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Articles in December 1996 issue of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community. (book reviews)
  by Hiatt, L.R.
• Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico. (book reviews)
  by Drucker-Brown, Susan
• Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India. (book reviews)
  by Chatterjee, Mary Searle
• Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Tradition. (book reviews)
  by Colligan, Sumi
• German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back. (book reviews)
  by Borneman, John
• Ceramic Production in the American Southwest. (book reviews)
  by Brown, Gary M.
• Making the king divine: a case study in ritual regicide from Timor.
  by Hicks, David
• Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior: An Anthropological Sourcebook. (book reviews)
  by Carrier, James G.
• Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics. (book reviews)
  by Allen, Michael
• Sin and Expiation in Primitive Societies. (book reviews)
  by Kenna, Margaret E.
• Bountiful Island: A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll. (book reviews)
  by McCutcheon, Mary
• Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World. (book reviews)
  by Messer, Ellen
• Humans Before Humanity. (book reviews)
  by Wood, Bernard
• The development of meaning: ontogeny and culture.
  by Robertson, A.F.
• Ecology and Practical Technology: Peasant Farming Systems in Thailand. (book reviews)
  by Tannenbaum, Nicola
• Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge. (book reviews)
  by Stoller, Paul
• Pastoralists at the Periphery: Herders in a Capitalist World. (book reviews)
  by Fratkin, Elliot
• A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel, 1550-1800. (book reviews)
  by Stocking, George W., Jr.
• Oceanic Art. (book reviews)
  by Roscoe, Paul
• The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization. (book reviews)
  by Dransart, Penny
• Children and the Politics of Culture. (book reviews)
  by James, Allison
• Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. (book reviews)
  by Di Leonardo, Micaela
• Ethnobotany and the Search for New Drugs. (book reviews)
  by Etkin, Nina L.
• Semillas de industria: transformaciones de la tecnologia indigena en las Americas. (book reviews)
  by Spencer, Charles S.
• Segmentary models in Morocco. (response to E. Gellner, The Journal of the Royal Anthropology Institute, vol. 1, p. 821, 1995)
  by Hart, David M.
• Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. (book reviews)
  by Dunn, Ethel
• Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil. (book reviews)
  by Franchetto, Bruna
• Understanding the Disputes: The Politics of Argument. (book reviews)
  by Simpson, Bob
• Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture. (book reviews)
  by Knight, Chris
• Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America. (book reviews)
  by Edward, Elizabeth
• Anthropomorphism and the evolution of cognition. (response to Pascal Boyer, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 2, p. 83, 1996)(includes reply)
  by Boyer, Pascal; Mithen, Stephen
• Schneider on Schneider: The Conversion of the Jews and Other Anthropological Stories. (book reviews)
  by Kuper, Adam
• To Sing with Pigs Is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea. (book reviews)
  by Maschio, Thomas
• Warrior Gentlemen: 'Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination. (book reviews)
  by Addy, Premen
• Religions of India in Practice. (book reviews)
  by Allen, N.J.
• Cloth That Does not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life. (book reviews)
  by Peel, J.D.Y.
• Rites of terror: emotion, metaphor and memory in Melanesian initiation cults.
  by Whitehouse, Harvey
• Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities: Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-Determination. (book reviews)
  by Caplan, Pat
• The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict. (book reviews)
  by Magnarella, Paul J.
• Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society and Language. (book reviews)
  by Knight, John
• Chasseurs d'ivoire: une historie du royaume yeke du Shaba. (book reviews)
  by Vansina, J.
• Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca. (book reviews)
  by Sillar, W.
• The 'berdache'/'two-spirit': a comparison of anthropological and native constructions of gendered identities among the Northern Athapaskans.
  by Goulet, Jean-Guy A.
• Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism. (book reviews)
  by Anderson, Myrdene
• Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual. (book reviews)
  by Barnes, R.H.
• Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. (book reviews)
  by Littlewood, Roland
• Geography and Empire. (book reviews)
  by Skinner, Jonathan
• Ceramics and Artifacts from Excavations in the Copan Residential Zone. (book reviews)
  by Fowler, William R.
• A kernel of doubt. (agnosticism)
  by Goody, J.
• Territory, Pastoralists, and Livestock: Resource Control Among the Kisongo Maasai. (book reviews)
  by Rigby, Peter
• Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia. (book reviews)
  by Lipset, David
• Diagnosing America: Anthropology and Public Engagement. (book reviews)
  by Forrest, John
• Evolutionary Archaeology: Methodological Issues. (book reviews)
  by Skibo, James M.
• War and society in Sepik New Guinea.
  by Roscoe, Paul B.
• Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan. (book reviews)
  by Makris, G.
• Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa. (book reviews)
  by Hewlett, Barry
• Annual Bulletin of the Workshop for Anthropology and Communication, vol. 1. (book reviews)
  by Stewart, Michael
• Latah in South-East Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. (book reviews)
  by A.B., Shamsul
• Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java. (book reviews)
  by Kipp, Rita Smith
• Behavioral Archaeology: First Principles. (book reviews)
  by Trigger, Bruce G.
• Gene frequency clines in Europe: demic diffusion or natural selection?
  by Fix, Alan G.