New Books in Anthropology and Archaeology

Here is a list of the new books in Anthropology and Archaeology that arrived in the WSU Libraries between March and May of 2008. If you are curious about a title, click on the link to see more details about the book.

• Antell, R., & Eck, D. L. (2005). Acting on faith women's new religious activism in America. [Cambridge, Mass.?]: The Pluralism Project.
• Atkinson, P., Delamont, S., & Housley, W. (2008). Contours of culture: complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity. Walnut Creek, [CA]: AltaMira Press.
• Campbell, B. (2008). Painting for the gods: art and aesthetics of Yoruba religious murals. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press.
• Candelario, G. E. B. (2007). Black behind the ears: Dominican racial identity from museums to beauty shops. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Carsten, J. (2007). Ghosts of memory: essays on remembrance and relatedness. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
• Edgecomb, D., Ahmed, M. M. A., & Özel, C. (2007). A fire in my heart: Kurdish tales. World folklore series. Westport CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Emberley, J. (2007). Defamiliarizing the aboriginal: cultural practices and decolonization in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Fabian, J. (2007). Memory against culture: arguments and reminders. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Fagan, B. M. (2007). Discovery!: unearthing the new treasures of archaeology. New York: Thames & Hudson.
• Gardner, A. (2007). An archaeology of identity: soldiers and society in late Roman Britain. Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Walnut Creek, Calif: Left Coast Press.
• Haase, D. (2008). The Greenwood encyclopedia of folktales and fairy tales. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
• Hayase, S. (2007). Mindanao ethnohistory beyond nations: Maguindanao, Sangir, and Bagobo societies in east maritime Southeast Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
• Hewlett, B. S., & Hewlett, B. L. (2007). Ebola, culture, and politics: the anthropology of an emerging disease. Case studies on contemporary social issues. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education.
• Hurcombe, L. (2007). Archaeological artefacts as material culture. London: Routledge.
• Ikeuchi, K., & Miyazaki, D. (2008). Digitally archiving cultural objects. New York: Springer.
• Kirch, P. V., Rallu, J.-L., & Mieth, A. (2007). The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 116 (4), 466.
• MacGonagle, E. (2007). Crafting identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 30. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
• Meyers, E. M., Edwards, D. R., & McCollough, C. T. (2007). The archaeology of difference: gender, ethnicity, class and the "other" in antiquity : studies in honor of Eric M. Meyers. The annual of the American schools of oriental research, v. 60/61. Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research.
• Molloy, M. (2008). On creating a usable culture: Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• Pearsall, D. M. (2008). Encyclopedia of archaeology. San Diego, Calif: Elsevier/Academic Press.
• Price, S. (2007). Paris primitive: Jacques Chirac's museum on the Quai Branly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Rabinow, P. (2008). Marking time: on the anthropology of the contemporary. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Reitz, E. J., Newsom, L. A., & Scudder, S. J. (1996). Case studies in environmental archaeology. Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology. New York: Plenum Press.
• Rivière, P. (2007). A history of Oxford anthropology. Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 15. New York: Berghahn Books.
• Rothstein, F. (2007). Globalization in rural Mexico: three decades of change. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Saidel, B. A., & Steen, E. J. v. d. (2007). On the fringe of society: archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives on pastoral and agricultural societies. BAR international series, 1657. Oxford, England: Archaeopress.
• Salter, F. K. (2008). Emotions in command: biology, bureaucracy, and cultural evolution. New Brunswick: Transaction.
• Shukla, P. (2008). The grace of four moons: dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Stewart, P. J., & Strathern, A. (2008). Exchange and sacrifice. Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
• Tattersall, I. (2008). The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE. The new Oxford world history. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Thornton, T. F. (2008). Being and place among the Tlingit. Culture, place, and nature. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• Trawick, M. (2007). Enemy lines: childhood, warfare, and play in Batticaloa. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Wilkinson, R. H. (2008). Egyptology today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Winland, D. N. (2007). We are now a nation: Croats between 'home' and 'homeland'. Anthropological horizons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Wiseman, B. (2007). Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics. Ideas in context, 85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Woodworth, P. (2008). The Basque country: a cultural history. Landscapes of the imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.