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Volume 34 - February 1971

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Jack Goody: Comparative studies in kinship. xvii, 261 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 42s.
M. Blocil
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François Bontinck (tr.): Diaire congolais (1690–1701) de Fra Luca da Caltanisetta, O.F.M. cap. (Publications de l'Université Lovanium de Kinshasa, 24.) liv, 249 pp., 3 plates, 2 maps. Louvain: Éditions Nauwelaerts; Paris: Béatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1970. Bel. fr. 590.
Richard Gray
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Charles Le Cœur: Mission au Tibesti: carnets de route, 1933–1934, édités par Marguerite Le Caur. 216 pp., 17 plates, 2 maps. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1969. Fr. 35.

Franklin E. Huffman: Cambodian system of writing and beginning reader, with drills and glossary. (Yale Linguistic Series.) xii, 365 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970. $12, £5 8s.

Raymond Firth: [Studies in Tikopia religion. [Vol. 3.] Rank and religion in Tikopia: a study in Polynesian paganism and conversion to Christianity. 424 pp., 8 plates. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1970. £5.

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John Beattie and John Middleton (ed.): Spirit mediumship and society in Africa, xxx, 310 pp., 8 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 50s.

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Walter Rodney: A history of the Upper Guinea coast, 1545–1800. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xiii, 283 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 50s.

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William Bascom: Ifa divination: communication between gods and men in West Africa. xii, 575 pp., 15 plates. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press, [1969]. $20, £9 6s.

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Kay Williamson and Kiyoshi Shimizu (ed.): Benne-Congo comparative word-list. [Vol. 1.] [ii], xxxviii, 233 pp. Ibadan: West African Linguistic Society, 1968. 50s.

John Peterson: Province of freedom: a history of Sierra Leone, 1787–1870. 354 pp. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. 70s.

Murray Last: The Sokoto caliphate. (Ibadan History Series.) lxxxii, 280 pp., front., 8 plates. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1967. 55s.

D. W. Arnott: The nominal and verbal systems of Fula. xiv, 432 pp. + 5 tables in end-pocket. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. £6.50.

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Anne Retel-Laurentin: Oracles et ordalies chez les Nzakara. (École Pratique des Hautes Études—Sorbonne. Sixième Section: Science Économiques et Sociales. Le Monde d'Outre-Mer, Passé et Présent. Premièe Série: Études, XXXIII.) 418 pp., 8 plates. Paris, La Haye: Mounton & Co., 1969. Fr. 63.

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Daniel Biebuyck and Kahombo C. Mateene (ed. and tr.): The Mwindo epic from the Banyanga (Congo Republic), x, 213 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. $7. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. 67s.)

Obaro Ikime: Niger Delta rivalry: Itsekiri-Urhobo relations and the European presence, 1884–1936. (Ibadan History Series.) xxi, 301 pp., 6 plates, 3 maps. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1969. 65s.

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Victor W. Turner: The ritual process: structure and anti-structure. (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, 1966.) x, 213 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 55s.

Meyer Fortes: Kinship and the social order: the legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan. (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, 1963.) xii, 347 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. 80s.

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Ruth Finnegan: Oral literature in Africa. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) xix, 558 pp., map. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. £5.

Shula Marks: Reluctant rebellion: the 1906–8 disturbances in Natal. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xxv, 411 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. £4.

Leonard Thompson (ed.): African societies in southern Africa: historical studies. xiii, 336 pp. London, etc.: Heinemann, 1969. 50s.

Book Review

Jack Goody: Comparative studies in kinship. xvii, 261 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 42s.

Reviews

François Bontinck (tr.): Diaire congolais (1690–1701) de Fra Luca da Caltanisetta, O.F.M. cap. (Publications de l'Université Lovanium de Kinshasa, 24.) liv, 249 pp., 3 plates, 2 maps. Louvain: Éditions Nauwelaerts; Paris: Béatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1970. Bel. fr. 590.

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