JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCES, Vol.27 1995
". . . this book has two main advantages. First, it engages the reader, because it is well written. Second, it offers a broad scope for discussion of academic and practical issues."
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, Vol. 6, No. 5 1994
"The ongoing critique of ethnography has, happily, changed the genre, and today real people walk the pages of the best ethnographies. Dettwyler's DANCING SKELETONS is surely one of the best. The text emerges as an extended meditation on applied fieldwork as a gradual melding of people and meaning."
