Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 7, Number 1, 1 March 2001 , pp. 159-201(43)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

Books reviewed:

Anthropology of religion

Adam Ashforth, Madumo: a man bewitched

Carol Ann Muller, Rituals of fertility and the sacrifice of desire: Nazarite women’s performance in South Africa

Lance E Nelson, (ed ) Purifying the earthly body of God: religion and ecology in Hindu India

Robert A Segal, Theorizing about myth

Karen A Smyers, The fox and the jewel: shared and private meanings in contemporary Japanese Inari worship

Contributions to theory

Clifford Geertz, Available light: anthropological reflections on philosophical topics

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Fundamentalism, sectarianism, and revolution: the Jacobin dimension of modernity

Keith Hart, The memory bank: money in an unequal world

Fred Inglis, Clifford Geertz: culture, custom and ethics

Robert Alun Jones, The development of Durkheim’s social realism

Adam Kuper, Culture: the anthropologist’s account

Michael Taussig, Defacement: public secrecy and the labour of the negative

Gender

Suzette Heald, Manhood and morality: sex, violence and ritual in Gisu society

L A Rebhun, The heart is unknown country: love in the changing economy of northeast Brazil

John C Wood, When men are women: manhood among Gabra nomads of East Africa

General

Vered Amit, (ed ) Constructing the field: ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary world

Christian F Feest, (ed ) Indians and Europe: an interdisciplinary collection of essays

Françoise Héritier, Two sisters and their mother: the anthropology of incest

Maarten Jansen, Peter Kröfges & Michel Oudijk, The shadow of Monte Alban: politics and historiography in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico

A H Klokke, (ed , trans ) Traditional medicine among the Ngaju Dayak in central Kalimantan: the 1935 writings of a former Ngaju Dayak priest

O Löfgren, On holiday: a history of vacation-ing

Setha M Low, (ed ) Theorizing the city: the new urban anthropology reader

Patricia A McAnany, Living with the ancestors: kinship and kingship in ancient Maya society

John L McCreery, Japanese consumer behavior: from worker bees to wary shoppers

Douglas Medin, & Scott Atran, (eds)Folkbiology

John D Niles, Homo narrans: the poetics and anthropology of oral literature

Sue Taylor Parker, & Michael L McKinney, Origins of intelligence: the evolution of cognitive development in monkeys, apes, and humans

K Sivaramakrishnan, Modern forests: statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India

Paul Slack,(ed) Environments and historical change

Political anthropology

Stephen Castles, & Alastair Davidson, Citizenship and migration: globalization and the politics of belonging

Marc Edelman, Peasants against globali-zation: rural social movements in Costa Rica

Peter G Forster, Michael Hitchcock & Francis F Lyimo, Race and ethnicity in East Africa

Gordon Mathews, Global culture/individual identity: searching for home in the cul-tural supermarket

Albert Schrauwers, Colonial ‘reformation’ in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995

Orin Starn, Nightwatch: the politics of protest in the Andes

Social anthropology

David G Anderson, Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia: the number one reindeer brigade

Allen Chun, Unstructuring Chinese society: fictions of colonial practice and the changing realities in the New Territories of Hong Kong

Eve Darian-Smith, Bridging divides: the Channel tunnel and English legal identity in the new Europe

Saurabh Dube, Untouchable pasts: religion, identity and power among a central Indian community, 1780-1950

David L McConnell, Importing diversity: inside Japan’s JET program

Deborah Gewertz, & Frederick K Errington Emerging class in Papua New Guinea: the telling of difference

Perle Møhl, Village voices: coexistence and communication in a rural community in central France

Sutti Ortiz, Harvesting coffee, bargaining wages: rural labor markets in Columbia

Nigel Rapport, & Joanna Overing Social and cultural anthropology: the key concepts

Christina Toren, Mind, materiality and history: explorations in Fijian ethnography

Apology

Document Type: Book review

Publication date: 2001-03-01

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