ethnography

Book Reviews

• Linda Allen, et al.: The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
  - Aboriginal photographs from 1894 to 1923
• Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor: Cross-Cultural Filmmaking
  A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
• Andrew Beatty: Varieties of Javanese Religion
  An Anthropological Account
• Michael Benedikt: Cyberspace: First Steps
  - information representations and virtual reality interfaces
• Jan Breman, Gunawan Wiradi: Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java
  - krismon and the socioeconomics of two Javanese villages
• Ian Cunnison: Baggara Arabs
  Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
• E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Nuer
  A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
• Sabine Felmy: The Voice of the Nightingale
  A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
• James Forsyth: A History of the Peoples of Siberia
  Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
• Ronald Fraser: Tajos
  The Story of a Village on the Costa del Sol
• Sabino Garcia Padilla Jr: Agrarian Revolution
  Peasant Radicalisation and Social Change in Bicol
• Hugh Gusterson: Nuclear Rites
  A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
• Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet: Everyday Politics in the Philippines
  Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village
• Patrick Vinton Kirch: The Wet and the Dry*
  Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
• David Lewis: We, the Navigators
  The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
• Michael D. Lieber: More Than a Living
  Fishing and the Social Order on a Polynesian Atoll
• John Van Maanen: Tales of the Field
  On Writing Ethnography
• Brian Morris: Insects and Human Life
  - insects in the social and cultural life of Malawi
• Vojtech Novotny: Notebooks from New Guinea*
  Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist
• James C. Scott: Weapons of the Weak**
  Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
• M. Nazif Shahrani: The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan*
  Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
• Marjorie Shostak: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
  - a woman's life on the edge of the Kalahari
• James W. Spain: The Pathan Borderland
  - an ethnic group of 20 million, on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border
• Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern: Millennial Markers
  - papers on Pacific millenarianism

See also: anthropology | ethnographic fiction | sociology