Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Archaeology Grove, David C. and Rosemary A. Joyce, (eds). Social patterns in Pre‐Classic Mesoamerica: a symposium Niles, Susan A., The shape of Inca history: narrative and architecture in an Andean empire Spielmann, Katherine A., (ed.) Migration and reorganization: the Pueblo period in the American Southwest General At’ayan, Robert, The Armenian neume system of notation Boltanski, Luc, Distant suffering: morality, media and politics Cronk, Lee, That complex whole: culture and the evolution of human behavior Darnell, Regna, And along came Boas: continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology Das, Veena, Dipankar Gupta and Patricia Uberoi, (eds) Tradition, pluralism and identity: in honour of T. Madan Hénaff, Marcel, Claude Lévi‐Strauss and the making of structural anthropology Hudson, Mark J., Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese islands Kan, Sergei, Memory eternal: Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through two centuries Kiste, Robert C. and Mac Marshall, (eds) American anthropology in Micronesia: an assessment McDermott, Joseph P., (ed.) State and court ritual in China Molendijk, Arie L. and Peter Pels, (eds) Religion in the making: the emergence of the sciences of religion Moore, Henrietta L., (ed.) Anthropological theory today Nordenskiöld, Erland, The cultural history of the South American Indians Renfrew, Colin and Daniel Nettle, Nostratic: examining a linguistic macrofamily Samson, Colin, (ed.) Health studies: a critical and cross‐cultural reader Starrett, Gregory, Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Tarrow, Sidney, Power in movement: social movements and contentious politics Social Anthropology Adelkah, Fariba, Being modern in Iran Beatty, A., Varieties of Javanese religion: an anthropological account Besteman, Catherine, Unraveling Somalia: race, violence, and the legacy of slavery Bulag, Urdyn E., Nationalism and hybridity in Mongolia Ellis, Stephen, The mask of anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war Gell, Alfred. The art of anthropology: essays and diagrams Green, James N., Beyond carnival: male homosexuality in twentieth‐century Brazil Parker, Richard, Beneath the equator: cultures of desire, male homosexuality, and emerging gay communities in Brazil Ibrahim, Zawawi, The Malay labourer: by the window of capitalism Iwabuchi, Akifumi, The people of the Alas valley: a study of an ethnic group in northern Sumatra Jeffery, Roger, (ed.) The social construction of Indian forests Ledeneva, Alena V., Russia’s economy of favours: blat, networking and informal exchange Mortimore, Michael, Roots in the African dust: sustaining the sub‐Saharan drylands Nourse, Jennifer W., Conceiving spirits: birth rituals and contested identities among Laujé of Indonesia Pandolfo, Stefania, Impasse of the angels: scenes from a Moroccan space of memory Parry, Jonathan P., Jan Breman & Karin Kapadia, (eds) The worlds of Indian industrial labour Rabinow, Paul, French DNA: trouble in purgatory Wanner, Catherine, Burden of dreams: history and identity in post‐Soviet Ukraine Green, Linda, Fear as a way of life: Mayan widows in rural Guatemala Zur, Judith N., Violent memories: Mayan war widows in Guatemala