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Book reviewed in this article: Understanding Our Culture. By Wendell H. Oswalt The Elementary Structuree of Kinehip Claude Uvi-Strauss. Translated by J. H. B Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. By Louis Dumont. Translated by Mark Sainsbury Religion, Politics and History in India: Collected Papers in Indian Sociology. By Louis Dumont Australian Aboriginal Anthropology: Modern Studies in the Social Anthropology of the Australian Aborigines. Edited by Ronald M. Berndt Aboriginal Advancement to Integration: Conditions and Plans for Western Australia (Aborigines in Australian Society 5). By H. P. Schapper The Dugum Dani. By Karl G. Heider Myths and Legends of Torres Strait. Land Tenure in the Pacific. Edited by Ron Crocombe The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841–1844. Edited by Dorothy Shineberg. Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga. By Noel Rutherford Traditional Maori Clothing . By S. M. Mead. A. H. and A. W. Reed A Portuguese Rural Society. By Jose Cuti-neiro Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Fieldwork. By William J. Samarin The Roots of Mankind. By John Napier The Treponematosis of Tahiti. Its origin and evolution: a study of the sources. By Isaac van der Sluis. B. M. Israel N.V Aspects of Prehistory. By Grahame Clark The Archaeology of Early Man. By J. M. Coles and E. S. Higgs Fashion of Law in New Guinea. Edited by B. J. Brown Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal. By Dick Roughsey. A. H. and A. W. Reed     

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Book reviewed in this article: Prehistoric Societies . By Grahame Clark and Stuart Piggott Rethinking Archaeology . By K. C. Chang Kinship and Conflict: A Study of an Aboriginal Community in Northern Arnhem Land . By L. R. Hiatt Songs from the Northern Territory: Companion Booklet for Five 12-inch L.P. Discs . By Alice M. Moyle Choiseul Island Social Structure . By H. W. Scheffler     

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Book reviewed in this article: Contention and Dispute: Aspects of Law and Social Control in Melanesia. Edited by A. L. Epstein The Pacific in Transition. Geographical perspectives in adaptation and change. Edited by Harold Brookfield Micronesia at the Crossroads: A Reappraisal of the Micronesian Dilemma. By Carl Heine. The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts 1797–1824. Edited by Greg Dening. Thunder from the Sea. By Willowdean Chatterson Handy Maori Death Customs. By R. S. Oppenheim, A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington Aborigines in the Northern Territory Cattle Industry. By Frank Stevens Realities of Race. An Analysis of the Concepts of Race and Racism and their Relevance to Australian Society. By Keith R. McConnochie The Industrialists and the Aborigines. A Study of Aboriginal Employment in the Australian Mining Industry. By Peter H. Rogers. Down Among the Wild Men. A Narrative Journey of fifteen years pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia. By John Greenway Tales of a Revolution. By Abu Hanifah Rice Farming in Taiwan: Three Village Studies. By Sung-hsing Wang and Raymond Apthorpe Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Mûmkidag). By Donald M. Bahr, Juan Gregorio, David I. Lopez, Albert Alvarez Research Design in Anthropology. By John A. Brim and David H. Spain. Holt, Rinehart and Winston An Introduction to Sociology. By J. E. Goldthorpe. Leo Frobenius-An Anthology. Edited by Eike Haberland Field Archaeology in Britain. By John Coles Die Tasmanier; Versuch einer ethnographischhistorischen Rekonstruktion. By Gisela Völger. Archaeological Excavations of Fortified Sites on Taveuni, Fiji. By Everett Lloyd Frost Evolution of the Genus Homo. By W. Howells Fossil Man, an Evolutionary Journey. By F. E. Poirier. Perspectives on Human Evolution 2. Edited by S. L. Washburn and P. Dolhinow. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Human Evolution, Readings in Physical Anthropology. Edited by N. Korn. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Man in Evolutionary Perspective. Edited by C. L. Brace and J. Metress. John Wiley and Sons. Elements of Human and Social Geography. By Eric Sunderland. The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. By R. M. W. Dixon     

