BOOK REVIEW

Anthropology and history Alter, Joseph S. Gandhi’s body: sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism Boone, Elizabeth Hill and Tom Cummins (eds). Native traditions in the post‐conquest world Geary, Christraud M. and Virginia‐Lee Webb (eds). Delivering views: distant cultures in early postcards Julien, Catherine. Reading Inca history. Mignolo, Walter D. Local histories/global designs: coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking. Ridington, Robin and Dennis Hastings. Blessing for a long time: the sacred pole of the Omaha tribe. Rodman, Margaret Critchlow. Houses far from home: British colonial space in the New Hebrides. Roth, Michael S. and Charles G. Salas (eds). Disturbing remains: memory, history, and crisis in the twentieth century. Van der Veer, Peter. Imperial encounters: religion and modernity in India and Britain. Applied anthropology Barume, Albert Kwokwo. Heading towards extinction? Indigenous rights in Africa: the case of the Twa of the Kahuzi‐Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. Ellen, Roy, Peter Parkes and Alan Bicker (eds). Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations: critical anthropological perspectives. Goldman, Laurence R. (ed.). Social impact analysis: an applied anthropology manual. Archaeology Binford, Lewis R. Constructing frames of reference: an analytical method for archaeological theory building using ethnographic and environmental data sets. Ikram, Salima and Aidan Dodson. The mummy in ancient Egypt: equipping the dead for eternity Perry, Warren R. Landscape, transformations and the archaeology of impact: social disruption and state formation in southern Africa Biological anthropology Crawford, Michael H. The origins of Native Americans: evidence from anthropological genetics McMichael, Tony. Human frontiers, environments, and disease: past patterns, uncertain futures Gender Bourdieu, Pierre (transl. Richard Nice). Masculine domination. Cassell, Joan. The woman in the surgeon’s body. Feinberg, Richard. Oral traditions of Anuta: a Polynesian outlier in the Solomon Islands. Gilmore, David D. Misogyny: the male malady. Hirsch, Susan F. Pronouncing and persevering: gender and discourses of disputing in an African Islamic court. Sobo, Elisa J. and Sandra Bell (eds). Celibacy, culture, and society: the anthropology of sexual abstinence. General Auyero, Javier. Poor people’s politics: Peronist survival networks and the legacy of Evita. Bender, Barbara and Margot Winer (eds). Contested landscapes: movement, exile and place. Blum, Susan D. Portraits of ‘primitives’: ordering human kinds in the Chinese nation. Chambers, Keith and Anne Chambers. Unity of heart: culture and change in a Polynesian atoll society Chaudenson, Robert with Salikoko S. Mufwene. Creolization of language and culture Haviland, John B. and Roger Hart. Old Man Fog and the last Aborigines of Barrow Point McVeigh, Brian J. Wearing ideology: state, schooling and self‐presentation in Japan. Michaud, Jean (ed.). Turbulent times and enduring peoples: mountain minorities in the South‐east Asian massif Nelson, John K. Enduring identities: the guise of Shinto in contemporary Japan Rosenberger, Nancy. Gambling with virtue: Japanese women and the search for self in a changing nation Susser, Ida and Thomas C. Patterson (eds). Cultural diversity in the United States: a critical reader Youst, Lionel. She’s tricky like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian woman Method and theory Allen, N.J. Categories and classifications: Maussian reflections on the social Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting things out: classification and its consequences Herzfeld, Michael. Anthropology: theoretical practice in culture and society Kurin, Richard. Reflections of a culture broker: a view from the Smithsonian Lincoln, Bruce. Theorizing myth: narrative, ideology, and scholarship. Nelson, Robert S. (ed.). Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance. Watson, C.W. Multiculturalism. Social anthropology Bates, Crispin (ed.). Community, empire and migration: South Asians in diaspora. Eves, Richard. The magical body: power, fame and meaning in a Melanesian society. Gudeman, Stephen. The anthropology of economy: community, market and culture. Harris, Mark. Life on the Amazon: the anthropology of a Brazilian peasant village. Harris, Olivia. To make the earth bear fruit: fertility, work, gender in Highland Bolivia. Helleiner, Jane. Irish Travellers: racism and the politics of culture. Ramirez, Philippe. De la disparition des chefs: une anthropologie politique népalaise. Vincent, Jeanne‐Françoise. Femmes Beti entre deux mondes: entretiens dans la forêt du Cameroun