Ethnography, rhetoric, and performance

Books reviewed DOMINATION AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE: HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTS. By James C. Scott. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990; pp. 251. $29.95. THE POETICS OF MILITARY OCCUPATION: MZEINA ALLEGORIES OF IDENTITY UNDER ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN RULE. By Smadar Lavie. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990; pp. 398. $30.00. POWER AND PERFORMANCE: ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS THROUGH PROVERBIAL WISDOM AND THEATER IN SHABA, ZAIRE. By Johannes Fabian: Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990; pp. 314. $49.50; paper 19.95.