Book reviews

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism, edited by Pascal Boyer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. ix, 246pp., notes, references, index of names, subject index. ISBN 0–521–43288‐X (hardback). Why humans have cultures: Explaining anthropology and social diversity (Opus), by Michael Carrithers. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. xi, 217pp., notes, bibliography. ISBN 0–19–289211–8 (paperback). Mistrusting refugees, edited by E. Valentine Daniel and John Chr. Knudsen. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995, xi, 286 pp., notes, references, index. ISBN 0–520–08899–9 (paperback). Recapturing anthropology: Working in the present (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series), edited by Richard Fox. School of American Research Press (distributed by the University of Washington Press), Santa Fe, 1991. 248pp., notes, references, index. ISBN 0–933452–78–0 (paperback). Romantic passion: A universal experience?, edited by William Jankowiak. Columbia University Press, New York, 1995. 310pp., notes, references, contributors, index. ISBN 0–231–09686–0 (hardback). The foraging spectrum: Diversity in hunter‐gatherer lifeways, by Robert L. Kelly. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. xvi, 446pp., tables, figures, photographs, notes, references cited, index. ISBN1–56098–466‐X (paperback). A world that was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia (Miegunyah Press Series 11), by Ronald M. Berndt & Catherine M. Berndt, with John Stanton. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1993. xxxi, 624pp., figures, maps, tables, appendices, bibliography, index to Aboriginal personal and family names, general index. ISBN 0–522–84427–8 (hardback). Knowledge and secrecy in an Aboriginal religion: Yolngu of north‐east Arnhem Land (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), by Ian Keen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. xviii, 347pp., maps, figures, tables, glossary of Yolngu Words, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–19–827900–0 (hardback). Creating a nation, by Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, and Marian Quartly. McPhee Gribble (Penguin Books Australia Ltd.), Ringwood VIC, 1994.360pp., endnotes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–86914–095–7 (paperback). Comparing the policy of Aboriginal assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand, by Andrew Armitage. UBC Press, Vancouver, 1995. xiv, 286pp., maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–7748–0459–9 (paperback). The Macedonian conflict: Ethnic nationalism in a transnational world, by Loring M. Danforth. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1995. xvii, 273pp., illustrations, maps, footnotes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–691–04357–4 (hardback). The Gypsies (The Peoples of Europe), by Angus Fraser. Blackwell, Oxford, 1995. x, 362pp., maps, plates, footnotes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–0631–19605–6 (paperback) The cultural world in Beowulf, by John M. Hill. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1995. x, 224pp., notes, works cited, index. ISBN 0–8020–2981–7 (hardback); 0–8020–7438–3 (paperback) The textual life of savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the linguistic turn (Studies in Anthropology and History), by Gisli Palsson. Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur (Switzerland), 1995. xi, 210 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, index. ISBN 3–7186–5721‐X (hardback); 3–7186–5722–8 (paperback). The rationality of rural life: Economic and cultural change in Tuscany (Studies in Anthropology and History), by Jeff Pratt. HAP [Harwood Academic Publishers], Chur (Switzerland), 1994. ix, 219pp., maps, photographs, appendices, bibliography, author index, subject index. ISBN 3–7186–5627–2 (hardback). Danes are like that! Perspectives of an Indian anthropologist on the Danish society, by G. Prakash Reddy. Grevas Forlag, Morke, 1993. 175pp., photographs, tables, notes, references. ISBN 87–7235–624–3 (paperback). The Austronesians: Historical and comparative perspectives, edited by Peter Bellwood, James Fox & Darrell Tryon. Department of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1995. viii, 359pp., figures, maps, notes, references, index. ISBN 0–7315–2132–3 (paperback). Exemplary centre, administrative periphery: Rural leadership and the New Order in Java (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) by Hans Antlöv. Curzon Press, Richmond UK, 1995. xii, 222pp., glossary, graphs, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–7007–0293–8 (paperback). Trance and possession in Bali: A window on Western multiple personality, possession disorder, and suicide, by Luh Ketut Suryani & Gordon D. Jensen. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1993. xvi, 264pp., tables, figures, plates, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–588610–0 (hardback). From a shattered sun: Hierarchy, gender, and alliance in the Tanitribar Islands, by Susan McKinnon. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1991. xvii, 324pp., photographs, maps, figures, tables, appendices, glossary, references, index. ISBN 0–299–13150–5 (hardback); 0–299–13154–8 (paperback). Hanging without a rope: Narrative experience in colonial and postcolonial Karoland (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/ History), by Mary Margaret Steedly. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993. xvi, 306pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–691–00045‐X (paperback) The folk biology of the Tobelo people: A study in folk classification (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 34), by Paul Michael Taylor. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1990. vii, 187pp., appendices, notes. ISBN 047–000–00410–1 (paperback). Seafaring in the contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in continuity and change, edited by Richard Feinberg. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, 1995. 237pp., maps, figures, photographs, notes, references, index. ISBN 0–87580–201‐X (hardback). Pacific Island trajectories: Five personal views (Occasional Papers), edited by Ton Otto. Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University in association with The Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Nijmegen, Canberra & Nijmegen, 1993. vii, 177pp., notes, references, photographs of contributors. A$20.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–7315–1895–0. Land, custom and practice in the South Pacific (Asia‐Pacific Studies), edited by R. Gerard Ward & Elizabeth Kingdon. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. xii, 290pp., maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–521–47289‐X (hardback). Knowledge and practice in Mayotte: Local discourses of Islam, sorcery, and spirit possession (Anthropological Horizons), by Michael Lambek. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1993. xii, 468pp., photographs, figures, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–09290–7783–8 (paperback) Forest monks and the nation state: An anthropological and historical study in northeastern Thailand, by J.L. Taylor. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1993. xi, 377pp., photographs, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 981–3016–49–3 (paperback). Chinese historical micro‐demography (Studies on China, 20), edited by Stevan Harrell. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1995. xiii, 236pp., acknowledgements, glossary of Chinese terms, glossary of demographic terms, references, index. ISBN 0–520–08306–7 (hardback). Working daughters of Hong Kong: Filial piety or power in the family? (Morningside Editions), by Janet W. Salaff. Columbia University Press, New York, 1995. xli, 317pp., map, figures, tables, photographic essay, notes, references, index. ISBN 0–231–10255–9 (paperback). The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean civilisation (The Peoples of America), by Alan Kolata. Blackwell, Cambridge MA & Oxford 1993. xvii, 317pp., figures, maps, photographs, bibliography, index. ISBN 1–55786–183–8 (hardback). Human biology in Papua New Guinea: The small cosmos (Research Monographs on Human Population Biology), edited by Robert D. Attenborough & Michael Alpers. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. xiii, 427pp., figures, maps, tables, references, appendix (institutional addresses), author index, subject index. ISBN 0–19–857514–9 (hardback). The beginning and meaning of culture. The cerebral activity underlying it (Controeco‐nomia), by Antonio Santangelo. La Pietra, Milano, 1993. 111pp., photographs, table, references. No ISBN (paperback).