Book reviews

Nordperuanische Keramik. Gerdt Kutscher. “Monumenta Americana”, I. Ibero‐Amerikanische Bibliothek zu Berlin. Verlag Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1955. 80 pp., in German and Spanish, 80 pls.

Geschichte der altamerikanischen Kulturen. H. D. Disselhoff. Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, München, 1953. 376 pp., 40 pls., 25 text figs., 10 maps.

Cenalora. Leben, Glaube, Tanz und Theater der Urvölker. Oskar Eberle. Ölten und Freiburg im Breisgau, 1954. 576 pp., 32 pls., 8vo.

American Indians in the Pacific. The Theory behind the Kon‐Tiki Expedition. Thor Heyerdahl. Stockholm 1952. 821 pp., 90 pls., 52 text figs., 11 maps.

Die Kulturen der aussereuropäischen Erdteile in Übersicht. Führer durch die Schausammlungen des Instituts für Völkerkunde Universität Göttingen. Hans Plischke et al. Göttingen 1954. 101 pp., 10 pls.

Orfebrería prehispánica de Colombia. José Pérez de Barradas. I‐II. Madrid, 1954. 367 pp., 300 pls.

Afrikanische Plastik. Eckhart von Sydow. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Gerdt Kutscher. Verlag Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1954. 177 pp., 144 pls.

The Northern States of Fiji. A. M. Hocart. Royal Anthropological Institute. Occasional Publication No. 11. London, 1952. 304 pp., 2 maps.

Native Money of Palau. Robert E. Ritzenthaler. Milwaukee Public Museum, Publications in Anthropology, No. 1. Milwaukee, Wise, 1954. 46 pp.

The World of Primitive Man. Paul Radin. New York, 1953. 370 pp.     

Book reviews

Wildbeuter in Ostafrika. Die Tindiga, ein Jäger und Sammlervolk. Ludwig Kohl‐Larsen. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1958. 165 S., 119 Photos und 77 Zeichnungen.

Das Elefantenspiel. Mythen, Riesen‐ und Stammessagen. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Kohl‐Larsen. Erich Röth‐Verlag, Kassel, 1956. 233 pp.

Die Tierverkleidung der afrikanischen Naturvölker. Helmut Straube. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 13. Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden, 1955. 233 pp., 1 map. DM 23.80.

Själavandringsföreställningar bos Nordamerikas Indianer. Arvid Wachtmeister. 195 pp. Stockholm 1957.

Altmexikanische Kulturen. Walter Krickeberg. Safari‐Verlag, Berlin, 1956. 616 pp., 6 colour pls., 120 pls., 309 figs., 1 map. Cloth. DM 29.80.

Cortés in Mexiko. H. D. Disselhoff. Janus‐Bücher, Bd. 2. Verlag R. Oldenbourg, München, 1957. 93 pp., 1 map. DM 3.20.

Wahrsagerei, Himmelskunde und Kalender der alten Azteken. Gliederung des alt‐aztekischen Volks in Familie, Stand und Beruf. Aus dem aztekischen Urtext Bernardino Sahaguns übersetzt und erläutert von Leonhard Schultze Jena. Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas, aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen, IV—V. Herausgegeben von der Lateinamerikanischen Bibliothek, Berlin. W. Kohlhammer Verlag. Stuttgart 1950, 1952. XIII + 400 pp., 4 pls., resp. X + 338 pp.

Tibetisches Kunsthandwerk in Metall. Siegbert Hummel. Otto Harrasso‐witz, Leipzig, 1954. 27 pp., 18 full‐page ill.

Geschichte der tibetischen Kunst. Siegbert Hummel. Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1953. 123 PP., 124 full‐page ill.

Among the Savages of the South Seas. Memoirs of Micronesia 1862–1868. A. Tetens. Translated from the German by Florence Mann Spoehr. Stanford University Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 107 pp., 13 figs., 1 map.

Die primitiven Seelenvorstellungen der nordeurasischen Völker. Eine religionsethnographische und religionsphänomenologische Untersuchung. Ivar Paulson. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Monograph Series, Publication No. 5. Stockholm 1958. 407 S.

