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Conrad Totman: The Green Archipelago: forestry in preindustrial Japan, [xxii], 290 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1989. $35.
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Charles Higham: The archaeology of mainland Southeast Asia from 10,000 B.C. to the fall of Angkor. (Cambridge World Archaeology Series.) xiv, 387 pp., front. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £30, $49.50 (paper £12.50, $19.95).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 384-385
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Gerald Cannon Hickey: Kingdom in the morning mist: Mayréna in the highlands of Vietnam, xxix, 221 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
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Christine Drake: National integration in Indonesia: patterns and policies, xvii, 354 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. £28.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 386-387
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Judith Becker and Alan H. Feinstein (ed.): Karawitan: source readings in Javanese gamelan and vocal music. Vols. I, II, III. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia nos. 23, 30, 31.) [ix], 523 pp.; xx, 401 pp.; vii, 503 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1984, 1987, 1988. $36.50 per volume.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 387-388
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Ruth Barnes: The ikat textiles of Lamalera: a study of an Eastern Indonesian weaving tradition, xv, 156 pp., 32 plates. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 388-389
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Robert A. Blust: Austronesian root theory: an essay on the limits of morphologyix, 190 pp. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1988.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 389-390
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Catherine Baroin (ed.): Gens du roc et du sable: les Toubou. Hommage à Charles et Marguerite Le Cœur. 286 pp. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1988. Fr. 170.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 390-391
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Mahfoud Bennoune: The making of contemporary Algeria 1830-1987: colonial upheavals and post-independence development. (Cambridge Middle East Library.) xii, 323 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. £35. $54.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 391-393
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Ivor Wilks: Wa and the Wala: Islam and polity in northwestern Ghana. (African Studies Series, 63.) xvi, 256: pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50,$42.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 393-394
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Cornelia Essner : Afrikareisende im neunzehnten Jahrhundert: zur Sozialgeschichte des Reisens. (Beiträge zur Kolonial- und überseegeschichte, Bd. 32.) 235 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985.
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Waruno Mahdi: Morphophonologische Besonderheiten und historische Phonologie des Malagasy. (Veröffentlichungen des Seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 20.) viii, 434 pp. Berlin und Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1988.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 395-396
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P. Stoller: Fusion of the worlds: an ethnography of possession among the Songhay of Niger. [xxiv], 244 pp. University of Chicago Press, 1989. £19.95, $28.75.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 396-397
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J. S. La Fontaine: Initiation: ritual drama and secret knowledge across the world. (Themes in Social Anthropology.) 208 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, [1986]. £15.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 397-398
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Graham Furniss and Philip J. Jaggar (ed.): Studies in Hausa language and linguistics, in honour of F. W. Parsons. xxxi, 282 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International [and] the International African Institute, 1988. £30.
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D. K. Rycroft and A. B. Ngcobo (ed.): The praises of Dingana: Izibongo zikaDingana. xiii, 258 pp. Durban: University of Natal Press and Killie Campbell Africana Library, 1988.
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Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts (ed.): The end of slavery in Africa. xx, 524 pp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. $47.50 (paper $14.95).
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Dovid Katz (ed.): Dialects of the Yiddish language. Papers from the second Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish language and literature. (Winter Studies in Yiddish, vol. 2.) [v], 122 pp. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988.
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Massimo Campanini (ed. and tr.): La Sūrah della Caverna: meditazione filosofica sull'unicità di Dio. xii, 100 pp. Firenze: La Nuova Italia Editrice1986. L. 19,300.
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Franz Rosenthal (tr.): [ The History of al-Tabarī.] Vol. I: General introduction and from the Creation to the Flood. (Bibliotheca Persica.) xx, 413 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press1989. $49.50 (paper $24.50).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 402-403
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