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Reviews the book "The Unexpected Rebellion: Ethnic Activism in Contemporary France," by William R. Beer.

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Gilbert Herdt (Ed.)‐ Berkeley and Los Angeles: University or California Press. 1984. xvii + 409 pp. Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Shirley Brice Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. 421 pp. £ 25.00. Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High‐caste Women in Nepal. Lynn Bennett. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. xiii + 353 pp. Riligiöst Funktionsträger in Nuristan. Jürcen Frembgen. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissen‐schaftsverlag, 1983. xx+195 pp., diagrams, maps, bibliography, index. Lakota Belief and Ritual. James R. Walker. Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. xxix + 329 pp. $ 21.50. A Special Caste? Tamil Women of Sri Lanka. ElSE Skjønsberg. London: Zed Press, 1982. iii+143 pp. Old‐Timers and New‐Comers: Politics and Ethnicity in a Sudanese Community. Sharif Harir. Bergen: African Savannah Studies, Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology, No. 29. 1983. viii+ 134 pp. Trends in Nordic Tradition Research. Studia Fen‐nica 27. Lauri Honko and Pekka Laaksonen (eds). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1983. 260 pp. Kitchen Table Society. Marianne Gullestad. Oslo: Universitets Forlaget. 1984. Indonesia and Malaysia: Scandinavian Studies in Contemporary Society. Thommy Svensson and Per Sørensson (eds). Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Studies on Asian Topics No. 5, London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1983, 282 pages. Culture History and African Anthropology: a Century of Research in Germany and Austria. Jorgenzwer‐Nemann. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 6. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsa‐liensis, 1983. 170 pp., figures, bibliography, index. Managing Culture Contact: The Organisation of Swedish Immigration Policy. Morris Aaron Fred. Eifo English Series Report No 6. Stockholm: Commission for Immigrant Research, 1983. iii + 129 pp. Evil Eye or Bacteria: Turkish Migrant Women and Swedish Health Care. Lisbeth Sachs. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology No. 12, 1983. xx + 257 pp. The Traveller Gypsies. Judith Okely. Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 254, Index. Glossary. Nuristani Buildings. Lennart Edelberg. Jutlan‐dic Archaeological Publications XVIII. 1984, Aarhus: Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, Moesgård. xxvii + 223 pp., map. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Maori Origins and Migrations. The Genesis of Some Pakeha Myths and Legends. Sorrenson. M.P.K. 1979. Auckland University Press. 102 pp. £ 4.50. Sikhs in England: The Development of a Migrant Community. A.W. Helweg. Delhi: Oxford University Press 1979. xi + 175 pp. and illustrations. Human Adaptability: An Introduction of Ecological Anthropology. Emilio F. Moran. Duxbury Press. North Scituate, Massachusetts. 1979. xii + 404 pp. Give and Take: Exchange in Wola Society. Paul Sillitoe. Australian National University Press. Canberra, Australia and London, England. 1979. 301 pp. Die Geschichte von Sawā (Äthiopien) 1700–1865; nach dem Tārika Nagaśt des Belāttēn Gēta Heruy Walda Sellāsē. Asfa‐Wossen Asserate. Studien zur Kulturkunde. Franz Steiner Verlag. Wiesbaden. 1980. xvi + 165 pp. North to Another Country: the Formation of a Suryoyo Community in Sweden, Ulf Björklund. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology No. 9, 1981. 192 pp. The Effects of Acculturation on Eskimo Music of Cumberland Peninsula. Maija M. Lutz. Ottawa: National Museum of Man Mercury Series No. 41. 1978. xiii + 158 pp. Eskimo Economics: An Aspect of Culture Change at Rankin Inlet. William Hugh Jansen II. Ottawa: National Museum of Man Mercury Series No. 46. 1979. vii + 152 pp. Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages. Jacques Le Goff. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago & London. 1980. xvi + 384 pp. Culture in Comparative and Evolutionary Perspective: E.B. Tylor and the Making of Primitive Culture. Joan Leopold. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1980. 183 pp. DM85,‐ (paperback). Persistent Ceremonialism: The Plains Cree and Saulteaux. Koozma J. Tarasoff. National Museum of Man, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 69, Ottawa, 1980. viii + 247 pp., 5 diagrams, 92 plates. Free distrubution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

London Patidars: a Case Study in Urban Ethnicity. Harald Tambs‐Lyche. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1980. 151 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. £ 12.50. Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages, and Cultures of 172 Western American Indian Tribes. Joseph G. Jorgensen. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company. 1980. xi + 673 pp., 286 maps and figures. £ 29.50. Minahasa Civilization: A Tradition of Change. Wil Lundstrom‐Burghoorn. Gothenburg studies in Social Anthropology — 2. 1981. 260 pp. On the Frontier of Change: Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania. William Arens. The University of Michigan Press. Anthropology Series. Ann Arbor 1979. xii+150 pp. Five Essays on the Study of Pastoralists and the Development of Pastoralism. Johan Helland. Bergen: Sosialantropo‐logisk Institut, Occasional Paper No. 20. 1980. viii + 214 pp. Warfare among East African Herders. Katsuyoshi Fukui and David Turton (eds.). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. 1979. xi + 225 pp. Family, Labour and Trade in Western Kenya. Per Kongstad, Mette Mönsted. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. Uppsala. 1980. 186 pp. Ujamma Na Dini: A Study of Some Aspects of Society and Religion in Tanzania, 1961–1977. David Westerlund. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. 1980. 198 pp. The Hidden Face of Eve—Women in the Arab World. Nawal El Saadawi. London: Zed Press. 1980. XVI + 212 pp. Hb £ 8.95, Pb £ 2.95. Life Among the Poor in Cairo. Unni Wikan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1980. ix+ 173 pp. and illustrations. New Guinea Gardens. A Study of Husbandry with Parallels in Prehistoric Europe. Axel Steensberg. Academic Press. London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, San Francisco. 1980. 222 pp. God's Ants. A Study of Atuot Religion. John W. Burton. Studia Instituti An‐thropos 37. St. Augustin: Anthropos Institute. 1981. 149 pp. Sacrifice. Edited by M. F. C. Bourdillon and Meyer Fortes. London: Academic Press. 1980. xix+ 147 pp. American Indian Environments. Ecological Issues in Native American History. Edited by Christopher Vecsey & Robert W. Venables. Syracuse University Press. New York 1980. XXV + 208 pp., $9.95. Liquidation or Consolidation of Indigenous Technology: A Study of the Changing Conditions of Production of Village Slack‐smiths in Tanzania. Jens Müller. Aalborg University Press, 1980. 215 pp. Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World. William Bascom. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1980. vii, 790 pp. $22.50. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book `Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation,' edited by Sue Jones and Nici Nelson.

Reviews the book "Ambiguous Ethnicity: Interracial Families in London," by Susan Benson.

Reviews the book `Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity,' by Ulrich Beck and translated by Mark Ritter.