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Book reviewed in this article: Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship. By Maurice Bloch. The Anthropology of Pre-Capitalist Societies. Editesd by Joel S. Kahn and Josep R. Llobera. Marx: The First Hundred Years. Edited by David McLellan. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. By Anthony Giddens, Contemporary Social Theory. Introduction to the Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Edited by Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin. Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Is There a Future for Marxism? By Alex Gallinicos. Marx, Marginalism & Modern Sociology. From Adam Smith to Max Weber. By Simon Clarke. Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. By Karl Marx. Volume 3. Introduced by Ernest Mandel. Translated by David Fernbach. Beyond Marxism? Interventions After Marx. Edited by Judith Allen and Paul Patton. Max Weber and Karl Marx. By Karl Löwith. Edited with an introduction by Tom Bottomore and William Authwaite. In the Active Voice. By Mary Douglas. Essays in the Sociology of Perception. Edited by Mary Douglas. Dar La Vida Por La Vida: La Agrupacion Chilena de Detenidos Desaparecidos (Ensayo de Antropolgía Simbólica). By Hernán Vidal. Pattern of the Past. Studies in Honour of David Clarke. Edited by Ian Hodder, Glynn Isaac and Norman Hammond. Coast and Estuary: Archaeological Investigations on the North Coast of New South Wales at Wombah and Schnapper Point. By Isabel Mc Bryde. Early Native Americans: Prehistoric Demography, Ecology and Technology. Edited by David L. Browman. World Anthropology Series. The Moth Hunters. Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian Alps. By Josephine Flood. Plants and People. Aboriginal Uses of Plants on Groote Eylandt. By Dulcie Levitt. The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African cave taphonomy. By C. K. Brain. Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. By L. R. Binford. Paleolithic Reflections. Lithic Technology and Excavations among Australian Aborigines. By Brian Hayden. Future Directions in the Study of the Arts of Oceania. Edited by Judith Huntsman. Material Culture. Styles, Organization and Dynamics of Technology. Edited by Heather Lechtman and Robert Merrill. The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections. Edited by Anne-Marie Cantwell, James B. Griffin and Nan A. Rothschild. Physical Anthropology of European Populations. Edited by Ilse Schwidetzky, Brunetto Chiarelli and Olga Necrasov. Physiological and Morphological Adaptation and Evolution. Edited by William A. Stini. Human Variation. Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups. By Stephen Molnar. The Yindjibarndi Language. By F. J. F. Wordick. Pacific Linguistics Series C — No. 71. Basic Materials in Mara: Grammar, Texts and Dictionary. By Jeffrey Heath. Pacific Linguistics Series C — No. 60. Aborigines and Schooling: Essays in honour of Max Hart. Edited by Bill Menary with an introduction by Paul Finnane. Northern Australia: Options and Implications. Edited by Rhys Jones. The Affinal Relationship System. A New Approach to Kinship and Marriage among the Australian Aborigines at Port Keats. By Aslaug and Johannes Falkenberg. Body, Land and Spirit: Health and Healing in in Aboriginal Society. Edited by Janice Reid. Studies in Society and Culture Series. The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin. By Carolyn Fishel Sargent. Your Land Is Our Land: Aboriginal Land Rights. By Kenneth Maddock. An Australian Original. Aborigines, Land and Land Rights. Edited by Nicolas Peterson and Marcia Langton. AIAS 42 New Series. Oedipus in the Trobriands. By Melford E. Spiro. Feminine Sexuality. Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne. Edited by Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose. Translated by Jacqueline Rose. Gender at Work. By Ann Game and Rosemary Pringle. Photography by Helen Grace. The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949–1980. By Phyllis Andors. Broken Earth. The Rural Chinese. By Steven W. Mosher. Japan and Australia. Two Scieties and Their Interaction. Edited by Peter Drysdale and Hironobu Kitaoji. A Northern Prospect. Australian Papers on Japan. Edited by Harold Bolitho and Alan Rix. The Women of Suye Mura. By Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell. Taro. A Review of Colocasia Esculenta and Its Potentials. Edited by Jaw-Kai Wang. Roots in the Earth. Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. By Paul Sillitoe. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation. The Rise of a Karāva Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500–1931. By Michael Roberts. Sri Lankan Fishermen. Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society. By Paul Alenxander.