Contesting The ‘Civilising Mission’

John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Of revelation and revolution: the dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier. Vol 2. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xxiii, 588pp., maps, plates, notes, bibliography, index. US$70.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-226-11443-0; US$24.95 (paper) ISBN 0-226-11444-9.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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COMMUNITY MATTERS: AN EXPLORATION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Margot Kempers. Chicago, IL: Burnham Inc., Publishers, 2002. ISBN 0-830-41568-8, 194 pp. Reviewed by Sondra S. Doe.

FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE TO LEGAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGEMENT, AND OPERATIONS RULES AND GUIDELINES FOR NONPROFITS, THIRD EDITION. By Bryce J. Herrington. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. ISBN 0-787-95026-2, 816 pp. Reviewed by Barris P. Malcolm.

GENERALIST PRACTICE WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES (2ND EDITION). By Karen K. Kirst-Ashman and Grafton H. Hull, Jr. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2001. ISBN: 0-534-51892-3, 600 pp. Reviewed by Eleanor L. Brilliant.

THE QUIET HAND OF GOD: FAITH-BASED ACTIVISM AND THE PUBLIC ROLE OF MAINLINE PROTESTANTISM. By Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0-520-23313-1, 429 pp. Reviewed by Barris P. Malcolm.

FAITH IN ACTION: RELIGION, RACE, AND DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZING IN AMERICA. By Richard Wood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-90595-0 (hardcover), 0-226-90596-9 (paperback), 351 pp. Reviewed by Loretta Pyles.

ORGANIZING ACCESS TO CAPITAL: ADVOCACY AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Edited by Gregory D. Squires. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN 1-592-13025-9 (hardcover), 1-592-13026-7 (paperback), 238 pp. Reviewed by Dorothy N. Gamble.

OUR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY: INSIDE THE MINNEHAHA FREE STATE. By Mary Losure. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN 0-816-63905-1, 231 pp. Reviewed by Bowen McBeath.     

‘An Unstable Amalgam’

Christopher Herbert. Culture and anomie: ethnographic imagination in the nineteenth century. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. x, 364pp., references, index, notes. ISBN 0 226 32738 8 (hard); ISBN 0 226 32739 6 (paper).     

Bursting With Laughter

Celio Ferreira. Palauan cosmology: dominance in a traditional Micronesian society (Gothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology 11). Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 1987. vi, 300 pp., figures, plates, glossary, references. SEK 200 (paper) ISBN 91 7346 183 0 ISSN 0348 4076.

Richard J. Parmentier. The sacred remains: myth, history and polity in Belau. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1987. xxiii, 309pp., figures, maps, photographs, tables, glossary, place names, references, index. ISBN 0 226 64695 5 (hardcover) ISBN 0 226 64696 3 (paper).     

HOW ‘NATIVES’ THINK

Marshall Sahlins. How 'natives' think: about Captain Cook, for example (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1995. x, 318pp., maps, table, plates, figures, bibliography, index. $40.95. ISBN 0 226 73368 8.     

The Movement Of People And The Adoption Of Other Cultures: the neodiffusionism of Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza

ROXANA WATERSON The living house: an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia. Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1990. xix, 263pp., bibliography, colour plates, figures, index, maps. $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 588941 X.

BARRETT L. McCORMICK Political reform in post-Mao China: democracy and bureaucracy in a Leninist state. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990. xiii, 222pp., select bibliography, index. US$34.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 520 06765 7.

UNNI WIKAN Behind the veil in Arabia: women in Oman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. xiii, 314 pp., illustrations, appendix, references, index. US$14.95 (paper) ISBN 0 226 89683 8.

JANA SAWTCKI Disciplining Foucault: feminism, power and the body. New York &; London: Routiedge. 1991. xiii, 130pp., notes, index. $25.95 (paper) ISBN 0 415 90188 X.

LAMONT LINDSTROM Knowledge and power in a South Pacific society (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. xvi, 224pp., references, index. US$29.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 87474 365 6; US$16.95 (paper) ISBN 0 87474 357 5.

