cally disclosed in Chapters 8 and 9, along with the idea that mildly or moderately malnourished children begin to look "normal" to the researcher after a while. In contrast to many societies where children are fed well, local wisdom states that the children of the Dogo region of Mali don't need good food. This insight is discovered by the author at a local dinner when upon encouraging her daughter to eat some chicken, she is told that good food is wasted on children. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 provide more and different kinds of nutritional information explained in the context of the local culture. Chapter 13 is a clinger when Miranda, her daughter, gets malaria and has a close call with death. The final Chapter 14, is a postscript on the 6 months spent in Mali and emphasizes the author's long-term research and writing goals to reveal the nature and extent of malnutrition in Africa. Towards that end she has done a good job here. This book would be ideal for introductory anthropology classes. An accompanying instructor's manual provides for each chapter a summary of the chapter's contents, basic questions, and more in-depth issues for discussion. It would also be useful in upper division courses in nutritional anthropology and fieldwork method and theory. The author suggests the book would also be useful in classes in medical anthropology, peoples of Africa, and women. The book will, upon occasion, shock the uninitiated reader, but will certainly engage the student's interest. For anthropologists, nutritional and otherwise, it is a good read.