Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999

Book Reviews


Financing Change: The Financial Community, Eco-efficiency, and Sustainable Development. By S. Schmidheiny and F. Zorraqu’n, with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (1996) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Reviewed by Jerry A. Moles

Jerry A. Moles

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 149-153

Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability, by Milton M.R. Freeman, Lyudmila Bogolovskaya, Richard A. Caulfied, Ingmar Egede, Igor I. Krupnik, and Marc G. Stevenson. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (1998). Reviewed by Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda

Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 154-156

At the Crossroads: Mexico and U.S. Immigration Policy, edited by Frank D. Bean, Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Bryan R. Roberts, Sidney Wientraub Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (1997). Reviewed by James Loucky

James Loucky

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 157-160

Tobacco Culture. Farming Kentucky’s Burley Belt, by John van Willigen and Susan Eastwood, Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, (1998). Reviewed by Susan L. Andreatta

Susan L. Andreatta

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 160-162

The Cultures of Globalization, Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, editors, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. Reviewed by C.A. Bowers

C. A. Bowers

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 165-168

Calculating Risks: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy, by James T. Hamilton and W. Kip Viscusi, 1999, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Reviewed by Douglas L. Anderton

Douglas L. Anderton

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 169-172

Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition, edited by C. M. Hann. 1998. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Stephen Gudeman

Stephen Gudeman

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 172-176

Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform, by Jean C Oi Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley (1999). Reviewed by David S G Goodman

David S.G. Goodman

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 176-178

Business, Commerce, and Social Responsibility: Beyond Agenda. By Richard H. Reeves-Ellington and Adele Anderson. 1997. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Reviewed by Daniel P. Dolan

Daniel P. Dolan

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 179-181

Which Home Do We Protect? The Challenge of Protecting Endangered Species and Property. A Review Essay on Private Property and the Endangered Species Act, edited by Jason F. Shogren. (1998). Austin: University of Texas Press. Reviewed by Richard Castelnuovo

Richard Castelnuovo

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 181-185

The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica, by Sterling Evans (1999) University of Texas Press: Austin.

Susan Stonich

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 186-188

Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach, Daniel Miller, Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 1997. Reviewed by Josiah McC. Heyman

Josiah McC. Heyman

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 188-190

The National Environmental Policy Act: An Agenda for the Future, by Lynton Keith Caldwell, Indiana University; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Diane Austin

Diane Austin

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 190-192

On China’s Villages, Rural industries and Technology Development: A Review Essay with Special Reference to Technology Development in Rural Industries. A Study of China’s Collectives. Reviewed by By Dipak R. Pant

Dipak R. Pant

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 193-199

Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting Environmental Policy, by Phillip F. Cramer, Westport, CT: Praeger Books (1998). Reviewed by Gregory V. Button

Gregory V. Button

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 199-201

The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective, by Manus I. Midlarsky (1999), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Reviewed by Patricia Kachuk

Patricia Kachuk

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 201-203

Remaking Micronesia: Discourses on Development In a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982. By David Hanlon. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, (1998). Reviewed by E. Robert Statham, Jr.

E. Robert Statham, Jr.

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 203-206

Recent Books on Environment, Conflict and Security

Richard A. Matthew

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 206-213

How to Create and Nurture a Nature Center in Your Community by Brent Evans and Carolyn Chipman-Evans, (1998) Austin: University of Texas Press. Reviewed by Matthew Oppenheim

Matthew Oppenheim

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 213-216

Adaptation to Malaria: The Interaction of Biology and Culture. Edited by Lawrence S. Greene and Maria Enrica Danubio. New York: Gordon and Breach. 1997. Review by Kevin M. Kelly

Kevin M. Kelly

1999-11-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 216-218