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Spbdic Textures: Studies in Cultural Meaning. Edited by Garan Aijmer. The Huli Response to Illness. By Stephen Frankel. Interpreting Signs of Illness: A Case Study in MedicalSemiotics. By Kathryn Vance Staiano. Development through Liberation: Third World Problems and Solutions. By Gerald J. Kruijer. The Northern Barbarians 100 BC-AD 300. By Malcolm Todd. The Prehistory of Germanic Europe. By Herbert Schutz. New Caledonin or Kanaky? The Political History of a French Colony. By John Connell. Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences. Edited by Joan Cassell Masters of Tradition: Consequences of Customary Land Tenure in Longana, Vanuatu. By Margaret C. Rodman. Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. By Irene Silverblatt. Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in Cattle Country. By Ann McGrath. Aborigines in Sport. By Colin Tatz. Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expressions of Gender in a Melanesian Society. By Miriam Kahn. Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Why Suya Sing: a Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People. By Anthony Seeger. The Social History of Language. Edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter. 'Of the hut that I builded': the Archaeology of Australia's History. By Graham Connah. Conversation in Africa: People, Politics and Practice. Edited by David Anderson and Richard Grove. Te Marae: a Guide to Customs and Protocol. By Hiwi and Pat Tauroa. Reed Metuen. Biological Aspects of Human Migration. Edited by C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor and G.W. Lasker. John Batman and the Aborigines. By Alastair H.Campbell. Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific. By Peter Hempenstall and Noel Rutherford. Marriage and Fertility in Tianjin, China: Fifty Years of Transition. By Burton Pasternak. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea. By William A, Foley. Tongan Music. By Richard Moyle. Voices from the City: Women of Bangkok. By Susanne Thorbek. Just for Living: Aboriginal Perception of Housing in Northeast Australia. By Helen Ross.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Peoples of South Asia. By Clarence Maloney Biosocial Anthropology. Edited by Robin Fox Studies in African Social Anthropology. Edited by Meyer Fortes and Sheila Patterson Big-Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands. By Ben R. Finney Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians. By Ben R. Finney Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Political Development Te Ao Hurihuri: The World Moves On. Edited by Michael King Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society. By Nancy D. Munn Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal Freedom. By Jack Hurner Look Forward, Not Back: Aborigines in Metropolitan Brisbane 1965–1966. By H. M. Smith and E. Biddle Aboriginal Prehistory in New England: An Archaeological Survey of Northeastern New South Wales. By Isabel McBryde Fort Jesus: a Portuguese Fortress on the East African Coast. By James Kirkman Archaeozoological Studies: Papers of the Archeozoological Conference 1974, held at the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut of the State University of Groningen. Edited by A. T. Clason Men of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory. By Brian M. Fagan     

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Book reviewed in this article: Towards an Archaeology of Mind . An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 30 November, 1982. By Colin Renfrew Claude Levi-Strauss. The Bearer of Ashes . By David Pace Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropolog in the Comparative Study of Cultures. Histories. Religions, and Texts . By James A. Boon World View . By Michael Kearney. Chandler & Sharp Fantasy and Symbol. Studies in Anthropological Interpretation . Edited by R.H. Hook Consciousness and Causality: A Debate on the Nature of the Mind . By D.M. Armstrong and Norman Malcolm The Logic of Culture. Advances in Structural Theory and Methods . Edited by Ino Rossi Michael Foucaull and the Subversion of Intellect. By Karlis Racevskis Bones, Ancient Men and Modern Myths . By Lewis R. Binford Shipwreck Anthropology . Edited by Richard A. Gould. A School of American Research Book Quaternary Coastlines and Marine Archaeology Towards the Prehistory of Land Bridges and Continental Shelves . Edited by P.M. Masters and N.C. Flemming The Hunger for Salt. An Anthropological, Physiological and Medical Analysis . By Derek Denton, Springer Verlag Climate and History. Studies in Past Climates and Their Impact on Man . Edited by T.M.L. Wigley, M.J. Ingram, G. Farmer Climatic Change in Later Prehistory . Edited by Antony Harding Short and Long-Term Changes in Climate . Volume I & II by Felix G. Sulman Social Science Research and Climate Change. An Interdisciplinary Appraisal . Edited by Robert S. Chen. Elise Boulding and Stephen H. Schneider Population and Society: A Sociological Perspective . By Carl F. Grindstaff Growth and Structure of Human Population in the Presence of Migration . By M. Sivamurthy Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao. A Study Environment, Culture, and Society in Northern Luzon . By Harold C. Conklin World View. By Michael Kearney. Chandler & Sharp, Shingu. A Study of a Japanese Fishing Ccommunity . By Arne Kalland Sala'ilua. A Samoan Mystery . By Bradd Shore Parenthood and Social Reproduction. Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa . By Esther N. Goody Law As Process, An Anthropological Approach . By Sally Falk Moore Law and Social Change in Papua New Guinea . Edited by David Weisbrot, Abdul Paliwala and Akilagpa Sawyerr Aborigines and the Law: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Egglestbn . Edited by Peter Hanks and Bryan Keon-Cohen The Firm and the Formless: Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia . By Hans Mol Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley . By Paddy Roe. Edited by Stephen Muecke Banggaiyerri: The Story of Jack Sullivan as told to Bruce Shaw . By Bruce Shaw The Aboriginal Economy in Town and Country . By E. K. Fisk     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Evolution of Human Sexuality. By Donald Symons. The Sisterhood of Man. The Impact of Women's Changing Roles on Social and Economic Life Around the World. By Kathleen Newland. Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa. Sarah LeVine, in collaboration with Robert A. LeVine. New Women of Lusaka, By Ilsa M. Glazer Schuster. The Politics of Anthropology, edited by Gerrit Huizer and Bruce Mannheim. System, Structure and Contradiction: The Evolution of ‘Asiatic’ Social Formations. Jonathan Friedman. Toward a Cultural Theory of Education and Schooling. Edited by Frederick Gearing and Lucinda Sangree. The Public School Phenomenon 597–1977. By Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. The Religion, Spirituality, and Thought of Traditional Africa. By Dominique Zahan. Community, Self, and Identity. Edited by Bhabagrahi Misra and James Preston. Les Dieux et Les Hommes. Etude des Cultes d'un village du Tirunelveli, Inde du Sud. By Marie Louise Reiniche. Anutan Concepts of Disease: A Polynesian Study. By Richard Feinberg, with a forward by Dr Carleton Gajdusek. In the Shadow of Tlaloc: Life in a Mexican Village. By Gregory R. Reck. Protein from the Sea: Technological Change in Philippine Capture Fisheries. By Alexander Spoehr. The Ainu: The Past in the Present. By Fred C. C. Peng and Peter Geiser. From Field to Factory: Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal. By Morton Klass. Lightning meets the West Wind. The Malaita Massacre. By Roger M. Keesing and Peter Corris. Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat. By Paula L. Rubel and Barbara Rosman. Villagers at war: Some Papua New Guinean exyeriences in World War II. By Neville K. Robinson. Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean. By Malcolm Cross. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. By Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn-Levine. The Child in the City. By Colin Ward, with photographs by Ann Golzen and others. 'It's Coming Yet …' An Aboriginal Treaty Within Australia Between Australians. By Stewart Harris, for the Aboriginal Treaty Committee. The Street is Their Home: The Hobos' Manifesto. By Jim Ward. Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86, By M. F. Christie. Songs of the Pintupi. Musical Life in a Central Australian Society. By Richard M. Moyle Shuckin' and Jivin’: Folktore from Contemporary Black Americans. By Daryl Cumber Dance. The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in the Architecture and the Applied Arts. By Philip Steadman A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter. By David Seaman. Climatic Races and Descent Groups. By Grover S. Krantz. Views of the Past. Essays in Old World Prehistory and Paleoanthropology. Edited by Leslie G. Freeman. Tools and Tillage. A Journal of the History of the Implements of Cultivation and other Agricultural Processes. Volume III:3. Edited by Grith Lerche, Alexander Fenton and Axel Steensberg Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The Chetro Ketl Collection. By R. Gwinn Vivian, Dulce N. Dodgen, and Gayle H. Hartman. Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology. Edited by Payson D. Sheets and Donald K. Grayson. Fossils in the Making: Vertebrate Taphonomy and Palaeoecology. Edited by Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Andrew P. Hill.     

