Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999

Articles

Conservation and Controversy in the Karakoram: Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan

  • Are Knudsen

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 1-30

“The Politics of Place”: Domestic and Diplomatic Priorities of the Colorado River Salinity Control Act (1974)

  • Evan R. Ward

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 31-56

Cubagua’s Pearl-Oyster Beds: The First Depletion of a Natural Resource Caused by Europeans in the American Continent

  • Aldemaro Romero
  • Susanna Chilbert
  • M.G. Eisenhart

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 57-78

Balancing the Books on Conservation and Development: Transient Corporate Investment in Golfito, Costa Rica

  • Jane W. Gibson

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 79-101

Book Reviews

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East by edited by Lila Abu-Lughod. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1998). Review Essay by Fadwa El Guindi

  • Fadwa El Guindi

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 1-10

Encounters with Nature: Essays by Paul Shepard, edited by Florence R. Shepard, with an Introduction by David Petersen. Washington DC: Island Press (1999). Reviewed by Eric Katz

  • Eric Katz

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 11-15

Community and Political Thought Today, edited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers (1998). Reviewed by Robert Bradley

  • Robert Bradley

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 15-18

Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies, by Pat Townsend. Mayfield, IL: Waveland Press (2000). Reviewed by Edward Liebow

  • Edward Liebow

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 18-21

Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery, by Mary C. Comerio (1999) Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed by Susanna M. Hoffman

  • Susanna M. Hoffman

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 21-27

Human Demography and Disease, by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan (1998) New York: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Robert D Hoppa

  • Robert D. Hoppa

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 27-29

Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements, by Fred Rose. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2000). Reviewed by Vincent Lyon-Callo

  • Vincent Lyon-Callo

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 29-32

Peasant Dreams & Market Politics. Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905. by Jeffrey Burds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (1998). Reviewed by Don K. Rowney

  • Don K. Rowney

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 32-35

Nationalism, Localism, and the Role of Intervention: A View of Rural Mexico Rural Revolt in Mexico: U. S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics, edited by Daniel Nugent, foreword by William C. Roseberry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (1998). Reviewed by David Stea

  • David Stea

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 35-40

Crossing Borders. Changing Social Identities in Southern Mexico, by Kimberly M. Grimes. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press (1998). Reviewed by Pablo Vila

  • Pablo Vila

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 40-45

International Management of the Environment: Pollution Control in North America, by Emmett N. Lombard. Westport, CT: Praeger (1999). Reviewed by Glen Atkinson

  • Glen Atkinson

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 45-46

Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in Honduras, by Kees Jansen (1998). Reviewed by Michael Paolisso

  • Michael Paolisso

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 47-49

Chinnagounder’s Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship (1999), by Deane Curtin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Reviewed by Dave Howland

  • Dave Howland
  • Rob Robertson

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 49-51

Consequences of Cultivar Diffusion. Leonard Plotnicov and Richard Scaglion, editors. Pittsburgh: Ethnology Monographs, no. 17, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh (1999). Reviewed by Laurence C. Becker

  • Laurence C. Becker

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 52-55

Requiem for Nature, by John Terborgh (1999) Washington, DC: Island Press. Reviewed by Kathryn L. Michaud

  • Kathryn L. Michaud

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 55-57

Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities, edited by Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders (1999). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Michèle D. Dominy

  • Michèle D. Dominy

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 57-60

Middle Eastern Women and the Invisible Economy, Richard A. Lobban, Jr., editor (1998), Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. Reviewed by Paula Holmes-Eber

  • Paula Holmes-Eber

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 60-62

The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and The Promise of Direct Legislation (1999), by Elisabeth R. Gerber. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Luther P. Gerlach

  • Luther P. Gerlach

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 62-64

Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia, by Russell J. Dalton, Paula Garb, Nicholas P. Lovrich, John C. Pierce and John M. Whitely. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999. Review by Michael D. Mehta

  • Michael D. Mehta

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 65-68

Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, by Asayehgn Desta, Westport, CT: Praeger (1999). Reviewed by Robert K. Schaeffer

  • Robert K. Schaeffer

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 68-70

The Ultimate Resource - 2 (revised edition). By Julian L. Simon. 1996. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Peter Harries-Jones