The Collecting of Folk Music and other Ethnomusicological Material. A manual for field workers. Ed. by Maud Karpeles. London 1958. 40 pp. (Issued by the International Folk Music Council and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.)

Göttinger völkerkundliche Studien, Band II. Herausgegeben von Hans Plischke. Institut für Völkerkunde an der Georg‐August‐Universität zu Göttingen. Droste‐Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1957. 119 S.     

The changing criteria of social networks in a Cajun Community

The Zhi Mä Funeral Ceremony of the Na‐Khi of Southwest China. Joseph F. Rock. Studia Instituti Anthropos, Vol. 9. St. Gabriel's Mission Press, Vienna‐Mödling, 1955. 228 pp., 10 pls.

Mythen und Mysterien. Magie und Religian der Tibeter. M. Hermanns. Verlag Balduin Pick, Köln, 1956. 400 pp., 49 figs., 1 map.

Oracles and Demons of Tibet. René de Nebesky‐Wojkowitz. Mouton &; Co., ‘s‐Gravenhage, 1956. 666 pp., 10 pls., 25 figs.

Die Lamaistische Kunst in der Umwelt von Tibet. Siegbert Hummel. Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1955. 149 pp., 134 figs., 1 map.

El Monte. Igbo Finda, Ewe Orisha, Vititinfinda. Notas sobre la religión, la magía, las supersticiones y el folklore de los negros criollos y del pueblo de Cuba. Lydia Cabrera. Ediciones C. R., Habana 1954. 564 pp., 25 pls.

Die Hieroglyphen der Maya‐Handschriften. Günter Zimmermann. Universität Hamburg, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde, Band 62, Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen, Band 34. Verlag Cram, de Gruyter &; Co., Hamburg, 1956. 174 pp., 8 pls., ca. 2000 text ill.

Das Indianerbuch. Geb. F. A. Brockhaus Verlag. Leipzig 1956. Eva Lips. 443 PP., 32 pls., 11 text ill., 6 maps. Cloth bound DM 10.80.

Das doppelte Geschlecht. Ethnologische Studien zur Bisexualität in Ritus und Mythos. Hermann Baumann. Berlin 1955. 420 pp., 5 maps.

Von Fremden Völkern und Kulturen. Beiträge zur Völkerkunde. Hans Plischke zum 65. Geburtstage gewidmet von seinen Kollegen und Freunden, Schülern und Mitarbeitern. Herausgegeben von W. Lang, W. Nippold und G. Spannaus. Droste‐Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1955. 284 pp., 30 figs., 2 maps.

Die Wiener Schule der Völkerkunde — The Vienna School of Ethnology. Festschrift anlässlich des 25‐jährigen Bestandes des Institutes für Völkerkunde der Universität Wien (1929–1954). Herausgeber J. Haekel, A. Hohenwart‐Gerlachstein und A. Slawik, Wien 1956. VIII+ 568 S., 11 Taf., 21 Textill, und 2 Karten. $ 8.60.

Das Problem des Völkertodes. Eine Studie zur historischen Bevölkerungsbiologie. Ilse Schwidetzky. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1954. 165 pp. This and the following review have been held over from former times, when these contributions were apt to prove rather exhaustive. Reviews are now heavily cut down irrespective of the significance of the work presented.     

Book reviews

Social Anthropology in Melanesia. A. P. Elkin. (166 pp., 1 map. Oxford University Press, London 1953. A. £. 27/6).

Social Anthropology in Polynesia. Felix M. Keesing. (126 pp. Oxford University Press, London 1953. A. £. 27/6).

Field Notes on Indonesia: South Celebes, 1949–50. Raymond Kennedy. (269 pp., 1 fig., 7 maps and plans. Published by Human Relations Area Files, New Haven 1953. $ 2.00).

Die Erscheinungsformen des Männerhauses und das Klubwesen in Mikro‐nesien. Eine ethno‐soziologische Untersuchung. Erhard Schlesier. (208 pp., 1 map. Mouton & Co., ‘s‐Gravenhage 1953.)

Changing Lapps. A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway. Gutorm Gjessing. (Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 13. London 1954.)

Ausstellung Bauernwerk der alten Weh. Europa‐Asien‐Afrika. Katalog (Veröffentlichungen zum Archiv für Völkerkunde, Band 2. 112 pp. Wien 1954).     

