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Volume 54 - October 1984

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Kurt Hanns Ebert, Gewohnheitsrecht und ländliche Entwicklung in Afrika: Der Einfluss des Customary Land Tenure Law auf den Entwicklungsprozess und die Bodenrechtsreform am Beispiel Sierra Leones, Munchen, Weltforum Verlag, 1982, 208 pp.

Roy Willis, A State in the Making: myth, history, and social transformation in pre-colonial Ufipa, African Systems of Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981, 322 pp.

O. Aboyade, Integrated Economics: a study of developing economiesLondon: Addison-Wesley, 1983, 568 pp.

Joel S. Kahn and Joseph R. Llobera (eds.), The Anthropology of Pre-capitalist Societies, Critical Social Studies. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1981, 441 pp.

Wolfgang König, Die Nomaden in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Heft 33, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag (1080 Berlin, Leipziger Straße 3–4, German Democratic Republic), 1981, 240 pp., 22.00 marks.

Carlos Laranjo Medeiros, VaKwandu: history, kinship and systems of production of an Herero people of south-west Angola. Lisbon: Junta de Investigações Cientificas do Ultramar, 1981, 75 pp.

Adam Kuper, Wives for Cattle: bridewealth and marriage in southern Africa, International Library of Anthropology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, 215 pp., £11.95.

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Barry Munslow, Mozambique: the revolution and its origin. London: Longmans, 1983, 195 pp. - Michael Wolfers and Jane Bergerol, Angola: in the front line. London: Zed Press, 1983, 238 pp.

W. D. Hammond-Tooke. Boundaries and Belief: the structure of a Sotho worldview. Human Science Research Council Publication Series, No. 74. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1981, 170 pp., R12.00 paperback.

U. Stürzinger, Der Baumwollanbau in Tschad: Zur Problematik landwirtschaftlicher Export-production in der Dritte Welt, Beiträge zur Kolonial-und Uberseegeschichte, Zurich, Atlantis, 1980, 266 pp.

Olajide Aluko, The Foreign Policies of African States, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1977, 243 pp., £4.50.

Marion and Burton Benedict, Men, Women, and Money in Seychelles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 289 pp., ISBN 0 520 04592 0.

René Pélissier, Explorar: voyages en Angola et autres lieux incertains. Orgeval: Editions Pélissier, 1979, 255 pp.

Ade T. Ojo and Wole Adewunmi, Banking and Finance in Nigeria, Bedfordshire, Graham Burn, 1982, 336 pp.

Jeffrey A. Fadiman, An Oral history of Tribal Warfare: the Meru of Mount Kenya. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982, 185 pp., £14.70 hardback, £5.60 paperback.

David E. Gardinier, Historical Dictionary of Gabon, African Historical Dictionaries, No. 30. Metuchen, N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1981, 254 pp.

Lucie Gallistel Colvin, Historical Dictionary of Senegal, African Historical Dictionaries No. 23. Metuchen, N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1981, 339 pp.

Barbara Frank, Die Kulere: Bauern in Mittelnigeria Studien zur Kulturkunde 57. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981, 267 pp., DM75 paperback.

Malin Falkenmark (ed.), Rural Water Supply and Health: The need for a new strategy, Uppsala, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1982, 118 pp.

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