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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: 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: 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: Ethology: the Biology of Behaviour . By Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt Ethology and Society: Towards an Anthropological View . By Hilary Callan The Sting of Change: Sicilians in Sicily and Australia . By Constance Cronin Vunamami. Economic Transformation in a Traditional Society . By Richard F. Salisbury Yiwara. Foragers of the Australian Desert . By Richard A. Gould. Charles Scribner's Sons Big Men and Cargo Cults . By Glynn Cochrane The Yoruba of South Western Nigeria . By William Bascom The Face of the Fox . By Frederick O. Gearing The Prairie Potawatomi: Tradition and Ritual in the Twentieth Century . By Ruth Landes The Book of Noodles . By W. A. Clouston The Book of Festivals . By Dorothy Gladys Spicer Allan Cunningham: Botanist and Explorer . By W. G. McMinn An Annotated Bibliography of the Tasmanian Aborigines . By N. J. B. Plomley Pitjantjatjara Grammar . By Amee Glass and Dorothy Hackett Aboriginal Man and Environment in Australia . Edited by D. J. Mulvaney and J. Golson Prehistory: an Introduction . By Derek Roe A Dictionary of Archaeology . By Warwick Bray and David Trump A Concise Dictionary of Archaeology . Edited by Leonard Cottrell The Archaeology of Wilson's Promontory . By P. J. F. Coutts     

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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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: The Many Faces of Primitive Art: A Critical Anthology. By Douglas Fraser The Administration of the White Australia Policy. By A. C. Palfreeman The Territorial Imperative. By Robert Ardrey Collection of Specimens for Radiocarbon Dating and Interpretation of Results. By H. A. Landform Studies From Australia and New Guinea. Edited by J. N. Jennings and J. A. Mabbutt New Roads To Yesterday. Edited by Joseph R. Caldwell An Introduction to Human Geography. By J. H. G. Lebon Archaeology: An Illustrated Introduction. By Liam de Paor The Discovery of Egypt. By Leslie Greener. Cassell Masada. By Yigael Yadin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction. By Kenneth Hudson Classical Greece. By C. M. Bowra. Time Inc. Archaeology of the Point St George Site, and Tolowa Prehistory. By Richard A The Prehistoric Animal Ecology and Ethno-zoology of the Upper Great Lakes Region. By Charles Edward Cleland Southern Africa. By Brian Fagan. Thames and Hudson Late Woodland Cultures of Southeastern Michigan. By James E. Fitting Australian Aboriginal Stone Implements. By F. D. McCarthy Ethnographic Atlas. By George Peter Murdock Glossa. A Journal of Linguistics Mathinna's People. By Nan Chauncey     

