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R. E. Bradbury: Benin studies. Edited … by Peter Morton-Williams. xxi, 293 pp., 4 plates. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1973. £4.
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K. David Patterson: The northern Gabon coast to 1875. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xii, 167 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £4.75.
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Alain Delivré: L'histoire des rois d'lmerina: interprétation d'une tradition orale. (Publications du Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Université de Paris X.) 448 pp. Paris: Klinksieck, 1974 [pub. 1975]. Fr. 64.
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A. K. P. Kludze: Ghana, I. Ewe law of property. (School of Oriental and African Studies. Restatement of African Law, 6.) XXXV, 324 pp. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1973. £7.75.
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Jean Capron: Communautés villageoises bwa Mali-Haute-Volta. Tom. I, Fasc. 1. (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Mémoires de l'lnstitut d'Ethnologie, ix.) xxi, 371 pp., map [in end-pocket]. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1973.
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G. Dieterlen and Y. Cissé: Les fondements de la société d'initiation du Komo. (École Pratique des Hautes Études—Sorbonne. Sixième Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales. Cahiers de l'Homme: Ethnologie, Géographie, Linguistique. Nouvelle Série, x.) 331 pp., 6 plates. Paris, La Haye: Mouton & Co., 1972. Fr. 58.
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J. Binet: Sociétés de danse chez les Fang du Gabon. (Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, No. 17.) 170 pp. [Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, 1972.] Fr. 45.
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Josef Franz Thiel: La situation religieuse des Mbiem. (Centre d'Études Ethnologiques, Bandundu, République du Zaïre. Publications, Sér. II, Vol. 1.) 207 pp., 16 plates, [Bandundu: Centre d'Études Ethnologiques], [c1972]. (Distributed by Steyler Verlag, 5205 St. Augustin, Germany. DM 18.)
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Renate Lukas: Nicht-islamische Eihnien im südlichen Tschadraum. (Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Bd. 4.) [xiv], 565 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1973. DM 38.
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Christine Oppong: Growing up in Dagbon. xii, 13–79 pp., 8 plates. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1973.
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Ju. V. Bromlej (ed.): Osnovnye problemy afrikanistiki: etnografija, istorija, filologija. K 7O-letiju člena-korrespondenta AN SSSR D. A. Ol'derogge. (Akademija Nauk SSSR. Institut Etnografii im. N. N. Mikluxo-Maklaja. Vsesojužnoje Geografičeskoe Obščestvo.) 445 pp., front. + errata slip. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’, 1973. Rbls. 3.10.
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Gaston Wiet and others: The great medieval civilizations. By Gaston Wiet, Vadime Elisseef, Philippe Wolff and Jean Naudou, with contributions by Jean Devisse, Betty Meggers and Roger Green. (History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development, Vol. III.) 2 vols.: xx, 477 pp., 16 plates; xvii, 479–1082 pp., 48 plates. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. for the International Commission for a History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind, 1975. £22.
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M. A. K. Halliday: Learning how to mean: explorations in the development of language. (Explorations in Language Study.) [xii], 164 pp. London: Edward Arnold, 1975. £2.75.
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Rodney Needham (ed.): Right and left: essays on dual symbolic classification. xxxix, 449 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. $19.50, £9.75.
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Yigael Yadin: Hazor: the rediscovery of a great citadel of the Bible. 280 pp. + errata slip. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1975]. £5.25.
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Kathleen M. Kenyon: Digging up Jerusalem. xxxi, 288 pp., 64 plates. London and Tonbridge: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1974. £4.25.
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Ralph Lerner (tr.): Averroes on Plato's Republic. xxix, 176 pp. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. $15. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £6.90.)
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Alfred L. Ivry (tr.): Al-Kindī's metaphysics: a translation of Ya'qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī's treatise ‘On first philosophy’ (fī al-falsafah alūlā). (Studies in Islamic Philosophy and Science.) ix, 207 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974. $15.
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Dieter Derenk: Leben und Dichtung des Omaiyadenkalifen al-Walīd ibn Yazīd: ein quellenkritischer Beitrag. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 27.) [ii], 130, 93 pp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1974. DM 38.
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James A. Bellamy (ed.): The noble qualities of character, by Ibn Abīd-Dunyā. (Bibliotheca Islamica, Bd. 25.) xiii, 110, 174, [13] pp., 3 plates. Wiesbaden: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1973. DM 28.
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