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.     

‘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).     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Contemporary forms of slavery

Slavery in Brazil: A Link in the Chain of Modernisation: the Case of Amazonia, (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International, no.7 Human Rights Series). ALISON SUTTON. London, 1994. 154pp., bibliography, maps, glossary, photographs. £5.95. ISBN 0–900918–32–2.

Britain's Secret Slaves: An Investigation into the Plight of Overseas Domestic Workers (with contributions from Anti‐Slavery International & Kalayan and the Migrant Domestic Workers, no.5 Human Rights Series). BRIDGET ANDERSON. London, 1993. 122pp., references, appendices, photographs. £5.50. ISBN 0–900918–29–2.

Child Labour in Nepal (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International and Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre no.13 Child Labour Series), OMAR SATTAUR. London, 1993. 71pp., bibliography, maps, glossary, appendices, photographs. £5.00. ISBN 0–900918–31–4.

Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International, no.8 Human Rights Series), MARTIN SMITH. London, 1994. 139pp., bibliography, maps, chronology, photographs. £5.95. ISBN 0–9009–18–34–9.     

Cultural History Between Structure And Contingency: the Manus example

Carrier, James and Achsah Carrier. Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state. (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, vol. 7, edited by G.H. Herdt, FJ. Porter Poole and D. Tuzin.) Berkeley: University of California Press. 1989. xvii, 257pp., tables, references, index. ISBN 0 520 06389 9.

Carrier, Achsah and James Carrier. Structure and process in a Melanesian society: Ponam's progress in the twentieth century. (Studies in Anthropology and History, vol. 1, edited by N. Thomas.) Chun Harwood Academic Publishers. 1991. xxii, 261pp., appendices, glossary, references, author and subject index. ISBN 3 7186 5149 1.     

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).     

Author-Meets-Critic

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and its Legacy

Kenneth T. Andrews, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004, ISBN 0-226-02040-1 (Hbk), ISBN 0-226-02043-6 (Pbk)     

Restricted exchange in the new guinea highlands

Peter Sutton (ed.) with contributions by Peter Sutton, Christopher Anderson, Françoise Dussart, Steven Hemming and Philip Jones. Dreamings: the art of Aboriginal Australia. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking-Penguin Books Australia in association with the Asia Society Galleries, New York. 1988. xiv, 266pp., 264 numbered figures, additional maps, photographs, line drawings, catalogue, biographies of the artists, notes, references, index. $60.00 (casebound). ISBN 0 670 82449 6.     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

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.     

Young Malinowski

Roy Ellen, Ernest Gellner, Grazyna Kubica, Janusz Mucha (eds). Malinowski between two worlds: the Polish roots of an anthropological tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. xxv, 261pp., illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. $85.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 34566 9.

Robert J. Thornton and Peter Skalnik (eds). The early writings of Bronislaw Malinowski (trans. Ludwik Krzyzanowski). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. xv, 324pp., notes, bibliography, index. $120.00 (hardback) ISBN 0521 38300 5.

Daniel Gerould (ed. and trans.). The Witkiewicz reader. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 1992. xiii, 359pp. illustrations, appendix, biographical notes, select bibliography. US$59.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 8101 0980 8; US$22.50 (paper) ISBN 0 8101 0994 8.     

Modernity And Reform In India

Martha Alter Chen (ed.). Widows in India: social neglect and public action. New Delhi: Thousand Oaks; London: Sage Publications. 1998. 456pp., contents, tables, appendices, notes, references, index. Rs.495.00 (cloth) ISBN 81-7036-703-4 (India-HB); 0-7619-9248-0 (US-HB). R.S. Kharc. Cultural diversity and social discontent: anthropological studies on contemporary India. New Delhi: Thousand Oaks; London: Sage Publications. 1998. 282pp., contents, notes, references, index. Rs.395.00 (cloth) ISBN 81-7036-707-7 (India-HB); 0-7619-9250-7 (US-HB); Rs.225.00 (paper) ISBN 81-7036-737-9 (India-PB); 0-7619-9278-2 (US-PB). Patricia Uberoi (ed.). Social reform, sexuality and the state. New Delhi: Thousand Oaks; London: Sage Publications. 1996. 404pp., preface, references, notes, index. Rs.495 (cloth) ISBN 81-7036-542-2 (India-HB); 0-8039-9305-6 (US-HB).     

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.     

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.     

Book Reviews

Indonesia: the making of a culture. James J. Fox (ed.). 286pp, maps, figures, tables, bibliographies. (Vol. 1 in Indonesia: Australian Perspectives. James J. Fox, Ross Garnaut, Peter McCawley, J.A.C. Mackie (eds).) Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1980. $10.

Mekeo: inequality and ambivalence in a village society. Epeli Hau’ofa. x, 3 39pp., maps, figures, tables, plates, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Canberra: Australian National University Press. 1981. $19.50.

Tribal communities in rural areas. Elspeth Young, xxiii, 230pp., maps, figures, tables, bibliography. (The Aboriginal Component in the Australian Economy, no. 1.) Canberra: Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1981. $9.

Women in India and Nepal. Michael Allen and S.N. Mukerjee (eds). xiii, 286pp., figures, bibliographies, index. Canberra: The Australian National University (Monographs on South Asia no. 8). 1982. $10.     

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.     

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     

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     

Book Reviews

Abstract

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)