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Social Anthropology

Anthropologie sociale

ISSN: 0964-0282 (print) • ISSN: 1469-8676 (online) • 4 issues per year

Volume 1 Issue 3

Maintenir l'anthropologie*

LUC HEUSCH

Pursuit of knowledge—pursuit of justice

A marxist dilemma?*

MARIT MELHUUS

Food for pregnancy

Procreation, marriage and images of gender among the Vezo of Western Madagascar*

RITA ASTUTI

Leadership and the limits of political control. A Balinese ‘Response’ to Clifford Geertz*

HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT

On the definition of prescription

The problem of Germanic kinship terminologies

ROBERT PARKIN

Reviews

Monk, householder, and tantric priest: Newar Buddhism and Its hierarchy of ritual. By David N. Gellner. Japanese sense of self. Edited by Nancy R. Rosenberger. Haben um zu geben. Eigentum und Besitz auf den Trobriand‐Insein, Papua New Guinea. By Ingrid Bell‐Krannhals. Small but strong. Cultural context of (mai‐) nutrition among the Northern Kwanga (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea). By Brigit Obrist van EeuwlJk. Falsch gehandeit‐schwer erkrankt. Kranksein bei den Yupno in Papua New Guinea aus ethnologischer und biomedizinischer Sicht. By Verena Keck. Of people and plants. A botanical ethnography of Nokopo village, Madang and Morobe provinces, Papua New Guinea. By Christin Kocher Schmid. Peasant Russia: Family and community in the post‐emancipation period. By Christine D. Worobec. Egypt: moulids, saints, sufis. By Nicolaas H. Biegman. From water to world‐making: African models and arid lands. Edited by Gisll Pálsson. The power of love. The moral use of knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru. By F. Santos‐Granero. Les praticiens du rěve: Un exemple de chamanisme. By Michel Perrin. Kultureiies Spiel und gespieite Kultur: Bewegungsspiel ais Dramatisierung des Lebens Ethnic minority identity: A social psychological perspective. By Nimmi Hutnlk. The ecology of choice and symbol: Essays in honour of Fredrik Barth. Edited by Reldar Grønhaug, Gunnar Haaland and Georg Henriksen. 'Race', culture and difference. Edited by James Donald and All Rattansl. Anthropology and nursing. Edited by Pat Hoiden and Jenny Littlewood. Meat: A natural symbol. By Nick Flddes. Women of Phokeng. Consciousness, life strategy, and migrancy in South Africa, 1900–1983. By Belinda Bozzoll with the assistance of Mmantho Nkotsoe. Women and gender in Southern Africa to 1945. Edited by Cherryl Walker. Penetration and protest in Tanzania. By lsaria N. Kimambo. Dependence and autonomy: Women's employment and the family in Calcutta. Ethnologische Frauenforschung: Ansätze, Methoden, Resultate. Edited by Brigitta Hauser‐Schäublin. Eduard Giaser—Forschungen im Yemen; eine queilenkritische Untersuchung in ethnologischer Sicht. By Walter Dostal. When giants walked the earth. The life and times of Wilheim Schmidt, SVD. By Ernest Brandewie. The savage within. The social history of British anthropology, 1885–1945. La identidad de la antropologia. By Josep R. Liobra. The ethnographic Imagination. Textual constructions of reality. By Paul Atkinson. Language diversity and thought. A reformulation of the llnguistic relativity hypothesis. By John A. Lucy. Grammatical categories and cognition. A case study of the Linguistic relativity hypothesis. Modernity and identity. Edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman. Fragmented societies. A sociology of economic life beyond the market paradigm. By Enzo Minglone.

Notebook

A history of the peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian colony, 1581–1990. By James Forsyth. Dingo makes us human. Life and land in an Australian Aboriginal culture. By Deborah Bird Rose. Ancestral connections. Art and an aboriginal system of knowledge. By Howard Morphy. Smalltown. A study of social inequality, cohesion and belonging. By Ken Dempsey. Ethnologie im Widerstreit. Kontroversen über Macht, Geschäft, Geschiecht in fremden Kulturen. Festschrift für Lorenz G. Löffier. Edited by Eberhard Berg, Jutta Lauth and Andreas Wimmer. Forest society. A social history of Petén Guatemala.

Books received

Abstracts

Luc de Heusch: Malntenlr I'anthropologle/MalntaInlng anthropology/Bewahren der Anthropologle/Mantener la antropologia. Marlt Melhuus: Pursult of knowledge‐pursult of Justlce: a marxlst dllemma?/QuQte de savolr ‐ quete de Justlce: un dllemne marxlste?/Das Streben nach Wlssen ‐ das Streben nach Gerechtlgkelt: eln marxlstlsches Dllemma?/La busqueda del saber ‐ la busqueda de la Justlcla: LUn dllema marxlsta? Rlta Astutl: Food for pregnancy: procreatlon, marriage and Images of gender among the Vezo of Western Madagascadb nourrlture de grossesse: procrbatlon, marlage et Images des sexes chez les Vezo de MadagascadNahrung fur Schwangerschaft: Zeugung, Helrat und Geschlechterbllder be1 den Vezo In West‐Madagaskar/AlImentaclon para el embarazo: procreaclbn, matrlmonlo, e lmagenes de genero entre 10s Vezo del oeste de Madagascar Henk Schulte Nordholt: Leadership and the limits Of political A Ballnese ‘Response’ to Clifford GeerWModalltes et llmltes du contr6le polltlque. Une ‘Reponse’ ballnalse a Clifford Gee Herrschaft und die Grenzen polltlscher Kontrolle Robert Parkln: On the deflnltlon of prescrlptlon: the problem of Germanic klnshlp termlnologledDe la deflnltlon de la prescrlptlon: le probleme des termlnologles de parente germanlqueduber dle Deflnltlon von Praskrlptlon: das Problem germanlscher VeMlandtschafts‐TermlnologledSobre la deflnlcl6n de parentesco. la prescrlpcl6n: el problema de las termlnologias germanlcas de