Review of Books
(by Ivan Lobo and Othmar Gächter)
McNeill, Fraser G.: AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 278 pp. 978-1-107-00991-2. (hbk)
Gulbrandsen, Ornulf: The State and the Social. State Formation in Botswana and Its Pre-Colonial and Colonial Genealogies. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 343 pp. 978-0-85745-297-9. (hbk)
Perullo, Alex: Live from Dar es Salaam. Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 459 pp. 978-0-253-22292-3. (pbk)
Lynch, Gabrielle: I Say to You. Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 291 pp. 978-0-226-49805-8. (pbk)
Renders, Marleen: Consider Somaliland. State-Building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 289 pp. 978-90-04-21848-2. (pbk)
Heinonen, Paula: Youth Gangs and Street Children. Culture, Nurture, and Masculinity in Ethiopia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 169 pp. 978-0-85745-098-2. (hbk)
Ayangaôr, Emmanuel Chiahemba: The Tiv and Their Southern Neighbours, 1890–1990. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. 270 pp. 978-1-59460-845-2. (pbk)
Hellweg, Joseph: Hunting the Ethical State. The Benkadi Movement of Côte d’Ivoire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 291 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-32654-2. (pbk)
Sonderegger, Arno, Ingeborg Grau und Brigit Englert (Hrsg.): Afrika im 20. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Wien: Promedia, 2011. 255 pp. 978-3-85371-338-9. (pbk)
Sherrif, Abdul: Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean. Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 384 pp. 978-0-231-70139-6 (hbk)
Strong, Mary: Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes. Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. 356 pp. 978-0-292-73571-2. (hbk)
Ramírez, María Clemencia: Between the Guerrillas and the State. The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2011. 312 pp. 978-0-8223-5015-6. (pbk)
Jong, Nanette de: Tambú. Curaçao’s African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 162 pp. 978-0-253-22337-1. (pbk)
Grube, Nikolai: Der Dresdner Maya-Kalender. Der vollständige Codex. Freiburg: Herder Verlag, 2012. 224 pp. 978-3-451-33332-3. (pbk)
Sturm, Circe: Becoming Indian. The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2011. 262 pp. 978-1-934691-44-1. (pbk)
Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.: Street Therapists. Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. 448 pp. 978-0-226-70362-6. (pbk)
Quack, Johannes: Disenchanting India. Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India. Oxford: Ox-ford University Press, 2012. 362 pp. 978-0-19-981262-2. (pbk)
Gerke, Barbara: Long Lives and Untimely Deaths. Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 362 pp. 978-90-04-21703-4. (hbk)
Meriam, Beth: China’s “Tibetan“ Frontiers. Sharing the Contested Ground. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 331 pp. 978-19-06-87630-2. (hbk)
Tyson, Adam D.: Decentralization and Adat Revivalism in Indonesia. The Politics of Becoming Indigenous. London: Routledge, 2010. 210 pp. 978-0-415-78011-7. (hbk)
Tan, Charlene: Islamic Education and Indoctrination. The Case in Indonesia. London: Routledge, 2011. 208 pp. 978-0-415-87976-7. (hbk)
Garbutt, Rob: The Locals. Identity, Place, and Belong¬ing in Australia and Beyond. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011. 250 pp. 978-3-0343-0154-1. (pbk)
Besnier, Niko: On the Edge of the Global. Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 297 pp. 978-0-8047-7406-2. (pbk)
Dousset, Laurent, and Serge Tcherkézoff (eds.): The Scope of Anthropology. Maurice Godelier’s Work in Con-text. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 288 pp. 978-0-85745-331-0. (hbk)
Murphy, Edward, David William Cohen, Chandra D. Bhimull, Fernando Coronil, Monica Eileen Patterson, and Julie Skurski (eds.): Anthrohistory. Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline. Ann Arbor: The Uni-versity of Michigan Press, 2011. 353 pp. 978-0-472-05135-9. (pbk)
Taussig, Michael: I Swear I Saw This. Drawings in Field¬work Notebooks, Namely My Own. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 173 pp. 978-0-226-78983-5. (pbk)
Bevans, Stephen B. (ed.): Mission and Culture. The Louis J. Luzbetak Lectures. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2012. 320 pp. 978-1-57075-965-9. (pbk)
Kockel, Ullrich, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Jonas Frykman (eds.): A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 608 pp. 978-1-4051-9073-2. (hbk)
Haller, Dieter: Die Suche nach dem Fremden. Geschichte der Ethnologie in der Bundesrepublik 1945–1990. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2012. 396 pp. 978-3-593-39600-2. (hbk)
Hahn, Hans Peter, Karlheinz Cless, and Jens Soentgen (eds.): People at the Well. Kinds, Usages, and Meanings of Water in a Global Perspective. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2012. 316 pp. 978-3-593-39610-1. (pbk)
Rösch, Petra, and Udo Simon (eds.): How Purity Is Made. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. 492 pp. 978-3-447-06542-9. (hbk)
Kolig, Erich: Conservative Islam. A Cultural Anthropology. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. 381 pp. 978-0-7391-7424-1. (hbk)
Kellehear, Allan: The Study of Dying. From Autonomy to Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 284 pp. 978-0-521-73905-4. (pbk) [1st ed., reprint 2011].
Zerubavel, Eviatar: Ancestors and Relatives. Genealogy, Identity, and Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 240 pp. 978-0-19-977395-4. (hbk)
Cormier, Loretta A.: The Ten-Thousand Year Fever. Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2011. 241 pp. 978-1-59874-483-5. (pbk)
Review of Articles
(by Dariusz Piwowarczyk and Joachim G. Piepke)
Remme, Jon Henrik Ziegler: Separating Encounters. Tangency in an Interreligious Encounter in Ifugao, the Philippines. Anthropos 107.2012: 427-434.
John A. Z’graggen: The Myth of Mother Marge. Self-Sacrifice in Papuan Mythology (Papua New Guinea). Anthropos 107.2012: 435-465.
Bronk, Andrzej: Secular, Secularization, and Secularism. A Review Article. Anthropos 107.2012: 578-583.
Rödlach, Alexander: Reflections of a Missionary-Anthropologist on the Response of the Society of Divine Word to HIV/AIDS. Verbum SVD 52.2011: 287-305.
Norman, Alex and Mark Johnson: World Youth Day: The Creation of a Modern Pilgrimage Event for Evangelical Intent. Journal of Contemporary Religion 26.2011: 371-385.
Jaoul, Nicolas: The Making of a Political Stronghold: A Dalit Neighborhood’s Exit from the Hindu Nationalist Riot System. Ethnography 13.2012: 102-116.
Sinclair, Stefanie: National Identity and the Politics of the ‘Headscarf Debate’ in Germany. Culture and Religion 13.2012: 19-39.
Rios, Luis Felipe, Francisca Luciana de Aquino, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Laura R. Murray, Cinthia Oliveira and Richard G. Parker: The Catholic Church, Moral Doctrine, and HIV Prevention in Recife, Brazil: Negotiating the Contradictions between Religious Belief and the Realities of Every Day Life. Culture and Religion 12.2011: 355-372.
August 2012