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Volume 48 - Issue 1 - February 1985

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Donald Cosentino: Defiant maids and stubborn farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story Performance. (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, 3.) xii, 226 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1982]. £19.50.
C. P. Maccormack
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24 December 2009, pp. 195-196
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Marion Van Offelen: Nomads of Niger. Photographs by Carol Beckwith. 224 pp. London: Collins, 1984. £30.
H. T. Norris
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24 December 2009, pp. 196-197
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D. J. E. Maier Priests and power: the case of the Dente Shrine in nineteenthcentury Ghana. xiii, 258 pp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983 $22.50, £15.75.
John Middleton
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24 December 2009, pp. 197-198
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Meyer Fortes: Oedipus and Job in west African religion. With an essay by Robin Horton. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthroplology, 48.) ix, 289 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £16.50, $29.95 (Paper £5.95, $9.95).
Louis Brenner
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24 December 2009, pp. 198-199
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Dan O'Meara: Volkskapitalisme: class, capital and ideology in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, 1934-1948. xvi, 281 pp. (African Studies Series, 34.) Cambridge, etc.: Combridge University Press, 1983. £22.50, $44.50.
Freda Harcourt
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24 December 2009, pp. 199-200
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J. David Lewis-Williams: The rock art of Southern Africa. (The Imprint of Man.) 68 pp., 65 plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University press, 1983. £12.95, $19.95.
Robert Layton
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24 December 2009, pp. 200-201
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B. Z. Fischler (ed.) [and] Michael Riegler (comp.): Hebrew books, articles and doctoral theses on contemporary Hebrew published in Israel (1948005f;1980). (Studies and Research for Teachers of Hebrew as a Second Language, 6.) xiv, 194 pp. Jerusalem: Council on the Teaching of Hebrew, 1984.
Lewis Glinert
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24 December 2009, p. 201
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M. H. Bakalla: Arab linguistics: an introduction and bibliography. lxx, 662, [79] pp. [Arabic introduction] London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1983 £30.
J. Wansbrough
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24 December 2009, pp. 201-202
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Georges Vajda: La transmission du savoir en Islam (Vii_Xvvii siècles). Edited by Nicole Cottart. [vii], [319] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £26.
Norman Calder
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24 December 2009, p. 202
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M. H. Bakalla: Arab linguistics: an introduction and bibliography. lxx, 662, [79] pp. [Arabic introduction]. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1983. £30.
Norman Calder
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24 December 2009, p. 202
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Georges Vajda: La transmission du savoir en Islam (VIIe-XVIIIe sièckes). Edited by Nicole Cottart. [vii], [319] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £.
Norman calder
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24 December 2009, pp. 202-203
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Martin Lings: Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources. viii, 359 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin [and] The Islamic Texts Society, 1983. £12.50.
A. Rippin
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24 December 2009, p. 203
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C. F. Beckingham: Between Islam and Christendom: travellers, facts and legends in the Middle Ages and theRenaissance. [xiii], [313]. PP. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £26. - Jean Dauvillier: Histoire et institutions des Eglises orientales au moyen dge. [xi], [301] PP. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £26.
A. K. Irvine
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24 December 2009, pp. 203-204
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Hans Wilhelm Lockot (comp).: Bibliographia aethiorica: die äthiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigen Raums. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 9). 441 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 130.
A. K. Irvine
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24 December 2009, p. 204
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Akiner Shirin: Islamic peoples of the Souiet Union (with an appendix on the non-Muslim Turkic peoples Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union). xiii, 462 pp. London: Kegan Paul International, 1983. £25.
M. E. Y.
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24 December 2009, pp. 204-205
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Valery Stojanow: Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanischtūrkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik. Mit einer Bibliographie. (Islamkundlicher Untersuchungen, Bd. 76). [xiii], 329 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1983.
C. J. H.
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24 December 2009, p. 205
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Andre Clot: Soliman le magnifique. 469 pp. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1983.
C. J. H.
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24 December 2009, p. 205
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Hugh Tinker [ and ] Andrew| Griffin (ed).: Burma: the struggle for Independence 1944-1948. Constitutionalo relations Britain and Burma. Vol. I: From military occupation to civil government 1 January 1944 to 31 August 1946. cxxv, 1078 pp., front., 2 maps, 6 plates. London: HMSO, 1983. £95.
R. B. Smith
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24 December 2009, pp. 181-182
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K. S. Mathew: Portuguese trade with India in the sixteenth century. xv, 352 pp. Manohar, New Deihi: 1983.
C. R. Boxer
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24 December 2009, pp. 205-206
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Pauline Rohatgi: Portraits in the India Office Library and Records. xi, 414 pp., front London: The British Library, 1983.
C. Shackle
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24 December 2009, p. 206
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Volume 48 - Issue 1 - February 1985

