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Volume 55 - Issue 1 - February 1992

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Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka: The school in the service of evangelization: the Catholic educational impact in Eastern Nigeria 1886–1950.(Studies on Religion in Africa, vi.) xv, 317 pp. Leiden, etc.: E. J. Brill. 1989. Guilders 180.
Richard Gray
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05 February 2009, p. 189
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Muneera Salem-Murdock and Michael M. Horowitz with Monica Sella (ed.): Anthropology and development in North Africa and the Middle East. (IDA Monographs in Development Anthropology.) [xi], 360 pp. Boulder, CO. and Summertown, Oxford: Westview Press, 1991. £27.
Johan Pottier
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05 February 2009, pp. 189-191
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James Ferguson: The anti-politics machine: ‘development’, depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. xvi, 320 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press. 1990. £32.50, $49.50.
Christopher A. Whann
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05 February 2009, pp. 191-192
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Richard Fardon (ed.): Localizing strategies: regional traditions of ethnographic writing. x, 360 pp. Edinburgh; Scottish Academic Press; Washington; Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. $39.95.
Jonathan Spencer
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05 February 2009, pp. 192-193
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Joshua A. Fishman: Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective. (Multilingual Matters, 45.) x, 717 pp. Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. 1989.
Lewis Glinert
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05 February 2009, p. 193
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Philip D. Curtin: Death by migration: Europe's encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century. xix, 251 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press. 1990. £27.50, $39.50 (paper £8.95, $11.95).
Nigel Crook
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05 February 2009, p. 194
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F. E. Peters, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: the classical texts and their interpretation. Vol. I: From covenant to community; Vol. II: The word and the law and the people of God; Vol. III: The works of the spirit. xxv, 408 pp.; xxv, 395 pp.; xxv, 408 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. $75 (paper $14.95 each).
A. Rippin
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05 February 2009, p. 195
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William Montgomery Watt: Early Islam: collected articles. xi, 207 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. £25.
A. Rippin
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Catherine Taine-Cheikh: Dictionnaire Ḥassāniyya Français. Fasc. 2–6. Tā'–Žīm; Ḥā'–Xā' Dāl–Rā' Zā'–Sīn; Sīn–Sād. Cover titles, 361–1267 pp. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1989–1990. Fr. 180, 180, 240, 180, 180.
H. T. Norris
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05 February 2009, p. 196
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Klaus Herdeg: Formal structure in Islamic architecture of Iran and Turkistan. 71 pp. New York: Rizzoli, 1990. £25.
J. M. Rogers
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05 February 2009, p. 196
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Nicolaas H. Biegman: Egypt, Moulids, Saints, Sufis. 175 pp. The Hague: Gary Schwartz, 1990; London: Kegan Paul International, 1991. £25.
H. T. Norris
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05 February 2009, pp. 196-197
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S. C. Munro-Hay and others: Excavations at Aksum: an account of research at the ancient Ethiopian capital directed in 1972–74 by the late Neville Chittick. Volume editor D. W. Phillipson. (British Institute in Eastern Africa, Memoir 10.) xvi, 359 pp. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989.
A. F. L. Beeston
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James W. Stone and Roshna M. Kapadia: Hindi newspaper reader: Hindī samācār pāṭhmālā. vii, 205, [7] pp. Wheaton, MD.: Dunwoody Press, 1990.
Rupert Snell
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05 February 2009, pp. 197-198
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A. R. Desai (ed.): Repression and resistance in India: violation of democratic rights of the working class, rural poor, Adivasis and Dalits. xxii, 370 pp. London: Sangam Books, 1990. £25.95.
W. F. Menskl
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05 February 2009, p. 198
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Ann-Ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman (ed. and tr.): Tai Chen on Mencius: explorations in words and meanings: a translation of the Meng Tzu tzu-i shu-cheng with a critical introduction. [xi], 222 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. £19.95, $35.
Martina Deuchler
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05 February 2009, pp. 198-199
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John S. Rohsenow: A Chinese–English dictionary of enigmatic folk similes (xiehouyu). xvii, 324 pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. $45.
Hugh D. R. Baker
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05 February 2009, p. 199
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Ramón Ma. Zaragoza: Old Manila. (Images of Asia.) ix, 77 pp. Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1990. £6.95.
Ian Brown
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05 February 2009, pp. 199-200
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Janet MacGaffey: Entrepreneurs and parasites: the struggle for indigenous capitalism in Zaire. (African Studies Series, 57.) xiii, 241 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1988] £27.50, $42.50.
Michael Hodd
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05 February 2009, p. 200
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Mats Lundahl and Thommy Svensson (ed.): Agrarian society in history: essays in honour of Magnus Mörner. x, 374 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.
R. E. F. Smith
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05 February 2009, pp. 201-204
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Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka: The school in the service of evangelization: the Catholic educational impact in Eastern Nigeria 1886–1950.(Studies on Religion in Africa, vi.) xv, 317 pp. Leiden, etc.: E. J. Brill. 1989. Guilders 180.

