Brenneis (U. of California, Santa Cruz) and Ellison (Harvard U.) present this annual volume of anthropology research that focuses on the themes of the human mind and migration, along with essays on a variety of other topics. In 30 essays, sociology, anthropology, and other scholars from around the world discuss migration and schooling, diabetes risk, language, biological markers, and religion; the meaning, place, and role of remittances for migrants and their households and communities; phenomenological approaches in anthropology; patterns of hallucinations; the evolution of language and tool use; and the evolution from hominoid to hominid mind. Others address the way bodily substance, particularly blood, has been deployed in the anthropology of kinship; how large-scale political subjects form through social interaction; the biocultural mechanisms of menopause; Central Asia during the post-Cold War period; the archaeology of consumption; ritual and oratory; climate, culture, and global climate change; Balkan linguistics; the study of tobacco by anthropologists; and other topics. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less