{"id":287,"date":"2021-04-08T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:00:04","slug":"book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/publications\/book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Reviews<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2006\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/content-removed\/\">Book Review of\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/content-removed\/\">The Rebirth of Hasidism: 1945 to the Present Day.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>JacquesGutwirth.\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Free Association Books.\u00a0 198 pp.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Anthropos:\u00a0 International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics<\/em>\u00a0101:2, pp. 615-7.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/content-removed\/\">\u00a0Book Review of\u00a0<em>The Foundations of Despotism:\u00a0 Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History<\/em>.<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>Richard Lee Turits. Stanford University Press, 2003.\u00a0\u00a0384 pp.\u00a0\u00a0<em>American Anthropologist<\/em>\u00a0107:1, pp. 170-1.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2002\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/content-removed\/\">\u00a0Book review of\u00a0\u00a0<em>When the Hands are Many: Community Organization and Social<\/em> Change in Rural Haiti<\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0by Jennie M. Smith.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>American Ethnologist.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/content-removed\/\">Review article of two books on Catholic priests who converted to Judaism.<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0<em>So Strange My Path: A Spiritual Pilgrimage<\/em>, by Abraham Carmel (Bloch Publishing Company, 1993) Revised; and\u00a0<em>Ordained to be a Jew:\u00a0\u00a0A Catholic Priest\u2019s Conversion to Judaism,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0by John David Scalamonti (N.Y., Ktav Publishing House, 1992).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Tradition\u00a0<\/em>29:2 (Rabbinical Council of America), pp. 82 \u2013 87.<strong><em><br>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Response to comments by David Weiss on my review article &#8220;Rethinking the Wings of the Dove.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<u>Tradition<\/u>\u00a025(3):106-107 (A journal of the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of America)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/content-removed\/\">Anthropology, evolution, and Judaism: Rethinking the wings of the dove<\/a>.\u00a0<u>Tradition<\/u>\u00a025(1):81-90. (A journal of the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of America.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1977<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Comment on &#8220;Standardization and measurement in Cultural Anth\u00adro\u00adpology,&#8221;\u00a0 by Jerry Moles.\u00a0\u00a0<u>Current Anthropology<\/u>\u00a0 18(2): 249.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1043,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}