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Volume 51 - February 1988

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Landeg White: Magomero; portrait of an African village, xii, 271 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £19.50, $29.95.

Rodney Needham: Mamboru: history and structure in a domain of northwestern Sumba. xxv, 202 pp., tables, maps, figures, plates. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1987.

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Ross E. Dunn, The adventures of Ibn Battuta: a Muslim traveller of the fourteenth Century, xvi, 357 pp. London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1986. £22.50

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Helmuth Stoecker (ed.): German imperialism in Africa: from the beginnings until the Second World War. Transl. from the German by Bernd Zöllner. 446 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, [1987]. £17.50.

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J. D. Latham: From Muslim Spain to Barbary: studies in the History and Culture of the Muslim West. (Collected Studies.) [xii], 336 pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986. £32.

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Joseph Cuoq: Islamisation de la Nubie chrétienne, vne–xvie siècles. (Bibliothèque d'etudes islamiques, torn. 9.) [vii], 126 pp., map. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1986. Fr. 120.

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Wyatt MacGaffey: Religion and society in Central Africa: the BaKongo of lower Zaire, xi, 295 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. £38.25 (paper £14.50).

Stig Rasmussen: Carsten Niebuhr und die Arabische Reise, 1761–1767. (Schriften der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesbibliothek, hrsg. von Dieter Lohmeier. Bd.l.) 132pp. Heide in Holstein: Verlag Boyens & Co., 1986.

Ladislav Holy: Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society: descent, succession and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 38.) vii, 233 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £22.50.

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R. Brunschvig: Etudes sur I'Islam classique et I'Afrique du Nord. Edité par Abdel-Magid Turki. (Collected Studies.) [x], 314 pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986. £30.

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Beatrix Heintze and Adam Jones (ed.): European sources for Sub-Saharan Africa before 1900: use and abuse. (Paideuma 33.) [vi], 466 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. DM70.

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Rudolf Mach and Eric L. Ormsby: Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (new series) in the Princeton University Library, xiv, 402 pp. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987. £53.50.

R. E. Emmerick and P. O. Skjærvø: Studies in the vocabulary of Khotanese, II. (Österreichische Ak. der Wiss. Phil.-hist. Kl. Sitz., 458. Band. Verøffentlichungen der Iranischen Kommission, Nr. 17.) 179 pp. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987.

Ramesh Chander Dogra: Jammu and Kashmir: a select and annotated bibliography of manuscripts, books and articles together with a survey of its history, languages and literature from Rajatarangini to modern times. viii, 417 p. Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1986. Rs. 300, $6.

René-Joseph Bret: Vie du Sultan Mohamed Bakhit, 1856–1916: la pénétration française au Dar Sila, Tchad. (Contributions à la connaissance des élites africaines, fasc. v.) [xvi], 258 pp. Paris: CNRS, 1987. Fr. 80.

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Elaine Marlowe Kaufman: Ibibio dictionary, xvi, 617 pp. Cross River, Nigeria: Cross River State University and Ibibio Language Board [and] Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1985. Guilders, 35,00.

Nicole Tersis-Surugue: Economie d'un système: unités et relations syntaxiques en zarma (Niger). (Bibliothèque de la SELAF, 87–8.) 589 pp. Paris: SELAF, 1981.

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Padma Prakash Shrestha: Nepal rediscovered: the Rana Court 1846–1951 (Photographs from the Archives of the Nepal Kingdom Foundation), xiv, 17 pp. 78 plates. London: Serindia Publications, 1986.

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