Book Reviews

In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 363-404

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Books reviewed:Behrend, Heike & Ute Luig (eds). Spirit possession: modernity and power in Africa.Deloache, Judy & Alma Gottlieb (eds). A world of babies: imagined childcare guides for seven societies.Krause, Inge‐Britt. Therapy across culturesLewis, Gilbert. A failure of treatmentGeneralBeaglehole, J.C. (ed.). The journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discoveryCharlesworth, Simon J. A phenomenology of working class experienceCrowe, Ivan. The quest for food: its role in human evolution and migration.Gates, Hill. Looking for Chengdu: a woman's adventures in China.Gorkin, Michael, Marta Pineda & Gloria Leal. From grandmother to granddaughter: Salvadoran women's stories.Kroeber, Paul D. The Salish language family: reconstructing syntax (Stud. Anthrop. Nth Amer. Indians).Lee, Gaylen D. Walking where we lived: memoirs of a Mono Indian family.Okano, Kaori & Motonori Tsuchiya. Education in contemporary Japan: inequality and diversity (Contemp. Jap. Soc. Ser.).Rheubottom, David. Age, marriage, and politics in fifteenth‐century Ragusa (Oxford Stud. social cult. Anthrop.).Smith, Shawn Michelle. American archives: gender, race, and class in visual culture.Southall, Aidan. The city in time and space.Weinberger‐Thomas, Catherine. Ashes of immortality: widow‐burning in India.White, Luise. Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa (Stud. Hist. Soc. Cult.).Wolfe, Patrick. Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology: the politics and poetics of an ethnographic event (Writing past Colonialism Ser.).ReligionKanafani‐zahar, Aïda. Le mouton et le mûrier: rituel du sacrifice dans la montagne libanaise (Coll. Ethnol.‐Controverses).Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and religion in the making of humanity (Cambridge Stud. soc. cult. Anthrop.).Sundkler, Bengt & Christopher Steed. A history of the church in Africa (Studia Missionalia Upsaliensia 74).Taves, Ann. Fits, trances and visions: experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.Viswanathan, G. Outside the fold: conversion, modernity, and belief.Economic Anthropology & DevelopmentAbeyratne, Sirimal. Economic change and political conflict in developing countries: with special reference to Sri LankaArce, Alberto & Norman Long (eds). Anthropology, development and modernities: exploring discourses, counter‐tendencies and violence.Berkes, Fikret & Carl Folke (eds). Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience.Jeffery, Roger & Nandini Sundar (eds). A new moral economy for Indian forests? Discourses of community and participation.Sillitoe, Paul. Social change in Melanesia: development and history.Dahl, Jens. Saqqaq: an Inuit hunting community in the modern world.Social AnthropologyEdwards, Jeanette. Born and bred: idioms of kinship and new reproductive technologies in England (Oxford Stud. soc. cult. Anthrop.).Gao, Mobo C.F. Gao village: rural life in modern China.Gould, Sydney H. A new system for the formal analysis of kinship.James, Deborah. Songs of the women migrants: performance and identity in South Africa (Internat. African Library).Lassiter, Luke E. The power of kiowa song.Lee, Richard B. & Richard Daly (eds). The Cambridge encyclopedia of hunters and gatherers.Miller, Daniel & Don Slater. The Internet: an ethnographic approach.Ong, Aihwa. Flexible citizenship: the cultural logics of transnationality.de Pina‐cabral, João & Antónia Pedroso de Lima (eds). Elites: choice, leadership and succession.Sluka, Jeffrey A. (ed.). Death squad: the anthropology of state terror (Ethnogr. polit. Violence).Widlok, Thomas. Living on mangetti: 'Bushman' autonomy and Namibian independence (Oxford Stud. soc. cult. Anthrop.).Wilmsen, Edwin N. Journeys with fliesYoung, Antonia. Women who become men: Albanian sworn virgins (Dress, Body, Culture).