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THE DRAGONFLIES OF EUROPE. By R. R. Askew. 291pp
THE HYMENOPTERA. Edited by Ian Gauld and Barry Bolton.
CIE GUIDE TO INSECTS OF IMPOR-TANCE TO MAN. 1. Lepidoptera. By J. D. Holloway, J. D. Bradley, D. J. Carter. Edited by C. R. Betts. CAB International Institute of Entomology & British Museum Natural History.     

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Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange . By Annette B. Weiner. ‘Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man . Edited by Roger M. Keesing. Birds of My Kalam Country: Mnmon Yad Kalam Yakt . By Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer. Australian Aboriginal Concepts . Edited by L. R. Hiatt. Killing Me Softly: The Destruction of a Heritage . Phyl and Noel Wallace. Thomas Nelson (Australia). Mediterranean Family Structures . Edited by J. G. Peristiany. Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana: the Railway-men of Secondi . By Richard Jeffries. Language and Thought. Anthropological Issues . Edited by W. C. McCormack and S. A. Wurm. The Anthropology of the Body . Edited by John Blacking. Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction . Edited by Esther N. Goody. Ethics in Social and Behavioural Research . By Edward Diener and Rick Crandall. Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginnings to the Present . Edited by R. P. Schaedel, J. E. Hardoy and N. S. Kinzer. Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea . By Virginia Drew Watson and J. David Cole. Fire and Hearth: A Study of Aboriginal Usage and European Usurpation in South-western Australia . By Sylvia J. Hallam. Art in Society . Edited by Michael Greenhalgh and Vincent Megaw. Form in Indigenous Art: Schematization in the Art of Aboriginal Australia and Prehistoric Europe . Edited by Peter J. Ucko. Stone Tools as Cultural Markers: Change, Evolution and Complexity . Edited by R. V. S. Wright. Early Hydraulic Civilisation in Egypt. A Study in Cultural Ecology . By Karl W. Butzer.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
BONING, J.: The insect ovary. Ultrastructure, previtello-genic growth and evolution
ROBINSON, G. S.; NIELSEN, E. S.: Tineid Genera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, Vol. 2
COMMON, I. F. B.: Oecophorine genera of Australia I. The Wingia group. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, Vol. 3
REAL, L. A. (ed.): Ecological genetics
KRIMBAS, C. B.: Drosophila subobscura. Biology, Genetics and Inversion Polymorphism
BENECKE, N.: Der Mensch und seine Haustiere     

