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.     

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.     

Toward a New Mississippi history

Political Culture in the Nineteenth‐Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. BRADLEY G. BOND. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1995. 342 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–807–1976–8.

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860. CHRISTOPHER MORRIS. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. 258 pp., notes, illustrations, appendices, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–19–508366–0.

"Worse than Slavery:”; Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. DAVID M. OSHINSKY. New York: Free Press. 1996. 306 pp., notes, illustrations, index. $25.00.

Mississippi: An American Journey. ANTHONY WALTON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. 279 pp., illustrations. $24.00.     

The Exiles Return

Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse (eds). Cambridge and the Torres Strait: centenary essays on the 1898 anthropological expedition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xv, 252pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. AUS$135.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-521-58461-2.     

Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France

Hans Entzinger and Jack Carter (eds.), International Review of Comparative Public Policy, Volume 1, Immigration in Western Democracies: The United States and Western Europe (Greenwich, CT and London: JAI Press, 1989). Pp.ix + 258. £43 (hardback). ISBN 1 55 938 109 4

Josef Hayim Yerushalmi, Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1991). Pp.159. £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 300 04 92 18

Ronald Dotterer, Deborah Dash Moore and Steven M. Cohen (eds.), Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World (Cranbury, NJ and London: Associated University Presses, 1991). Pp.218. £22.95. ISBN 0 945636 3 X

Minority Rights Group, Minorities and Autonomy in Western Europe. Minority Rights Group, 379 Brixton Road, London. Pp.32. £3.75 (including postage). ISBN 0 946690 93

L. Eve Armentrout Ma, Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns: Chinese Politics in the Americas and the 1911 Revolution (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1990). Pp.xii + 227. $28. ISBN 0 8248 1239 5

David Leviatin, Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working‐Class Radicals in America (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1989). Pp.ix + 298. £25. ISBN 0 300 04354 6

Richard Williams, Hierarchical Structures and Social Value: The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Pp.190. £27.95 ISBN 0 521 35147 2

Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990). Pp.xviii + 317. $27.9. ISBN 0299 11850 9

Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Pp.xiv + 386. ISBN 0521 39114 8     

The unredeemed past: Academics and Indians on America's intellectual frontier

Susan B. Andrews and John Creed (eds.), Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xxvii + 177. $35 (hardback); $15 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 1041 8 and 5933 6

Joy A. Bilharz, The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation Through Two Generations (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xxvi + 194. $40/£38 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 1282 8

Devon A. Mihesuah (ed.), Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xi + 212. $15/£14 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 8243 5

Roger Nichols, Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History (Lincoln, NE and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1988). Pp.xvii + 383. $60/£57 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 3341 8

Eli Paul (ed.), The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865–1877 (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xii + 245. $15/£14 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 8749 6

Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.238. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 4664 1     

Global sports and patriot games: Rugby union and national identity in a united sporting kingdom since 1945

Richard Caplan and John Perrer (eds.), Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Pp.xi + 241. £30 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 509148 5 and 509149 3

Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London: Verso, 1997). Pp.x + 246. £35 (hardback); £12 (paperback). ISBN 1 85984 823 0 and 194 5

Camille Guerin‐Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda (eds.), The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since 1830 (New York: Holmes &; Meier, 1998). Pp.xi + 366. $20. ISBN 0 8419 1298 X

Karen Fog Olwig (ed.), Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post‐Emancipation Caribbean (London: Frank Cass, 1995). Pp.191. £30 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). IBSN 0 7146 5476 and 4225 8

Mary Chamberlain (ed.), Caribbean Migration: Globalised Identities (London and New York: Routledge, 1998). Pp.xii + 267. ISBN 0 415 16580 6

Frank Füredi, The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race. Pp.282. £45 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7453 1303 5 and 1308 6

Paul J. Smith (ed.), Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997). Pp.xv +207. $21.95. ISBN 0 89206 291 6

Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid (eds.), Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 1997). Pp.vii + 335. US$25 (paperback). ISBN 0 295 97613 6

