Roy Ellen - List of Book and Film Reviews

1969. Morton Fried, Marvin Harris and Robert Murphy, 'War: the anthropology of armed conflict and aggression'. Anthropology: Magazine of the Anthropology Club at the London School of Economics 3, 6-7.

1973. Lucy Mair, ‘An introduction to Social anthropology’ (second edition). British Journal of Sociology 24 (3) September, p. 390.

1973. 'Wealthy gerontocracy'. A review of Patricia Caplan, Priests and Cobblers and David Parkin, Palms, Wine and Witnesses. Times Higher Educational Supplement 6 April, p. 20.

1975. Robin Hanbury-Tenison, ‘A Pattern of Peoples: A Journey among the Tribes of the Outer Indonesian Islands’. RAIN, Royal Anthropological Institute News 11, 12

1976. Afred Gell, ‘Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries: Umeda Society, Language and Ritual’. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39 (2), p. 489.

1977. O.E. Kapita, ‘Sumba di dalam jangkauan jaman’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40 (3), 679-80.

1977. O.E. Kapita, ‘Masyarakat Sumba dan adat istiadatnya’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40 (3), 680-1.

1977. Adam Kuper, ‘Anthropologists and Anthropology: The British School 1922- 1972’. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences 15 (4), 394-5.

1977. Douglas Miles, ‘Cutlass and Crescent Moon: A Case Study in Social and Political Change in Outer Indonesia’, Indonesia Circle 14, 22-3.

1978. J.M. Hardjono, ‘Transmigration in Indonesia’, Indonesia Circle 15, 48-9.

1979. Claudine Friedberg and Louis Berthe, ‘Comment fut tranchée la liane celeste, et autres de literature orale Bunaq (Timor, Indonésia)’, Indonesia Circle 18, 36-8.

1980. Shirley Deane, ‘Ambon: island of spices’, Indonesia Circle 21, 62-3.

1980. Stuart A. Schlegel , ‘Tiruray subsistence: from shifting cultivation to plow agriculture’, Journal of Asian Studies 39 (4), 868-9.

1981. Hans-Dieter Evers (ed.), ‘Sociology of Southeast Asia: readings on social change and development’, Third World Quarterly 3 (4), 743-4.

1981. Joel S. Kahn, ‘Minangkabau social formations: Indonesian peasants and the world economy’, Third World Quarterly 3 (4), 740-1.

1981. James J. Fox, ‘The flow of life: essays on eastern Indonesia’, Man 16 (1), 149- 50.

1 1982. Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik (eds.), ‘The structure of folk models’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (2), 371-2.

1982. Harold C. Conklin, ‘Ethnographic atlas of Ifugao: a study of environment, culture and society in northern Luzon’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (1), 170-1.

Katrien Polman, ‘The Central Moluccas: an annotated bibliography’, Indonesia Circle 34, 51-3.

1983. Gregory L. Forth, ‘Rindi: an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2, 338-40.

1983. Tsuyoshi Kato, ‘Matriliny and migration: evolving Minangkabau traditions in Indonesia’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 46 (3), 584-5.

1983. E.M. Beekman, ‘The poison tree: selected writings of Rumphius on the natural history of the Indies’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 46(2), 399-400.

1983. Comment. The British School: a premature postscript. Review of Adam Kuper, ‘Anthropology and anthropologists: the modern British school’, RAIN (Royal Anthropological Institute Newsletter) 57, 2.

1983. J.H.M.C. Boelaars, ‘Headhunters about themselves: an ethnographic report from Irian Jaya, Indonesia’, Indonesia Circle 30, 51-2.

1983. Anthony Whitten, ‘The gibbons of Siberut’, Indonesia Circle 30 (March), 49- 50.

1983. Wil Lundström-Burghoorn, ‘Minahasan civilization: a tradition of change’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18 (1), 223-4.

1983. Ingela Gerdin, ‘The unknown Balinese: land, labour and inequality in Lombok’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18 (1), 220-1.

1983. Katrien Polman, ‘The North Moluccas: an annotated bibliography’, Indonesia Circle 30, p. 51.

1984. Jan B. Avé, Victor T. King and Joke G.W. de Wit, ‘West Kalimantan: a bibliography’, Indonesia Circle 33, 46-8.

1986. P.E. de Josselin de Jong (ed.), ‘Unity in diversity: Indonesia as a field of anthropological study’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21 (1), 155-6.

1986. A.T. Rambo, ‘Primitive polluters: Semang impact on the Malaysian tropical rain forest ecosystem’, Journal of Biogeography 13 (6), 597-98.

2 1986. M.R. Dove, ‘Swidden agriculture in Indonesia: the subsistence strategies of the Kalimantan Kantu’, Journal of Tropical Ecology 2 (2), 191-2.

