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Volume 48 - Issue 2 - June 1985

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W. van Der Molen: Javaanse Tekstkritiek: een overzicht en een nieuwe benadering geillustreerd aan de Kunjarakarna. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, 102.) ix, 316 pp. Dordrecht and Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris Publications Holland, 1983. Guilders 30.

Lambert Bartels: Oromo religion: myths and rites of the western Oromo of Ethiopia: an attempt to understand. (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 8.) 411 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1983. DM 78.

Gene B. Gragg [with] Terfa Kumsa and others: Oromo dictionary. (Committee on Northeast African Studies. Monograph, No. 12.) xxx, 462 pp. East Lansing African Studies Centre, Michigan State University; Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1982. $21.75.

Waltraud Kronenburg and Andreas Kronenburg: Die Bongo. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 58.) [xiv] 300 pp., 92 plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlage, GmbH, 1981. DM 74.

Finn Fuglestad: A history of Niger, 1850–1960. (African Studies Series, 41) viii, 275 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Camabridge University Press, 1983. £20.

J. D. Y. Peel: Ijeshas and Nigerians: the incorporation of a Yoruba kingdom, 1890s–1970s. (African Studies Series, 39.) [xiii], 346 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £27, $57.50.

Adam Jones: From slaves to palm kernels: a history of the Galinhas country (West Africa) 1730–1890. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 68.) xviii, 220 pp. Wiesbaden: Fran Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 48.

Adam Jones: German sources for West African history 1599–1699. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 66.) xii417 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 76.

Robert Launay: Traders without trade: responses to change in two Dyula communities. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 42.) xii, 185 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambrige University Press, 1982. £18.50.

E. N. Goody: Parenthood and social reproduction: fostering and occuppational roles in West Africa. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 35.) xii, 348 pp. Cambridge, ect.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £25.

Günter Best: Culture and language of the Turkana of northwestern Kenya. [177] pp. Heidelberg: Carl Winter verlag, 1983. DM 90 (Paper DM 60).

Philip Bonner: Kings, commoners and concessionaires: the evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state. (African Studies Series 31). viii, 315 pp. 2 maps. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £27.50.

Kay Saunders (ed.): Indentured labour in the British Empire, 1834–1920; [xxi], 327 pp. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983. £19.95.

Paul E. Lovejoy: Transformations in slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. (African Studies Series, 36). xvi, 349 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £25 (Paper £7.95).

Jack Mapanje and Landeg White (comp.): Oral poetry from Africa: an anthology. vii, 216 pp. Harlow and New York: Longman, 1983. £3.95. - Arne Zettersten (ed.): East African literature: an anthology. xi, 222 pp. London and New York: Longman, 1983. £4.95.

Ian Hodder: Symbols in action: ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture. (New Studies in Archaeology). x, 244 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1981. £19.50.

Short Notices

Sebastian Brock: Syriac perspectives on late antiquity. (Collected Studies Series). xii, [322] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1984. £28.

Daid A. King: Mathematical astronomy in medieval Yemen: a biobibliographical survey. (American Research Center in Egypt. Catalogs). [xiii], 98 pp., 10 Plates. Malibu, California: Undena Publications, 1983.

Otto Jastrow: Die mesopotamisch-arabischen Q∂ltu-Dialekte. Bd. II: volkskundiche Texte in elf Dialekten. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlands. Bd. XLVI, I). xiii, 474 pp. Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, 1981. DM 164.

Ayman Fu'ād Sayyid (ed).: Passages de la chronique d'Égypte d'Ibn al-Ma'mūn, Prince Ğamāl al-Dīn Abū 'Alī Mūsā b. al-Ma'mūn al-Batā'ihī m. 588 H. (Textes Arabes et Études Islamiques, Tome XXI). vii, 105 pp. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1983.

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