BOOK REVIEWS  

 

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.

 

 

Postcolonial Disorders.

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.

 

 

 

Ethnographic Sorcery.

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.

 

 

Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives.

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.

 

 

Culture and Identity: The History, Theory, and Practice of Psychological Anthropology, Revised and Updated Edition.

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.
Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007. xii+308 pp.

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.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2007. x + 264 pp.

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

 

 

 

Vietnam’s Children in a Changing World.  Rachel Burr.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press.  2006. x + 247pp.

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

 

 

 

Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society.  Holly Wardlow.  Berkeley: University of California Press.  2006.  284pp.

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

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

Cover ImageWhy Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. Alexander Laban Hinton. California Series in Public Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 360 pp.

Reviewed by: Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Utrecht University