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The Ieland of Menatruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea. By Ian Hogbin Anthropology in Oceania: Essays presented to Ian Hogbin. Edited by L. R. Hiatt and C. Jaywardena Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion. By Roy Wagner The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. By Paula Brown Physical Anthropology of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. By R. A. Littlewood Change and Development in Rural Melanesia. Edited by Marion Ward A Study in Structural Semantics: The Siriono Kinship System. By Harold W. Scheffler and Floyd G. Lounsbury Three Styles in the Study of Kinship. By J. A. Barnes Socialization: The Approach from Social Anthropology. Edited by Philip Mayer Primitive Law, Past and Present. By A. S. Diamond The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Edited by T. O. Beidelman Essays on the Caste Syetem. By Celestin Bouglé Religious Experience: its nature and function in the human psyche. By Walter Houston Clark Man for Humanity. On Concordance vs Discord in Human Behavior. Edited by H Masserman and J. J. Schwab. Charles C. Thomas The Emergence of Man. By John E. Pfeiffer Papers in Economic Prehistory: Studies by Members and Associates of the British Academy Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture. Edited by E. S. Higgs Yirawala, Artist and Man. By Sandra le Brun Holmes Science and Archaeology. Edited by Robert H. Brill Tongues of Men and Angela. By William J. Samarin. Macmillan Biology: A Search for Order in Complexity. By J. N. Moore and H. S. Slusher Moko: or Maori Tattooing. By H. G. Robley. Chapman and Hall Frozen Tombs: the Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen. By Sergei I. Rudenko Anthropology for our Times. By Lois Brauer Cover     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sociology and Psychology: Essays by Marcel Mauss. Translated by Ben Brewster Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology. Marcel Mauss, in Collaboration with Henri Beauchat. Translated, with a Foreword by James J. Fox Role Theory. Bruce J. Biddle Social Anthropology and Law. Edited by Ian Hammett ASA Monograph 14 Order and Dispute. An Introduction to Legal Anthropology. Simon Roberts Islam and Politics in a Malay State. Kelantan. 1838–1969. Clive S. Kessler Himalayan Anthropology. The Indo-Tibetan Interface. Edited by James F. Fisher Applied Anthropology In America. Edited by Elizabeth M. Eddy and William L. Partridge Growing Up in Polynesia. By Jane and James Ritchie Human Adaptation. A Functional Interpretation. A. Roberto Frisancho The Anthropology of Health. Eleanor Bauwens Perspectives on Ethnicity. Edited by R. E. Holloman and S. A. Arutiunov Europe as a Cultural Area. Edited by Jean Cuisenier Modern Greek Humour: A Collection of Jokes and Ribald Tales. Ethelyn G. Orso Portraits of ‘The Whiteman’: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Mission to the Islands. The Missionary Voyages in in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg, 1872–1885. Edited, with an introduction by Stephen Murray-Smith Among Cannibals: Account of Four Years Travels in Australia, and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland. Carl Lumholtz. John Murray, London, 1889. Reprinted by Caliban Books But Now We Want the Land Back. A History of the Australian Aboriginal People Hannah Middleton A Matter of Justice. C. D. Rowley A Black Reality, Aboriginal Camps and Housing in Remote Australia. Edited by Australian Aboriginal Art: The Art of the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory. Robert Edwards The Rainbow Serpent. A Chromatic Piece. Edited by Ira R. Buchler and Kenneth Maddock A Grammar of Yidin. R. M. W. Dixon Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology. An Approach to Psychic Unity and Enculturation. Edited by Marvin D. Loflin and James Silverberg Explorations in Language and Meaning: Towards a Semantic Anthropology. Malcolm Crick Approaches to Language. Anthropological Issues. Edited by William C. McCormack and Stephen A. Wurm Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory. Volume 1. Edited by Michael B. Schiffer Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. Ian Hodder and Clive Orton Stone Axe Studies. Archaeological, Petrological, Experimental, and Ethnographic. Edited by T. H. McK. Clough and W. A. Cummins. C.B.A. Megaliths, myths and men. An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology. Peter Lancaster Brown The Prehistory of Polynesia. Edited by Jesse D. Jennings New Zealand Journal of Archaeology , Volume 1. The New Zealand Archaeological Association Archaeological Research in the Cook Islands. Peter S. Bellwood Man's Conquest of the Pacific. The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania     

Reviews of Publications

Book reviewed in this article:
Parasitoids. Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology
Oecophorine Genera of Australia, Vol. 1 The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 3
Predation and defence amongst reptiles by J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson.
Tnlobites by H. B. Whittington.
Snakes of the World: A Checklist. Vol.1, Venomous Snakes; Vol.2, Boas, Pythons, Shield-tails and Worm snakes
Hedgehogs, by N. Reeve
Tettigoniidae of Australia. Vol. 2, The Austrosaginae, Zaprochilinae and Phasmodinae, by D. C. F. Rentz. Victoria, Australia
Antarctic Seals: Research Models and Techniques
The Freshwater Crustacea of Yorkshire. A Faunistic and Ecological Survey
Butterflies and Climate Change
Mammoths, Mastodonts and Elephants. Biology, Behaviour, and the Fossil Record
Beetle Larvae of the World     