Mordechai Rozin, The Rich and the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth‐Century London (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 268. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 898723 79 6

Judith Laikin Elkin, The Jews of Latin America (New York/London: Holmes &; Meier, 1998). Pp.xv + 339. £12. 95 (paperback). ISBN 0 84191369 2

Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser (eds.), Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities (London: Frank Cass, 1998). Pp.xiv + 264. £32.50/$47.50 (hardback); £16.60/$22.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7146 4873 6 and 4412 9

Robin Gwynn, The Huguenots of London (Brighton and Portland, OR: Alpha Press, 1998). Pp.viii + 67. £7.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 898595 24 0

Alec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney (eds.), Post‐Colonial Cultures in France (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). Pp.xv + 299. £45 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 415 14487 6 and 14488 4

Roger Bartlett and Karen Schönwälder (eds.), The German lands and Eastern Europe. Essays on the History of Their Social, Cultural and Political Relations (Studies in Russia and East Europe) (London: Macmillan/SSEES, 1999). Pp.x + 288. £47.50. (hardback). ISBN 0 333 72086 5

Donald M. MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750–1922 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999). Pp.x + 230 £40 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 67761 7 and 67762 5

Thomas Kenneally, The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New (London: Chatto &; Windus, 1999). Pp.xiii + 732. £25 (hardback). ISBN 1 85619 788 3

R.J. Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Pp.266. £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 510659 8

Jill Blee, The Pines Hold Their Secrets (Victoria, Australia: Indra, 1998). Pp.283. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 9587718 8 X

Jan Critchett, Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998). Pp.xxi + 283. NP. ISBN 0 522 84818 4

James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (Baton Rouge, LA and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997). Pp.140 + xiv. £23.95/$24.95. ISBN 0 8071 1939 3

Geoffrey Self, The Hiawatha Man: The Life and Work of Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995: USA contact Ashgate, Brookfield, VT). Pp.326. £39.50. ISBN 0 085967 983 7

Brian Dyde, The Empty Sleeve: The Story of the West India Regiments of the British Army (London and Antigua: Hansib Caribbean, 1997). Pp.283. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 976 8163 09 7

Philip Towle, Enforced Disarmament: From the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). Pp.x + 268. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 820636 4     

Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Peter Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv, 246pp. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–58429–9.

The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 1. Edited by Robin Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. 1997. xix, 363pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi, 390pp. £22.50/US$29.95. ISBN 0–521–58455–8.

Liberating the Family. Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Pamela Scully. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Oxford: James Currey. xiii, 210, index, map. £40 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–85255–678–0; 0–85255–628–4.

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1996. xii, 383pp. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1428‐X.

Dictionary of Afro‐American Slavery. Updated with a New Introduction and Bibliography. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xix, 892pp. £27.95 (paper). ISBN 0–275–95799–3.

Masters, Slaves, &; Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. Robert Olwell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvi, 294pp. £38.95 (cloth); £13.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–3488–3; 0–8014–8491‐X.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers. Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi, 185pp. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7656–0112–5; 0–7656–0113–3.

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii, 387pp. £31.50. ISBN: 0–8078–2446–1.

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Paul Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. xxi, 303pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20794–7.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836–1948. David Delaney. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1998. x, 229pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–7–1596‐X; 0–292–71597–8.     

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

’Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction’: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. Midori Takagi. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xi, 187 pp. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8139–1834–0.

Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Barbara J. Heath. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 1999. x, 81 pp. $12.50 (paper). ISBN 0–8139–1867–7.

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ‘Race’ in New England, 1780–1860. Joannk Pope Melish. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvii, 296 pp. £26.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8014–3413–0.

American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. Audrey A. Fisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x, 139pp. £35.00/$59.95. (cloth). ISBN 0–521–66026–2.

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1618–1782. Virginia Bernhard. Columbia. Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1999. xviii, 316pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–8262–1227–1.

Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society. Hilary McD. Becklks. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers; Oxford: James Currey Publishers. 1999. xxv, 211 pp. £15.95 (paper). ISBN: 976–8123–78–8.

Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833–1874. Christopher Schmidt‐Nowara. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. xiii, 239 pp. $50.00(cloth). ISBN 0–8229–4089–2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0–8229–5690 X.

Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth‐Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Teresita MartíNez‐Vergne. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1999. xv, 235 pp. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–292–75220–2; $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–75221–0.

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin Yelvington. Kingston and Gainesville: The Press, University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida. 1999. xxiii, 319 pp. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–8130–1696–7; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 976–640–030‐X.     

Papua New Guinea Highlanders Ancient And Modern

D.K. Feil. The evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. xii, 286pp., plates, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $59.50. ISBN 0 521 33423 3.     

Book reviews

Abstract

Building community: a history of the Port Adelaide Central Mission Brian Dickey and Elaine Martin (1999), Port Adelaide Central Mission Inc: Adelaide

Dogs, kids & homeswest: The story of Tkalka Boorda Aboriginal community John Scougall and Ricky Osborne (1998), Curtin Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Perth

Social work as community development: A management model for social change (2nd edition) Stephen Clarke (2000), Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 0 7546 1111 60

Multicultural queer: Australian narrativesPeter A. Jackson and Gerard Sullivan (eds) (1999), Haworth Press, New York 233 pp.

Towards poverty alleviation in Australia: A first step Manohar Pawar and John McClinton (2000), Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 70pp. $22.00 (paperback)

Working with involuntary clients: A guide to practice C. Trotter (1999), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86448 498 5 162 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Learning to Love Lorraine Rose (2000), Acer Press, Victoria, $24.95 (paperback)

The task planner: An intervention resource for human service professionals William J. Reid (2000), Columbia University Press, New York ISBN 0 231 10647 5 $22.50 (paperback)

Deeper dimensions: culture, youth and mental health Marie Bashir and David Bennett (eds) (2000), Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Parramatta 181pp. $20.00 (paperback)

The many-sided triangle: Adoption in Australia Audrey Marshall and Margaret McDonald (2001), Melbourne University Press ISBN 0 522 84943 1 300pp. $32.95 (paperback)

Working with men in the human services Bob Pearse and Peter Camilleri (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86508 480 8 248 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Professional expertise: Practice theory and education for working in uncertainty Jan Fook, Martin Ryan and Linette Hawkins (2000), Whiting and Brich, London ISBN 1 86177 029 4 £35.00 (hardback)

Social policy in the post-welfare state: Australians on the threshold of the 21st century Adam Jamrozik (2001), Psarson Education, Sydney ISBN 0 7339 9905 0 $44.95 (paperback)

Promoting Resilience… A resource guide on working with children in the care system Robbie Gilligan (2001), British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering, London ISBN 1 873868 92 8 69pp. (paperback)     

The historiography of the American Irish

Ann Laura Staler, Race and the Education of Desire. Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995). Pp.xiv + 237. £43.50 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8223 1678 1 and 1690 0

Brian W. Beltman, Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley: The Life and Letters of Ulbe Eringa, 1866–1950 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, 1996). Pp.xv + 284. $27.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 252 02195 9

Irene Grünbaum, Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grünbaum (Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Morris). (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.) £24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 21614

A.J. Sherman, Island Refuge: Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich, 1933–1939 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1994). Second Edition. Pp.293. £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7146 4573 7

Michael Roe, Australia, Britain, and Migration, 1915–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Pp.x + 310. £40 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 46507 9

V.Y. Mudimbe (ed.), Nations, Identities, Cultures (Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (4), Fall 1995, Vol. 94). £11. ISSN 1 85898 069 0

Alisdair Rogers and Steven Vertovec (eds.), The Urban Context: Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis (Oxford: Berg, 1995). Pp.354. £39.95 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 85496 317 0 and 1 85973 072 8

Anthony D. King (ed.), Re‐Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st‐century Metropolis (London: Macmillan, 1996). Pp.282. £42.50 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 60191 2 and 60192 0

Bill Freund, Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban 1910–1990. (London: James Currey Publishers, 1995). Pp.xv + 133. £30 (cloth); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 85255 666 7 and 616 0

Anne Karpf, The War After: Living with the Holocaust (London: Heinemann, 1996); Pp.351. £16.99. ISBN 0 434 00239 9

W.D. Rubinstein, A History of the Jews in the English‐Speaking World: Great Britain (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1996) Pp.viii + 540. £65. ISBN 0 333 55833 2     

Book reviews

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Ira Berlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. x, 497pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–674–81092–9.

