Books Available for Review

(Last Updated December 10, 2011)

Ethnobotany of the Kondh, Gadaba, and Bonda of the Koraput Region of Odisha, India, by F. Merlin Franco and D. Narasimhan. Link to Publisher. Reviewer Requested
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South, edited by James Veteto and Edward Maclin. Link to Publisher. Link to Publisher. Jon Holtzman is Currently Reviewing
Plants, health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology, edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Stephen Harris. Link to Publisher. Reviewer Requested
Eating the Landscape: American Indiean Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience, by Enrique Salmon. Link to Publisher. Reviewer Requested
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology, edited by Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar. Link to Publisher. Reviewer Requested
The Accompaniment: Assembling the Contemporary, by Paul Rabinow. Link to Publisher. Reviewer Requested
Digital Atlas of Economic Plants, by R.T.J. Cappers, R. Neef, & R.M. Bekker. Link to Publisher.
 Ian Smith is Currently Reviewing
Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design, edited by Ismael Vaccaro, Eric Alden Smith, and Shankar Aswani. Link to Publisher Jeremy Spoon is Currently Reviewing
Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany, by Matthew Hall. Link to Publisher. Anita Radini is Currently Reviewing
Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters, by Todd J. Braje and Torben C. Rick. Link to Publisher Ray Pierotti is Currently Reviewing
Wild Product Governance: Finding Policies that Work for Non-Timber Forest Products, edited by Sarah A. Laird, Rebecca J. McLain, and Rachel P. Wynberg. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, by James P. Mandaville. Link to Publisher Nemer Narchi is Currently Reviewing
Uses of Plants in the Amalfi Coast: Exploring the Relationship between Plants and People, by Valentina Savo. Link to Publisher Brian Dykstra is Currently Reviewing
Bush Medicine of the Bahamas: A Cross-cultural Perspective from San Salvador Island, including Pharmacology and Oral Histories, by Jeffry Holt McCormack, Kathleen Maier, and Patricia B. Wallens, with a Foreward by Gary Paul Nabhan. Link to the Companion website. Reviewer Requested
Traditional Forest Related Knowledge:  Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity, edited by John Parrotta and Ronald Trosper. Link to Publisher Andrew Miller is Currently Reviewing
The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe, edited by Sue Colledge and James Conolly. Link to Publisher Anita Radini is Currently Reviewing
An Epistemology of the Concrete: Twentieth-Century Histories of Life, by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, edited by Sonia Tidemann and Andrew Gosler. Link to Publisher Bob Gosford is Preparing Review
Maize Cobs and Cultures: History of Zea mays L., by John Staller. Link to Publisher Brian Dykstra is Currently Reviewing
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution, edited by Stephen Shennan. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, by Stephan Beyer. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices, edited by Eveline Durr and Rivke Jaffe. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Kinship in Action: Self and Group, by Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart. Link to Publisher Farid Pazhoohi is Reviewing
Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke: Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense and Medicine, by Marcelle Pennacchio, Lara Vanessa Jefferson, Kayri Havens. Link to Publisher David Cozzo is Preparing Review
Do Fish Feel Pain? By Victoria Braithwaite. Link to Publisher Dr. Annett is Currently Reviewing
Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine, by Thimley Gyatso and Chris Hakim. Link to Publisher Denise Glover is Currently Reviewing
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer, by Lesley Sharp. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook, by Luisa Maffi and Ellen Woodley. Link to Publisher Review by José E. Martínez-Reyes is Forthcoming in Volume 3
African Natural Plant Products: New Discoveries and Challenges in mistry and Quality, edited by H. Rodolfo Juliani, James E. Simon, and Chi-Tang Ho. Link to Publisher Reviewer Requested
Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World, by Richard Firn. Link to Publisher Diana Storch is Preparing Review
Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World, by Peter Mason. Link to Publisher Yves Laberge is Preparing Review
Forms of Becoming: The Evolutionary Biology of Development, by Alessandro Minelli. Link to Publisher Review from Raymond Pierotti is Forthcoming in Volume 3
Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions. Hans Baer and Merrill Singer. 2009. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. Review from Kate Smith is Forthcoming Volume 3
The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied: May 1832–April 1833. Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Stephen Witte and Marsha Gallagher. Link to Publisher Mary Adair is Preparing Review
Bush Medicine of the Bahamas: A Cross-cultural Perspective from San Salvador Island, Including Pharmacology and Oral Histories, by Jeffrey Holt McCormack, Kathleen Maier, and Patricia B. Wallens. Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan. Link to More Information about the Book
Reviewer Requested
Fruit Trees and Useful Plants in Amazonian Life, edited by Patricia Shanley et al. This is available as an ebook only at this URL http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2360e/i2360e00.htm. Reviewer Requested