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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 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: Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology. Edited by Mary Douglas. Cosomologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Vahtion in Inner New Guinea. By Fredrik Barth Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. By Roger Lewin Child of Vietnam. By Uyen Loewald Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. By Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley Conflict in Catalonia: Images of an Urban Society. Edited by Gary W. McDonogh An International History of the Vietnam War, Volume II, The Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1961-65. By R.B. Smith. Macmillan Wage Labour and Social Change: The Proletariat in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Michael Pinches Gender and Kinship: Essays toward a Unified Analysis. Edited by Jane Fishburn Collier and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako The Cyclades in the Bronze Age By R.L.N. Barber African Civilisations. Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: An Archaeological Perspective. By Graham Connah Sepik River Societies: A Historical Ethnography of the Chrmbri and their Neighbours. By Deborah Gewertz A World Like Our Own. Man and Nature in Madagascar. By Alison Jolly Science Encounters the Indian. 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology. By Robert E. Bieder Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behaviour. By Gehan Wijeyewardene The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany. Edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld. Anthropology at Home. Edited by Anthony Jackson Man the Paradoxical Primate: A Solution to Human Bipedalism. Written, designed and produced by Jordi Fuentes. Human Evolution: an Introduction for the Behaviouml Sciences. By Graham Richards. Anthropology in South Australia Edited by C. Anderson and P. Sutton Singular Paths: Old Men Living Alone. By Robert L. Rubenstein Meyer Fortes: Religion, Mortality and the Person -Essays on Tallensi Religion. Edited and with an introduction by Jack Goody.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Prehistory of Australia. By D. J. Mulvaney Aboriginal Habitat and Economy. By Roger Lawrence The Aborigines of Tasmania. By H. Ling Roth. F. King and Sons The Dreamtime. Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings. By Ainslie Roberts with text by Charles P. Mountford The Aboriginal Languages of the Southwest of Australia. By Wilfred H. Douglas The Languages of Victoria: A Late Survey. By Luise A. Hercus A Survey of New Guinea Languages. By A. Capell Korwars and Korwar Style: Art and Ancestor Worship in North-West New Guinea. By Th. P. van Baaren Pigs for the Ancestors. By Roy A. Rappaport Capitalism, Primitive and Modern. By T. Scarlett Epstein Eskimos of the Nushagak River. By James W. Van Stone Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon. By Nur Yalman The Indians in Uganda, Caste and Sect in a Plural Society. By H. S. Morris Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. By John Collier Culture and Ageing. By Margaret Clarke and Barbara G. Anderson. Charles C. Thomas, Illinois Culture in Process. By Alan R. Beals Selected Studies in Marriage and the Family. Edited by Robert F. Winch and Louis Wolf Goodman New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter. Background to Evolution in Africa. Edited by Walter W. Bishop and J. Desmond Clark The History of Man. By Carleton S. Coon The Human Species. By Frederick S. Hulse The Birth of Indian Civilization.     

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

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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: Traditional Exchange and Modern Markets. By Cyril S. Belshaw Friendly Mission. The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834. Edited by N. J. B. Plomley Maori and Pakeha: A study of mixed marriages in New Zealand. (A Race Relations Publication). By John Harré. A. H. and A. W. Reed Voyagers of the Vitiaz Strait: A Study of a New Guinea Trade System. By Thomas G. Harding The Social Organization of the Marri Baluch By Robert N. Pehrson. The Stone Age Hunters. By Grahame Clark Early Man. By F. Clark Howell Dawn of Art. Painting and Sculpture of Australian Aborigines. By Karel Kupka. With a foreword by A. P. Elkin On Aggression. By Konrad Lorenz     

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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: 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.     

The life of Milaraspa in a picture series: A preliminary survey

Irrigation's Impact on Society. Theodore E. Downing &; McGuire Gibson (eds.), Anthropological Papers of The University of Arizona Number 25. Tucson, 1974, 181 pp.

Women: An Anthropological View. Evelyn S. Kessler. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York etc. 1976, 267 pp.

A History of Ethnology. Fred W. Voget. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York etc. 1975. ix + 879 pp. US $ 17.95.

Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan. Mark Slobin. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 54. Tucson: The University of Arizona press 1976. xiv + 297 pp., 8 maps, 56 illustrations, bibliography and index.

Java‐Masken. Der Tanz auf einem Bein. Heinz Lucas. Erich Röth Verlag. Kassel. 1973, pp. 347, ill.     

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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: Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology . By Jack Goody Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Diet and Culture . Edited by Norge W. Jerome. Randy F. Kandal and Gretel H. Pelto An Anthropological Perspective . Edited by Jack O. Waddell and Michael W. Everett Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea . Edited by Mac Marshall Colonialism and Foreign Ownership of Capital. A Trade Theorists View . By Bharat R. Hazari, Croom Helm Human Resource Development An Annotated Bibliography on Social & Cultural Influences . Compiled by Nat J. Colleta and Trudy A. Todd Traditional Housing in African Cities. A Comparative Study of Housing in Zaria, Ibadan, and Marrakech . By Friedrich Schwerdtfeger The Yoruba Today . By I. S. Eades. Changing Cultures Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Traditions and Invention in Mende Story Performance. By Donald Cosentino Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist. No Hilling Place . By Manda Cesara Woman's Worth. Sexual Economics and the World of Women . By Lisa Leghorn and Katherme Parker Women and Dualism. A Sociology of Knowledge Analysis . By Lynda M. Glennon Trucanini. Queen or Traitor? By Vivienne Rae Ellis Aborigines and Uranium and Other Essays . By Colin Tatz Aboriginal Futures. A Review of Research and Developments and Related Policies in the Education of Aborigines. A Summary . By B. H. Watts Australian Aborigines in the News. Traditional Music of Torres Strait . Recorded by Jeremy Beckett Aboriginal Sound Instruments . Recorded, edited and annotated by Alice M. Moyle Songs from North Queensland . Recorded, edited and annotated by Alice M. Moyle Songs of the Kimberleys . Recorded, annotated and compiled by Alice M. Moyle Djambidj. An Aboriginal Song Series from Northern Australia . Performed by Frank Gurr-manarnana and Frank Malkorde (singers) and Sam Gumugun (didjeridu), Goethe Institute, Canberra Studies in Pacific Languages and Cultures in Honour of Bruce Biggs . Edited by J. Hollyman and A. Pawley The Three Twins. The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic . By Brenda E. F. Beck The Masked Media. Aymara Fiestas and Social Interaction in the Bolivian Highlands . By Hans C. Buechler The Play of the Gods, Locality, Ideology, Structure and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town . By Äkos Östör Principles and Practice of Human Physiology . Edited by O. G. Edholm and J. S. Weiner Monumenta Brittannica or A Miscellany of British Antiquities (Parts One and Two) . By John Aubrey. Edited by John Fowles Environmental Archaeology . By Myra Shackley