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Through perceptive analysis of British case materials, Daniel Miller and his colleagues enlarge theoretical discourse and the understanding of a pervasive consumer behavior that is as much maligned as it is undertheorized--shopping. The authors insist on the relevance of ethnographic methods and constructs for the analysis of this contemporary, Western cultural form. These authors affirm the enduring importance of what some term the 'subversive science' for theory generation. These works exemplify the ethnographic imagination at its best. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book, 'The Ethnographer's Method,' by Alex Stewart, comprises a very useful update of the scientific characteristics of ethnography, especially those that differentiate it from quantitative research and other forms of qualitative research. In this regard, it will be useful to nonethnographers who are frustrated by what they inappropriately perceive to be ethnographers' relatively cavalier attitude toward methodology. The book is also an unapologetic defense of ethnography's special strengths. Finally, it focuses attention on those aspects of ethnography least understood and most poorly practiced by ethnographic neophytes: data analysis and interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food From Buccaneers to Ecotourists," by Richard Wilk.

The article reviews the book "Consumption and Its Consequences," by Daniel Miller.

Reviews the books `A Theory of Shopping,' by Daniel Miller and `Shopping, Place, and Identity,' by Daniel Miller, Peter Jackson, Nigel Thrift, Beverly Holbrook and Michael Rowlands.

Reviews the book `Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century,' edited by Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack.

Reviews the book `Marketing and Modernity,' by Marianne Elisabeth Lien.