1986. Victor T. King, ‘The Maloh of West Kalimantan: an ethnographic study of social inequality and social change among an Indonesian Borneo people’, Indonesia Circle 39, 42-4.

1986. Hisako Nakamura, ‘Divorce in Java: a study of the dissolution of marriage among Javanese muslims’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39 (1), 237-8.

1987. K.N. Bardsley, J.D.S. Davie and C.D. Woodroffe, ‘Coasts and tidal wetlands of the Australian monsoon region’; J.D.S. Davie. J.R.Hanley and B.C. Russell, ‘Coastal management in Northern Australia’, Journal of Biogeography 14 (2), 195-6.

1987. Signe Howell, ‘Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 50 (1), 196-7.

1987. Robert W. Hefner, ‘Hindu Javanese: Tengger tradition and Islam’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 50 (2), 422-3.

1987. Karl L. Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo and George Lovelace (eds.), ‘Cultural values and human ecology in southeast Asia’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22 (1), 202-3.

1987. Cecil H. Brown, ‘Language and living things: uniformities in folk classification and naming’, Language and Society 16, 123-30.

1988. Rodney Needham, ‘Mamboru: history and structure in a domain of north- western Sumba’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 51 (3), 611.

1988. ‘Disappearing World: the whale hunters of Lamalera’, Anthropology Today 4 (5), 23-4.

1988. Tim Ingold, ‘Evolution and social life’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 (2), 413-4.

1989. L. Betzig, M. Borgerhoff Mulder and P. Turke (eds.), ‘Human reproductive behaviour: a Darwinian perspective’, Journal of Biosocial Science 21 (3), 374-7.

1989. Bonnie M. McCay and James M. Acheson (eds.), ‘The question of the commons: the culture and ecology of communal resources’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24 (3), 542.

1989. Jennifer Alexander, ‘Trade, traders and trading in rural Java’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24 (3), 533.

1989. G. J. Knaap, ‘Kruidnagelen en christenen: de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie en de bevolking van Ambon 1656-1696’, Indonesia Circle 47-8, 64-5.

3 1990. Shelly Errington, ‘Meaning and power in a Southeast Asian realm’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2, 423-5.

1990. Veena Bhasin, ‘Himalayan ecology, transhumance and social organization: Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh’, Journal of Human Ecology 1(3), 321-2.

1990. Susan D. Russell and Clark E. Cunningham (eds.), ‘Changing lives, changing rites: ritual and social dynamics in Philippine and Indonesian uplands’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 21(1), 195-7.

1991. C.A. Gregory and J.C. Altman, ‘Observing the economy’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(1), 176.

1991. Claudine Friedberg, ‘Le savoir botanique de Bunaq: percevoir et classer dans le Haut Lamaknen (Timor, Indonésie)’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(4), 766-7.

1991. Conceptualising the unique in human ecology and evolution: review of Robert Foley ‘Another unique species: patterns in human evolutionary ecology’ and Tim Ingold, ‘The appropriation of nature: essays on human ecology and social relations’, Reviews in Anthropology 19, 145-58.

1991. Leontine E. Visser, ‘My rice field is my child: social and territorial aspects of swidden cultivation in Sahu, eastern Indonesia’, Indonesia Circle 35, 46-8.

1991. E. Douglas Lewis, ‘People of the source: the social and ceremonial order of Tana Wai Brama on Flores,’ Indonesia Circle 55, 48-50.

1992. Harald Beyer Broch, ‘Growing up agreeably: Bonerate childhood observed’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 23 (1), 173-4.

1992. Nicole Revel, ‘Fleurs de paroles: histoire naturelle Palawan’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27 (2), 437.

1992. David Hicks, ‘Kinship and religion in eastern Indonesia’, Bijdragen tot de Taal- , Land- en Volkenkunde 148 (2), 340-2.

1992. John R. Bowen, ‘Sumatran politics and poetics: Gayo history, 19000-1989’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 (3), 485-8.

1992. Frans Hüsken and Jeremy Kemp (eds), ‘Cognation and social organization in Southeast Asia’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 148 (3-4), 533-5.

1992. Jane Monnig Atkinson and Shelly Errington (eds), ‘Power and difference: gender in island southeast Asia’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60 (2), 378-80.

1993. Irwin Hersey, ‘Indonesian primitive art’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3(1), 158-60.

4 1993. J. Stephen Lansing, ‘Priests and programmers: technologies of power in the engineered landscape of Bali’, The Pacific Review 7, 400.

1994. Brent Berlin, ‘Ethnobiological classification: principles of categorization of plants and animal in traditional societies’, Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (1), 223-4.

