Book reviews

Mattison Mines. 1994. Public Faces, Private Voices: Community and Individuality in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, x + 232 pp. Robert P. Weller. 1994. Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen. Houndmills/ London: The Macmillan Press, Ltd. Linda W. L. Young. 1994. Crosstalk and Culture in Sino‐American Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xix + 215 pp. Peter Stromberg. 1993. Language and Self‐transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xvi + 148 pp. Marjo Buitelaar. 1993. Fasting and Feasting in Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan. Oxford/Providence: Berg. 203 pp. Ingrid Rudie. 1994. Visible Women in East Coast Malay Society: On the Reproduction of Gender in Ceremonial, School and Market Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, xi+ 337 PP. Geoff Dench. 1994. The Frog, the Prince and the Problem of Men. London: Neanderthal Books, vi + 276 pp. N. G. Butlin. 1993. Economics and the Dreamtimes: A Hypothetical History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 252 pp. Robert Paine. 1994. Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism. Washington/London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 232 pp. Vesa‐Matti Loske, 1995. The Village that Vanished: The Roots of Erosion in a Tanzanian Village. Stockholm: University Department of Human Geography.