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professional singers and are embarrassed by their own singing, sing less, is both naïve and wrong, which a visit to the cultivated fields of Ladakh in September would quickly point out (p. 92-93). Chapter Four, although comprising only 24 pages of a 225-page book, seriously flaws Paradise for Sale, because it erodes confidence in the reader in the authors’ more comprehensive global analysis. If they didn’t get it right with the specifics, are they correct in their overall assessment of the world? I finished the book with the same misgivings I had when entering into it. In part, this was due to the book’s premise about Nauru as metaphor of the world, but also because of a certain ambiguity that arose from the authors’ assertions about the process of writing the book. On the first page of the Prelude, we read that the authors selected Nauru as a study site based upon an article in the New York Times and that one of the authors then visited the island to “check it out,” presumably to conduct field research there. On the first page of the Coda, however, located at the very end of the book, we read that the visit to Nauru only occurred at the behest of a reviewer after the entire manuscript was completed and needed only “fine-tuning.” I appreciated the honesty of these statements, but the chronology of research and writing, as well as the purpose and duration of the Nauru field visits, were troubling to me. That said, this book is a good choice for anyone interested in a considered, ultimately realist in its pessimism, overview of the world’s environment and the consumption-oriented worldview of industrial society that has contributed to its recent decline. The authors’ global knowledge is impressive and their sincerity is obvious, and where they successfully draw Nauru into the debates about the sustainability of the larger world, they do so with great effect.

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The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India, by Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Lynn Vincentnathan