1994. Pierre Lemonnier, ‘Elements for an anthropology of technology’, Technology and Culture 35 (3), 652-4.

1994. Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin (eds), ‘Bush base: forest farm: culture, environment and development’, Bulletin of the School for Oriental and African Studies 62 (2), 456.

1995. Adam Kuper, ‘The chosen primate: human nature and cultural diversity’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1 (4), 847-8.

1996. Plants and people. Review of C. M. Cotton, ‘Ethnobotany: principles and applications’, Trends in Plant Science 1 (12), 439-40.

1997. Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland (eds), ‘Asian perspectives on nature: a critical approach’, Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 1 (3), 275-6.

1997. David Arnold, ‘The problem of nature: environment, culture and Europan expansion’, Journal of Rural Studies 13 (3), 362-3.

1998. John Vandermeer, ‘Reconstructing biology, genetics and ecology in the new world order’, Biodiversity and Conservation 7 (5), 702-3.

1998. Leslie E. Sponsel, Thomas N. Headland and Robert C. Bailey (eds.), ‘Tropical deforestation: the human dimension’, Social Anthropology 6 (3), 406-7.

1998. Clifford Sather, ‘The Bajau Laut: adaptation, history, and fate in a maritime fishing society of south-eastern Sabah’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 29 (1), 211-13.

1999. Joachim Sterly, ‘Simbu plant-lore: plants used by the people in the Central Highlands of New Guinea (two volumes)’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155 (1), 152-4.

2000. Giles Milton, ‘Nathanial’s nutmeg: how one man’s courage changed the course of history’, Journeys, the international journal of travel and travel writing 1 (1-2), 198-200.

2000. Adrian Franklin,’Animals and modern cultures: a sociology of human-animal elations in modernity’, Anthropos 95 (2), 590-2.

2001. Robert Layton, ‘An introduction to theory in Anthropology’, Anthropological Theory 1 (1), 134-6

5 2002. Eva Maria Kershaw, ‘A study of Brunei Dusun religion: ethnic priesthood on a frontier of Islam’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8(1), 170-1.

2002. Adam Kuper, ‘Culture: the anthropological account’, Theory in Anthropology 2 (1), 121-3.

2002. Alfred Gell, ‘The art of Anthropology: essays and diagrams’, Theory in Anthropology 2 (4), 503-5.

2003. David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri (eds.), ‘Farmers, scientists and plant breeding: integrating knowledge and practice’, Journal of Ethnobiology 23 (2), 309- 18.

2004. Andreas Roepstorff, Nils Bubant and Kalevi Kull (eds.), ‘Imagining nature: practices of cosmology and identity’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 (3), 747-8.

2004. Comfrey and cowslips. Review of: David E. Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield, ‘Medicinal plants in folk tradition: an ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland’, New Scientist 182 (2448), 49.

2005. Veronica Strang, ‘The meaning of water’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (1), 184.

2007. David Parkin and Stanley Ulijaszek (eds.), ‘Holistic anthropology: emergence and convergence’, Journal of Biosocial Science 40, 637-8.

2007. J. Stephen Lansing, ‘Perfect order: recognizing complexity in Bali’, American Anthropologist 109 (2), 394-5.

2008. Peter G. Sercombe and Bernard Sellato (eds.), ‘Beyond the green myth: hunter- gatherers of Borneo in the twenty-first century’, Anthropos 103 (1), 289-90.

2008. Alix Cooper, ‘Inventing the indigenous: local knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 (4), 1047-8.

2009. Cognition, nature, and the ‘nature-deficit syndrome’. Review of Scott Atran and Douglas Medin, ‘The native mind and the cultural construction of nature’, Current Anthropology 50 (3), 406-7.

2009. Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin, ‘Where the wild things are now: domestication reconsidered’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, 426- 7.

2009. Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer, ‘Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, 427-8.

2009. Gregory Forth, ‘Images of the Wildman in southeast Asia: an anthropological perspective',

6 Journal of Ethnobiology 29 (2), 359-60.

2013. Bernard Sellato (ed.), ‘Plaited arts from the Borneo rainforest’, South East Asia Research 21 (2), 347-51.

2014. Gordon, David M. and Shepard Krech 111 (eds). ‘Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20, 799-800.

2016. Nils Bubandt, ‘The empty seashell: witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island’, Soujourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 31 (2), 625-27.

2016. Robert A. Paul, ‘Mixed messages: cultural and genetic inheritance in the constitution of human society’, American Anthropologist 118 (4), 947 -948.

2019. Sumanto Al Qurtuby, ‘Religious Violence and Conciliation in Indonesia: Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas’, South East Asia Research 27 (3), 308-311.

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