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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: 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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Anthropology in Papua New Guinea. Edited by lan Hogbin Politics in New Guinea. Traditional and in the Context of Change: Some Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Ronald M. Berndt and Peter Lawrence Alternative Strategies for Papua New Gulnea. Edited by A. Clunies Ross and J. Langmore Baegu: Social and Ecological Organisation in Malaita, Solomon Islands. By Harold M. Ross The South Sea Islanders and the Quensland Labour Trade. By William T. Wawn. Edited by Peter Corris The Australian Aborigines. By B. A. L. Cranstone Hunters of the Northern Forest. By Richard K. Nelson Tahitians, Mind and Experience in the Society Islands. By Robert I. Levy Ancient Polynesian Society. By Irving Goldman Ilocano Rice Farmers. By Henry T. Lewis La course de pirogues au Laos: an complexe culturel. By Charles Archaimbault The Character of Kinship. Edited by Jack Goody Population Growth: Anthropological Implications. Edited by Brian Spooner Researches into the Physical History of Man. By J. C. Prichard. Edited by G. W. Stocking Human Origins. By D. Weitzman and R. E. Gross Communicating Across Time and Space. By D. Weitzman and R. E. Gross     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Destruction of Aboriginal Society. Outcasts in White Australia. The Remote Aborigines. By C. D. Rowley Chariots of the Gods? By Erich von Daniken Archaeology of the Gallus Site, Koonalda Cave. Edited by R. V. S. Wright Fighting with Food. Leadership, values and social control in a Massim society. By Michael W. Young One Father, One Blood. Descent and Group Structure Among the Melpa People. By Andrew Strathern Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea. By Douglas Newton Papua New Guinea. Prospero's Other Island. Edited by Peter Hastings The Human Aviary. A Pictorial Discovery of New Guinea. By George Holton and Kenneth E. Read A Revised Linguistic Survey of Australia. Edited by W. J. Oates and Lynette F. Oates Notes on the Bandjalang Dialect Spoken at Coraki and Bungawalbin Creek, N.S.W. By Nils M. Holmer Papers on the Languages of Australian Aboriginals. Contributions by B. J. Blake A Partial Vocabulary of the Ngalooma Aboriginal Tribe. By Harold Aubrey Hall Dating Techniques for the Archaeologist. Edited by Henry N. Michael and Elizabeth K. Ralph The Aborigine Today. Edited by B. Leach. Paul Hamlyn     

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Book reviewed in this article: Man the Hunter. Edited by Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore Primates: Studies in Adaptation and Variability. Edited by Phyllis C. Jay The Unlucky Australians. By Frank Hardy. Nelson Megalithic Sites in Britain. By Alexander Thom The Development of Omaha Kinship Terminologies in Three Australian Aboriginal Tribes of the Kimberley Division, Western Australia. By Peter Lucich Kimberley Region: an annotated bibliography. Compiled by Beryl F. Craig San Bernadino Contla. By Hugo G. Nutini The Old Stone Age. By François Bordes. Translated by J. E. Anderson The Origins and Growth of Archaeology. By Glyn Daniel Conceptions of Kentucky Prehistory. By Douglas W. Schwartz The Judicial Process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia. By Max Gluckman The Life History in Anthropological Science. By L. L. Langness. Holt     

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Book reviewed in this article: Natural Man: A Record of Borneo By Charles Hose Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State By James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Up Rode the Troopers: the Black Police in Queensland By Bill Rosser Religion, Politics and Rationality in a Philippine Community By Raul Pertierra Emigrants, Entrepreneurs, and Evil Spirits: Life in a Philippine Village By Stephen Griffiths Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American perspectives on the Past Edited by Jonathan D. Hill The Making of the Aborigines By Brian Attwood Allen and Unwin Somebody Now: The Autobiography of Ellie Gaffney, a Woman of Torres Strait By Ellie Gaffney Ikat Textiles of India By Chelna Desai Thames and Hudson The Historical Meanings of Work. Edited by Patrick Joyce Where the Dove Calls: the Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico By Thomas E. Sheridan Cambodia 1975–1978: Rendezvous with Death Edited by Karl D. Jackson Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands By D.L. Oliver Ethnic Groups across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia Edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene The Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile By Chao Tzang Yawnghwe Rund ums Essen By Brigitta Hauser-Schaueblin Museum Renaissance in the Pacific Edited by Murray Chapman and Jean-François Our Place, Our Music: Aboriginal Music: Australian Popular Music in Perspective. Volume 2 Edited by Marcus Breen Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History By Laura L. Betzig Aldine The Good Things in Life: A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture of the Yoruba People By Roland Hallgren Women and Music in Cross-cultural Perspective Edited by Ellen Koskoff Ngurra Walytja, Country of My Spirit By J. Downing Urbane Thought: Culture and Class in an Andalusian City By J.R. and M.P. Corbin Poverty's Prison: The Poor in New South Wales 1880–1918 By Anne O'Brien Melbourne The Social Construction of Emotions Edited by Rom Harré     