Muneera Salem-Murdock and Michael M. Horowitz with Monica Sella (ed.): Anthropology and development in North Africa and the Middle East. (IDA Monographs in Development Anthropology.) [xi], 360 pp. Boulder, CO. and Summertown, Oxford: Westview Press, 1991. £27.

James Ferguson: The anti-politics machine: ‘development’, depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. xvi, 320 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press. 1990. £32.50, $49.50.

Richard Fardon (ed.): Localizing strategies: regional traditions of ethnographic writing. x, 360 pp. Edinburgh; Scottish Academic Press; Washington; Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. $39.95.

Joshua A. Fishman: Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective. (Multilingual Matters, 45.) x, 717 pp. Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. 1989.

Philip D. Curtin: Death by migration: Europe's encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century. xix, 251 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press. 1990. £27.50, $39.50 (paper £8.95, $11.95).

Short Notices

William Montgomery Watt: Early Islam: collected articles. xi, 207 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. £25.

Catherine Taine-Cheikh: Dictionnaire Ḥassāniyya Français. Fasc. 2–6. Tā'–Žīm; Ḥā'–Xā' Dāl–Rā' Zā'–Sīn; Sīn–Sād. Cover titles, 361–1267 pp. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1989–1990. Fr. 180, 180, 240, 180, 180.

Klaus Herdeg: Formal structure in Islamic architecture of Iran and Turkistan. 71 pp. New York: Rizzoli, 1990. £25.

Nicolaas H. Biegman: Egypt, Moulids, Saints, Sufis. 175 pp. The Hague: Gary Schwartz, 1990; London: Kegan Paul International, 1991. £25.

James W. Stone and Roshna M. Kapadia: Hindi newspaper reader: Hindī samācār pāṭhmālā. vii, 205, [7] pp. Wheaton, MD.: Dunwoody Press, 1990.

A. R. Desai (ed.): Repression and resistance in India: violation of democratic rights of the working class, rural poor, Adivasis and Dalits. xxii, 370 pp. London: Sangam Books, 1990. £25.95.

Ann-Ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman (ed. and tr.): Tai Chen on Mencius: explorations in words and meanings: a translation of the Meng Tzu tzu-i shu-cheng with a critical introduction. [xi], 222 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. £19.95, $35.

John S. Rohsenow: A Chinese–English dictionary of enigmatic folk similes (xiehouyu). xvii, 324 pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. $45.

Ramón Ma. Zaragoza: Old Manila. (Images of Asia.) ix, 77 pp. Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1990. £6.95.

Janet MacGaffey: Entrepreneurs and parasites: the struggle for indigenous capitalism in Zaire. (African Studies Series, 57.) xiii, 241 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1988] £27.50, $42.50.

Mats Lundahl and Thommy Svensson (ed.): Agrarian society in history: essays in honour of Magnus Mörner. x, 374 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.

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