Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people
transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical
forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general
public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once
considered to be total wildernesses. William Balée's research, conducted over a span of …

In this new book, Lila Abu-Lughod reuses the title from her article,“Do Muslim Women Really
Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others”(2002),
published 12 years ago in American Anthropologist, indicating that we should not expect
anything new. Here we find creative and travel writing about “her experience of 20 years (30
years in other sections), in the Arab region.” The cover is a photo of an ornately dressed
head-covered woman looking at herself in a large wall mirror (that appears broken). The …