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Volume 45 - Issue 4 - August 1986

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Book of the Goddess, Past and Present: An Introduction to Her Religion. Edited by Carl Olson. New York: Crossroad, 1983. 261 pp. Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading. $14.95.

Power and Justice: The State in Industrial Relations. By E. A. Ramaswamy. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984. x, 218 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 110; $19.95. (Distributed by Oxford University Press, New York City.)

Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Society. By Ian Stone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv, 374 pp. Illustrations, Glossary of Indian Terms, Bibliography, Index. $59.50.

Organizing for Science: The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory. By Shiv Visvanathan. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984. vii, 279 pp. Bibliography, Documents, Index. Rs. 120; $21.95. (Distributed by Oxford University Press, New York City.)

State Politics in Contemporary India: Crisis or Continuity? Edited by John R. Wood. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1985. xvi, 257 pp. Index. $20.

Crime and Criminality in British India. Edited by Anand A. Yang. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. xii, 192 pp. Notes, Index, Figures, Tables. $17.95.

The Kathakali Complex: Actor, Performance, and Structure. By Phillip Zarrilli. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1984. xxiii, 406 pp. Plates, Figures, Diagrams, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $160. (Distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.)

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Let's Speak Ilokano. By Percy Espiritu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. xxii, 298 pp. Notes to the Teacher, Index to Grammar Notes. $15 (paper).

An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand. By Louis Golomb. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. (Illinois Studies in Anthropology, no. 15.) xiv, 314 pp. Map, Photographs, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $23.95 (paper).

Demographic Responses to Development: Sources of Declining Fertility in the Philippines. By Robert A. Hackenberg and Henry F. Magalit. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1985. xxxviii, 332 pp. Tables, Bibliography. $22 (paper).

Thailand in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of the Economy and Society. By Hong Lysa. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1984. x, 182 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. $18 (cloth); $12 (paper).

Filipino Muslims: Their Social Institutions and Cultural Achievements. Edited by F. Landa Jocano. Quezon City: University of the Philippines, Asian Center, 1983. viii, 202 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p. (Distributed by Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.)

Shackles: A Novel by Armijn Pane. Translated by John H. McGlynn. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Center for International Studies, 1985. (Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, no. 67.) xv, 118 pp. $9 (paper).

Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles. By S. A. Niessen. Dordrecht-Holland: Foris, 1985. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, no. 110.) vii, 249 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index. $14 (paper).

Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia. Edited by Anthony Reid, with the assistance of Jennifer Brewster. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1983. N.p.

The Honey Tree Song: Poems and Chants of Sarawak Dayaks. By Carol Rubenstein. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1985. xxiv, 380 pp. Maps, Photographs. $36.95.

Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia. By Victor B. Savage. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1984. xxi, 456 pp. Maps, Plates, Note on Place Names, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $45 (paper).

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