Book reviews

Music in Java. Its history, its theory and its technique. J. Kunst. (Second, revised and enlarged edition translated from the Dutch language by Emile van Loo. Vol. I: XVI + 412 pp. 4°. With tables and musical examples. Vol. II: pp. 413–640, including 165 illustrations on art paper. The Hague 1949. Martinus Nijhoff. Price: Guilders 46.)

The Megalithic Culture of Melanesia. Alphonse Riesenfeld. (736 pp., 3 pls., 8 maps, 26 figs. E. J. Brill. 8°. Leyden 1950.)

Chimu. Eine altindianische Hochkultur. Gerdt Kutscher. (112 pp., 80 pls., 77 text illus. 4°. Verlag Gebr. Mann. Berlin 1950.)     

Book reviews

Bowden, C. (1986): Blue Desert. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 180 pp. cloth. $ 16.95.

ZWINGER, A. (1983): A Desert Country Near the Sea. A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 399 pp. with many black‐and‐white photos and figures, paperback. $ 12.95.

SCOTT, J.A. (1986): The Butterflies of North America. A Natural History and Field Guide. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA. 584 pp, 64 color plates, many distribution maps and line drawings in the text. Cloth $ 49.50 net.

JACKSON, M.H. (1985): Galapagos ‐ A Natural History Guide. The University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 283 pp. including over 100 black‐and‐white photos and illustrations and 16 pp full color insert. Paperback $ 17.50 net.

MOONEY, H.A. & J.A. DRAKE (eds.) (1986): Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii. Ecological Studies vol. 58. Springer Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg. 321 pp. with many figs, tables. Cloth DM 148.00.

ZEIL, W. (1986): Südamerika. Geologie der Erde, Band 1. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart. 160 pp. with 54 figs, 4 colour plates and 3 tables, paperback. DM 24.80.

REGÖS, J. (1987): Die grüne Hölle ‐ ein bedrohtes Paradies. Verlag P. Parey, Hamburg und Berlin, W. Germany. 130 pp. many colour photos, cloth, DM 39.80.     

Book Reviews

St. Denis. A French‐Canadian Parish. Horace Miner. The University of Chicago Press, Phoenix Books. Chicago 1963. 299 pp., 10 figs. Price 17 s. 6 d.

Waika. Die kulturgeschichtliche Stellung der Waika‐Indianer des oberen Orinoco im Rahmen der Völkerkunde Südamerikas. Otto Zerries. Klaus Renner Verlag, München, 1964. VII + 312 pp., 54 maps. DM. 78.‐

African Background. The Traditional Culture of the Shona‐speaking People. Michael Gelfand. Juta &; Co., Ltd. Cape Town 1965. 132 pp., 34 figs.

Pensée et Société Africaines. Essais sur une dialectique de complémentarité antagoniste chez les Bantu du Sud‐Est. Jacqueline Roumeguère‐Eberhardt. École Pratique des Hautes Études—Sorbonne, VI^e Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales, Cahiers de l'Homme, Nouvelle Série III. Mouton &; Co., Paris 1963. 99 pp., 9 figs.

A Manual of Intergroup Relations. John P. Dean and Alex Rosen. The University of Chicago Press, Phoenix Books. Chicago 1963. Originally published in 1955. 192 pp. Price 12 s.

The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology. 1965. 238 pp. Price 35 s. Political Systems and the Distribution of Power. 1965. 142 pp. Price 30 s. A.S.A. Monographs 1 and 2. Michael Banton [general editor]. Tavistock Publications. London.

Education and Culture. Anthropological Approaches. George D. Spindler (editor). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York. 1963. 571 pp. $ 4.75.

Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies. Studies from Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and Middle America. R. Firth and B. S. Yamey (editors). George Allen &; Unwin Ltd. London 1964. 399 pp. Price 45 s.

Glaubenswelt und Folklore der sibirischen Völker. Herausgegeben von Vilmos Diószegi. Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Budapest 1963. 534 S., mit 151 zum Teil mehrfarbigen Abbildungen. $ 14.

