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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]

Reviews the book "Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians," edited by Raymond B. Hames and William T. Vickers.

"The Art of Medical Anthropology," edited by Sjaak Van Der Geest and Adri Rienks.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'The Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boundaries in Conflict,' edited by Victoria A. Goddard, Josep R. Llobera and Cris Shore.

Reviews the book 'Development Anthropology,' by Glynn Cochrane.

Reviews the book "The King in Every Man," by Richard N. Henderson.

Reviews several non-fiction books on anthropology. 'Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts...Showbiz,' by James A. Boon; 'Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays,' by Johannes Fabian; 'Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present,' edited by Richard G. Fox.

Reviews the book "Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology," by Mary Douglas.

The article reviews the book "Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions and Trends," by Joan Vincent.

In the back cover of this book, Dame Marilyn Strathern's glowing commendation reads that, 'It is an extraordinary comment on the versatility and energy of twentieth-century socio-cultural anthropology'. Moebius Anthropology: Essays on the Forming of Form: by Don Handelman, edited by Matan Shapiro and Jackie Feldman, New York & Oxford, Berghahn, 2021, xi + 351 pp., $149/£111, ISBN: 978-1-78920-854-2 It is this paradoxical dynamic which ultimately shapes Handelman's conception of the Moebius as a heuristic device. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives," edited by H. Thrane, T. Otto and H. Vandkilde.

Reviews the book 'The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the North West Frontier,' by Mukulika Banerjea.

The article reviews the exhibition "Curricular Connections: The College/University Art Museum as Site for Teaching and Learning" on August 12, 2009.

The article reviews the book "Métamorphoses de la parené," by Maurice Godelier.

This article reviews two recent books that both address the relationship between policy and practice internal to the aid apparatus. Both volumes aspire towards an ethnographic approach to the development apparatus, and give particular attention to the policy-practice nexus of development in relation to the embraced idioms of participation and ownership. Cultivating Development provides a strong ethnographic account of these issues with regard to a particular development project in India, and argues that policy follows practice rather than directing it; in other words, established practices gain legitimacy. The Aid Effect follows a similar trajectory in the study of multilateral development, and argues that recent changes in international development comprise a new aid framework with new forms of governance relations between donor and recipient institutions. Both volumes build an argument that participation and ownership have not altered the aid hierarchy. Rather, they serve to maintain established patrimonial relations between donor and recipient institutions through new forms of control and governance, akin to governmentality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews several books on anthropology. "Saami History Until 1750," by Lars Ivar Hansen and Bjørnar Olsen; "The Many Faces of the North: Encountering the North Cultural Geography, International Relations and Northern Landscapes," edited by Frank Möller and Samu Pehkonen; "Ancient Harp Seal Hunters of Disko Bay: Subsistence and Settlement at the Saqqaq Culture Site Qeqertasussuk (2400-1400 BC), West Greenland," by Morten Meldgaard.

Reviews the book "Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia," by Allaine Cerwonka.

Reviews the books "Histories and Stories From Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico," by Aida R. Hernandez Castillo, translated by Martha Pou, "Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization," by June C. Nash and "Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico," by Lynn Stephen.

Reviews the books "Death, Ritual and Belief. The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites," 2nd edition by Douglas J. Davies and "The Cue for Passion: Grief and Its Political Uses," by Gail Holst-Warhaft.

Reviews the books "The Muse of History and the Science of Culture" and "Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History," by Robert Carneiro.

Reviews several books on anthropology. "Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change," edited by Chia Lin Sien; "Two is Enough: Family Planning in Indonesia Under the New Order: 1968-1998," edited by Anke Hiehof and Firman Lubis; "Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After," by B. M. Knauft.

Reviews several books on anthropology and the artifacts of medical practice. "The Social Lives of Medicines," by Susan Reynolds White, Sjaak Van der Geest, and Anita Hardon; "Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'," by Daniel Moerman; "Living and Working With the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry," edited by Margaret Lock, Allan Young and Alberto Cambrosio.

Reviews the books "Our Forest of Kwara'ae: Our Life in Solomon Islands and the Things Growing in Our Home" and "A Solomon Islands Chronicle, As Told by Samuel Alasa'a" by Michael Kwa'ioloa and Ben Burt.

Reviews the books "Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology," edited by Peter Pels and Oscar Salemink and "A Social History of Anthropology in the United States," by Thomas C. Patterson.

Reviews the books by Margaret Mead "The Mountain Arapesh," "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" and "Male and Female."

Reviews the books "Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia," by Charles Keil, Angeliki Keil, Dick Blau and Steven Feld, "A False Dawn: My Life As a Gypsy Woman in Slovakia," by Ilona Lacková and "Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory From Pushkin to Post-Socialism," by Alaina Lemon.

Reviews the books "An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology," by Roy Wagner and "Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After," by Bruce Knauft.

Reviews the books on Latin American anthropology. "Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina," by Eduardo Archetti; "Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America," edited by Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux; "The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil," by Darcy Ribeiro.

Krippendorf's Tribe . Directed by Todd Holland; produced by Larry Brezner; starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, and Lily Tomlin; screen-play by Charlie Peters, based on a book by Frank Parkin; cinematography, Dean Cundey; Music, Bruce Broughton. Distributed in the U.S. by Touchstone Pictures. Length, 1 hr. 35 mins.; MPAA classification, PG-13 (profanity, sexual situations). U.S. release date, 27 Feb. 1998. " Krippendorf's Tribe represents one of Hollywood's first ever adventures into the sexy, glamorous, ruthlessly competitive world of big league anthropology, but the disappointing results hardly suggest a speedy follow-up expedition." 1 "If I were an anthropologist, this film would insult me immensely." 2 "Anthropology may never recover." 3 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews several books on anthropology. 'They Live, We Lie: Getting on With Anthropology,' by Peter Metcalf; 'The Problem of Context,' edited by Roy Billey; 'An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology,' by Peter M. Burns.

Reviews the books 'Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa,' edited by Susan Keech McIntosh and 'Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia. An Essay in Historical Anthropology,' by Patrick Vinton Kirch and Roger C. Green.