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Volume 36 - Issue 2 - February 1977

Book Reviews

Japan: An Economic Survey. By Andrea Boltho. London: Oxford University Press, Economies of the World Series, 1975. xv, 204 pp. $12.50

Histoire de Yokobue (Yokobue no sōshi): Etudes sur les récits de l'époque muromachi. By Jacqueline Pigeot. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1972. iv, 178 pp. Bibliography, Maps. ¥ 1200

Village “Contracts” in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments. By Dan Fenno Henderson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Asian Law Series 2, 1975. xi, 234 pp. Notes, Appendixes, Glossary. $10.00

Atlas of Japan: Physical, Economic and Social. Edited By Akira Ebato and Kazuo Watanabe, Translated By Armorel Bester, Burton Watson, and R. P. Paul Anouilh. Tokyo: International Society for Educational Information, 1974. viii, 64 pp. text, 64 maps. Supplement, Notes. S35.00

Japanese Culture and Behavior: Selected Readings. Edited by Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P. Lebra. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974. xi, 459 pp. $5.95 (paper).

The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. By Carmen Blacker. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Notes, Select Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $18.75

Zen at Daitoku-ji. By Jon Covell and Yamada Sōbin. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1974. 203 pp. Color Plates, Photos, Appendixes, Index. $29.50

A Cultural History of India. Edited by A. L. Basham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975. xx, 585 pp. Plates, Maps, Notes, Chronological Tables, Further Reading, Index. $19.50

A Concise History of India. By Francis Watson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. 192 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Select Bibliography, Index. $9.95 - Into India. By John Keay. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. xiv, 202 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $8.95

Whither India? By G. S. Ghurye. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1974. xi, 431 pp. References. (Dist. by InterCulture Associates, $20.00)

Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture. By Abdul Halim Sharar, Translated and Edited By E. S. Harcourt and Fakhir Hussain. London: Paul Elek, 1975. 295 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. £12.50

Sources on Punjab History. Edited by W. Eric Gustafson and Kenneth W. Jones. Delhi: Manohar Book Service, 1975. 454 pp. Notes, Tables, Appendixes. Rs. 70.00 (Dist. by South Asia Books, $15.00)

Purānic Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purānic Literature. By Vettam Mani. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975. viii, 922 pp. Rs. 325.00 (Dist. by South Asia Books, $52.50)

Studies in the Semantic Structure of Hindi (Synonymous Nouns and Adjectives with karanā, Vol. I). By Kali Charan Bahl. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1974. 13, cxlv, 409 pp. Bibliography, Appendix, Index. Rs. 100.00

The Axis of Eros. By Walter M. Spink. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. (First published by Schocken, 1973) 191 pp. Illustrations. $3.95 (paper).

The Uncertain Verdict: A Study of the 1969 Elections in Four Indian States. By Ramashray Roy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. xv, 297 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $12.00

From Hierarchy to Stratification: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality in a North Indian Village. By D. B. Miller. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1975. xviii, 229 pp. Tables, Maps, Diagrams, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Rs. 60; $9.75

Social Life in an Indian Slum. By Paul D. Wiebe. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1975. vii, 179 pp. Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $6.75 (cloth); $4.75 (paper).

Bengali Women. By Manisha Roy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xviii, 205 pp. Notes, Appendix, References, Index. $9.95

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