Social Anthropology

Book Reviewed in this article: Anderson, David G., and Eeva Berglund (eds). 2003. Ethnographies of conservation. Environmentalism and the distribution of privilege. Donovan, James M., and H. Edwin Anderson. 2003. Anthropology and law. Dyck, Noel, and Eduardo Archetti (eds.) 2003. Sport, dance and embodied identities. Gill, Tom. 2001. Men of uncertainty. The social organisation of day laborers in contemporary Japan. Gow, Peter. 2001. An Amazonian myth and its history. Herzfeld, Michael. 2004. The body impolitic. Artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value. Jolles, Carol Zane (with Elinor Mikaghaq Oozeva). 2002. Faith, food and family in a Yupik whaling community. Kent, Susan (ed.). 2002. Ethnicity, hunter‐gatherers and the ‘other’. Association or assimilation in Africa. Kertzer, David I., and Dominique Arel (eds.). 2002. Census and identity. The politics of race, ethnicity and language in national censuses. MacClancy, Jeremy. 2002. Exotic no more. Anthropology on the front lines. McCauley, Robert N., and Thomas Lawson (eds.). 2002. Bringing ritual to mind. Psychological foundations of cultural forms. Mendoza, Zoila S. 2000. Shaping society through dance. Mestizo ritual performance in the Peruvian Andes. Mykkänen, Juri. 2003. Inventing politics. A new political anthropology of the Hawaiian kingdom. Sciama, Lidia D. 2003. A Venetian island. Environment, history and change in Burano. Segalen, Martine (ed.). 2001. Ethnologie. Concepts et aires culturelles. Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum. 2003. The idea of women under fundamentalist Islam. Van den Boogaart, Ernst. 2003. Civil and corrupt Asia. Image and text in the Itinerario and Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Van der Veer, Peter. 2001. Imperial encounters. Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Washabaugh, William (ed.). 1998. The passion of music and dance. Body, gender and sexuality. Whitehead, Neil L. (ed.). 2003. Histories and historicities in Amazonia.