Category Archives: Book Reviews – Volume 39 Issue 4 (November 2012)

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Roberto Abadie.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Donna M. Goldstein
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_1.x/abstract
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Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. Susan Greenhalgh.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Arianne M. Gaetano
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_2.x/abstract
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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. John Postill.

Published: November 6, 2012
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_3.x/abstract
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Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Elaine A. Peña.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Hillary Kaell
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_4.x/abstract
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Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. David H. Price.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Ira Bashkow
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_5.x/abstract
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Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness in Contemporary Africa. Sandra Evers, Catrien Notermans, and Erik van Ommering, eds.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Philip L. Kilbride
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_6.x/abstract
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Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994. Donald L. Donham. Santu Mofokeng, photographs.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Anne-Maria Makhulu
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_7.x/abstract
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Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London. Maritsa Poros.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Candice Lowe Swift
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_8.x/abstract
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Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico. Debra Lattanzi Shutika.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Debra Schleef
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_9.x/abstract
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Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya. Elliot Fratkin.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Brandon D. Lundy
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_10.x/abstract
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Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam. Kirsten W. Endres.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Lauren Meeker
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_11.x/abstract
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Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832. Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke, eds.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Seth W. Mallios
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_12.x/abstract
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Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine. Carole H. Browner and H. Mabel Preloran.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Kaja Finkler
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_13.x/abstract
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Finding Grace in the Concert Hall: Community and Meaning among Springsteen Fans. Linda K. Randall.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Paul D. Greene
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_14.x/abstract
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So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Patrick Anderson.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Robert L Canfield
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_15.x/abstract
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In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. Li Zhang.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Vanessa L. Fong
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_16.x/abstract
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In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility. Dinah Rajak.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Jessica Smith Rolston
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_17.x/abstract
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The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness. E. Paul Durrenberger, ed.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Cameron B. Wesson
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_18.x/abstract
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Fighting like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings. Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Tom Greaves
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_19.x/abstract
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Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique. Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow, eds.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Richard Handler
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_20.x/abstract
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Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria. Gerald W. Creed.

Published: November 6, 2012
By Yuson Jung
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_21.x/abstract
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Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Anne M. Rademacher.

Published: November 5, 2012
By Shubhra Gururani
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_22.x/abstract
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Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile. Magnus Course.

Published: November 5, 2012
By Brent Metz
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_23.x/abstract
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From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea. Paige West.

Published: November 5, 2012
By Rebecca Mari Meuninck
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_24.x/abstract
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Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy. Edith Turner.

Published: November 5, 2012
By F. Allan Hanson
See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_25.x/abstract
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