New Acquisitions for July 2009

The following books may be borrowed by RAI Fellows

Buddhism, Christianity, and the question of creation: karmic or divine?
Ashgate, 2006.

Exploring anthropology: perspectives on interaction, changes and challenges. Reader of the 4th MASN Conference, November 7th-11th 2007, Blaubeuren, Germany.
Moving Anthropology Student Network, 2008.

The rock art of Arizona : art for life's sake / E. Malotiki
Walnut Kiva Publishing 2007

Women's lives, women's rituals in the Hindu tradition/ edited by Tracy
Pintchman.
Oxford University Press, 2007.

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa.
Transforming displaced women in Sudan: politics and the body in a squatter settlement.
University of Chicago Press, 2009.

 

Alexeyeff, Kalissa.
Dancing from the heart: movement, gender, and sociality in the Cook Islands.
University of Hawaii Press, 2009.

Alexiades, Miguel N.
Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia: contemporary ethnoecological perspectives.
Berghahn, 2009.

Bechera, Guru Charan.
Appropriating folk culture: a study of the post-Independent Indian drama.
Authorspress, 2008.

Behar, Ruth.
The portable island: Cubans at home in the world.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Besnier, Niko.
Gossip and the everyday production of politics.
University of Hawaii Press, 2009.

Bilaniuk, Laada.
Contested tongues : language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine.                                                                         
Cornell University Press, 2006.

Blaser, Mario.
In the way of development: indigenous peoples, life projects and globalization.
Zed Books, 2004.

Botha, Rudolf P.
The cradle of language.
Oxford University Press.

Burawoy, Michael.
The extended case method : four centuries, four decades, four great transformations, and one theoretical tradition.
University of California Press.

Cole, Jennifer.
Love in Africa.
University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Curtis, Debra.
Pleasures and perils : girls' sexuality in a Caribbean consumer culture.
Rutgers University Press.

Derlon, Brigitte.
La passion de l'art primitif: enquete sur les collectionneurs.
Gallimard, 2008.

Evans, Harriet.
The subject of gender : daughters and mothers in urban China.
Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.

Falola, Toyin.
Movements, borders, and identities in Africa.
University of Rochester Press, 2009.

Fischer, Johan.
Proper Islamic consumption: shopping among the Malays in modern Malaysia.
NIAS Press, 2008.

Fontein, Joost.
The silence of great Zimbabwe: contested landscapes and the power of heritage.
UCL Press, 2006.

Gamburd, Michele Ruth.
Breaking the ashes : the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka.
Cornell University Press.

Gehring, Charles T.
A description of New Netherland: Adriaen van der Donck.
University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Geschiere, Peter.
The perils of belonging : autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in
Africa and Europe.
University of Chicago Press.

Goddard, Michael.
Substantial justice: an anthropology of village courts in Papua New Guinea.
Berghahn, 2009.

Gose, Peter.
Invaders as ancestors: on the intercultural making and unmaking of Spanish colonialism in the Andes.
University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Hinton, Devon E.
Culture and panic disorder.
Stanford University Press, 2009.

Josephides, Lisette.
Melanesian odysseys : negotiating the self, narrative, and modernity.
Berghahn Books, 2008.

Kent, Alexandra.
People of virtue: reconfiguring religion, power and moral order in Cambodia today.
NIAS Press, 2008.

Kresse, Kai.
Knowledge in practice : expertise and the transmission of knowledge.
Edinburgh University Press, ?

Lindquist, Johan A.
The anxieties of mobility : migration and tourism in the Indonesian borderlands.
University of Hawai'i Press, 2009.

Lu, Weijing.
True to her word: the faithful maiden cult in late imperial China.
Stanford University Press, 2008.

Luleva, Ana.
Svetat na veshtite v traditsionnija Balgarski dom = The world of objects in the traditional Bulgarian home.
Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2001.

McDonald, Jason.
American ethnic history: themes and perspectives.
Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Phillips, Anne.
Mulitculturalism without culture.
Princeton University Press, 2007.

Prasad, Leela.
Poetics of conduct : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town.
Columbia University Press, 2007.

Rosen, Lawrence.
Varieties of Muslim experience: encounters with Arab political and cultural life.
Chicago University Press, 2008.

Sabean, David Warren.
Kinship in Europe: approaches to long term development (1300-1900).
Berghahn, 2007.

Scododitti, Giancarlo M. G.
La flagellazione del primitivo: il problema della forma dall'arte tribal al Picasso.
Bollati Boringhieri, 2006.

Shoup, John A.
Culture and customs of Syria.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008.

St. John, Graham.
Victor Turner and contemporary cultural performance.
Berghahn Books, 2008.

Stasch, Robert.
Society of others: kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place.
University of California Press, 2009.

Thomas, Iris Watre.
Music and musical instruments of the Garo tribe of north-east India.
Akansha Publishing House, 2007.

Trnka, Susanna.
State of suffering : political violence and community survival in Fiji.
Cornell University Press.

Wibbelsman, Michelle.
Ritual encounters : Otavalan modern and mythic community.
University of Illinois Press.

Wilce, James MacLynn.
Language and emotion.
Cambridge University Press.

The following books are for reference only

Dinastía y Divinidad : Arte Ife en la Antigua Nigeria.
Fundación Marcelino Bótin, Museum for African Art, 2009.

In praise of shadows.
Charta, 2008.

Marketing and promoting electronic resources : creating the E-Buzz! /
Eleonora I. Dubicki
Routledge 2009

The American game : capitalism, decolonization, world domination and baseball / John D. Kelly.
Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006.

Denbow, James.
Culture and customs of Botswana.
Greenwood Press, 2006.

Kahan, Leonard.
Surfaces: color, substance, and ritual applications on African sculpture.
Indiana University Press, 2009.

Kalichman, Seth.
Denying AIDS: conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and human tragedy.
Springer, 2009.

Matusevich, Maxim.
Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: three centuries of encounters.
Africa World Press, 2007.

Maciej Sobczyk.
Arquitectura funeraria prehispanica en la region del Nevado Coropuna, Peru
Warsaw : Universidad de Varsovia; Instituto Arqueológico, 2000.

Morin, Floriane.
Terres cuites africaines : un heritage millenaire.
Somogy Editions d'Art; Museum Barbier-Mueller in Genf.

Pieroni, Andrea.
Traveling cultures and plants: the ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of human migrations                                                                               
Berghahn, 2007.

Raymond, Rosanna.
Pasifika styles : artists inside the museum.
University of Cambridge Museum of  Archaeology and Anthropology, Otago University Press, 2008.

Reynolds, Dwight F.
Arab folklore : a handbook.
Greenwood Press, 2007.

Rosenzweig, Alfredo.
Offerings and Afterlife : Peruvian Pottery and Artifacts from the Maiman Collection.
Ampal, 2008.

Ryan, P.M.
The Raupo dictionary of modern Maori.
Raupo Publ.(ex-Reed), 2008.

Saint, Pierre De J. H. B.
Voyage to the Isle of France, the Isle of Bourbon and the Cape of Good Hope, A.D. 1768-1771 : with observations and reflections upon nature and mankind.
Asian Educational Services, 2000.

Thomas, Nicolas.
Rauru : Tene Waitere, Maori carving, colonial history.
Christchurch, 2009.

Weiss, Brad.
Street dreams and hip hop barbershops: global fantasy in urban Tanzania.
Indiana University Press, 2009.

White, Bob W.
Rumba rules : the politics of dance music in Mobutu's Zaire.
Duke University Press, 2008.

Woloszyn, Janusz Z.
Los rostros silenciosos : Los huacos retrato de la cultura Moche.
Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2008.