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Book Reviewed in this article Outline of a Theory of Practice. Pierre Bourdieu. Richard Nice Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation. Edited by Julian H. Steward, Jane C. Steward and Robert F. Murphy Urban Anthropology: The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex Societies. Richard Basham The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines. Jon C. Altman and John Nieuwenhuysen ‘Whitefella Business’: Aborigines in Australian Politics. Edited by Michael C. Howard Aborigines and Change: Australia in the Seventies. Edited by R. M. Berndt Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians. H. C. Coombs Taim Bilong Mani: The Evolution of Agriculture in a Solomon Island Society. John Connell Agricultural Project Design and Evaluation in an Island Community. Alan Bollard. Zum Beispiel Samoa. Götz Mackensen Peasants and Politics: Grass Roots Reaction to Change in Asia. Edited by D. B. Miller. Edward Arnold Sherpas Through Their Ritual. Sherry B Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court. David M. Engel Thailand: A Rice-Growing Society. Edited by Yoneo Ishii Migrants of the Mountains: The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. William Robert Geddes Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand. Edited by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman and Sanga Sabhasri Early Palaeolithic in South and East Asia. Edited by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Advances In Andean Archaeology. Edited by David L. Browman Simulation Studies in Archaeology. Edited by Ian Hodder Evolutionary Models and Studies in Human Diversity. Edited by Robert J. Meier Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia Principles of Visual Anthropology. Edited by Paul Hockings Tiv Song. Charles Keil Coyoteway. A Navajo Holyway Healing Ceremonial. Karl W. Luckert Spider Woman Stories: Legends of the Hopi Indians. Selected and Interpreted by G. M. Mullett Folklore in the Modern World. Edited by Richard Dorson     

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Book reviewed in this article: Game Theory in the Behavioral Sciences . Edited by Ira R. Buchler and Hugo G. Nutini. The Work of Administration in Nigeria . By D. J. Murray Man in Africa . Edited by Mary Douglas and Phyllis M. Kaberry World Archaeology . Published thrice yearly (February, June and October). Routledge and Regan Paul The Juntunen Site and the Late Woodland Prehistory of the Upper Great Lakes Area . By Alan McPherron The Social Context of Art in Northern New Ireland . By P. H. Lewis Matupit (Land, Politics, and Change among the Tolai of New Britain) . By A. L. Epstein A Grammar of Ngarinjin, Western Australia . By H. H. J. Coate and Lynette Oates Human Waya: Selected Essays in Anthropology . By J. P. Gillin Proper Peasants . By Edit Fél and-Tamás Hofer The Impact of Civilisation on the Biology of Man . Edited by S. V. Boy den Adoption in Eastern Oceania . Edited by V. Carroll Central Australian and Western Desert Regions: an annotated bibliography . Compiled by Beryl F. Craig Journey to Aboriginal Victoria , By Aldo Massola Quinkan Country-Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York . By P. J. Trezise. A. H. & A. W. Reed The Dark Australians . By Douglass Baglin and David R. Moore Narratives from the North-West of Western Australia . By C. G. von Brandenstein Kunstetbnologie. Orondbegriffe, Methoden, Darstellung . By Herta Haselberger Maori Wood Sculpture of New Zealand . By T. Barrow. A. H. & A. W. Reed Archaeology in Western Samoa. Vol. 1 . Edited by R. C. Green and Janet M. Davidson Aboriginal Antiquities in Australia; their Nature and Preservation . Edited by F. D. McCarthy Black Australians . By Sir Paul Hasluck     

