Review of Books
(by Othmar Gächter)
Rao, Ursula: News as Culture. Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. 224 pp. 978-1-84545-669-6. (hbk)
Rao, Anupama: The Caste Question. Dalits and the Politics of Modern India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 392 pp. 978-0-520-25761-0. (hbk)
Thorat, Sukhadeo, and Katherine S. Newman (eds.): Blocked by Caste. Economic Discrimination in Modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. 377 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-806080-2. (hbk)
Basu, Raj Sekhar: Nandanar’s Children. The Paraiyans’ Tryst with Destiny, Tamil Nadu 1850–1956. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2011. 425 pp. 978-81-321-0514-5. (hbk)
Robinson, Rowena, and Joseph Marianus Kujur: Margins of Faith. Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2010. 299 pp. ISBN 978-81-321-0467-4. (hbk)
Zotter, Astrid, and Christof Zotter (eds.): Hindu and Buddhist Initiations in India and Nepal. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010. 380 pp. 978-3-447-068387-6. (hbk)
Feuchtwang, Stephan: The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma, and Ghosts. Chinese Lessons for Adequate Theory. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010. 213 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-022355-2. (hbk)
Mullaney, Thomas S.: Coming to Terms with the Nation. Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26278-2. (hbk)
Ovesen, Jan, and Ing-Britt Trankell: Cambodians and Their Doctors. A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia. Copenhagen: NIAS, 2010. 301 pp. ISBN 978-87-7694-058-4. (pbk)
Schröter, Susanne (ed.): Christianity in Indonesia. Perspectives of Power. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010. 420 pp. ISBN 978-3-643-10798-5. (pbk)
Türk, Andreas: Christentum in Ostsumba. Die Aneignung einer Weltreligion in Indonesien aus praxistheoretischer Sicht. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2010. 571 pp. ISBN 978-3-17-021548-1. (hbk)
Graf, Arndt, Susanne Schröter, and Edwin Wieringa (eds.): Aceh. History, Politics, and Culture. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010. 386 pp. ISBN 978-981-4279-12-3. (pbk)
Anderson, Astrid: Landscapes of Relations and Belonging. Body, Place, and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 262 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-775-4. (hbk)
Corbey, Raymond: Headhunters from the Swamps. The Marind Anim of New Guinea as Seen by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 1905–1925. Leiden: KITVL Press, 2010. 135 pp. ISBN 978-90-6718-359-8. (pbk)
Tnines, Martin (ed.): Making Sense of Disability in Papua New Guinea. Perceptions and Treatment of Disability in PNG. Goroka: The Melanesian Institute, 2010. 261 pp. ISBN 9980-65-015-X. (pbk)
Jebens, Holger: After the Cult. Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea). New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. 244 pp. ISBN978-1.84545-674-0. (hbk)
Viterbo, Paula, and Kalala Ngalamulume (eds.): Medicine and Health in Africa. Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010. 225 pp. ISBN 978-3-8258-9226-5. (pbk)
Green, Edward C., and Allison Herling Ruark: Aids, Behavior, and Culture. Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2011. 300 pp. ISBN 978-1-59874-479-8. (pbk)
Dekker Marleen, and Rijk van Dijk (eds.): Markets of Well-being. Navigating Health and Healing in Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 311 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-20110-1. (pbk)
Hamberger, Klaus: La parenté vodou. Organisation sociale et logique symbolique en pays ouatchi (Togo). Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011. 679 pp. ISBN 978-2-271-07255-9. (pbk)
Longman, Timothy: Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 350 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-26953-7. (pbk)
Chiangong, Mforbe Pepetual: Rituals in Cameroon Drama. A Semiological Interpretation of the Plays of Gilbert Doho, Bole Butake, and Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh. Eckersdorf: Thielmann and Breitinger, 2011. 228 pp. ISBN 978-3-939661-11-5. (pbk)
Traoré, Saratta: Femmes bwaba du Burkina Faso. Les contraintes sociales. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010. 225 pp. ISBN 978-2-296-110704-8. (pbk)