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xi, 341 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–253–21043–7.

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Seymour drescher. Foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. London: Macmillan. 1999. xxv, 454pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–333–73748–2.

Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv. 301pp. £23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–80143179–4.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. 269pp. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–674–74711–9.

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. xi, 562pp. £45.90. ISBN 0–8071–2133–9.

Frccdpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina press. 1999. xv, 345 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2460–7; 0–8078–4763–1.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. Barry A. Crouch. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press. 1999. xix, 187pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–71219–7.

Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912. B.W. Higman. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. 1998. xv, 384pp. £20.00/$35.00. ISBN 976–640–039–3.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Gainsville: University of Florida Press. 1998. xii, 275pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8130–1625–8.

Writing West Indian Histories. B.W. Higman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1999. xiv, 289 pp. £15.50 (paper). ISBN 0–333–73296–0.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Tom Brass and Marcel Van Der Linden. Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 1997 (International and Comparative Social History 5). 602 pp. £52.00. ISBN 3–906756–87–4.

Servicing the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan, 1999. xix, 166pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–333–75477–8.

Servants of Allah. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press. 1998. vii, 254 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0–8147–1905–8     

Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Stephan Palmié (ed.). Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995. xlvii, 283pp. $35.00. ISBN 087049–903–3.

Carnival. Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv, 293pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–48138–4.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Roderick a. McDonald (ed.). Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1996. xvi, 388pp. £14.00 (paperback). ISBN 976–640–022–9.

L'Engrenage de la Liberté: Caraïbes ‐ XIXe siècle, Nelly Schmidt. Aix‐en‐Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence. 1995. 360pp. 250FF. ISBN 2–85399–359–0.

Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Suzanne Schwarz (ed.). Wrexham: Bridge Books. 1995. 164pp. £8.95. ISBN 1–872424–42–2. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster. Melinda Elder. Halifax: Ryburn Publishing. 1992. 232pp. £25. ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. xiv, 556pp. £40.00.

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery, Kate E.R. Pickard. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1995. xv, 103, 409 pp. £14.00. ISBN 0–8032–9233–3.

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. van Horne (eds.). Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, in co‐operation with the Library Company of Philadelphia. 1994. xviii, 363pp.

’what nature suffers to groe’: Life, labor and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680–1920. Mart A. Stewart. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370pp. $45. ISBN 0–8203–1808–6.

Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective, Celia M. Azevedo. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1995. xxvi, 200pp. ISBN 0–8153–2332–8.     

Markets And Shopping

James Carrier (ed.). Meanings of the market: the free market in Western culture. Oxford: Berg. 1997. xvi+276pp. £39.99/US$55.00 (cloth) ISBN 1 85973 1449; £14.99/US$19.50 (paper) ISBN 1 85973 149 X.

Kim Humphery. Shelf life: supermarkets and the changing cultures of consumption. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1998. ix+270pp., b + w illus. £45.00 (cloth) ISBN 0 521 62316 2; £15.95 (paper) ISBN 0 521 626307.

Marianne Lien. Marketing and modernity. Oxford: Berg. 1997. vii+308pp., figs, tables. £39.99/US$55.00 (cloth); £14.99/US$19.50 (paper) ISBN 0 85973 996 2.

Daniel Miller. A theory of shopping. Oxford: Polity Press. 1998. ix+180pp. £45.00 (cloth) ISBN 07456 1945 2; £12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 7456 1946 0.     