  • Peter Harries-Jones

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 70-75

Beyond Borders: Remaking Cultural Identities in the New East and Central Europe. Edited by Lazlo Kurti and Juliet Langman (1997) Boulder, CO, Westview Press. Reviewed by E. L. Cerroni-Long

  • E. L. Cerroni-Long

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 75-78

A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal 1720-1994. By Adrian Adams and Jaabe So, 1996. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Olga F. Linares

  • Olga F. Linares

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 78-82

Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization, by Steven Yearley. London: SAGE Publications (1996). Reviewed by Peter S. Wenz

  • Peter S. Wenz

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 82-84

Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience. Oran R. Young, editor. Cambridge: The MIT Press (1998). Reviewed by John H. Bodley

  • John H. Bodley

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 85-87

The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women ’s Eyes, Edited by Elaine Enarson and Betty Hen Morrow, Westport CT: Praeger Press, 1998. Reviewed by Pamela S. Showalter

  • Pamela S. Showalter

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 87-91

Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences, by Mary Douglas and Steven Ney, Berkeley: University of California Press, (1998). Reviewed by Karen A. Curtis

  • Karen A. Curtis

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 92-94

High technology and low-income communities: Prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology, Donald Schön, Bish Sanyal, and William Mitchell, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, (1999). Reviewed By David Hakken

  • David Hakken

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 94-99

Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Edited by Robert V Percival and Dorothy C. Alevizatos, Temple University Press, 1997. Reviewed by Lynn A. Robbins

  • Lynn A. Robbins

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 99-101

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia by Philippe Descola. 1994 (paperback 1996). Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. Reviewed by William H. Fisher

  • William H. Fisher

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 101-106

Militant Labor in the Philippines, by Lois A. West. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Reviewed by Patricio N. Abinales

  • Patricio N. Abinales

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 107-110

Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability by Norman Myers (1996) Washington, DC: Island Press. Reviewed by K. Mark Leek

  • K. Mark Leek

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 110-112

Envisioning Ecotopia: The U.S. Green Movement and the Politics of Radical Social Change, by Kenn Kassman, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Reviewed by Bron Taylor

  • Bron Taylor

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 113-114

Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt, New Haven: Yale University Press (1997). Reviewed by Charles J. Stevens

  • Charles J. Stevens

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 115-119

Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry, by Mark Moberg, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Reviewed by Anne Sutherland

  • Anne Sutherland

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 119-121

Growth Management for a Sustainable Future: Ecological Sustainability as the New Growth Management Focus for the 21st Century, by Gabor Zovanyi, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. Reviewed by Holly Stallworth

  • Holly Stallworth

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 121-123

Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978, by Thomas Raymond Wellock. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Reviewed by Paula Garb

  • Paula Garb

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 123-125

The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. By Lawrence S. Grossman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (1998). Reviewed by Mark Moberg

  • Mark Moberg

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 125-128

Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata. by Janet L. Finn. Berkeley: University of California Press (1998). Reviewed by Judy Root Aulette

  • Judy Root Aulette

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 128-130

The Ecology of Practice: Studies of Food Crop Production in Sub-Saharan West Africa, A. Endre Nyerges, editor, Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology series, Volume 12, Gordon and Breach Publishers; 1997. Reviewed by Wendy Wilson Fall

  • Wendy Wilson Fall

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 130-132

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives, edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Peter J. Brown. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1997. Reviewed by Barbara Herr Harthorn

  • Barbara Herr Harthorn

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 132-135

U.S. Land and Natural Resources Policy: A Public Issues Handbook. Gary C. Bryner. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Reviewed by Robert H. Winthrop

  • Robert H Winthrop

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 136-138

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

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 139-140

Living Under Contract. Edited by Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (1994). Reviewed by John Magistro

  • John Magistro

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 141-144

Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore. By Nancy Lord. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997. Reviewed by Craig Mishler

  • Craig Mishler

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 145-146

The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. By Anne Sutherland. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1998. Reviewed by Laurie Kroshus Medina

  • Laurie Kroshus Medina

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1999 • 146-148