MICHAEL J. LEAHY Explorations into highland New Guinea 1930-1935 (edited by Douglas E. Jones and with a foreword by Jane C. Goodale). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1991. xiii, 254pp., plates, index. US$19.95 (paper) ISBN 0 8173 0446 0.

EDWARD L. SCHIEFFLIN and ROBERT CRITTENDEN (with contributions by Bryant Allan et al.) Like people you see in a dream: first contact in six Papuan societies. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991. xviii, 325pp., notes, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $39.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 08047 1662 5; $12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 08047 1899 7.

MARION MELK-KOCH Auf der Suche nach der menschlichen Gesellschaft: Richard Thurnwald. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 1989. 352pp., maps, plates, bibliography. DM68 (hardback) ISBN 3 496 003276 6.

JOHN CONNELL and RICHARD HOWITT (eds) Mining and indigenous peoples in Australasia. Sydney: Sydney University Press in association with Oxford University Press. 1991. x, 205pp., maps, figures, tables, references, index. $22.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 424 00177 2.

L.M. ALLEN, J.C. ALTMAN and E. OWEN (with assistance from W.S. Arthur) Aborigines in the economy: a select annotated bibliography of policy-relevant research 1985-90. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (Research Monograph No. 1). xxii, pp.242, appendixes, indexes. $20.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 7315 1199 9.

EDWARD SAPIR The collected works of Edward Sapir, Vol. 5: American Indian languages, 1 (volume editor William Bright). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 584pp., plate, map, appendix, references. DM220 or US$99 (bound) ISBN 3 11 012327 4.

DICK GEERAERTS (editor-in-chief) Cognitive Linguistics Volume 1(1). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 174pp., DM42 (single issue, paper) DM154 (4 issues) ISSN 0936 5907.

WILLIAM F. HANKS Referential practice: language and lived space among the Maya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1990. xxiii, 580pp., tables, plates, references, indexes. US$27.50 (paper) ISBN 0 226 31546 0; US$65 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 31545 2.     

Polish‐Jewish Relations: An Issue of Extraordinary Complexity

Joshua D. Zimmerman (ed.), Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. University of Rutgers Press, 2003, 226pp. Maps. Index. $35.00 cloth. ISBN 0–8135–3158–6     

Edward Shorter And The Disembodiment Of Women's History

DONALD TUZIN, The cassowary's revenge: the life and death of masculinity in a New Guinea society. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 1997. xii, 256pp., maps, references. US$18.95 (paper) IBSN 0 226 81951 5.

JOHN ROBERT SHEPHERD, Marriage and mandatory abortion among the 17th-century Siraya. American Ethnological Society Monograph Series, Number 6. Arlington, Virginia: American Anthropological Association. 1995. 99pp., eight chapters, two appendices. US$12.50 (members) US$15.00 (nonmembers) ISBN 0 913167 71 1.

JOSEFINE HUPPERTZ, Mobul: the ancestor of the Kambot people in north-east New Guinea. Aachen: Alano Verlag. 1992. 152pp., index of names, list of photographs. DM32.00 ISBN 3 89399 126 3.

BERNARD JUILLERAT, Children of the blood: society, reproduction and cosmology in New Guinea. Explorations in Anthropology Series. Oxford and New York: Berg. 1996. xxx, 601pp., maps, plates, tables, diagrams, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. £49.95 (cloth) ISBN 1 85973 161 9.

SILVIE POIRIER, Les jardins du nomade: cosmologie, territoire et personae dans le desert occidental Australien. Studies in social and ritual morphology, vol.1. Munster: LIT Verlag. 1996. 291pp. map, b/w plates. ISBN 3 8258 2482 9 (paper).

GEORGE VAN DRIEM, A grammar of Dumi (Mouton Grammar Library 10). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1993. xx, 452p. DM298 ISBN 3 11 012351 7.

PETER A. JACKSON, Dear Uncle Go: male homosexuality in Thailand. Bangkok: Bua Luang Books. 1995. 310pp., preface, glossary, index. US$15.95 (paper) ISBN 0 942777 11 5.

SIMON SINCLAIR, Making doctors: an institutional apprenticeship. Oxford: Berg. 1997. 347pp., eleven chapters, subject index. £39.99 (cloth) ISBN 1 8597 3950 4; £14.99 (paper) ISBN 1 8597 3955 5.

