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Graham Penelope: Iban Shamanism: an analysis of the ethnographic literature. (Occasional Paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies.) x, 174 pp., plate. Canberra: Australian National University, 1987. $A 12, $US 12.
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Elson R. E.: Javanese peasants and the colonial sugar industry: impact and change in an East Java residency, 1830–1940. xxiv, 281 pp. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984 [pub. 1985]. £17.
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Coates Austin: The commerce in rubber: the first 250 years, xv, 380 pp., 32 plates, 2 maps [on end papers]. Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press [for the] Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association, 1987 [pub. 1988]. £25.
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Anceaux J. C.: Wolio dictionary (Wolio–English–Indonesian)/Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio–Inggeris– Indonesia). (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.) xviii, 195 pp. Dordrecht and Providence: Foris Publications, 1987. Guilders 60.
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Seltmann Friedrich: Die Kalang, eine Volksgruppe auf Java und ihre Stamm-Mythe: ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Javas. 430 pp., 2 foldout maps, table [in end pocket]. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden GmbH1987. DM 244.
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Hovdhaugen Even: From the land of Nāfamta: Samoan oral texts in transcription with translation, notes and vocabulary. (Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning. Serie B, skrifter, 72.) 224 pp. Front. Oslo, Norwegian University Press, 1987.
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Ferdon Edwin N.: Early Tonga as the explorers saw it, 1616–1810. xv, 339 pp. 14 plates, 1 map. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987. $29.95.
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Mcleod Malcolm and Mack John: Ethnic sculpture. 72 pp. London: British Museum Publications, 1985. £4.95.
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Ivor Wilks, Levtzion Nehemia and Bruce M. Haight. Chronicles from Gonja: a tradition of West African Muslim historiography. (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica, ix.) xii, 258 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1987]. £37.50, $59.50.
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Susan M. Martin: Palm oil and protest: an economic history of the Ngwa region, south-eastern Nigeria, 1800-1980. (African Studies Series, 59.) xi, 209 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. £27.50.
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Hobsbawm Eric and Ranger Terence (ed.): The invention of tradition, vii, 320 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1983].
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Natalie Waterson: Prosodic phonology: the theory and its application to language acquisition and speech processing, xii, 162 pp. Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt and Grevatt, 1987. £14.90.
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Kippenberg H. G. and others (ed.): Approaches to iconology. {Visible Religion: Annual for Religious Iconography. (Vol. JV-V.) x, 325pp. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985–1986. Guilders 180, $81.75.
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Katz Dovid (ed.): The origins of the Yiddish language. Papers from the first Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature, 15-17 December 1985. (Winter Studies in Yiddish, Vol.i.) [v], 144 pp. Oxford, etc.: Pergamon Press, 1987.
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‘Allāmah Sayyid M. H. Ṭabāṭabā’Ī: The Qur'an in Islam: its impact and influence on the life of Muslims. London: Zahra Publications, 1987. (Distributed by Routledge and Kegan Paul. £8.95.)
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M. Barceló and three others: Les aiges cercades: els qanat(s) de l'illa de Mallorca. 145 pp., 12 loose figures. Palma de Mallorca: Institut d'Estudis Balerics, 1986.
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Madeleine Schneider: Mubārak al- Makkī: an Arabic lapicide of the third/ninth century. (Journal of Semitic Studies. Monograph no. 9.) xi, 113 pp., 16 plates. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1986. £14.
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John Russiano Miles: LXX. Retroversion and text criticism: the predictability of syntax in an ancient translation from Greek to Ethiopic. (Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 17.) xii, 212 pp. Chico, Cal.: Scholars Press, 1985.
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Goldenberg Gideon (ed.): Ethiopian studies: Proceedings of the sixth International Conference, Tel–Aviv, 14-17 April 1980. xiii, 530 pp. Rotterdam, Boston: A. A. Balkema under the auspices of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1986.
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Amit Ambalal: Krishna as Shrinathji: Rajasthani paintings from Nathdvara. 177 pp. Ahmedabad and New York: Mapin, 1987. (Distributed by University of Washington Press, $29.50.)
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