Festschrift Paul Schebesta zum 75. Geburtstag. Gewidmet von Mitbrüdern, Freunden und Schülern. Studia Instituti Anthropos, 18. St. Gabriel‐Verlag, Wien‐Mödling 1963. XV + 568 S. DM. 70.     

Book Review: Laboratory Hints from the Literature

Gomori, George. Microscopic Histochemistry. Principles and Practice. 51/2 × 81/, inches. Cloth. 273 pp. University of Chicago Press. $6.00. 1952.

Crippa, A. 1951. Sulla utiliiazione del tetracetata di piombo come ossidante in istochimica. Soc. Ital. di. Biol. Sper., 27, 599-601.

Zweifach, B. W., Black, M. M., and Shorr, E. Evaluation of tetrazolium as a hitochemical index of adrenal cortical activity. Pror. SOC. Exp. Biol. R: Med., 76, 446-54. 1951.     

A critique of the methodology of Robert Redfield: ‘Folk culture’ and other concepts

The Raw and the Cooked. Claude Levi‐Strauss. Jonathan Cape 1970. 387 pp., ill., bibl. Price £3.5.0.

Folktales of Israel. Ed. by Dov Noy with the assistance of Dan Ben Amos. Transi, by Gene Baharav. The University of Chicago Press. Folktales of the World. Chicago 1963. 221 S. $ 4.00.

Politics of Social Research. An inquiry into the ethics and responsibilities of social scientists. Ralph L. Beals. Aldine Publishing Company. Chicago 1969. 228 pp.

African Stone Sculpture. Philip Allison. Percy Lund, Humphries &; Co., Ltd. London 1968. 71 pp. 99 pls. 3 maps. Price 56 s.

The Elementary Structures of Kinship. (Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté). Claude Lévy‐Strauss. Rev. ed. translated from the French by James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer and Rodney Needham, Editor. Beacon Press, Boston; Eyre &; Spottiswoode Ltd., London. 1969. 541 pp., 87 figs. Price $ 15.00.

Contes sous la Croix du Sud. Giselle de Goustine. (Les littératures populaires de toutes les nations. N.S., T. XIII). Editions G.‐P. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris 1967. 208 pp.

La divination malgache par le sikidy. Raymond Decary avec la collaboration de Marcelle Urbain‐Faublée. Publications du centre Universitaire des Langues Orientales Vivantes, 6e série, vol. IX. Paul Geuthner, Paris 1970. 111 pp.

Über Lebensraum und Lebensformen des Frühsemiten. Joseph Henninger. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Geisteswissenschaften, Heft G 151. Westdeutscher Verlag. Köln und Opladen 1968. 61 Seiten. Kart. DM 6.60.

Indianer von gestern, heute und morgen. Beobachtungen zum Kulturwandel in den Anden Boliviens. Hermann Trimborn. Kulturgeschichtliche Forschungen; 12. Band. Albert Limbach Verlag, Braunschweig 1968. 96 S., 104 Abb., 1 Karte. Preis DM 38:—.

Der Wandel ökonomischer Rollen bei den westlichen Dan in Liberia. Eberhard Fischer. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band XXI. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 1967. 481 S. 4 Taf. 7 Abb. DM 66:—.

An Anthropological Bibliography of South Asia. Together with a Directory of Anthropological Field Research. Vol. III. 1960–64. Compiled by

Elizabeth von Fürer‐Haimendorf and Helen Kanitkar. Le Monde d'Outre‐Mer Passé et Présent, Quatrième Série. Bibliographies VIII. Editions Mounton &; Cie, Paris 1970. 562 pp. Price 193 F.

Man‐apes or Ape‐men? The Story of Discoveries in Africa. Sir Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York 1967. 150 pp., 33 fig., bibliography, index. Price $3.95.     

The relationship between ethnology and social anthropology 1

African Miniatures. The Goldweights of the Ashanti. Margaret Webster Plass. Lund Humphries, London 1967. 26 pp., 166 ill.

Anthropologists in the Field. Edited by D. G. Jongmans and P. C. W. Gutkind. Series: Non‐European Societies, nr 6. Royal van Gorcum &; Comp. N. V. Assen 1967. 277 pp. Price cloth Hf 32.50.

Races of Africa. C. G. Seligman. 4 ed. Opus 9 (Oxford Paperbacks University Series). Oxford University Press, London. 1966. 177 pp.

