Book ReviewsKaren L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann, eds. Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xix+333 pp.; 78 halftone illustrations, selected bibliography, filmography, and videography, index. $24.95 (paper).
Narratives of Survival in Conflict I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. By Catherine E. Bolten. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Women Warriors and Kidnapped Kids: Girl Soldier/Brides in Sierra Leone Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone. Chris Coulter. Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press, 2009.
Book ReviewsJ. Ritchie Garrison. Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England, 1799–1859. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxi+197 pp.; illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $48.95.
Why Not Trash Derek? The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy. By Paul Shankman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.