Reviews

Donald Cosentino: Defiant maids and stubborn farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story Performance. (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, 3.) xii, 226 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1982]. £19.50.

Marion Van Offelen: Nomads of Niger. Photographs by Carol Beckwith. 224 pp. London: Collins, 1984. £30.

D. J. E. Maier Priests and power: the case of the Dente Shrine in nineteenthcentury Ghana. xiii, 258 pp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983 $22.50, £15.75.

Meyer Fortes: Oedipus and Job in west African religion. With an essay by Robin Horton. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthroplology, 48.) ix, 289 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £16.50, $29.95 (Paper £5.95, $9.95).

Dan O'Meara: Volkskapitalisme: class, capital and ideology in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, 1934-1948. xvi, 281 pp. (African Studies Series, 34.) Cambridge, etc.: Combridge University Press, 1983. £22.50, $44.50.

J. David Lewis-Williams: The rock art of Southern Africa. (The Imprint of Man.) 68 pp., 65 plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University press, 1983. £12.95, $19.95.

Short Notices

B. Z. Fischler (ed.) [and] Michael Riegler (comp.): Hebrew books, articles and doctoral theses on contemporary Hebrew published in Israel (1948005f;1980). (Studies and Research for Teachers of Hebrew as a Second Language, 6.) xiv, 194 pp. Jerusalem: Council on the Teaching of Hebrew, 1984.

M. H. Bakalla: Arab linguistics: an introduction and bibliography. lxx, 662, [79] pp. [Arabic introduction] London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1983 £30.

Georges Vajda: La transmission du savoir en Islam (Vii_Xvvii siècles). Edited by Nicole Cottart. [vii], [319] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £26.

M. H. Bakalla: Arab linguistics: an introduction and bibliography. lxx, 662, [79] pp. [Arabic introduction]. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1983. £30.

Georges Vajda: La transmission du savoir en Islam (VIIe-XVIIIe sièckes). Edited by Nicole Cottart. [vii], [319] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £.

Martin Lings: Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources. viii, 359 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin [and] The Islamic Texts Society, 1983. £12.50.

Hans Wilhelm Lockot (comp).: Bibliographia aethiorica: die äthiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigen Raums. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 9). 441 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 130.

Akiner Shirin: Islamic peoples of the Souiet Union (with an appendix on the non-Muslim Turkic peoples Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union). xiii, 462 pp. London: Kegan Paul International, 1983. £25.

Valery Stojanow: Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanischtūrkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik. Mit einer Bibliographie. (Islamkundlicher Untersuchungen, Bd. 76). [xiii], 329 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1983.

Andre Clot: Soliman le magnifique. 469 pp. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1983.

Hugh Tinker [ and ] Andrew| Griffin (ed).: Burma: the struggle for Independence 1944-1948. Constitutionalo relations Britain and Burma. Vol. I: From military occupation to civil government 1 January 1944 to 31 August 1946. cxxv, 1078 pp., front., 2 maps, 6 plates. London: HMSO, 1983. £95.

K. S. Mathew: Portuguese trade with India in the sixteenth century. xv, 352 pp. Manohar, New Deihi: 1983.

Pauline Rohatgi: Portraits in the India Office Library and Records. xi, 414 pp., front London: The British Library, 1983.

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