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C. R. Boxer: Portuguese merchantsand missionaries in feudal Japan,1543–1640.(Collected Studies.) [viii], 330 pp. London: VariorumReprints, 1986. £32. - C. R. Boxer: Dutch merchants and mariners in Asia, 1602-1795. (Collected Studies.) [viii] 342pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986. £34. - J. S. Cummins: Jesuit and friar in the Spanish expansion to the East. (Collected Studies.) ix [225] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986. £30.
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Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P. Lebra (ed.): Japanese culture and behavior: selected readings. Revised edition, xix, 428 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. $12.95.
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Frank K. Upham: Law and social change in postwar Japan, x, 262 pp. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. £19.95
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William P. Malm: Six hidden views of Japanese music. xxii, 222 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1986. £27.25.
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John Stevenson: Yoshitoshi's women: the woodblock print series 'Fuzoku sanjuniso'. Boulder, Colorado: Avery Press, 1986. (Distributed by the University of Washington Press, $19.95.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 394-395
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Irene Nørlund, Sven Cederroth and Ingela Gerdin (ed.): Ricesocieties: Asian problems and prospects., (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Studies on Asian Topics, 10.) x, 321 pp. London: Curzon Press; Riverdale, Maryland: The Riverdale Company, 1986. £6.95.
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Viggo Brun and Trond Schumacher: Traditional herbal medicine in Northern Thailand, with a list of medicinal plants by Terje Bjørnland and Trond Schumacher. (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care.) xx, 349 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 395-396
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Hans Kāhler: Enggano-Deutsches Worterbuch: aus dem Nachlass hrsg. und mit einem Deutsch-Enggano-Wörterverzeichnis versehen von Hans Schmidt. (Veröffentlichungen des Seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 14.) 424 pp. Berlin and Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1987. DM68.
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Claude Hagège: La langue palau: une curiosité typologique. (Forms of Language Structure, 1.) 140 pp. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1986. - Ger P. Reesink: Structures and their functions in Usan: a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. (Studies in Language. Companion Series, 13.) xvi, 369 pp. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1986.
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Michael Mann, David Dalby and others: A thesaurus of African languages: a classified and annotatedinventory of the spoken languages of Africa. With an Appendix on their written representation. [ix], 325 pp. London, München, New York and Paris: Hans Zell Publishers, for the International African Institute, 1987. £48.
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Arnold Fischer, Elisabeth Weiss, Ernest Mdala and Sonwabo Tshabe: (ed.): English-Xhosa Dictionary. x738 pp. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1985.£8.95
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- 24 December 2009, p. 400
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John Markakis: National and classconflict in the Horn of Africa (African Studies Series, 55.) xvii, 314 pp Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1987 £27.50 ($44 50) - Christopher Clapham: Transformation and continuity in revolutionary Ethiopia. (African Studies Series, 61.) xviii, 284 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. £25 ($42.50).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 400-402
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Randall L. Pouwels: Horn and Crescent: cultural change and traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900. (African Studies Series, 53.) xiv, 273 pp.Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £27.50, $49.50.
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Kwame Gyekye: An essay on African philosophical thought: the Akan conceptual scheme, xvi, 246 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £27.50 ($39.50).
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Katheryne S Loughran, John L Loughran, John William Johnson and Said Sheikh Samatar (ed.): Somalia in word and image. 175 pp. Washington D.C.: Foundation for Cross-Cultural Understanding, 1986.
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Marc R Schloss: The hatchet's blood: separation, power and gender in Ehing social life. (The Anthropology of Form and Meaning.) xv, 178 pp. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1988.
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Albert Van Dantzig and Adam Jones (ed. and tr.): Description and historical account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602), [by] Pieter de Marees (Union Academique nternationale. Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia, v.) xxvi, 272 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1987. £ 37.50
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Hans Singer, John Wood and Tony Jennings: Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity, xiv, 245 pp.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. £25 (paper £ 8.95).
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Richard A. Joseph: Democracy and prebendal politics in Nigeria: the rise and fall of the Second Republic. (African Studies Series, 56). ix, 237 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £27.50, $42.50.
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Tomas Hägg (ed.): Nubian culture past and present. Main papers presented at the sixth International Conference for Nubian Studies in Uppsala, 11-16 August1986. 438 pp. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell [1987]. Skr. 195.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 408-410
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