Book review of ‘Globalization and political ethics. International studies in sociology and social anthropology’ by Richard B. Day and Joseph Masciulli, Leiden & Boston : Brill, 2007.

The fifteen papers in this edited volume explore the range of political-ethical issues of globalization

Temporal rhythm of change in Village Jhokwala, Pakistan : ethnographic insights from calendars.

Time is perceived through movements of objects in sky, seasonal cycles, and biological changes, which appear to be universal and every society makes their sense. Studying change in the temporal models therefore provides understanding about cultural change in a broader context (Geertz, 1966: 389-409). Temporal organization represents the relationship between culture and ecology through different informal and formal markers in the same way as space is linked with the environment (Engel-Frisch, 1943). Calendars are one of the temporal markers, which represent the people’s association with and understanding of their environment both in ecological and astronomical sense

Book review of 'Days on the family farm : from the Golden Age through the Great Depression' by Carrie A. Meyer, Cambridge : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Meyer, Associate Professor in Economics at George Mason University, in Days On The Family Farm recapitulates the times of the Golden Age of Agriculture, the Great Depression and the two World Wars with reference to economic setting and community life on a Midwestern family farm in America from the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II through the daily diary of a farmwife May Lyford Davis

Book review of 'Text, time, and context: Selected papers of Carlota S. Smith' by Richard P.Meier, Helen Aristar-Dry and Emilie Destruel. Dordrecht : Springer, 2010.

Dallas TACA (The Arts and Community Alliance) Centennial Professor in the Humanities, Professor Carla S. Smith, died from cancer in 2007 at the age of seventy-three. She taught at the University of Texas at Austin for about thirty-eight years and has been well known as a pioneer scholar in generative linguistics. This book collects her papers, which she herself selected along with some of her colleagues, with a focus on temporal expression in language, starting with her earlier works from the 1970s onward, though her first publication appeared in 1961

Book review of 'How to understand language : a philosophical inquiry.' by Bernhard Weiss, Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010.

How to Understand Language by Bernard Weiss, professor at the University of Cape Town, is a study of language and its complications, using analytic philosophy to take a broad approach to language. Reviewing theories of meaning, translation, and interpretation, the book mainly presents a dialogue on the views of radical translation and interpretation, introduced by Donald Davidson

Book review of 'Language, space, and social relationships : foundational cultural model in Polynesia.' by Giovanni Bennardo, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

In this book, Giovanni Bennardo explains the foundational cultural model of the cognitive aspects of language and socio-spatial organization in Polynesia, which is based on fieldwork having been carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga. Not only about the linguistic anthropology and the cultural model of space in Tonga, the book is also a rich description of Tongan culture, the human-nature relationship, power hierarchies, and interpersonal and social relationships

Book review of 'The Cambridge companion to narrative' by by David Herman (ed.), Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

This volume is a commentary of key ideas and approaches to narrative study contributed by sixteen scholars in eighteen chapters. The contributions analyze various approaches to narrative inquiry in everyday storytelling and media from literature to television

Book review of ‘The World of the gift’ by Jacques T. Godbout, Montreal & Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press.

Godbout and Caillé show the significance of gift exchange in human life in strengthening social relations beyond market economy. The book was written in French then translated into English

Special Edition : RAI's First Annual Postgraduate Conference 2011.

This special issue of Durham Anthropology Journal was edited by Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal as a conference publication of Royal Anthropological Institute's First Annal Postgraduate Conference, 20 September 2011, held at Department of Anthropology, Durham University

Book review of 'Language and national identity in Asia' by Andrew Simpson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

In this volume, Andrew Simpson presents the shaping of identity around language politics at different levels in South, East, and Southeast Asian countries