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 Serena Nanda and Joan Gregg Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2009 Reviewed by Sharla Blank   The purpose of this book, The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder, is to introduce readers to gendered relations in India …

Susan Dewey Syracuse University Press, 2008 Reviewed by Julie M. Skogsbergh, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Power is necessarily both about seeing and being seen, and the two interact in complex ways in order to produce even more intricate hierarchies (99). Beauty …

Susan Greenhalgh Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 Reviewed by Stacy Lockerbie Just One Child offers its readers a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the process of scientific policymaking and the one-child policy in China. In this text, Susan Greenhalgh …

Jackie J. Kim and Sonia Ryang, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 Reviewed by Lisa S. Chaudhari Author Jackie Kim in Hidden Treasures: Lives of First-Generation Korean Women in Japan presents a rare perspective on the lives Korean women who have …

Parin Dossa Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 Reviewed by Onur Kovanci Dr. Parin Dossa, a Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, British Colombia treats her readers to another intriguing and insightful book after her first book, Politics and …