Reviewing Professor Anthony Walker's Merit and the Millennium:Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People,Hindustan Publishing Corporation,New Delhi,2003,738 pages of text (with 7 maps and 44figures) plus 74p.Of over 100 plates,31 p.of Lahu,Chinese and Tai glossaries. 71 p.of bibliography Of cited works in Western and East Asian languanges,and 64p.of index.It is a giant book over 1000 pages.