the ...
Jokes and their relation to society.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... DAVIES, CHRISTIE. Jokes and their relation to society (Humor Res. 4). x, 234 pp., tables, bibliogr. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998 This volume of essays develops further Davies's already well-known work in the field of humour studies. Author of Ethnic humour around ...
Lilies of tile field: marginal people who live for the moment.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... DAY, SOPHIE, EVTHYMIOS PAPATAXIARCHIS & MICHAEL STEWART (eds). Lilies of tile field: marginal people who live for the moment. xii, 260 pp., illus., bibliogr. Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press, 1999. [pounds]48.50 Although the title of this volume suggests that its unifying theme ...
At home in the street: street children of northeast Brazil.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... HECHT, THOMAS. At home in the street: street children of northeast Brazil. xiii, 267 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 1998. [pounds]40.00 (cloth),[pounds]14.95 (paper) On picking up this book, one question immediately jumps to mind: How can an ...
The games of gods and man: essays in play and performance.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... K[ddot{O}]PPING, KLAUS PETER (ed.). The games of gods and man: essays in play and performance (Stud. social rit. Morph 2). xii, 290 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Hamburg: Lit, 1997. 39.80 DM (paper) This volume presents papers from a symposium in Heidelberg in 1993 focusing on the ...
Transforming the Indonesian uplands: marginality, power and production.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... LI, TANIA MURRAY. Transforming the Indonesian uplands: marginality, power and production (Stud. env. Anthrop. 4). xxiv; 319 pp., illus., maps, bibliogrs. Reading, etc.: Harwood Academic, 1999, [pounds]30.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.00 (paper) This book is intended as a companion volume to ...
Marketing and modernity.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... LIEN, MARIANNE ELISABETH. Marketing and modernity (Explor. Anthrop. Ser.). viii, 308 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997. [pounds]39.99 (cloth) [pounds]14.99 (paper) There are at least three reasons why this work should become widely read and used within ...
Locality and belonging.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... LOVELL, NADIA (ed.). Locality and belonging (Eur. Ass, social Anthrop.). xiv, 218 pp., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 1998. [pounds]15.99 (paper) Through a number of sometimes highly interesting case studies, this volume explores 'the ways in which belonging and ...
Healing dramas and clinical plots: the narrative structure of experience.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... MATTINGLY, CHERYL. Healing dramas and clinical plots: the narrative structure of experience. xiv; 192 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 1998. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.95 (paper) This book is in three parts; a critical summary of work by narrative theorists; ...
Counselling in a multicultural society.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PALMER, STEPHEN & PITTU LAUNGANI (eds.). Counselling in a multicultural society. x, 214 pp., tables, bibliogr. London, etc.: Sage, 1999. [pounds]37.50 (cloth), [pounds]13.99 (paper) The central problem with which this edited collection wrestles is how best to deliver a service ...
Constructing death: the sociology of dying and bereavement.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... SEALE, OLIVE. Constructing death: the sociology of dying and bereavement. x, 236 PP., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: University Press, 1998. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]13.95 (paper) Constructing death belongs to a long-standing school in the anthropology of death which seeks ...
Die Aeta am Vulkan Pinatubo: Katastrophenbew[ddot{a}]ltigung in einer marginalem Gesellschaft auf den Philippinen.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PETER J. BR[ddot{A}]UNLEIN SEITZ, STEFAN. Die Aeta am Vulkan Pinatubo: Katastrophenbew[ddot{a}]ltigung in einer marginalem Gesellschaft auf den Philippinen. 274 pp., illus., maps, bibliogr. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus Verlag, 1990. DM 69.80 (paper) On the afternoon of ...
Caste (Concepts in the Social Sciences).(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... SHARMA, URSULA. Caste (Concepts in the Social Sciences). vi, 105 pp., bibliogr., index. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999. [pounds]37.50 (cloth) [pounds]10.99 (paper) The task of providing a complete introduction to the notion of caste within around 100 pages ...