Anthropology
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40.2010








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Review of Books
(by Othmar Gächter and Ivan Lobo)
Gesch, Patrick F. (ed.):

Mission and Violence. Healing the Lasting Damage. Madang: DWU Press, 2009. 394 pp. ISBN 9980-9956-2-9. (pbk)
Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, and Fernanda Pirie (eds.): Order and Disorder. Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. 176 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-198-1. (hbk)
Stasch, Rupert: Society of Others. Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 317 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25686-6. (pbk)
Buschmann, Rainer F.: Anthropology’s Global Histories. The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009. 235 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3184-4. (hbk)
Fer, Yannick, et Gwendoline Malogne-Fer (éds.): Anthropologie du christianisme en Océanie. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009. 193 pp. ISBN 978-2-296-08143-7. (pbk)
Jones, Gavin W., Chee Heng Leng, and Maznah Mohamad (eds.): Muslim-non-Muslim Marriage. Political and Cultural Contestations in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009. 322 pp. ISBN 978-981-230-874-0. (hbk)
Lee, Hock Guan, and Leo Suryadinata (eds.):

Language, Nation, and Development in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007. 229 pp. ISBN 978-981-230-482-7. (hbk)
Lu, Yunfeng: The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan. Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. 201 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-1719-4. (hbk)
Graburn, Nelson H. H., John Ertl, and R. Kenji Tierney (eds.): Multiculturalism in the New Japan. Crossing the Boundaries Within. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. 252 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-226-1. (hbk)
Gerhart, Karen M.: The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009. 260 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3261-2. (hbk)
Hellwig, Tineke, and Eric Tagliacozzo (eds.): The Indonesia Reader. History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 478 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4424-7. (pbk)
Schulte Nordholt, Henk, and Gerry van Klinken (eds.): Renegotiating Boundaries. Local Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007. 562 pp. ISBN 978-90-6718-283-4. (pbk)
Srinivas, Mysore Narasimhachar: The Oxford India Srinivas. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. 733 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-806034-5. (hbk)
Sarkar, Rebati Mohan (ed.):

Primitive Tribal Groups in India. Tradition, Development, and Transformation. New Delhi: Serials Publications, 2008. 381 pp. ISBN 978-81-8387-186-0. (hbk)
Nongbri, Tiplut: Gender, Matriliny, and Entrepreneurship. The Khasis of North-East India. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2008. 207 pp. ISBN 978-81-89013-76-9. (hbk)
Ermakov, Dmitry:

Bө and Bön. Ancient Shamanic Traditions of Siberia and Tibet in Their Relation to the Teachings of a Central Asian Buddha. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, 2008. 827 pp. ISBN 978-9937-506-11-3. (pbk)
Haring, Lee: Stars and Keys. Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 415 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34868-5. (hbk)
Ter Haar, Gerrie: How God Became African. African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 121 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4173-0. (hbk)
Mebenga Tamba, Luc:

Anthropologie des rites funéraires en milieu urbain camerounais. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2009. 269 pp. ISBN 978-2-296-09453-6. (pbk)
Sheridan, Michael J., and Celia Nyamweru (eds.): African Sacred Groves. Ecological Dynamics and Social Change. Oxford: James Curry, 2008. 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-84701-400-9. (pbk)
Drewal, Henry John (ed.): Sacred Waters. Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. 681 pp. and 1 DVD-ROM. ISBN 978-0-253-35156-2. (hbk)
Geiselhart, Klaus: The Geography of Stigma and Discrimination. HIV and AIDS-Related Identities in Botswana. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, 2009. 280 pp. ISBN 978-3-88156-795-4. (pbk)
Afolabi, Niyi: Afro-Brazilians. Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. 429 pp. ISBN 978-1-58046-262-4. (hbk)
Gustafson, Bret Darin: New Languages of the State. Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 332 pp. ISBN 978-08223-4546-6. (pbk)
Paerregaard, Karsten:

Peruvians Dispersed. A Global Ethnography of Migration. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-1837-5. (hbk)
Ventura i Oller, Montserrat: Identité, cosmologie et chamanisme des Tsachila de l’Équateur. À la croisée des chemins. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009. 286 pp. ISBN 978-2-296-09836-7. (pbk)
Espinosa, Gastón, and Mario T. García (eds.): Mexican American Religions. Spirituality, Activism, and Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 444 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4119-2. ( pbk)
Nicholls, Steve: Paradise Found. Nature in America at the Time of Discovery. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. 524 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-58340-2. (hbk)
Harvey, Graham (ed.): Religions in Focus. New Approaches to Tradition and Contemporary Practices. London: Equinox Publishing, 2009. 366 pp. ISBN 978-1-84553-218-5. (pbk)
Berry, Jan: Ritual Making Women. Shaping Rites for Changing Lives. London: Equinox Publishing, 2009. 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-84553-415-8. (pbk)
   
   
   


Review of Articles
(by Joachim G. Piepke, and Dariusz Piwowarczyk)
Gugler, Thomas G.:

The New Religiosity of Tablīghī Jamā’at and Da’wat-e Islamī and the Transformation of Islam in Europe. Anthropos 105.2010: 121-136.
Erckenbrecht, Corinna: Zur wissenschaftlichen Rezeption des Fremden. Die australischen Aborigines in den Augen der Anthropologie und Ethnologie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Anthropos 105.2010: 13-27.
Bartelt, Guillermo: On the Ethnohistory of Powhatan Ritual Gestures. Anthropos 105.2010: 47-56.
Rocha Torrez, Eveline Sigl: De la calle a la Web 2.0. La danza del altiplano boliviano como generadora de identidad y etnicidad. Un estudio ciberantropológico. Anthropos 105.2010: 73-91.
Pugh, Timothy: Contagion and Alterity: Kowoj Maya Appropriation of European Objects. American Anthropologist 111.2009/3: 373-386.
Drucker-Brown, Susan:

Wearing the Virgin of Guadalupe. Cambridge Anthropology 28.2008/2009/2: 24-44.

Hetherington, Kregg: Privatizing the Private in Rural Paraguay: Precarious Lots and the Materiality of Rights. American Ethnologist 36.2009/2: 224-241.
Yaremko, Jason M.:  “Obvious Indian.” Missionaries, Anthropologists, and the “Wild Indians” of Cuba: Representations of the Amerindian Presence in Cuba. Ethnohistory 56.2009/3: 449-477.
Shapiro, Warren:

Marxist/Feminist Models in the New Guinea Highlands. Oceania 79.2009/2: 177-178.
Burkert, Walter: Pleading for Hell: Postulates, Fantasies, and the Senselessness of Punishment. Numen 41.2009/2-3: 141-160.
Latour, Bruno: Will Non-Humans Be Saved? An Argument in Ecotheology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15.2009/3: 459-475.
Baum, Steven K.: Christian and Muslim Anti-Semitic Beliefs. Journal of Contemporary Religion 24.2009/2: 137-156).
Weaver Shipley, Jesse: Comedians, Pastors, and the Miraculous Agency of Charisma in Ghana. Cultural Anthropology 24.2009/3: 523-552.