MARGARET WIENER, Visible and invisible realms. Power, magic and colonial conquest in Bali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1995. xiv, 445pp., map, illustrations, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. US$25.95 (paper), US$69.95 (cloth) ISBN 0 226 88580 1.

JOSHUA A. FISHMAN (ed.) Language death: factual and theoretical considerations with special reference to East Africa, Vol. I (Matthias Brenzinger ed.). Contributions to the sociology of language 64. 1992. viii, 445pp. DM208.00 (cloth) ISBN 3 11 013404 7.

SHIRLEY LINDENBAUM and MARGARET LOCK (eds) Knowledge, power, and practice: the anthropology of medicine and everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993. xvi, 428pp., contributors, index. US$17.95 (paper) ISBN 0 520 07785 7; US$55 (cloth) ISBN 0 520 07784 9.

MATTISON MINES, Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India. Berkeley, New York, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. 1994. ix, 232pp, plates, maps, bibliography, index. US$18.00 (paperback) US$45.00 (cloth) ISBN 0 520 08478 0.

ROSANNE CECIL (ed.) The anthropology of pregnancy loss: comparative studies in miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death. Oxford: Berg. 1996. xii, 226pp., introduction, ten chapters, author index, subject index. US$25.00 (paper) ISBN 1 85973 125 2; ISBN 1 85973 120 1 (cloth).

G.W. TROMPF (ed.) Cargo cults and millenarian movements: transoceanic comparisons of new religious movements. Berlin and New York; Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. xvii, 456pp., plates, figures, maps, bibliography, notes on contributors and index. DM178 (cloth) ISBN 0 89925 601 5.

JAMES F. WEINER, The lost drum: the myth of sexuality in Papua New Guinea and beyond. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1996. xxi, 199pp., illustrations, figures, notes, references, index. US$19.95 (paper) ISBN 0 299 14864 5.

CHARLES HIGHAM, The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xvi, 381pp., illustrations, references, index. AUS$39.95 (paper) ISBN 0 521 56505 7.

JOËL BONNEMAISON, KIRK HUFFMAN, CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN and DARRELL TRYON(eds) Arts of Vanuatu. Bathurst: Crawford House Publishing. 1996. 338pp., plates, maps, bibliography. AUS$69.95 (cloth) ISBN 1 86333 142 5.

NANCY LUTKEHAUS, CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN, WILLIAM E. MITCHELL, DOUGLAS NEWTON, LITA OSMUNDSEN, and MEINHARD SCHUSTER (eds) Sepik heritage: tradition and change in Papua New Guinea. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. 1990. xxii, 666pp., references, notes on contributors, indexes, maps, photographs, charts and illustrations. US$75 ISBN 0 89089 322 5.

TONY PRESS, DAVID LEA, ANN WEBB, and ALISTATR GRAHAM (eds) Kakadu: natural and cultural heritage and management. Darwin: Australian Nature Conservation Agency and die North Australia Research Unit, The Australian National University. 1995. 336pp., colour &; b/w plates, maps, bibliography, index AUSS29.95 (paper) ISBN 0 7315 2171 4.

CINTA MATAGOLAI KAJPAT and BERET E. STRONG, Lieweila: a Micronesian story. Videotape. Boulder. 57:30 Minutes. US$30. c/o Beret Strong beret@tesser.com.

GILLIAN WHITLOCK and DAVID CARTER (eds) Images of Australia: an introductory reader in Australian studies. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 1992. 268pp. AUS$ 14.95 (paper) ISBN 0 7022 2447 2.

PENNY VAN ESTERIK (ed.) Women of Southeast Asia (revised edition). Northern Illinois University, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Occasional Paper No 17. 1996. xiv, 229pp., preface, tables, bibliography, addendum to bibliography, index. US$15 (paper) ISBN 1 877979 17 1.     

Book Reviews

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Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership, Harlan Cleveland, (2002) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, ISBN 0-7879-6153-1, 268 pp. $27.95/£17.50 (hbk).

