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Volume 42 - Issue 1 - February 1979

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Walter Liebenthal (tr.): Wu-men Hui-k'ai: Ch'an-tsung wu-men kuan, Zutritt nur durch die Wand. (Sammlung Weltliteratur.) 142 pp., 2 plates. Heidelberg: Verlag Lambert Schneider, 1977. DM 34.

Ryoichi Hayashi: The Silk Road and the Shoso-in. Translated by Robert Ricketts. (The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Vol. 6.) 181 pp. New York: Weatherhill; Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1975. $12.50. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press. £8.50.)

B. J. Terwiel: Monks and magic: an analysis of religious ceremonies in central Thailand. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 24.) [ii], viii, 296 pp. Lund: Studentlitteratur; London: Curzon Press Ltd., 1975. £4.

Rainer Carle: Rendras Gedichtsammlungen (1957–1972): ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der zeitgenössischen indonesischen Literatur. (Veröffentlichungen des Seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 11.) [i], iv, 385 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1977. DM 29.

Koentjaraningrat: Anthropology in Indonesia: a bibliographical review. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Bibliographical Series, 8.) viii, 343 pp. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975 Guilders 45.

Lim Teck Ghee: Peasants and their agricultural economy in colonial Malaya, 1874–1941. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) xiv, 291 pp. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1977. £17.50.

David L. Snellgrove (ed.): The image of the Buddha. 482 pp. London: Serindia Publications/UNESCO, 1978. £25.

Bailey W. Diffie and George D. Winius: Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415–1580. (Europe and tie World in the Age of Expansion, Vol. i.) xxxii, 533 pp., 9 plates, 6 maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press [and] Oxford University Press, [c1977]. £17.50.

Ross Clark: Aspects of Proto-Polynesian syntax. (Te Reo Monographs.) 129 pp. [Auckland]: Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 1976. NZ $4.50.

Kenneth C. Wylie: The political kingdoms of the Temne: Temne government in Sierra Leone, 1825–1910. xix, 251 pp. New York [and] London: Africana Publishing Co., Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1977. $27.50. (Obtainable from Noonan Hurst Ltd., London, S.E. 10. £17.)

Willy De Craemer: The Jamaa and the Church: a Bantu Catholic movement in Zaïre. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) ix, 192 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. £8.

Lothar Störk: Die Nashörner: Verbreitungs- und kulturgeschichtliche Materialien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der afrikanischen Arten und des altāgyptischen Kulturbereiches. [ii], viii, 583 pp. Hamburg: Verlag Born GmbH, 1977.

Ruth Finnegan: Oral poetry: its nature, significance and social contextxiii, 299 pp., 4 plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £7.50.

Ruth Finnegan (ed.): The Penguin book of oral poetry, xxii, 548 pp. London: Allen Lane, 1978. £6.50.

Richard C. Steiner: The case for fricative-laterals in Proto-Semitic. (American Oriental Series, Vol. 59.) xi, 202 pp. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1977. $8.

Short Notices

Albert Kirk Grayson (tr.): Assyrian royal inscriptions. Part 2. From Tiglath-pileser I to Ashur-nasir-apli II. (Records of the Ancient Near East, Vol. II.) xix, 213 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976. DM 84.

Imtiyāẓ ʻAlī ʻArshī (comp.): Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in Raza Library, Rampur. Vols. 4–6. (Raza Library Publication Series, Nos. 16–18.) vi, 615; vi, 623; vi, 269 pp. + errata slip. Rampur: Raza Library Trust, 1971, 1975, 1977. Rs. 30, 40, 20.

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