Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000

Articles


Changes in Forestry Policy, Production, and the Environment in Northern Mexico: 1960-2000

Thomas Weaver

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 1-18

El Proyecto del Fondo Mundial para la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente (Gef) en Cuatro Areas Naturales Protegidas de Mexico y su Impacto Social

Salomón Nahmad

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 19-42

Lluvia Enojada-Tyoo Kuasi': The Political Ecology of Forest Extraction in the Sierra Chatina, Oaxaca, Mexico

Robert M. Emanuel and James B. Greenberg

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 43-64

“Pink Gold Rush:” Shrimp Aquaculture, Sustainable Development, and the Environment in Northwestern Mexico

María L. Cruz-Torres

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 63-90

Book Reviews


From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays, by Peter T. Bauer, with an introduction by Amartya Sen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2000). Reviewed by Raymond F. Mikesell

Raymond F. Mikesell

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 1

Drowning the Dream: California’s Water Choices at the Millennium, by David Carle, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. Reviewed by William Blomquist

William Blomquist

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 2-4

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Aviva Chomsky and Aldo LauriaSantiago. Durham and London: Duke University Press (1998). Reviewed by Douglas Midgett

Douglas Midgett

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 4-6

Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa, edited by John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1999). Reviewed by Edgar V. Winans

Edgar V. Winans

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 6-8

Nature and Culture in the Andes, by Daniel W. Gade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (1999). Reviewed by Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 8-10

Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction, by Herbert Gintis. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000). Reviewed by Edward Castronova

Edward Castronova

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 10-11

Environment and Ethnicity in India 1200-1991, by Sumit Guha. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (1999). Reviewed by Dr. Vinita Damodaran

Vinita Damodaran

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 12-17

Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary, by Richard F. Hamilton, Westport, CT: Praeger (2000). Reviewed by Bradley J. Macdonald

Bradley J. Macdonald

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 17-20

Reclaiming the Environmental Debate. The Policies of Health in a Toxic Culture Edited by Richard Hofrichter, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Dennis A. Frate

Dennis A. Frate

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 20-22

American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920, by Brian C. Hosmer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Reviewed by Alice Littlefield

Alice Littlefield

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 22-24

Who Owns America? Social Conflict over Property Rights, Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (1998). Reviewed by R. Quentin Grafton

R. Quentin Grafton

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 24-25

Sustainability And The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Theoretical Reorientation. Edited by Egon Becker and Thomas Jahn, London and New York: Zed Books (1999). Reviewed by Jon Barnett

Jon Barnett

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 26-27

Why Do Expressive Campaigns Succeed and Fail? A Review Essay on Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements, by Ronald T. Libby. New York: Columbia University Press (1998). Reviewed by Archon Fung

Archon Fung

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 28-30

Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation, By Lisa L. Martin, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (2000). Reviewed by Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart

Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 30-32

Towards Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. Edited by Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft (1999). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Reviewed by John Schelhas

John Schelhas

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 33-34

Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature. By Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2000. Reviewed by David Zurick

David Zurick

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 34-36

The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India, by Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Lynn Vincentnathan

Lynn Vincentnathan

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 36-38

Gender, Law, and Resistance in India, by Erin P. Moore. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1998). Reviewed by Helen Vallianatos

Helen Vallianatos

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 39-40

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa, by John F. Oates, Berkeley: University of California Press (1999). Reviewed by Jefferson S. Hall

Jefferson S. Hall

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 40-41

Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh. An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending, by Aminur Rahman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Review by Geeta Chowdhry

Geeta Chowdhry

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 42-44

Warmth of the Welcome: The Social and Economic Causes of Economic Success for Immigrants in Different Nations and Cities. By Jeffrey G. Reitz. Boulder: Westview Press (1998). Reviewed by Marilyn Fernandez

Marilyn Fernandez

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 44-45

The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State, by Pierre Rosanvallon, translated by Barbara Harshav ; with a foreword by Nathan Glazer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Reviewed by David Bartram

David Bartram

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 46-48

Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia, by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Marshall I. Goldman

Marshall I. Goldman

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 48-50

The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, by William A. Shutkin. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Stella Capek

Stella Capek

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 50-52

Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Vijoy S. Sahay

Vijoy S. Sahay

2000-12-01 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2000 • 52-54