Book Reviews

Books reviewed:Anthropology of ReligionJohn R. Hinnells, and Roy Porter (eds), Religion, health and sufferingFelicia Hughes‐Freeland, and Mary M. Crain (eds, Recasting ritual: performance, media, identityBirgit Meyer, Translating the devil: religion and modernity among the Ewe in GhanaCecilia Pennacini,Kubandwa: la possessione spiritice nell’Africa dei Grandi LaghiRowena Robinson, Conversion, continuity and change: lived Christianity in southern GoaMalcolm Ruel, Belief, ritual and the securing of life: reflexive essays on a Bantu religionMartin D. Stringer, On the perception of worship: the ethnography of worship in four Christian congregations in ManchesterBeatrice Vogt, Skill and trust: the Tovil healing ritual of Sri Lanka as culture‐specific psychotherapyArchaeology / Material CultureChris Gosden, and Jon Hather (eds), The prehistory of food: appetites for changeDavid J. Wilson, Indigenous South Americans of the past and present: an ecological perspectiveBrian R. Billman, and Gary M. Feinman (eds), Settlement pattern studies in the Americas: fifty years since Virú.Stephen D. Houston (ed.), Function and meaning in Classic Maya architectureJudith Perani, and Norma H. Wolff, Cloth, dress and art patronage in AfricaLidia D. Sciama, and Joanne B. Eicher (eds), Beads and bead makers: gender, material culture and meaningBiological AnthropologyRobin Dunbar, Chris Knight and Camilla Power, The evolution of culture: an interdisciplinary view.Michael A. Little, and Paul W. Leslie (eds), Turkana herders of the dry savanna: ecology and biobehavioural respeonse of nomads to an uncertain environmentDavid Magnusson (ed.), The lifespan development of individuals: behavioral, neurobiological and psychosocial perspectives – a synthesis.Tessa M. Pollard, and Susan Brin Hyatt, Sex, gender and healthCarig B. Stanford, The hunting apes: meat eating and the origins of human behavior.GenderFadwa El Guindi, Veil: modesty, privacy and resistanceL.L. Langness, Men and ‘woman’ in New Guinea.Rafael L. Ramirez, What it means to be a man: reflections on Puerto Rican masculi‐ nityIna Rösing, Geschletchliche Zeit, geschlechtlicher RaumGeneralSusan Bayly, Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern ageGeri‐Ann Galanti, Caring for patients from different cultures: case studies from American hospitalsJames Paul Gee, An introduction to discourse analysis: theory and methodRamachandra Guha, Savaging the civilized: Verrier Elwin, his tribals, and IndiaDavid Macdougall, Transcultural cinemaJames M. Wilce, Eloquence in trouble: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural BangladeshModernity / postcolonialityBruce M. Knauft, From primitive to postcolooniial in Melanesian anthropologyTariq Modood, and Pnina Werbner (eds), The politics of multiculturalism in the New Europe: racism, identity and communityNiklas Luhmann, Observations on modernityJames Ferguson, Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian copperbeltPeter Pels, A politics of presence: contacts between missionaries and Waluguru in late colonial TanganykaSamuel M. Wilson, The emperor’s giraffe, and other stories of cultures in contactHans Siebers, We are children of the mountain’: creolization and modernization among the Q’eqchi’esLisa Rofel, Other modernities: gendered yearnings in China after socialismPolitical AnthropologyAnthony P. Cohen (ed.), Signifying identities: anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested valuesElizabeth Keating, Power sharing: language, rank, gender, and social space in Pohnpe, MicronesiaVincent C. Peloso, Peasants on plantations: subaltern strategies of labor and resistance in the Pisco Valley, PeruGloria Rudolf, Panama’s poor: victims, agents, and historymakersKatherine Verdery, The political lives of dead bodies: reburial and postsocialist changeKosaku Yoshino (ed.), Consuming ethnicity and nationalism: Asian experiencesLouise Young, Japan’s total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialismSocial anthropologyDonna Birdwell‐Pheasant, and Denise Lawence‐Zúñiga (eds). House life: space, place and family in Europe.James A. Boon, Verging on extra‐vagance: anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts … showbiz.Mary Douglas, Leviticus as literature.Elliot Fratkin, Ariaal pastoralists of Kenya: surviving drought and development in Africa’s arid landsMaurice Godelier, Thomas R. Trautmann and Franklin E. Tjon Sie Fat (eds). Transformations of kinshipCharles W. Nuckolls, Culture: a problem that cannot be solvedJohn Carlos Rowe (ed.), ‘Culture’ and the problem of the disciplines