Culture and Agriculture
A Publication of the Culture and Agriculture Section
American Anthropological Association

Books Received for Review

The following books have been received for review by C&A. Individuals or presses interested in reviewing or having a book reviewed, please contact David Kozak, C&A Book Review Editor (kozak_d@fortlewis.edu). For author information refer to C&A guidelines for book reviews and book review essays. List last updated on December 1, 2005.

Adger, Neil W., Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M. J. Mace, eds.

2006 Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change. London: The MIT Press.

Ansell, Christopher and David Vogel eds.

2006 What’s the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Belasco, Warren

2006 Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Blatt, Harvey

2005 America’s Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Cernea, Michael M. and Amir H. Kassan, eds.

2006 Researching the Culture in Agri-Culture: Social Research for International Development. Wallingford: CABI Publishing .

Cliggett, Lisa

2005 Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Conca, Ken

2006 Governing Water: contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Confer, Geoff

2005 On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

Daryn, Gil

2006 Encompassing A Fractal World: The Energetic Female Core in Myth and Everyday Life. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Duram, Leslie A.

2005 Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, ed.
2003 Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press.

Franklin, Sarah

2007 Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Durham: Duke University Press.

Ferrero, Ramirez Eric

2005 Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gezon, Lisa L.

2006 Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Groundwater Foundation

2005 Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of the Center Pivots. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Holthaus, Gary

2006 From the From Farm to the Table: What all Americans Need to Know about Agriculture. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.

Howard, Sir Albert

2006[1947] The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.

Jack, Walther Thomas

2005 The Furrow and Us: Essays on Soil and Settlement. Zachary Michael Jack, ed. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc.

Johnsgard, Paul A.

2005 Prairie Dog Empire: A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Loker, William M.

2004 Changing Places: Environment, Development and Social Change in Rural Honduras. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Mazoyer, Marcel and Laurence Roudart

2006 A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis. James H. Membrez, trans. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Moats, Jason B.

2007 Agroterrorism: A Guide for First Responders. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

Perez, Karni R.

2006 Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.

Roth, Dik, Rutgerd Boelens, and Margreet Zwarteveen, eds.

2005 Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Sabatier, Paul A., Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz, and Mark Matlock, eds.

2005 Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Thomson, Jennifer A.

2006 Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Associates.

Topik, Stephen, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds.

2006 From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Durham: Duke University Press.

Vaught, David

2007 After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

Waters, Tony

2007 The Perspective of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Wilk, Richard, ed.

2006 Fast Food/ Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System. Lanham: Altamira Press.

Young, Allen M.

2007 The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao. Rev edition. Gainesville: University Press of Florida