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Book reviewed in this article: Karavar: Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual. By Frederick Karl Errington. Tribes and Boundaries in Australia. Edited by Nicholas Peterson. Bengali Women. By Manisha Roy. World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand Against a Historical Background. By S. J. Tambiah. Monks and Magic: An Analysis of Religious Ceremonies in Central Thailand. By B. J. Terwiel. Woman Cross Culturally: Change and Challenge. Edited by Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt. War. Its Causes and Correlates. Edited by M. A. Nettleship, R. D. Givens and A. Nettleship. Discussions on War and Human Aggression. Edited by R. D. Givens and M. A. Nettleship. Transaction and Meaning. Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behaviour. Edited by Bruce Kapferer. Population, Ecology and Social Evolution. Edited by Steven Polgar. Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware. By Margaret Medley. The Art of Easter Island. By Thor Heyerdahl. The Lapita Pottery Style in Fiji and its Associations, By S. M. Mead, Lawrence Birks, Helen Birks and Elizabeth Shaw. People of the Eland. By Patricia Vinnicombe. The Cache River Archaeological Project: An Experiment in Contract Archaeology. Assembled by M. B. Schiffer and John H. House. Human Origins. Louis Leakey and the East African Evidence. Edited by G. LI. Isaac and E. R. McCown. Earliest Man and Environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin. Stratigraphy, Palaeoecology, and Evolution. Edited by Y. Coppens, F. C. Howell, G. LI. Isaac and R. E. F. Leakey. After the Australopithecines. Stratigraphy, Ecology and Culture in the Middle Pleistocene. Edited by K. W. Butzer and G. LI. Isaac. Archaeological Atlas of the World. By David and Ruth Whitehouse. Çatal Hüyük in Perspective. By Ian A. Todd. Black Viewpoints, The Aboriginal Experience. Edited by Colin Tatz.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
NIELSEN, E. S.; EDWARDS, D. S.; RANGSI, T. V. (eds): Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera,
CALDER A A.: Click-beetles: genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on invertebrate taxonomy
HARTL, B.; MARKOWSKI, (eds): Ecological genetics in mammals 11. Acta Theriologica
BAUER, K.; SCHREIBER, A.: Primate phylogeny from a human perspective.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Plant Community History: Long-term Changes in Plant Distribution and Diversity
J. H. Tallis Global Forest Resources
A. S. Mather Species Dispersal in Agricultural Habitats
Edited by R. G. H. Bunce and D. C. Howards The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions, and Habitats of Australian Odonata
J. A. L. Watson, G. Theischinger and H. M. Abbey Monsoonal Australia: Landscape, Ecology and Man in the Northern Lowlands
Edited by C. D. Haynes, M. G. Ridpath and M. A. J. Williams, A. A. Balkema Ferns and Allied Plants of Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia
B. D. Duncan and G. Isaac Ferns of Queensland
S. B. Andrews Introduction to Vegetation Analysis
D. R. Causton, Unwin Hyman     

REVIEWS

P olar B ears . Ian Stirling, with photographs by Dan Guravich.
W hales , D olphins and P orpoises . Consulting Editors Sir Richard Harrison and Dr. M. M. Bryden.
B iology and C onservation of the R iver D olphin s. W. F. Perrin, R. L. Brownell, Jr., Z. Kaiya and L. Jiankang (eds.).
A nimal S ona r. P rocesses and P erformanc e. P. E. Nachtigall and P. W. B. Moore (eds.).
N orth A tlantic K iller W hale s. J. Sigurjonsson and S. Leatherwood (eds.).     

BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN

Dugdale, J. S.: Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue and keys to family-group taxa.
Heimer, S.; Nentwig, W.: Spinnen Mitteleuropas - Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Berlin und Hamburg: Verlag Paul Parey 1991.
Brauns, A.: Taschenbuch der Waldinsekten. Grundriß einer terrestrischen Bestands-und Standort-Entomologie.
Löser, S.: Exotische Insekten, Tausendfüßer und Spinntiere.
Hewitt, G.M.; Johnston, A.W. B.; Young, J. P. W. (eds.): Molecular techniques in taxonomy .
Henkel, F.W.; Schmidt, W.: Geckos. Biologie, Haltung und Zucht.
Nickel/Schummer/Seiferle: Lehrbuch der Anatomie der Haustiere .
Z ell , R.A.: Das Gen-Zeitalter - Menschen, Mächte, Moleküle.     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article: Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates. Vol. VI. Echinoderms and Lophophorates, edited by A. C. Giese, J. S. Pearse and V. B. Pearse. Pacific Grove, California, U.S.A. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History, by T. B. Larsen. The Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Suffolk, by I. J. Killeen. Ipswich, U.K. Flycatcher. Memoirs of an Amateur Entomologist by K. A. Spencer. Ecosystems of the World 24. Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems, edited by A. C. Mathieson and P. H. Nienhuis. Revision of the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), by Helmut Zibrowius and Stephen D. Cairns. Paris: Mémoires du Musée Nationale d'Histoire Naturellee, 1992. Animals and Disease. An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine, by L. Wilkinson. The Inevitable Bond. Examining Scientist-Animal Interactions, edited by H. Davis and D. Balfour. Martin Lister's English Spiders (1678), edited by J. Parker and B. Harley (translated by M. Davies and B. Harley)). The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, edited by P. F. Sale. San Diego, USA: The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity, by M. J. Scoble. Bats. A Community Perspective, by J. S. Findley. The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Second Edition. Botanical monkeys, by E. J. H. Corner. The Biology of Millipedes, by S. P. Hopkin and H. J. Read. Mammals in the Palaearctic Desert: Status and Trends in the Sahara-Gobian Region, edited by J. A. McNeely and V. M. Neronov. Coelenterate Biology: Recent Research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora, edited by R. B. Williams, P. F. S. Cornelius, R. G. Hughes and E. A. Robson. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Animal Behaviour, 4th ed., by A. Manning and M. S. Dawkins. Weevils, Naturalists' Handbook 16, by M. G. Morris. Insects on Cabbage and Oilseed Rape. Naturalists' Handbooks 18, by W. D. J. Kirk.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
S afety in C linical and B iomedical L aboratories (1988). Edited by C.H. Collins.
L aboratory -A cquired I nfections (1988). 2nd edn By C.H. Collins.
P athologic D iagnosis of F ungal , A ctinomycetal and A lgal I nfections (1988). By Francis W. Chandler & John C. Watts.
A ctinomycetes in B iotechnology (1988). Edited by M. Goodfellow, S.T. Williams & N. Mordarski.
I mmobilized B iocatalysts (1988). By Winfried Hartmeier.
B acterial C ell S urface T echniques (1988). By I. Hancock & Ian Poxton.
M icro -O rganisms in A ction : C oncepts and A pplications in M icrobiological E cology (1988). Edited by J.M. Lynch & J.E. Hobbie.
N itrification (1987). Edited by J.I. Prosser.
A naerobic B acteria (1987). By K.T. Holland, J.S. Knapp & J.G. Shoesmith.
G onococci and M eningococci (1988). Edited by J.T. Poolman, H.C. Zanen, T.F. Meyer, I.E. Heckles, P.R.H. Makela, H. Smith & E.C. Beuvery.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Mead and Samoa. Tb Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. By Derek Morality as a Biological Phenomenon. The Presuppositions of Sociobiological Research. Edited by Gunther S. Stent Lumsden, Charles J. & Edward 0. Wilson. Genes, Mind, and Culture, The Coevolutionary Process The Extended Phenotype. The Gene as the Unit of Selection. By Richard Dawkins. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman The growth of Biological Thought. Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance. By Ernst Mayr. The Building of Brjtish Social Anthropology.W. H. R. Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in the Development of Kinship Studies, 1898–1931.By Ian Langham Abstracts in German Anthropology. Edition Herodot, Gottingen North American Indian Studies. European Contributions. Edited by Pieter Hovens Schierle, Sonja. Funktion einer Survival School fur Stadtische Indianer. Heart of the Earth Survival School: Indianische Alternativschde in Minneapolis, Minnesota Der Tram als Religiose Erfahrung. Untersuchtunder Dargestellt am Beispiel der Irokesen. By Iris Anna Die Felsbilder Neuseelands. By Gottfried Kreuzer and Michael Dunn Jahrbnch des Museums fur Volkerkunde zuLeipzig. Asienwissenschaftliche Beitrage. Edited by Eberhardt Richter and Manfred Taube Mitteilungeu aus dem Museum fur VGlkerkunde zu Leipzig Die Seri hdianer von Sonora, Mexico. By John Skalle Practice and Progress. British Sociology 1950–1980. Edited by Philip Adams World-Systems Analysis. Theory and Methodology. By Terence K. Hopkins The Uses of Social Researck Soeid Investigation in Public Policy-Making. By Martin Bulmer. A Primer on Ethnomethodology. By Kenneth Building Feminist Theory. Essays from Quest, a Feminist Quarterly. By the Quest Staff. Longman Women and Splice. Ground Rules and Social Maps. Edited by Shirley Ardener Malinowski in Mexico. The Economics of a Mexican Market System. By Bronislaw Malinowski Food, Ecology, and Culture. Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices. Edited by J. R. K. Robson. Gordon and Breach Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. Edited by Carol P. MacCormack. Aboriginal Conception Beliefs. By Charles P. Mountford, with a Foreword by W. E. H. Stanner Aboriginal Man Adapting. The Human Biology of Australian Aborigines. By R. L. Kirk Coastal Archaeology in Eastern Australia. Proceedings of the 1980 Valla Conference on Australian Prehistory. Edited by Sandra Bowdler A Grammar of Diyari, South Australia. By Peter Austin The Mayi Languages of the Queensland Gulf Country. By Gavan Breen. My Country of the Pelican Dreaming. The Life of an Australian Aborigine of the Gadjerong, Grant Ngabidj, 1904–1977 Australian Aborigines. The languages and customs of several tribes in the western district of Victoria. By James Dawson. The Diari. By J. G. Reuther. Wreck Bay: An Aboriginal Fishing Community. By Brian J. Egloff. All That Dirt. Aborigines 1938. Edited by Bill Aboriginal Administration in Western Australia,1886–1905. By Leslie R. Marchant. Aboriginal Land Rights. A Handbook. Edited by Nicolas Peterson. The Time of Darkness. Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea. By R. J. Rapanni: Tradition and Survival on Easter Island. By Grant McCall. Sydney, George Allen The Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea. By Patricia Hay and Margaret Tuckson.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Birds of Wallacea C. M. N. White and M. D. Bruce Snakes, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Edited by R. A. Seigel, J. T. Collins and S. S. Novak The Biology of Perch and Related Fish J. F. Craig Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific J. E. N. Veron Conservation Biology. The Science of Scarcity and Diversity Edited by M. E. Soulé Plant Ecology Edited by Michael J. Crawley Origins and Development of Adaptation. CIBA Foundation Symposium 102 Edited by D. Evered and G. M. Collins.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Northern Australia: Progress and Prospects. Volume 2. Floodplains Research Edited by D. Wade-Marshall and P. Loveday Nature of Australia. A Portrait of the Island Continent John Vandenbeld. On Pollination and Pollinators in Western Australia E. Holm. Chrysophytes: Aspects and Problems Edited by J. Kristiansen and R. A. Andersen. Evolutionary Physiological Ecology Edited by P. Calow. Towards Holistic Agriculture R. W. Widdowson. City Parks and Cemeteries. Tasmania's Remnant Grasslands and Grassy Woodlands J. Kirkpatrick, L. Gilfedder and R. Fensham.     

BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN

Otte , D.; Endler , J. A. (eds.): Speciation and its consequences. Promp , D. W.: Sozialisation und Ontogenese – ein biosoziologischer Ansatz. Common , I. F. B.: Moths of Australia. Oxnard , Ch . E.; Crompton , R. H.; Lieberman , S. S.: Animal Lifestyles and Anatomies. Niethammer , J.; Krapp , F.: Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas. Kurt , F.: Das Reh in der Kulturlandschaft. Skuhravá , M.; Skuhravý , V.: Atlas of Galls induced by Gall Midges.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Evolution of Social Insect Colonies: Sex allocation and Kin Selection Ross H. Crozier and Pekka Pamilo Marine Biology L. S. Hammond and R. N. Synnot Coastal Marine Ecology of Temperate Australia . A. J. Underwood and M. G. Chapman     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
ClCHLlD FISHES: BEHAVIOUR, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. Edited by Miles A. Keenleyside.
CYPRlNlD FISHES: SYSTEMATICS, BIOLOGY AND EXPLOITATION. Edited by Ian J. Winfield and Joseph S. Nelson.
THE STATE OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. By GESAMP
FISH EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS: EVIDENCE FROM SPERMATOZOA. By Barrie G. M. Jarnieson (with contributions by L. K.-P. Leung).     

Thesis abstracts

The impact and management of birds on the Ord River Development in Western Australia R. J. S. Beeton Investigations of salinity tolerance in variants of a salt marsh species A. R. Smith-White