Byline: Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub

AMERICAN STUDIES

The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community by Miles Orvell (University of North Carolina Press; 288 pages; $39.95). Explores the tensions present in literary and other depictions of small-town life.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants, and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva (Berghahn Books; 209 pages; $90). Essays on such topics as making animals into food among the Kanamari of western Amazonia, and the concept of spirit-charged animals among Evenki reindeer herders and hunters in Siberia.

In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness by Barnett Richling (McGill-Queen's University Press; 440 pages; US$39.95). Traces the life of the New Zealand-born Canadian anthropologist (1886-1969), who was known for his work with the Inuit.

Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives edited by Arnar Arnason and others (Berghahn Books; 216 pages; $65). Essays on such topics as the folk liturgies and narratives of Ireland's holy wells.

Matching Organs With Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants by Marie-Andree Jacob (University of Pennsylvania Press; 248 pages; $65). An ethnographic study of kidney transplants in Israel, including a blurring of boundaries between donation and selling.

Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics by Naisargi N. Dave (Duke University Press; 265 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Traces the emergence of lesbian activism in India; sources include fieldwork with organizations in Delhi.

Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom by Leslie A. Robertson and the Kwaqu'l Gixsam Clan (University of British Columbia Press; 596 pages; US$138). Draws on oral histories and other sources in a study of a controversial Canadian indigenous leader (1870-1951).

ARCHAEOLOGY

Community-Based Archaeology: Research With, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities by Sonya Atalay (University of California Press; 312 pages; $70 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of involving local communities in research.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Cezanne, a Life by Alex Danchev (Pantheon; 488 pages; $40). A biography of the French painter (1839-1906).

Dan Graham: Rock My Religion by Kodwo Eshun (MIT Press; 105 pages). A study of a "video essay" by Graham from 1983-84 that features punk and rock performers and various historical figures, including Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers.

Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature by Henry Maguire (Oxford University Press; 198 pages; $55). Explores Byzantine views of the physical and the sacred as reflected in the complexity and ambivalence of attitudes toward nature imagery.

The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of Self in Late Medieval England by Kathryn A. Smith (University of Toronto Press; 256 pages; US$65). Sets the illuminated manuscript in the political, religious, and artistic contexts of the early 14th century.

BIOLOGY

The Evolution of the...