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Volume 52 - February 1989

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Siegbert Uhlig and Bairu Tafla(ed.): Collectanea aethiopica. (Athiopistische Forschungen, Bd.26.) 233 pp.Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988.DM 340.

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Graham Penelope: Iban Shamanism: an analysis of the ethnographic literature. (Occasional Paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies.) x, 174 pp., plate. Canberra: Australian National University, 1987. $A 12, $US 12.

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Ahmed Al-Shahi (ed.): The diversity of the Muslim community: anthropological essays in memory of peter Lienhardt. vi, 161 pp. London: Ithaca Press for the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 1987. £ 15.

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Elson R. E.: Javanese peasants and the colonial sugar industry: impact and change in an East Java residency, 1830–1940. xxiv, 281 pp. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984 [pub. 1985]. £17.

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Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami and Jawaharlal Handoo (ed.): Folktalesof India. (Folktales of the World.)xxxi, 357 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. £23.95, $35.95.

Hilip Mansel: Sultans in splendour. The last years of the Ottoman world. 192 pp. London: Andre Deutsch, 1988. £17.95.

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Coates Austin: The commerce in rubber: the first 250 years, xv, 380 pp., 32 plates, 2 maps [on end papers]. Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press [for the] Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association, 1987 [pub. 1988]. £25.

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Amaur Kaur Jasbir Singh: A guide to source materials in the India Office Library and Records for the history of Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan1765– 1950. viii, 187.pp. London: The British Library, 1988. £.

N. J Allen, R. F Gombrich, T Raychaudhuri and G Rizvi(ed.): Oxford University Papers on India. Vol. i, Part 2. xv, 151 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1987. Rs llO

Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major: The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks 1380–1780. xxii, 201 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press: 1986. £25,$44.50.

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Anceaux J. C.: Wolio dictionary (Wolio–English–Indonesian)/Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio–Inggeris– Indonesia). (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.) xviii, 195 pp. Dordrecht and Providence: Foris Publications, 1987. Guilders 60.

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Fabrizia Baldissera and Axel Michaels: Der indische Tanz: Körpersprache in Vollendung. 210 pp. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1988.

Joseph Needham, Wang Ling and J. DE Solla Price: Heavenly clockwork: the great astronomical clocks of medieval China. Second edition, with supplement by John H. Combridge. xvi, 266 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £35, $60.

Amaur Kaur Jasbir Singh: A guide to source materials in the India Office Library and Records for the history of Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan 1765–1950. viii, 187 pp. London: The British Library, 1988. £30.

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Seltmann Friedrich: Die Kalang, eine Volksgruppe auf Java und ihre Stamm-Mythe: ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Javas. 430 pp., 2 foldout maps, table [in end pocket]. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden GmbH1987. DM 244.

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Julian F. Pas: A select bibliography on Taoism. (IASWR Bibliographical Monographs, no. 1)xiv, 52 pp. Stony Brook, N.Y.: Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions, 1988.

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Hovdhaugen Even: From the land of Nāfamta: Samoan oral texts in transcription with translation, notes and vocabulary. (Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning. Serie B, skrifter, 72.) 224 pp. Front. Oslo, Norwegian University Press, 1987.

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Ludwig W. Adamec: A biographical dictionary of contemporary Afghanistan, vi, 252 pp., 24 plates. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1987.

†Henry Serruys: The Mongols and Ming China: customs and history. Edited by Françoise Aubin. (Collected Studies Series), x, [252] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987. £32.

Knud LundbÆk: The traditional history of the Chinese script. 64 pp. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1988. DKr. 204, $64.

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