Hausa ba dabo ba ne. A collection of 500 Proverbs translated and annotated by A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene. Ibadan. Oxford University Press London 1966 84 pp. Price 5/3 d.

Human Evolution. An Introduction to Man's Adaptations. Bernard G. Campbell. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago 1966. 425 pp., 135 ill. Price $ 8.95.

Human Evolution. Readings in Physical Anthropology (2nd cd.) Noel Korn and Fred W. Thompson (editors). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York 1967, 466 pp. figs. $ 4.95.

Caste and Race: Comparative Approaches. A Ciba Foundation Volume. Ed. by Anthony de Reuck and Julie Knight. J. &; A. Churchill Ltd., London 1967. 348 pp. Price 60 s.

The American Negro. A Study in Racial Crossing. Melville J. Hersko‐vits. A Midland Book, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1964. 92 pp. Price $ 1.65.

Strangers to the City: Urban Man in Jos, Nigeria. Leonard Plotnicov. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1967. 320 pp. Price hardbound $ 6.95, paperbound $ 2.95.

Ozeanien. Paul Collaer. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Hrsg. von Heinrich Besseler und Max Schneider, Band I: Musikethnologie, Lieferung 1. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1965. 234 S., 178 Abb.

A Study of Polyandry. H. R. H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark. Mouton &; Co. The Hague 1963. 606 pages, 44 photographs, 4 figs., 2 sketches, 6 maps, 48 genealogical tables. Cloth. Price: Glds. 68.‐(=ab. US $ 19.00, £ 6.16.‐, DM 75.50, 94.50 F).

African Music. A Briefly Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Darius L. Thieme. Library of Congress, Reference Department, Music Division, Washington 1964. 55 pp. 45 cents.

Tribes and forms in African Art. William Fagg. Methuen &; Co. Ltd., London 1965. 122 Pl. 6 Guineas net.     

Book review

ALLEN M. YOUNG (1982): Population Biology of Tropical Insects. Plenum Press, New York and London. 511 pp., many black and white photographs, tables and figures, cloth, $ 57.50

Andreas Suchantke (1981): Der Kontinent der Kolibris. Landschaften und Lebensformen in den Tropen Südamerikas. [The Continent of the Hummingbirds ‐ Landscapes and Life Forms in the South American Tropics].

Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart. 420 pp., 265 drawings, 32 colour plates, hardbound, DM 88.00

ACKERY, P. R. & R. I. VANE‐WRIGHT (1984): Milkweed butterflies ‐ their cladistics and biology. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England. 425 pp. 74 plates (13 in colour) and 262 figures together with additional figs. and tables in the text. Size 22.5 x 28.5 cm, cloth. Price 50.00.     

The value of measurements in the study of wader migration; a reply

Birds of West Central and Western Africa. Vol. 2. By C. W. Mackworth- Praed and C. H. B. Grant. Longman. 1973. 818 pp., 93 colour-plates, hundreds of distribution maps. Price £8.00., by L. A. Batten

A Guide to the Birds of Wales. David Saunders. Constable &; Co. Ltd, London. 1974. 341 pp. Many photographs and sketch maps. Price £2.50., by Chris Mead

The World of an Estuary. Heather Angel. Faber and Faber, London. 1975. 128 pp., 50 black and white photographs. Price £1.95., by A. J. Prater

Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland. Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, with drawings by P. J. Grant. T. &; A. D. Poyser Ltd., Berkhamsted. 1974. 26 plates. Price £3.80., by D. E. Glue

The Buzzard. Colin R. Tubbs. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1974. 199 pp., 17 photographs and 11 figures. Price £4.75., by Chris Mead

Birds of the Yorkshire Coast. Richard Vaughan. Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd., London. 1974. 96 pp. 77 plates. Price £1.70 hardback, £1.20 paperback., by H. B. Ginn

The Naturalist in Majorca. James D. Parrack. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1973. 224 pp., 32 black and white plates and 15 line drawings. Price £3.95., by L. A. Batten

Feathers Plain and Fancy. Hilda Simon. Frederick Muller, London. 1973. (First published 1969.) Viking Press, New York. 126 pp., many colour and black and white illustrations by the author. Price £2.00., by H. B> Ginn

A Revised Check-List of the Maltese Islands. By C. De Lucca. E. W. Classey Ltd, Hampton, Middlesex, 1969. 95pp. Price £0.75.