Notes of a serf woman by M. E. Vasilieva

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Series 1, Volume II, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Edited by IRA BERLIN. STEVEN F. MILLER, JOSEPH P. REIDY and LESLIE S. ROWLAND. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. xxxvii, 776pp. £60.00 and $79.95. ISBN 0–521–41742–2.

Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti‐Slavery Society. DEBRA GOLD HANSEN. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1993. ix, 231pp. £28.50. ISBN 0–87023–848–5

John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography. JOHN NIVEN. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1988. xvi, 367 pp. $12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8071–1858–3.

Thackeray and Slavery. DEBORAH A. THOMAS. Athens: Ohio University Press. 1993. xvii, 245pp. £44. ISBN 0–8214–1038–5.

Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Edited by MARTIN A. KLEIN. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xiv, 220 pp. $40 and $14.95. ISBN 0–299–13750–3 and 0–299–13754–6.

Islanders in the Stream. A History of the Bahamian People. Volume One. From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery. MICHEAL CRATON AND GAIL SAUNDERS. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press. 1992. xxiii, 455 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8203–1382–3.

Victor Schoelcher et l'abolition de l'esclavage, NELLY SCHMINDT. Paris: Fayard, 1994. 440 pp. 150FF. ISBN 2–213–03058–8.     

Debating Muslims

Michael M.J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi. Debating Muslims: cultural dialogue in postmodernity and tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1990. xxxvi, 564pp., plates, 3 appendices, chronology of events, notes, glossary, bibliography. $36.95 ISBN 0 299 12430 4 (hard), 0 299 12434 7 (paper).     

Prisons,workhouses, and the control of slave labour in low country Georgia, 1763–1815

Engendering History. Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by VERENE SHEPHERD, BRIDGET BRERETON, BARBARA BAILEY. London: James Currey, Kingston: Ian Randle. 1995. xxii, 406pp. £35.00 and £12.50.

Haiti, History and the Gods. JOAN DAYAN. Los Angeles; University of California Press. 1995. xxiii, 339pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–08900–6.

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by MARY TURNER. Kingston, Bloomington and Indianapolis, and London: Ian Randle Publishers, Indiana University Press, and James Currey. 1995. x, 309pp. £35.00 (cloth); £12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–253–32972–8; 0–253–21001–1.

The Black Loyalist Directory. African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution. Edited and with an Introduction by GRAHAM RUSSELL HODGES. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. li. 318pp. $37.00. ISBN 0–8153–2172–4.

The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861. STANLEY HARROLD. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press ofKentucky, 1995. x, 245 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–8131–1906–5.

The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823–1857. Edited by JOHN NIVEN. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. xxv, 489 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87338–508‐X.

The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. JAMES G. HOLLANDSWORTH, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1995. xiv, 140pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–8071–1939–3.

The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 (orig. pub. 1985). xvi, 318pp. £13.95. ISBN 0–80712028–6.

Caste &; Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880–1920. FON LOUISE GORDON. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xvi, 179pp. £31.50. ISBN 0–8203–1711‐X.

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. AMELIA WALLACE VERNON. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1995. xiii, 309pp. $16.95.

Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. CARLOS AGU1RRE. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cató1ica del Perú, Fondo Editorial. 1993. 335pp. ISBN 84–89309–63–9.

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854. CHRISTINE HÜNEFELDT. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. xi, 269pp. ISBN 0–520–08235–4 (cloth); 0–520–08292–3 (paper).

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel. 1600–1850. JAMES L.A. WEBB, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi, 227pp. £40.95 (cloth); £17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–299–14330–9.

From Slave Trade to ‘legitimate’ Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth‐Century West Africa. Edited by ROBIN LAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, African Studies Series 86. xi, 278pp. £35.00.

Slavery and Slaving in World History. A Bibliography. 1900–1991. JOSEPH C. MILLER. Millwood, NY. 1993. xvii, 556pp. $90.00. ISBN 0–527–63660–6.