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Volume 40 - Issue 2 - June 1977

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James W. St. G. Walker: The Black Loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870. (Dalhousie African Studies Series.) xvii, 438 pp., 8 plates. London: Longman and Dalhousie University Press, 1976. £8.75.

Joseph C. Miller: Kings and kinsmen: early Mbundu states in Angola. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xx, 312 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. £9.50.

Guy Nicolas. Dynamique sociale et appréhension du monde au sein d'une société hausa. (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Travaux et Mémoires de l'lnstitut d'Ethnologie, LXXVIII.) 661 pp., 5 plates. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1975.

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J. Harmatta and G. Komoróczy (ed.): Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im alten Vorderasien. 540 pp. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1976. £18.40.

Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green: The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Near East. (American Schools of Oriental Research. Dissertation Series, No. 1.) xvi, 383 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for the American Schools of Oriental Research, [C1975].

Markus Wäfler: Nicht-Assyrer neuassyrischer Darstellungen. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 26.) xiii, 394 pp., 34 plates [bound separately]. Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon und Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1975. DM 245.

Yigael Yadin (ed.): Jerusalem revealed: archaeology in the holy city, 1968–1974. English translation and abridgement by R. Grafman. vii, 139 pp., 4 plates. New Haven and London: Yale University Press and the Israel Exploration Society, 1976. $12.95, £9.30.

Jacob Neusner: A history of the Mishnaic law of purities. Parts 12–14. (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, Vol. 6.) xvi, 230; xvi, 226; xviii, 235 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 288.

Rudolf Macuch: Zur Sprache und Literatur der Mandäer. Mit Beiträgen von Kurt Rudolph und, Eric Segelberg. (Studia Mandaica, Bd. i.) xii, 263 pp. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1976. DM 160.

E. Y. Kutscher: Studies in Galilean Aramaic. Translated … by Michael Sokoloff. (Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture.) x, 114 pp. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, [1976].

T. F. Mitchell: Principles of Firthian linguistics. (Longman Linguistics Library, 19.) xviii, 213 pp. London: Longman, 1975. £6.50.

Charles Pellat: Études sur l'histoire socio-culturelle de l'lslam (viie–xve s.). (Collected Studies Series.) [x, 386], xi pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1976. £13.50.

M. P. Hornik (ed.): Collected studies honour of Américo Castro's eightieth year. Second edition. (The Richard Kronstein Foundation for the Promotion of Jewish and Cognate Studies.) 483 pp. Oxford: Lincombe Lodge Research Library, 1975.

Alex Carmel: Geschichte Haifas in der türkischen Zeit, 1516–1918. (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästinavereins.) [vi], 162 pp., 16 plates. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1975. DM44.

Oleg Grabar: Studies in medieval Islamic art. (Collected Studies Series.) [ix, 388] pp., 56 plates. London: Variorum Reprints, 1976. £24.

Donald P. Little (ed.): Essays on Islamic civilization presented to Niyazi Berkes. vii, 364 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 80.

Journal of Mithraic Studies. Vol. 1, No. 1. vi, 106 pp., 8 plates. London, etc.: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. £7.50 per annum.

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