Die Vögel des Bodenseegebietes. By H. Jacoby, G. Knötzsch and S. Schuster. Supplement to Vol. 67 of Der Ornithologische Beobachter, 1970. 260pp. 16 black and white plates.

Die Vogelwelt der Limmattal und Zürichseeregion. By W. Knopfli. Supplement to Vol. 68 of Der Ornithologische Beobachter, 1971. 174pp. 4 colour plates.     

Maya and Altaic

Evolution and Human Behavior. Alexander Alland. Social Science Paperbacks. No. 49. Tavistock Publications. London 1969. 243 pp. 37 figs. Price 18/‐.

The Two Worlds of the Washo. An indian Tribe of California &; Nevada. (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.) James F. Downs, Holt, Rine‐hart and Winston, Inc., New York 1966. 113 pages, 1 map, 1 pl.

West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. with an Introduction by Daryll Forde and P. M. Kaberry. Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press. Oxford 1967. 289 pp. Price 50 s.net.

Francisco de Avila. Hermann Trimborn und Antje Kelm. Quellenwerke zur Alten Geschichte Amerikas aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben vom Ibero‐Amerikanischen Institut Berlin der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Band VIII. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1967. 308 pp. Price DM 105: ‐ (I, "Francisco de Avila” by Hermann Trimborn, pp. 1–198; II, "Götter und Kulte in Huarochirí” by Antje Kelm, pp. 199–307).

The Individual and Culture. Mary Ellen Goodman. The Dorsey Press. Homewood, Illinois 1967. 265 pp. Price $ 4.95.

Mythologie du Masque en Nouvelle‐Calédonie. Jean Guiart. Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No. 18. Paris 1966. 150 pp., 22 pls., 1 map.

Goldgewichte aus Ghana. Brigitte Menzel. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde, Berlin. Neue Folge 12, Abteilung Afrika III, Berlin 1968. 242 S. Reich illustriert.

La division du temps et le calendrier rituel des peuples lagunaires de Côte d'Ivoire. Georges Niangoran‐Bouah. Université de Paris. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie. LXVIII. Paris 1964. 164 S., 12 Abbildungen.

Boum‐le‐Grand, village d'Iro: Claude Pairault. Université de Paris. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie. LXXIII. Paris 1966. 470 S., 225 Abb.

The Social Organization of the Western Apache. Grenville Goodwin. With a Preface by Keith H. Basso. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1969 (2nd edition), xxii+701 pp. Price $ 10.

The Gurage. A People of the Ensete Culture. William A. Shack. Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, London 1966. 222 pp. Ill. Price 50 s.net.

Die Erde in Vorstellungswelt und Kulturpraktiken der sudanischen Völker. Jürgen Zwernemann. (Habilitationsschrift.) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1968. 545 S., 1 Karte. DM 80: ‐, broschiert.

The Medicine Man, Swifa Ya Nguvumali. Hasani Bin Ismail. Edited and translated by Peter Lienhardt. Oxford Library of African Literature. Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Oxford 1968. 208 pp. Price 42 s.

Das Rind in den Felsbilddarstellungen Nordafrikas. Walther F. E. Resch. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band 20. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1967. 105 S., 24 Tafeln und 4 Abbildungen. Broschiert DM 20:‐.

Social Anthropology. Godfrey Lienhardt. 2nd edition. Oxford Paperbacks University Series Opus 15. London 1966. 177 pp. Price 7/6 net.

Churches at the Grass‐Roots. A Study in Congo/Brazzaville. Efraim Andersson. World Studies of Churches in Mission. Lutherworth Press. London 1968. 296 pp. Price 30/‐.

Os Macomdes de Moçambique. Vol. I‐II. Junta de Investigates do Ultramar. Centro de Estudos de Antropología Cultural. Lisboa 1964.