Technological Change and Organizational Action, David Preece and Juha Laurila (eds.), 2003 London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26591-6, 221 pp., £60 (hbk)     

FSU students making contact and establishing links: London 2000 postgraduate student conference in Jewish studies

Shifting Czech Jewish identities. Hillel J. Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2000. XIV + 311pp. ISBN 0–520–21410–2

The First Zionist Congress: The East European perspective. Heiko Haumann (ed.), Der Traum von Israel. Die Ursprünge des modernen Zionismus. Weinheim: Beltz Athenäum, 1998. 329pp. ISBN: 3–89547–115–1

Comfortable lies and deceptions. Andrei Oisteanu, Imagined evreului în cultura român. Studiu de imagologie în context est‐central european (The Image of the Jew in Romanian Culture: A Study of Imagology in the East‐Central European Context). Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House, 2001. 470pp. Illustrations

Pavel Florensky's ‘dark side’. Michael Hagemeister and Torsten Metelka (eds.), Appendix 2. Materialien zu Pavel Florenskij. Berlin and Zepernick: KONTEXTverlag, 2001. 216pp. 18 euro. ISBN 3–931337–35–9     

International Adoption

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THE COMPLETE LIFEBOOK WORKBOOK, by Jim Mooney. Aurora: Adoption Strategies Publishers, 1996, Paperback (no price or ISBN printed on book). Reviewed by Kendra Corr Roberson.

LIFEBOOKS: CREATING A TREASURE FOR THE ADOPTED CHILD, by Beth O'Malley. Winthrop: Adoption-Works Publishers, 2000, paperback, ISBN 0-9701832-7-5, $13.95. Reviewed by Kendra Corr Roberson.

ADOPTION LIFEBOOK: A BRIDGE TO YOUR CHILD'S BEGINNINGS, by Cindy Probst. Boston: Boston Adoption Press, 2001, paperbacks, ISBN 0-9717496-0-4, $12.95. Reviewed by Kendra Corr Roberson.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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THE SIXTEEN-TRILLION-DOLLAR MISTAKE, by Bruce Jansson. ISBN: 0-231-11432-X, Columbia University Press, 2001. $29.00. Reviewed by David Woody III.

FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL POLICY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION, by Amanda Smith Barusch. ISBN 0-87581-447-6, F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 2002. Reviewed by Diane Carol Holliman.

THE GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK, by Godfrey Hodgson. ISBN 0-395-860423, Houghton-Mifflin, 2000, $38.00. Reviewed by George Haskett.

WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN, by Carol DeVita and Rachael Mosher-Williams, editors. ISBN 0-87766-704-7, Urban Institute, 2001, $26.50. Reviewed by John G. McNutt.

THE INVISIBLE CARING HAND: AMERICAN CONGREGATIONS AND THE PROVISION OF WELFARE, by Ram Cnaan. ISBN 0-814-71618-0, New York University Press, 2002, 340 pages, $19.50. Reviewed by Melanie Wilson.     

Exorcising myths and taboos in Romanian society

George Voicu, Mitul lui Nae Ionescu (The Myth of Nae Ionescu) (Bucharest: Ars Docendi, 2000). 202pp. ISBN 973–8118–26–3

George Voicu, Zeii cei rãi: Cukura conspiratiei in România postcomunistã (Evil Gods: The Cult of Conspiracy in Post‐communist Romania) (Bucharest: Polirom, 2000). 245pp. Index. ISBN 973–683–593–6

George Voicu, Teme antisémite în discursul public (Anti‐Semitic Themes in Public Discourse) (Bucharest: Ars Docendi, 2000), 233pp. ISBN 973–8118–29–8     

Organizing for Disaster Preparedness

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MANAGING AND ORGANIZATIONS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THEORY AND PRACTICE, by Stewart Clegg, Martin Kornberger, and Tyrone Pitsis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005, ISBN: 0-761-94389-7, 562 pp. Reviewed by Karun K. Singh.

DESIGNING AND PLANNING PROGRAMS FOR NONPROFIT AND GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, by Edward J. Pawlak and Robert D. Vinter. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, 2004, ISBN: 0-787-97412-9, 288 pp. Reviewed by Judith M. Rockway.

