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Volume 55 - Issue 3 - October 1992

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Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and Lauri J. Sears (ed.): Boundaries of the text: epic performances in South and Southeast Asia. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, no. 35.) x, 161 pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1991. $26.95 (paper $14.95).

Patricia M. Herbert (comp.): Burma. (World Bibliographic Series, Vol. 132.) xxiv, 327 pp., map. Oxford: Clio Press, 1991. £49.

Manas Chitakasem and Andrew Txjrton (ed.): Thai constructions of knowledge. viii, 212 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1991. £10.

Wajuppa Tossa (ed. and tr.): Phādāeng nāng ai: a translation of a Thai-Isan folk epic in verse. xii, 174 pp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990. £23.

Anne Booth, W. J. O'malley, Anna Weidemann (ed.): Indonesian economic history in the Dutch colonial era. (Monograph Series, 35.) xiii, 369 pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. $30 (paper $17).

Paul Alexander, Peter Boomgaard and Ben White (ed.): In the shadow of agriculture: non-farm activities in the Javanese economy, past and present. (CIP-Data Koninklijk Bibliothek, Den Haag.) [iv], 154 pp. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1991. £12.50.

Robert W. Hefner: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretative history, [xxii], 278 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1991. $34.95.

Nicole Revel: Fleurs de paroles: histoire naturelle palawan. i: Les dons de Nögsalad: w La maitrise d'un savoir et I'art d'une relation. (Ethnosciences, 5, 6. SELAF, no. 316, 317.) 374pp., 16 plates; 322 pp., 32 plates. Paris: Editions Peeters, 1990. BFr. 1770.

J. Noorduyn: A critical survey of studies on the languages of Sulawesi. (KITLV Bibliographical Series, 18.) xiv, 245 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1991. Guilders 45.

Dorothee Gruner: Die Lehm- Moschee am Niger. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 95.) 457 pp., 46 plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1990. DM 148.

Leonard Fox (ed. and tr.): Hainteny: the traditional poetry of Madagascar. 464 pp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990. £29.95.

Richard J. Hayward (ed.): Omotic language studies, xxvi, 639 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1990. £32.

Robert Nicolaï: Parentés linguistiques (à propos du songhay). 209 pp. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1990. Fr. 190.

†John Edgar: A Masalit grammar with notes on other languages of Ddrfur and Wadai. (Sprache und Oralitat in Afrika, Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik, 3.) 121 pp. + errata. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1989.

Kandioura Drame: The novel as transformation myth: a study of the novels of Mongo Beti and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. (Foreign and Comparative Studies. African Series, 43.) xi, 123 pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1990.

Alan Christopher Waterman: Juju: a social history and ethnography of an African popular music, xii, 277 pp. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. $45 (paper $16.95)

Bill Nasson: Abraham Esau's war: A black South African war in the Cape, 1899–1902. (African Studies Series, 68.) xxvi, 245 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35, $54.50.

H. J. Mackinder: The first ascent of Mount Kenya. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by K. Michael Barbour. x, 287 pp. London: C. Hurst, 1991. £25.

Luise White: The comforts of home: prostitution in colonial Nairobi, xiii, 285 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990 [pub. 1991]. $34.95 (paper $14.95).

David Parkin: Sacred void: spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 80.) xvii, 259 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35, $54.50.

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