I. Aspectos históricos e económicos. Jorge Dias. 180 S., 109 Abb., 17 Zeichnungen, 7 Karten.

II. Cultura material. 192 S., 261 Abb., 74 Zeichnungen. Jorge Dias e Margot Dias.     

On methods in hare Indian ethnology — a. rejoinder

Prelude to East African History, a collection of papers given at the First East African Vacation School in Pre‐European African History and Archaeology in December 1962, Merrick Posnansky, editor, Student's Library, Oxford University Press, London 1966. 186 pp., 9 s. 6 d.

Ethiopian Music. An Introduction. A Survey of Ecclesiastical and Secular Ethiopian Music and Instruments. Michael Powne. Oxford University Press, London 1966. xix+160 pp., 11 pl., 5 figs., 36 music ex. 1 map. Price 42 s. ‐ 2nd edition. London 1968. Price 45 s.

An Africans Religion. The Spirit of Nyajena. Case History of a Karanga People. Michael Gelfand. Juta &; Co., Limited. Cape Town, Wynberg, Johannesburg 1966. 135 pp. 1 Karte, Illustr. Price 37 s 6 d.

Mkhas Grub Rje's Fundamentals of the Buddhist Tantras. Ferdinand D. Lessing and Alex Wayman. Rgyud sde spyihi rnam par gzag pa rgyas par brjod. The Hague, Paris. 1968.

A Ceremonial Ox of India: The Mithan in Nature, Culture, and History. Frederick J. Simoons. University of Wisconsin Press Ltd., London 1968. 323 pp., pr. 104 s. 6 d.

Dor el Gussa und Gebel ben Ghnema. Zur nachpluvialen Besiedlungsgeschichte des Ostfezzan. Ergebnisse der Frobenius‐Expedition nach libyen 1963/64. Helmut Ziegert. Veröffentlichung des Frobenius‐Institutes Frankfurt. F. Steiner Verlag. Wiesbaden 1967. X+94 S. m. 19 Abb., 203 Taf., 3 Karten. Gebunden. DM 66: ‐.

Archäologische Untersuchungen am Mittleren Amazonas. Beiträge zur Vorgeschichte des südamerikanischen Tieflandes. Peter Paul Hilbert. Marburger Studien zur Völkerkunde I. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1968. 164 Abb., 11 Karten, 337 Seiten. Preis DM 60:‐.

Bibliography of Benin Art. Paula Ben‐Amos. Primitive Art Bibliographies. No. VI. The Museum of Primitive Art. New York 1968, 27 pp.

Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion. 1966. 176 pp. Price 30 s.

The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies. 1966. 156 pp. Price 30 s. A.S.A. Monographs 3 and 4. Michael Banton (general editor). Tavistock Publications. London.

Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. George and Louise Spindler (general editors). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, London.

Changing Japan. Edward Norbeck. 1965. 82 pp., 1 map, 1 pl.

The Dusun. A North Borneo Society. Thomas Rhys Williams. 1965. 100 pp., 1 pl., 1 map.

Understanding an African Kingdom: Bunyoro. John Beatty. New York … 1965. 61 pp., 1 map.

Bunyoro. An African Kingdom. John Beatty. New York … 1960. 86 pp., 1 pl., 1 map.     

News notes

FERTILITY AND SURVIVAL, POPULATION PROBLEMS FROM MALTHUS TO MAO TSE‐TUNG: Alfred Sauvy. Translated by Christine Brooke‐Rose, Criterion Books Inc., New York, 1961, 232 pp. (simultaneously Chatto &; Windus Ltd., London).

^l COLOMBO, BERNARDO, 1961. In: Rivista Internazionale di Science Sociali, 64: (5): pp. 505–12.

MIRAGE OF HEALTH: Rene Dubos. Dou‐bleday and Company, Inc. (Anchor Books), New York, 1961, 230 pp., $0.95.

POPULATION CONTROL, THE IMMINENT WORLD CRISIS: Melvin G. Shimm and Robinson O. Everett (Ed.). Oceana Publications, Inc., New York, 1961, pp. iv + 254, $6.00.     