ROOTS TO POWER: A MANUAL FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING (SECOND EDITION), by Lee Staples. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004, ISBN: 0-275-96998-3, 392 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Beck.     

The Emerging Sophistication in Human Service Management

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An essay review of: HUMAN SERVICES MANAGEMENT: ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. By David M. Austin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-10836-2, 468 pp.

ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS. By Peter M. Kettner. Boston: Allyn &Bacon, 2002. ISBN 0-205-31878-9, 416 pp.

MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE PROGRAMS. By Judith A. Lewis, Michael D. Lewis, Thomas R. Packard, Jr., and Federico Souflee. California: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001. ISBN 0-534-36886-7, 400 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY: RETHINKING FAMILY VALUES IN THE POSTMODERN AGE. Judith Stacey. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996, 194 pp., ISBN 0-8070-0432-4, $22.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Valerie S. Mannis.

CONFESSIONS OF A LOST MOTHER. Elisa M. Barton. Baltimore, MD: Gateway, 1996, 157 pp., ISBN 0-9650795-0-3, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.

THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD: THE LEAST DETRIMENTAL ALTERNATIVE. Joseph Goldstein, Albert J. Solnit, Sonja Goldstein, and the late Anna Freud. New York: The Free Press, 1996, 311 pp., ISBN 0-684-82337-3, $35.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Renee Garfinkel.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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A PASSAGE TO THE HEART: WRITINGS FROM FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM CHINA. Klatzkin, Amy (Ed.). Saint Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 1999, 341 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-9638472-2-8, $19.95. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

I WISH FOR YOU A BEAUTIFUL LIFE: LETTERS FROM THE KOREAN BIRTH MOTHERS OF AE RAN WON TO THEIR CHILDREN. Dorow, Sara (Ed.). Saint Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 1999, 135 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-9638472-2-8, $18.95. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

PARENTS AT LAST: CELEBRATING ADOPTION AND THE NEW PATHWAYS TO PARENTHOOD. Peck, Cynthia V. N., and Wendy Wilkinson. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1998, 160 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-609-60290-X, $27.50. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

CLINICAL AND PRACTICE ISSUES IN ADOPTION: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ADOPTEES PLACED AS INFANTS AND AS OLDER CHILDREN. Groza, Victor and Karen F. Rosenberg (Eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 175 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-275-95816-7, $55.00. Reviewed by Ulrich Mueller.

KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH. Hegar, Rebecca L., and Maria Scannapieco (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, Hardcover ISBN 0195109392, $45. Paperback ISBN 0195109406, $19.95. Reviewed by Ulrich Mueller.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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ADDICTION IS A CHOICE. Jeffrey Schaler. Chi cago, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 2000, 179pp. ISBN 0-8126-9404-X, Paper $19.95, ISBN 0-8126-9043-1, Cloth $42.95. Reviewed by Tom Greanias.

COYOTE SPEAKS: CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS TREATING ALCOHOLICS AND ADDICTS. Jacques Rutsky. Jason Aronson Inc., 1998, 236pages. Paperback, $32. Reviewed by Rob ertA. Schnei der.     

Gay Dads: Transitions to Adoptive Fatherhood by Abbie E. Goldberg

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PATTY'S JOURNEY FROM ORPHANAGE TO ADOPTION AND REUNION. Norling, Donna Scott. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, 208pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-8166-2866-1, $17.95 cloth. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.

KINSHIP WITH STRANGERS: ADOPTION AND INTERPRETATIONS OF KINSHIP IN AMERICAN CULTURE. Modell, Judith S. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, 286 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-520-08118-8, $35.00 cloth. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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ADOPTION, IDENTITY, AND KINSHIP: THE DEBATE OVER SEALED BIRTH RECORDS. Wegar, Katarina. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997, 169 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-300-06759-3, $22.50 cloth. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.

SUCCESSFUL ADOPTIVE FAMILIES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF SPECIAL NEEDS ADOPTION. Groze, Victor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publisher Group, 1996, 184 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-275-95343-2, $49.95. Reviewed by Manfred van Dulmen.