Books for Review
Books Available for Review | Other Books Received (Not Reviewed)
The following is a list of books we have recently received for review. If you would like to review one of the following works, please contact Discourse at anthro-discourse@acsu.buffalo.edu. We are not presently accepting book reviews, but if you are interested in one of the works here, we'll be happy to suggest an alternate publishing venue.
PLEASE NOTE: This list will be organized by subject shortly; we are updating our website. At present, this list includes recently received titles at the the top.
Morris, Rosalind
In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand
Duke University Press, 2000
Valeri, Valerio
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000
Fienup-Riordan, Ann, William Tyson, Paul John, Marie Meade, and John Active
Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today
Rutgers University Press, 2000
DeLoache, Judy S. and Alma Gottlieb
A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Spyer, Patricia
The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
Duke University Press, 2000
Schein, Lousia
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Duke University Press, 2000
Simon, Roger I., Sharon Rosenberg, and Claudia Eppert
Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,2000
Brown, M. Christopher, III and James Earl Davis
Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education
Peter Lang, 2000
Dauenhauer, Nora Marks
Life Woven With Song
The University of Arizona Press, 2000
Oral traditions of Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska
Markowitz, Fran
Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Beatty, Andrew
Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Christian-Smith, Linda K. and Kristine S. Kellor, eds.
Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy
Westview Press, 1999
Clough, Patricia Ticineto
The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism
Godbout, Jacques T. with Alain Caill
The World of the Gift
McGill, 1998
Good, Gregoy A.
Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena
(under review) Southall, Aidan
The City in Time and Space
{under review} Milanich, Jerald T.
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
Haviland, John B. with Roger Hart
Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point. Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry.
(under review)Guneratne, Katharine Bjork
In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
(under review)Klass and Weisgrau, Morton and Maxine, eds.
Across the Boundaries of Belief
(under review)Feinman and Marcus, Gary M. and Joyce, eds.
Archaic States
Smith, David Geoffrey
Pedagon: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Human Sciences, Pedagogy and Culture
(under review)Schick, Irvin C.
The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse
(under review)Marcus, George E., ed.
Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas
Reyes, Adelaida
Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnam Refugee Experience
McIntosh, Susan Keech, ed.
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa
Bigler, Ellen
American Conversations: Puerto Ricans, White Ethnics, and Multicultural Education
{under review} Shohat, Ella
Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age
McCarthy, Cameron, Glenn Hudak, Shawn Miklaucic, and Paula Saukko, eds.
Sound Identities: Popular Music and the Cultural Politics of Education
Peter Lang, 1999
Seabrook, Jeremy
Love in a Different Climate: Men who have sex with men in India
Verso, 1999
Dedrick, John M. and Eugene H. Casad
Sonora Yaqui Language Structures
University of Arizona, 1999
DeMello, Margo
Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
Duke University, 2000
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri
Empire
Harvard University Press, 2000
Harrod, Howard L.
The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship
University of Arizona, 2000
Knobel, Michael
Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse, and Social Practice
Peter Lang, 1999
Kuipers, Joel C.
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Lee, Richard B. and Richard Daly
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Lopez, Marianne
When Discourses Collide: an ethnography of migrant children at home and at school
Peter Lang, 1999
{under review} McIntosh, Susan Keech
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Mattingly, Cheryl
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience
Cambridge University Press, 1998
(under review) Medin, Douglas L. and Scott Atran, eds.
Folkbiology
MIT Press, 1999
Merlan, Francesca
Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics, and Aborigines in a North Australian Town
University of Hawai'i, 1998
Meskell, Lynn
Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class, et cetera in Ancient Egypt
Blackwell Publishers, 1999
Mulvaney, John and Johan Kamminga
Prehistory of Australia
Smithsonian, 1999
Tarlow, Sarah
Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality
Blackwell Publishers, 1999
Other Books Received (Not Reviewed)
Aldenderfer, Mark Montane
Foragers: Asane and the South-Central Andean Archaic.
University of Iowa, 1998
Bernstein, Jay
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo
Cannell, Fennella
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Christensen, Scott R.
Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887
Utah State University Press, 1999
Clough, Patricia Ticineto
The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism
Downey, Gary Lee and Joseph Dumit, eds.
Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies
Errington, J. Joseph
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 19.
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Fagan, Brian M.
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory
Longman, 1998
Flanagan, Laurence
Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts
Hertz, Ellen
The Trading Crowd: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market
Cambridge University Press, 1998>
Hitchens, Christopher
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
Verso, 1999
Jenkins, Richard
Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability
McWilliam, Erica
Pedagogical Pleasures
Peter Lang, 1999
Mirochnik, Eliha
Teaching in the First Person: Understanding Voice and Vocabulary in Learning Relationships
Peter Lang, 2000
Pinar, William F.
Contemporary Curriculum Discourses: Twenty Years of JCT
Peter Lang, 1999
Shusterman, Richard
Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Symes, Colin and Daphne Meadmore, eds.
The Extra-Ordinary School: Parergonality and Pedagogy
Peter Lang, 1999
Thompson, Thomas L.
The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel
Basic Books, 1999
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