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Book reviewed in this article: Australian Dreaming. 40.000 years of Aboriginal History . Edited by Jennifer Isaacs Radio Power. A History of 3ZZ Access Radio . By Joan Dugdale Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia Introduction to Australian Society: A Sociological Perspective . By Donald Edgar The New South Wales Wheat Frontier. 1851 to 1911 . By M. E. Robinson Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Heroin in Australia . By David Hirst Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland. The Quest for Gaia. A Book of Changes . By Kit Pedler Drinking Careers. Occupations, Drinking Habits, and Drinking Problems . By Martin A. Plant Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin. Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality . By Jean-Louis Flandrin. Translated by Richard Southern Changing Images of the Family . Edited by Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff Department of Anthropology, Western Australian Museum. Give and Take. Exchange in Wola Society . By Paul Sillitoe Department of Prehistory and Anthropoloy, S.G.S. Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System . By Morton Klass David Mearns Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide. Anthropological Structures of Madness in Black Africa . By I. Sow. Translated by Joyce Diamenti Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry . By George Devereux Department of Anthropology, University of Otago. Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics . By J. A. Barnes Department of Sociology, University of N.S.W. Arnold Van Gennep. The Creator of French Ethnography . By Nicole Belmont Department of Prehistory anrf Anthropology, Australian National University. Man, Mind, and Science. A History of Anthropology . By Murray J. Leaf Department of Sociology, University of N.S.W. The Conceptualisation and Explanation of Processes of Social Change . Edited by David Riches School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University. Day of Shining Red. An Essay on Understanding Ritual . By Gilbert Lewis Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University. Living Archaeology . By R. A. Gould. New Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of New England Experimental Determinatiou of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis . By Lawrence H. Keeley Division of Prehistory, La Trobe University. Archaeological Constructs. An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology . By Jean-Claude Gardin Division of Prehistory, La Trobe University. The Performing Arts. Music and Dance . Edited by John Blacking and Joann W. Kealiinohomoku Department of Sociology, University of New England.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Social Anthropology . By Godfrey Lienhardt Rethinking Anthropology . By E. R. Leach Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives . By Talcott Parsons Kinship and Family Organization . Bernard Farber The Impact of Urbanization in By G. Breese . Societies Series. Cliffs, N.J., 1965. Paperbound, no price stated. Industry. By W. E. Moore; Newly Developing Countries The Hunters . By Elman R. Service The New Guinea Villager . By C. D. Rowley. F. W. Cheshire Behind the Ranges : Patrolling in New Guinea. By J. P. Sinclair Australian Aboriginal Portraits . By Charles P. Mountford Animal Species and Their Evolution . By A. J. Cain The Concise Encyclopadia of Archaeology . Edited by Leonard Cottrell Archaeology: An Introduction . By Clement W. Meighan Marine Archaeology . Edited by Joan du Plat Taylor The Land of Shinar . By Leonard Cottrell Ancient Europe : A Survey. By Stuart Piggott The North Britons : the Prehistory of a Border People. By Richard Feachem The Hardin Village Site . By Lee H. Hanson Pattern and Process in the Early Intermediate Pottery of the Central Coast of Peru . By Thomas C. Patterson     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Garia: An Ethnography of a Traditional Cosmic System in Papua New Guinea. By Peter Lawrence Talk Never Dies: The Language of Huli Disputes. By Laurence Goldman The First Taint of Civilization. A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-Colonial Days, 1521–1885. By Francis X. Hezel The Island States of the Pacific and Indian Ocean: Anatomy of Development. Edited by R.T. Shand Micronationalist Movements in Papua New Guinea. Edited by R.J. May The Political Economy of Fiji, Jay Narayan The Lost World of Irian Jaya. By Robert Mitton The Filipino Nation. Edited by Jim Haskins Tongan Society at the time of Captain Cook's Visits: Discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou. By Elizabeth Bott with the assistance of Tavi Sexual Antagonism, Gender, and Social Change in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Fitz John P. Poole and Gilbert H. Herdt Sorcery and Social Change in Melanesia. Edited by Marty Zelenietz and Shirley Lindenbaum Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality. Edited by S.B. Orner and H. Whitehead. Muslim Women. Edited by Freda Hussain Women In Islamic Societies: Social Attitudes and Historical Perspectives. By Bo Utas Mothering in Greece: From Collectivism to Individualism. By Mariella Doumanis Mother Worship: Theme and Variations. By James J. Preston Mothers At Work. Public Policies in the United States, Sweden, and China. By Carolyn Teich Adams and Kathryn Teich Winston Language-The Loaded Weapon. The use and abuse of language today. By Dwight Bolinger The History of the Fijian Languages. By Paul A. Geraghty A Grammar of Manam. By Frantisek Lichtenberk Ethnography and language in Educational Settings. Edited by Judith Green and Cynthia Wallat Language Planning: An Introduction. By Carol M. Eastman The Ethnography of Communication. An Introduction. By Muriel Saville-Troike Forms of Talk. By Erving Goffman Native Language and Foreign Language Acquisition. Edited by Harris Winitz Racism and Colonialism. Essays on Ideology and Social Structure. Edited by Robert Ross Village Communities and the State. Changing Relations Among the Maka of South-Eastern Cameroon since the Colonial Conquest. By Peter Geschiere Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment. Edited by Wim van Binsbergen and Peter Geschiere Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule. A South Indian Case. By Arjun Appadurai. Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective: Populism, Nationalism and Industrialization. By Gavin Kitching Culture and Sericulture. Social Anthropology and Development in South Indian Livestock Industry. By S.R. Charsley Essays on Linguistics. Language, Systems and Structures. By Members of the Institute of Linguistics.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Walter Benjamin. By Julian Roberts Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism (Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences Series). By James Schmidt Phenomenology in Practice and Theory. Edited by William S. Hamrick Advocacy and Anthropology, First Encounters. Edited by Robert Paine A Plague of Caterpillars. A Return to the African Bush. By Nigel Barley The Innocent Anthropologist. Notes from a Mud Hut. By Nigel Barley So Much That Is New. Baldwin Spencer 1860–1929: A Biography. By D.J. Mulvaney and J.H. Calaby The Native Tribes of Western Australia. By Daisy Bates Women, Employment and Development in the Arab World. Edited by Julinda Abu Nqsr Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. By Lawrence S. Grossman The History and Social Influence of the Potato. By Redcliffe Salaman Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present. By Bernard Campbell Philosophy and Archaeology. By Merrilee H. Salmon The Psychosocial Interior of the Family.3rd Edition, Edited by Gerald Handel The Artificial Family. A Consideration of Artificial Insemination by Donor. By R. Snowden and G.D. Mitchell Maternal and Child Health in Rural Kenya. An Epidemiological Study. Edited by J.K. van Ginneken and AS. Muller Maternal Bonding. By Wladyslaw Sluckin, Martin Herbert and Alice Sluckin The Continuum Concept. By Jean Liedloff Wives and Midwives, Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia. By Carol Laderman Human Sexuality: Contemporary Controversies. Edited by Harold Feldman Australian Women and the Political System. Edited by Marian Simms Singapore: Struggle for Success. By John Drysdale. George Allen and Unwin     

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Cruel, Poor and Brutal Nations: The Assessment of Mental Health in an Australian Aboriginal Community by Short-stay Psychiatric Field Team Methods . By John Cawte The Jigalong Mob: Aboriginal Victors of the Desert Crusade . By Robert Tonkinson Stone Age Crisis: A Psychiatric Appraisal . By B. G. Burton-Bradley Right and Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification . Edited by Rodney Needham Ohaffia: A Matrilineal Ibo People . By Philip O. Nsugbe Robber Noblemen: A Study of the Political System of the Sikh Jats . By Joyce Pettigrew Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics . By David Beetham The Past is Human . By Peter White. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1974 Drake's Island of Thieves. Ethnological Sleuthing . By William A. Lessa Lapakahi, Hawaii: Archaeological Studies . Edited by H. David Tuggle and P. Bion Griffin Settlement Patterns in Archaeology . By K. C. Chang Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence In the Pacific Basin . Edited by Noel Barnard     

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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: 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