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Takie Sugiyama Lebra(ed.): Japanese social organization. xi, 236 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. $34 (paper $14.95). - Takie Sugiyama Lebra: Above the clouds: status culture of the modernJapanese nobility. xvii, 430 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1993. $45.
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Richard H. Mitchell: Janus-faced justice: political criminals in imperial Japan. xvi, 235 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. $30.
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Robert S. Wicks: Money, markets, and trade in early Southeast Asia: the development of indigenous monetary systems to A.D. 1400. (Studies on Southeast Asia.) xii, 354 pp. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. $20.
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Hue-Tam Ho Tai: Radicalism and the origins of the Vietnamese Revolution. x, 325 pp. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. £23.25.
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Khing Hoc Dy: Contribution à I 'histoire de la littérature khmère. Vol. i: L'époque ‘classique’ (xve-xixe siècles). Vol. n: Ecrivains et expressions littéraires du Cambodge au xxème siècle. vi, 272 pp.; vi, 275 pp. Paris: Editions I'Harmattan, 1990, 1993.
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Robert Cribb: Historical dictionary of Indonesia. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 19.) xxiv, 663 pp. Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. £72.50. - Amarjit Kaur: Historical dictionary of Malaysia. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 13.) xxi, 301 pp. Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. £37.50.
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Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton(ed.): Anthropology, art and aesthetics. (Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Cultural Forms.) xiii, 281 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. £45.
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Jukka O. Miettinen: Classical dance and theatre in South-East Asia. xx, 175 pp., 32 [col.] plates. Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1992. £40.
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Nicholas Tarling: The fall of imperial Britain in South-East Asia. (South-East Asian Historical Monographs.) ix, 229 pp. Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1993. £20
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Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Abakar Adams: Lexique migama: migama-français et français-migama (Guéra, Tchad) avec une introduction grammaticale. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, 70. Bd.) 167 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1992. DM 79.a
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Zygmunt Frajzyngier: A dictionary of Mupun. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, Bd.ll.) xvii, 102 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1991. DM 65.
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Robert K. Herbert(ed.): Language and society in Africa: the theory and practice of sociolinguistics. x, [356] pp. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1992. (Distributed by UCL Press Ltd. £15.95.).
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Michael Noonan: A grammar of Lango. (Mouton Grammar Library, 7.) xvi, 352 pp. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. DM 228.
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Günter Best: Marakwet & Turkana: new perspectives on the material culture of East African societies/Neue Einblicke in die Materialle Kultur ostafrikanischer Gesellschaft [German/English parallel text]. (Sammlung 7: Afrika.) 259 pp. Frankfurt am Main: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1993. DM 42.
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Ivor Wilks: Forests of gold: essays on the Akan and the kingdom of Asante. xvii, 388 pp. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1993. $50.
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V. Y. Mudimbe: Parables and fables: exegesis, textuality, and politics in Central Africa. xxii, 238 pp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. $47.50 (paper $19.95).
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George Anton Kiraz: A computer-generated concordance to the Syriac New Testament according to the British and Foreign Bible Society's edition. Based on the SEDRA Database. [In six volumes.] xxxv, [4639] pp. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1993. Guilders 1,500, $858.
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Wilferd Madelung: Religious and ethnic movements in medieval Islam. (Collected Studies Series, CS364.) [x], [337] pp. Aldershot, Hants.: Variorum; Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1992. £49.50.
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Sidney H. Griffith: Arabic Christianity in the monasteries of ninth-century Palestine. (Collected Studies Series, CS380.) viii, 341 pp. Aldershot, Hants.: Variorum; Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1992. £49.50.
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Hala Kaleh and Simonetta Calderini: The intifada: the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: a bibliography of books and articles 1987–1992. (Middle East Libraries Committee Research Guides 6.) [vi], 59 pp., [60] pp. [in Arabic]. Oxford: Middle East Libraries Committee, 1993. £25.
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