Pointing and Communicative Meanings Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet. Edited by Sotaro Kita. Torino: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. 340 pp.
Structure and Identity in the Study of Japan A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. Edited by Jennifer Robertson. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes. By Mark D. West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Jessie Swigger. “History Is Bunk”: Assembling the Past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. x+216 pp.; 20 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 (paper).
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“At First, the World Was Good”: What Life History Can Tell Us about Economics African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana. By Gracia Clark. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.