Article of the Week…

Kellington, S. H., and A. C. Mitchell An Evaluation of New Science Worksheets for Scottish Integrated Science London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978 136 pp. $9.50 paper. Reviewed by Howard J. Stein

Sullivan, Dennis Lots of Dots: Learning with Coordinate Pictures Designed by and for Children Berkeley: Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, 1977 48 pp. $2.50 softcover. Reviewed by John G. Harvey

Parker, Stephen Life before Birth: The Story of the First Nine Months Published with the British Museum (Natural History) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979 48 pp. $6.95 hardcover, $2.50 paper. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash

Anderson, Norman D. Investigating Science in the Swimming Pool and Ocean New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978 175 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Julian R. Brandou

Selsam, Millicent Tyrannosaurus Rex New York: Harper &; Row, 1978 41 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by George R. Zug

Freeman, W. H., and Brian Bracegirdle An Atlas of Embryology, 3d ed. London and Exeter, N. H.: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1979 94 pp. $10.00 cloth. Reviewed by Joseph Patrick Kennedy     

Book reviews

RAFFAELE, H.A. (1989): A Guide to the Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Revised Ed., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. 254 pp, maps of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 41 plates (24 in full colour), checklists and detailed maps of important sites, paperback, $ 15.95 (hardcover $ 39.50).

HORWELL, D. (1988): Galapagos ‐ the enchanted isles. Dryad Press, London. Batsford Books. 64 pp., many figs, and black‐and‐white photographs, Hardcover £ 8.95.     

Short reviews

Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p.

Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p.

Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN SOUTHERN IRAN, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1977, 328 pp., $20.

Elizabeth McTaggart Almquist, MINORITIES, GENDER AND WORK, Lexington Books (Lexington, Mass., 1979), £11.50.

Phyllis A. Wallace and Annette M. LaMond (eds), WOMEN, MINORITIES, AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, Lexington Books (Lexington, Mass., 1979), 222 pp., £12.75.

Jeremy R. Azrael (ed.), SOVIET NATIONALITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES, New York and London, Praeger, 1978, 393 pp., £17.50.

Edward Dew, THE DIFFICULT FLOWERING OF SURINAM: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS IN A PLURAL SOCIETY, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1978, X + 234 pp., n.p.

John Edwards &; Richard Batley, THE POLITICS OF POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION: AN EVALUATION OF THE URBAN PROGRAMME 1967–77, London, Tavistock, 1978, 287pp., £9.95.     

Book reviews

Dinosaurs from China

DONG ZHIMING. China Ocean Press, Hong Kong, 1987. vi + 114 pp. ISBN 7–5027–0116–8. Hardcover ed., approximately $34.00; softcover ed., approximately $24.00 [This is the first English edition.]

DONG ZHIMING, with text by Angela C. Milner. China Ocean Press, Hong Kong, and the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988. vi +114 pp. ISBN 0565–01073–5. Softcover ed., £9.95 at the Natural History Museum bookstore. [A hardcover edition probably exists, but I have not seen it.]

TRACE FOSSILS: BIOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY, by Richard G. Bromley, Unwin Hyman, London 1990. 280 pp. ISBNO 04 4453035. £40 hardback, £17.95 softback.

EXTINCTION EVENTS IN EARTH HISTORY, Editors E.G. Kauffman and O.H. Walliser. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin 1990. 431 pp. ISBN 0–387–52605–6. Price DM 75.

PHYLOGENY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF FOSSIL AND RECENT ORGANISMS, edited by Norbert Schmidt‐Kittler and Rainer Willmann. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, N.P. 28, Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg & Berlin ISBN 3–490–14496–1.     

Some New Books of Interest to Our Readers

E. G. Gray: The Synapse. Oxford Biology Readers (Ed. J. J. Head and O. E. Lowenstein) No. 35. Oxford University Press, London 1973. 16 pp., 18 figs. 20 p. W. Hanke: Vergleichende Wirkstoffphysiologie der Tiere. VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1973. 179 S., 50 Abb. 19,50 M. A. Strenger: Sphaerechinus granularis — Violetter Seeigel. Grosses Zoologisches Praktikum (Herausg. R. Siewing) Band 18e. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1973. 68 S. 31 Abb. DM 22.—. F. Winkelmann: Sympetrum vulgatum — Heidelibelle. Grosses Zoologisches Praktikum (Herausg. R. Siewing) Band 14d. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1973. 100 S. 29 Abb. DM 23.—.