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Geel Revisited after Centuries of Mental Rehabilitation. Eugeen Roosens and Lieve Van de Walle. London: Garant Publishers. 2007. ix+129pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.4 by: Ayelet Abraham, PhD Haifa, 2007, Anthropology of Emotion: Independent scholar, Naharia, Israel.
Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places. André Levy and Alex Weingrod, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2005. xi+362pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.4 by: Patric V. Giesler, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gustavus Adolphus College.
Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait. Larisa Fialkova and Maria N. Yelenevskaya. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. xiii+373pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.4 by: Deborah Golden, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa.
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron J.Good, eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.2008. xii+466pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.4 by: Harold L. Odden, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indian Universtiy-Purdue Univerversity, Ft. Wayne.
Harry G. West. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2007. xiv+132pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.4 by: Phillips Stevens, Jr., Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY, Buffalo.
The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition. Roger Walsh. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications. 2007. x+325pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.3 by: John J. McGraw, Ph.D. Candidate, UCSD Department of Anthropology.
Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner, eds. New York: Altamira Press. 2006. xvii+300pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.3 by: Elelwani Ramugondo, PhD candidate, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Will to Live: Aids Therapies and the Politics of Survival. João Biehl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2007. xiii+466pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.3 by: Cristina Redko, Research Assistant Professor, Wright State University.
Ways of Knowing: New Approaches in the Anthropology of Experience and Learning. Mark Harris, ed. New York: Berghahn Books. 2007. xii+340 pp. Review in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.3 by: David Sutton, Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University.
Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing. Caroline Oliver. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. 2008. ix+197pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.2 by: Jason Danely, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Diego.
Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa. Paul Christopher Johnson. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007. xi+330 pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.2 by: Timothy R. Landry, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities. Patricia Foxen. Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press. 2007. xxiv+358pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.2 by: Brian Montes, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro. Tuulikki Pietilá. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2007. xi+241pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.1 by: Robey Callahan, Project Manager, "Digital Chicago Maya: Modern Spoken Yucatec and K'iche'," Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago.
The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Clark-Decès. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2007. x+146pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.1 by: Kristin M. Kostick, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Connecticut.
Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ Verbal Enactments of Identity in French and Portuguese. Michèle Koven. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2007. x+315 pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.1 by: Sevda Numanbayraktaroglu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago.
Charles Lindholm. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. 2007. xxxii+446 pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 36.1 by: Jill White, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Respect and Disrespect: Cultural and Developmental Origins. David W. Shwalb and Barbara J. Shwalb, (eds.) San Francisco: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 2006. 93 pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 35.4 by: Robert Ausch, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, New York University.
Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa. Margaret Trawick. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 35.4 by: David F. Lancy, Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University Margaret Trawick's Response to David Lancy.
Ordinary Life: A Memoir of Illness. Kathlyn Conway. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 35.4 by: Aaron T. Seaman, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers. Chaim Noy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2006. xii + 238 pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 35.3 by: Jonathan S. Marion, Adjunct Faculty, CaliforniaState University, San Marcos and Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area In Amazonia. Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2007. 340 pp. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 35.3 by: Grant J. Rich, Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Southeast
Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas. Patricia Marks Greenfield. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. xxiv + 200 pp. 2004. Reviewed in conjunction with the publication of Ethos 35.3 by: W. Warner Wood, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Central Washington University
Anthropology Through a Double Lens: Public and Personal Worlds in Human Theory. Daniel Touro Linger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 236 pp. Reviewed by: Gazi Islam, Ibmec São Paulo Daniel Linger's Response to Islam
Reviewed by: Kathleen Barlow, Central Washington University
Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community. Nancy Eberhardt. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 2006. xi +208pp. Reviewed by: Jacquetta Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Reviewed by: Richard Joseph Martin, Princeton University
The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic. Takie Sugiyama Lebra. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2004. xxiv + 303 pp. Reviewed by: Robey Callahan, University of Pennsylvania
New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories and Representations. Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. 2006. xliii + 514 pp. Reviewed by: Kirk Dombrowski, CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College, CUNY
Family Mealtime as a Context of Development and Socialization. Reed W. Larson, Angela R. Wiley, and Kathryn R. Branscomb, eds. New Directions for Child Development, Number 111. San Francisco, CA: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 2006. 110pp. Reviewed by: Heather Rae-Espinoza, California State University, Long Beach
Life and Death in Intensive Care. Joan Cassell. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2005. 233 pp. Reviewed By: Liz Nickrenz, University of Chicago
Those Who Touch: Tuareg Women in Anthropological Perspective. Susan J. Rasmussen. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2006. xii + 234 pp. Reviewed by: Patric V. Giesler, Gustavus Adolphus College
Kölner Beiträge zur Ethnopsychologie und Transkulturellen Psychologie 6 (Cologne Contributions to Ethnopsychology and Transcultural Psychology 6). H. Stubbe and C. dos Santos-Stubbe (Ed.). Göttingen: V&R unipress. 2005. 147 pp. Reviewed by: Huub Beijers, Symfora Group, Amersfoort/The Netherlands.
American Individualisms: Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods. Adrie Kusserow. Series on Culture, Mind and Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. xiii + 207 pp. Reviewed by: Cindy Dell Clark, Pennsylvania State University
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life. Thomas Weisner, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005 ix+ 443 pp. Reviewed by: Paul Spicer, University of Colorado at Denver
Culture, Subject, and Psyche: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology. Anthony Molino, ed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. xv + 217 pp. Reviewed by: Sara E. Lewis, University of Chicago
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas. Gananath Obeyesekere Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2005. Xx + 320 pp. Reviewed by Sara M. Bergstresser, Harvard Medical School
In Sickness and in Play: Children Coping with Chronic Illnesses. Cindy Dell Clark. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. xi + 225 pp. Reviewed by Mara H. Buchbinder, University of California, Los Angeles
Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice and Research from Japan. David W. Shwalb, Jun Nakazawa, and Barbara J. Shwalb. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2005. xxv + 353 pp. Reviewed by Harold L. Odden, Indiana University – Purdue University, Fort Wayne
A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change. Casey Conerly and Robert B. Edgerton, eds. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xxiii + 523 pp. Reviewed by: Philip K. Bock, The University of New Mexico
The Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene. Walter Goldschmidt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 164 pp. Reviewed by: Benjamin N. Colby, The University of California, Irvine
Reviewed by: Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Utrecht University
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