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Book reviewed in this article: Urban Aborigines. By Fay Gale New Zealand Society. Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Stephen D. Webb and John Collette Themes in Culture (Essays in Honour of Morris E. Oder). Edited bv M. D. Zamora. J. M. Mahar, H. Orenstein Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand. By Jane Bunnag A Borneo Childhood Enculturation in Dusun Society. By Thomas Rhys Williams Ritual in Industrial Society. By Robert Bocock. George Allen and Unwin Social Change and Human Behavior: Mental Health Challenges of the Seventies. Edited by George V. Coelho and Eli A Rubinstein Mental Health and Social Change: An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by George V. Coelho Social Anthropology and Language. Edited by Edwin Ardener The Roots of Civilisation. By Alexander Mar-shack Evolution of the Primates. An Introduction to the Biology of Man. By A. B. Chiarelli The Ascent of Man. An Introduction to Human Evolution. By David Pilbeam. Mac-millan Early Hominid Posture and Locomotion. By John T. Robinson Maori Greenstone Pendants in the Australian Museum, Sydney. By D. Wayne Orchi-ston Studies in Oceanic Culture History: Volume 3. Edited by R. C. Green and M. Kelly. The Languages of the Eastern Family of the East New Guinea Highland Stock. Edited by Howard McKaughan The Australian Aborigines. A Portrait of their Soaiety. By Kenneth Maddock Priorities in Melanesian Development. Edited by Ronald J. May Padju Epat: The Ma'anyan of Indonesian Borneo. By A. B. Hudson     

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Book reviewed in this article: People Without Government. An Anthropology of Anarchism. By Harold Barclay The Anarchists of Casas Viejas. By Jerome R. Mintz Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation. By Paul Ricoeur. Edited, translated and introduced by John B. Thompson The Anthropological Circle. Symbol, Function, History. By Marc Auge Sciences and Cultures. Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences. Edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana Australian Sociologies. By Diane J. Austin. George Allen & Unwin Social Inequality in Australian Society. By John S. Western Which Way Is Up? Essays on Class, Sex and Culture. By R. W. Connell. George Allen and Unwin The Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology, Volume 1, January 1983. Edited by Graham E. Connah Pacific Cultural Material in New Zealand Museums. By Roger Neich A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul. By Peter White with James F. Connell The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land. By Carmel Schrire Reward and Punishment in Arnhemland 1962–1963. By Edgar Wells Daughters of the Dreaming. By Diane Bell We Are Bosses Ourselves. The Status and Role of Aboriginal Women Today. Edited by Fay Gale Sorcerers and Healing Spirits. Continuity and Change in an Aboriginal Medical System. By Janice Reid Languages of Kinship in Aboriginal Australia. Edited by Jeffrey Heath, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. By Bob Dixon Vanuatu: Politics, Economics and Ritual in Island Melanesia. Edited by Michael Allen Gifts and Commodities. By C. A. Gregory The Political Economy of the South Pacific. By Michael C. Howard To Find the Baruya Story. A film by Allison and Marek Jablonko and Stephen Olsson. Her Name Came on Arrows. A film by Allison and Marek Jablonko and Stephen Olsson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: This is What Happened. Historical Narratives by Aborigines. Edited by Luke Hercus and Peter Sutton Elites: Ethnographic Issues. Edited by George E.Marcus. Political Elite in Bangladesh. A Socio-Anthropological and Historical Analysis of the Processes of their Formation. By Tushar Kanti Barua. La Terre est le Sang des Morts: la Confrontation entre Blancs et Noirs dans le Pacifique Sud Franqeis. By Jean Guiart Chinese Ritual and Politics. By Emily Martin Ahern Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan. By Stevan Harrell. Chinese Kinship. By Paul Chao. Kegan Paul Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town. By C. Fred Blake Youth in China. By Beverley Hooper Fear and Hatred. Purifying Australia and California, 1850–1901. By Andrew Markus The Diggers from China. The Story of the Chinese on the Goldfields. By Jean Gittins Under One Flag. The 1980 Northern Territory Election. By Dean Jaensch and Peter Loveday Making the Difference: Schools, Families and Social Division. By R.W. Connell, D.J. Ashenden. S. Kessler and G.W. Dowsett Opportunity and Constraint in a Savanna Society. By Philip Burnham Makuna Social Organization: A Study in Descent The Panare: Tradition and Change on the Amazonian Frontier. By Paul Henley The Biology of Religion. By Vernon Reynolds and Ralph E.S. Tanner Darwinism and Human Affairs. By Richard D. Alexander Work and Retirement. By Stanley Parker. London. George Allen and Unwin Mental Illness. By Bernard Ineichen Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung. By Richard Katz Illness and Healing A-mong the Sakhalin Ainu. By Emiko Ohnuko-Tierney Hypertension and Culture Change. Acculturation and Disease in the West Indies. By William W. Dressler. Foreword by William W. Willard Vitality and Aging. Implications of the Rectangular Curve. By J.F. Fries and L.M. Crapo The Enigma of Aboriginal Health. Interaction between Biological, Social and Economic Factors in Alice Springs Town-Camps. By Eduard J. Beck Buddhism in Life: The Anthropological Study of Religion and the Sinhalese Practice of Buddhism. By Martin Southwold Urban Lie in Mediterranean Europe. Anthropological perspectives. Edited by Michael Kenny and David I. Kertzer