Pasian, Michela: Anthropologie du rituel de possession Bori en milieu Hawsa au Niger. Quand les génies cohabitent avec Allah. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010. 265 pp. ISBN 978-2-296-11119-6. (pbk)
Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Ruth Jane Prince: The Land is Dying. Contingency, Creativity, and Conflict in Western Kenya. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. 423 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-481-4. (hbk)
Labate, Beatriz Caiuby, and Edward MacRae (eds.): Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil. London: Equinox Publishing, 2010. 227 pp. ISBN 978-1-84553-679-4. (pbk)
Ruby, Robert H., John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins: A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 415 pp. (3rd revised edition) ISBN 978-0-8061-4024-7. (pbk)
Goody, Jack: Myth, Ritual, and the Oral. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 180 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-12803-2. (pbk)
Hauschild, Thomas: Power and Magic in Italy. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-482-1. (hbk)
Bevans, Stephen B., and Roger P. Schroeder: Prophetic Dialogue. Reflections on Christian Mission Today. Mariknoll: Orbis Books, 2010. 194 pp. ISBN 978-1-57075-911-6. (pbk)
Volpi, Frédéric (ed.): Political Islam. A Critical Reader. London: Routledge, 2011. 471 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-56028-3. (pbk)
Gruber, Christiane, and Frederick Colby (eds.): The Prophet’s Ascension. Cross-Cultural Encounters with Islamic Mi‘raj Tales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 389 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35361-0. (hbk)
Goody, Jack: Renaissances. The One or the Many. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 322 pp. ISBN 978-0521-74516-1. (pbk)
Heidemann, Frank: Ethnologie. Eine Einführung. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011. 285 pp. ISBN 978-3-8252-3467-6. (pbk)
LeVine, Robert A. (ed.): Psychological Anthropology. A Reader on Self in Culture. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 390 pp. ISBN 978-1-4051-0576-7. (pbk)
Kollewe, Carolin, und Elmar Schenkel (Hrsg.): Alter: unbekannt. Über die Vielfalt des Älterwerdens. Internationale Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Transkriptverlag, 2011. 276 pp. ISBN 978-3-8376-1506-7. (pbk)
Hödl, Hans Gerald, und Veronica Futterknecht (Hrsg.): Religionen nach der Säkularisierung. Wien: Lit Verlag, 2011. 395 pp. ISBN 978-3-643-50278-0. (pbk)
Grimes, Ronald L., Ute Hüsken, Udo Simon, and Eric Venbrux (eds.): Ritual, Media, and Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 299. pp. ISBN 978-0-19-973554-9. (pbk)
Bräuchler, Birgit, and John Postill (eds.): Theorizing Media and Practice. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-745-7. (pbk)
Review of Articles
(by Dariusz Piwowarczyk and Joachim G. Piepke)
Murphy, Michael D., and J. Carlos González Faraco: Identifying the Virgin Mary. Disarming Skepticism in European Vision Narratives. Anthropos 106. 2011: 511-527.
Meiser, Anna: “Jesus is the same Arutam.” Logics of Appropriation among Missionized Indians and Indigenized Missionaries. Anthropos 106.2011: 493-510.
Lange, Dierk: Origin of the Yoruba and “The Lost Tribes of Israel.” Anthropos 106.2011: 579-595.
Chaudhary, M. Azam: A Woman’s Marriage to the Quran. An Anthropological Perspective from Pakistan. Anthropos 106.2011: 411-422.
Redstone Akresh, Ilana: Immigrants’ Religious Participation in the United States. Ethnic and Racial Studies 34/4.2011: 643-661.
Davidson, Elsa: Managing Risk and “Giving Back.” Aspiration among Working-Class Latino Youth in Silicon Valley. Ethnography 12/1.2011: 89-113.
Wallace, Richard H.: Commoditizing Culture. The Production, Exchange, and Consumption of Couro Vegetal from the Brazilian Amazon. Ethnology 48/4. 2009: 295-313.
Charry, Carlos Andrés: Los intelectuales Colombianos y el dilema de la construcción de la identidad nacional (1850-1930). European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 90.2011: 55-70.
Handman, Courtney: Events of Translation: Intertextuality and Christian Ethnotheologies of Change among Guhu-Samane, Papua New Guinea. American Anthropologist 112.2010: 576-588.