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The article reviews the book "Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge," by Marilyn Strathern.

As this bald summary would suggest, it is a book dominated by the powerful presence of Elliot Smith, who overshadows the other members of the trio, Wood Jones and Keith. Elliot Smith was the most vigorous proponent of such a lofty role for anatomy, and his position in London meant that he was in a position to wield his formidable political skills. He was struck, however, by how far the study of anatomy in the United States and the British Empire had diverged, with the United States no longer giving the scope to gross anatomy which had been so basic to British medical education. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Anthropology of Management (INCAA Occasional Papers)," edited by Rajat Kanti Das and Ajit K. Danda.

The article reviews the book "Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American Archaeology, Ethnobotany, and Museology, Papers in Honor of Richard I. Ford," edited by Michelle Hegmon and B. Sunday Eiselt.

Reviews the book “Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and the 'World on Paper',” by Sean Hawkins.

The article reviews the book "Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology," edited by Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako.

Edward Tylor had envisioned anthropology to be comprised of ethnology and ethnography in equal parts, but today ethnography dominates the field. In this paper, we examine two reasons for the refugee status of ethnology. First, we look at the notorious "Galton effect." Second, we examine the problem of defining and using cultural units, particularly when positivistic and static theories and methods of culture have been largely discredited by anthropology. We argue against any formulaic solutions to these problems and show that for each research question one needs to reconsider the criteria for how to construct cultural units and how to ensure that the cultures under study are not merely replicas of one another. We show that previous solutions to these issues are limited because they fail to appreciate the contingent and multidimensional nature of culture. We also argue that, instead of a "Galton problem," there is actually a "Galton asset," which can be used to study historical and emergent communicative networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers,' by Charles Taylor.

Reviews the book 'Anthropology and Myth: Lectures and Papers, 1951-1982,' by Claude Levi-Strauss.