BooK Reviews

Books reviewed:Anthropology and historyHare, Tom, Remembering Osiris: number, gender, and the word in ancient Egyptian representational systemsHarlan, Jack R., The living fields: our agricultural heritageInomata, Takeshi & Stephen D. Houston (eds), Royal courts of the ancient Maya. Vol. 1: theory, comparison, synthesisLockwood, Matthew, Fertility and house– hold labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji district, c.1870–1986Pollock, Susan, Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was (Case Stud. early soc.)Quijada, Mónica, Carmen Bernand & Arnd Schneider, Homogeneidad y nación: con un estudio de caso: Argentina, siglos XIX y XX (Coll. tierra nueva e cielo nuovo 42)Anthropology of religionAssayag, Jackie & Gilles Tarabout (eds), La possession en asie du sud: parole, corps, territorie / Possession in South Asia: speech, body, territoryKlass, Morton & Maxine K. Weisgrau (eds), Across the boundaries of belief (Contemp. issues in anthr. relig.)Rakotomalala, Malanjaona, Sophie Blancy & Françoise Raison–Jourde, Madagascar: les ancêtres au quotidien: usages sociaux du religieux sur les Hautes–Terres MalgachesDevelopmentBierschenk, Thomas, J.–P. Chaveau & J.–P. Olivier de Sardan (eds), Courtiers en développement: les villages africains en quête de projets (Collection ‘Hommes et Sociétés’)Zerner, Charles (ed.), People, plants, and justice: the politics of nature conservationGeneralArmbrust, Walter (ed.), Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyondDupont, Veronique, Emma Tarlo & Denis Vidal (eds), Delhi: urban space and human destiniesKing, Victor T. (ed.), Rural development and social science research: case studies from Borneo (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 6)Privratsky, Bruce G., Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memoryVan Beek, Martijn, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen & Poul Pedersen (eds), Ladakh: culture, history, and development between Himalaya and Karakoram (Recent research on Ladakh 8)Winzeler, Robert L. (ed.), Indigenous architecture in Borneo: traditional patterns and new developments (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 5)Human evolutionAgustí, Jorge, Lorenzo Rook & Peter Andrews (eds), The evolution of Neogene terrestrial ecosystems in Europe (Hominoid Evol. clim. chge Eur 1)Curtiss, Garniss, Carl Swisher & Roger Lewin, Java man: how two geologists changed the history of human evolutionde Bonis, Louis, George Koufos & Peter Andrews (eds), Phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia (Hominoid Evol. clim. chge Eur. 2)Ghiglieri, Michael P., The dark side of man: tracing the origins of male violenceLegal anthropologyJust, Peter, Dou Donggo justice: conflict and morality in an Indonesian societyKahn, Paul W., The cultural study of law: reconstructing legal scholarshipNiezen, Ronald, Defending the land: sover– eignty and forest life in James Bay Cree society (Cult. Surv. Stud. Ethn. Chge)Peterson, Nicolas & Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and indigenous Australians: changing conceptions and possibilities (Reshaping Australian Institutions ser.)MethodGuneratne, Katharine Bjork, In the circle of the dance: notes of an outsider in NepalMihesuh, Devon A. (ed.), Natives and academics: researching and writing about American IndiansMukherji, Partha Nath (ed.), Methodology in social research: dilemmas and perspectives: essays in honour of Ramkrishna MukherjeeNewman, Paul & Martha Ratliff (eds), Linguistic fieldworkSocial anthropologyFonseca, Isabel, Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journeyForshee, Jill, Between the folds: stories of cloth, lives, and travels from SumbaHua, Cai (transl. Asti Hustvedt), A society without fathers or husbands: the Na of ChinaJackson, Peter, Michelle Lowe, Danielle Miller & Frank Mort (eds), Commercial cultures: economies, practices, spaces (Leisure, consumption and culture)McKnight, David, People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: systems of classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island (Oxford studs. in anthrop. ling. 12)Palerm Viqueira, Jacinta & Tomás Martínez Saldaña (eds), Antologia sobre pequeño riego, Vol. II (Organizaciones Autogestivas)Pottier, Johan, Anthropology of food: the social dynamics of food securitySchmidt, Bettina E. & Ingo W. Schröder (eds), Anthropology of violence and conflict (EASA)Schneider, Arnd, Futures lost: nostalgia and identity among Italian immigrants in ArgentinaSmith–Hefner, Nancy J., Khmer American: identity and moral education in a diasporic communityTheoryDube, Leela, Anthropological explorations in gender: intersecting fieldsKuper, Adam, Among the anthropologists: history and context in anthropologyLatta, Robert L., The basic humor process: a cognitive–shift theory and the case against incongruity (Humor Res. 5)Linke, Uli, Blood and nation: the European aesthetics of raceLittlewood, Roland, Religion, agency, restitution (Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion 1999)Martin, Calvin Luther, The way of the human beingMiller, Dean A, The epic heroStedman Jones, Susan, Durkheim reconsideredTilley, Christopher, Metaphor and material cultureTodorov, Tzvetan (transl. K. Golsan & L. Golsan), Life in common: an essay in general anthropology (European Horizons)Wolf, Eric R., Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world