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R. Roolvink (comp.): Historial atlas of the Muslim peoples. Compiled by R. Roolvink, with the collaboration of Saleh A. el Ali, Hussain Monés, Mohd. Salim. xi, 40 pp., Amsterdam: Djambatan, 1957. Guilders 27.50.
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Pierre Cachia: Ṭāhā Ḥusayn: his place in the Egyptian literary renaissance. ix, 260 pp., London: Licac & Co., Ltd., 1956. 30s.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 411-412
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Morroe Berger: Bureaucracy and society in modern Egypt: a study of the higher civil service. (Princeton Oriental Studies. Social Sciences. No.1.) xiii, 231 pp., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1957. 38s.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 412-414
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C.J. Edmonds: Kurds, Turks and Arabs: politics, travel and research in north-eastern Irag, 1919–1925. xiii, 457 pp., front., 16 plates, 3 maps [one on endpapers]. London: Oxford University Press, 1957. 42s.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 414-415
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Björn Collinder: Fenno-Ugric vocabulary: an etymological dictionary of the Uralic languages. xxiii, 212 pp. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1955. Sw. kr. 39.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 415-416
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Bo Wickman: The form of the object in the Uralic languages. 154 pp. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1955. Sw. kr. 14.
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- 24 December 2009, p. 416
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Kenneth Ballhatchet: Social policy and social change in western India, 1817–1830. (London Oriental Series, Vol, 5.) x, 335 pp., front., 2 maps.London, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1957. 45s.
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Louis Dumont: Une sous-caste l'Inde de sud: organisation sociale et religion des Pramalai Kallar. (École Pratique des Hastes Études, VIe Section. Le Monde d' Outre-Mer, Passé et Présent. Première Série. Études, I.) [v], vi, 460 pp., 38 plates. Paris, La Haye: Mouton & Co., 1957. (Distributed in G.B. by International University Booksellers.) $3. 2s.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 417-419
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Geoffrey Bownas (tr.): Confucius, by Shigeki Kaizuka. (Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West, No. 17.) 192 pp., front. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1956. 12s. 6d.
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Søren Egerod: The Lungtu dialect: a descriptive and historical study of a south Chinese idiom. xviii, 284 pp., Copenhangen: Ejnar Munksgaard, Ltd., 1956. D. Kr. 70.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 420-421
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S. Howard Hansford: The Seligman Collection of oriental art. Vol. I. Chinese, Central Asian and Luristān bronzes and Chinese jades and sculptures. xiii, 135 pp., front. 80 plates. London: Lund Humphries for the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1957. £8 8s.
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Robert J. Smith and John B. Cornell: Two Japanese villages: Kurusu, a Japanese agricultural community; Matsunagi, a Japanese mountain community. (University of Michigan. Centre for Japanese Studies,. Occasional Papers, No. 5.) xvi, 112 xvii–xxiv, 113–232 pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956. $6.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 423-424
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B. Schrieke: Introdution sociological studies, part two. Ruler and realm in early Java. (Selected Studies on Indonesia by Dutch Scholars. Vol. 3.) xii, 491 2 maps. The Hague and Bandung: W. van Hoeve Ltd., 1957. Guilders 11.50.
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- 24 December 2009, p. 425
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Felix M. Keesing and Marie M. Keesing: Elite communication in Samoa: a study of leadership. (Stanford Anthropoligical Series, No. 3.) vii, 318 pp. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London Geoffrey Cumberledge, Oxford University Press, [1956]. 38s.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 425-426
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Amaat Burssens: Inleiding tot de studie van de kongolese Bantoetalen. (Kongo-Overzee Bibliotheek, VIII.) xxii, 151 pp. 6 maps. Antwerpen: De Sikkel, 1954. Bel. fr. 120.
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Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren (Belgique). Série in 8°. Sciences de l'Homme. Linguistique, Vol. 3, Tom. I, 10–14. Tervuren: Commission de Linguistique Africaine, 1955–1957.
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A.N. Tucker and J. Tompo ole Mpaayei: A Maasai grammar, with vocabulary. (Publications of the African Institute Leyden. No. II.) xvii, 317 pp., 2 maps. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. 30s.
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B.W. Andrzejewski (ed.): Hikmad Soomaali, by Muuse Hąaji Ismaa‘iil Galaal. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Annotated African Texts, IV:Somali.) xi, 150 pp. London, Cape Town: Geoffrey Cumberledge, 1956. 25s.
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Enrico Cerulli: Somalia: scritti vari editi ed inediti. I. Storia della Somalia; L'Islām in Somalia; Il Libro degli Zengi. (A cura dell'Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia.) [v], 363 pp. col. front., 26 plates. Roma: Instituto Poligrafica dello Stato, 1957.
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Roland Oliver: Sir Harry Johnston & the scramble for Africa. xv, 368 pp. front., 18 plates. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. 30s.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 432-434
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