Book Reviews
the profiles of Greek Americans (Chapter 4), Stavros Constantinou provides a portrait of Greek emigrants from ancient times, and the present-day heterogeneity of Greek Americans: their demographic, socioeconomic characteristics, spatial distribution and urban bias, and the roles of Greek Orthodox Churches and ethnic network in community development and ethnic identity.
Chapters 5 to 9 are meso-level analyses looking at 'the connections between broader processes and events and more particular places' (p. 9). Matthew Hannah, in Chapter 5, describes how a Great Plains Native American group, the Oglalas, used spatial mobility and immobility as forms of resistance to the social control by the white settlers' and their state apparatus (the US Government) in the late nineteenth century. In Chapter 6, Steven Koletty describes historical and contemporary circular migration and settlement patterns, and changing functions and interrelationships between village chiefs and religious leaders. Documenting the 'Samoan Archipelago in urban America', Koletty explains how culture plays the role in maintaining the transnational Samoan communities. In Chapter 7, Steven Behnke presents the history of cultural politics, disputes, and controversies regarding Alaska's subsistence (hunting and fishing) conflict and wildlife management system, and the perspectives of different players, including those of heterogeneous native populations and their political organisations, urban non-native hunters, and federal and state governments. Armed with a series of maps at different scales and photos, Jeffrey Smith (Chapter 8) recounts changes to the cultural landscape due to Hispanos' settlement and Anglos' intrusion in the San Luis Valley of the upper Rio Grande region, including the transformations of three particular landscapes: settlement shapes and design, distribution of Penitente meetinghouses, and social/worker support chapter houses. In Chapter 9, Teresa Dillinger discusses healthcare delivery to Native Americans in the US and California (the Round Valley Indian Reservation in NW California in particular) through interviewing of healthcare providers and recipients, and documenting both physical and cultural barriers.
Chapters 10 and 11 belong to micro-scale analyses of 'looking at specific places and landscapes' (p. 9), and pair two different refugee/immigrant groups in two cities: Vietnamese in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Russians in Sacramento, California, respectively. Christopher Airriess (Chapter 10) demonstrates the internal and international forced migration and