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Volume 54 - Issue 4 - October 1984

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Joel S. Kahn and Joseph R. Llobera (eds.), The Anthropology of Pre-capitalist Societies, Critical Social Studies. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1981, 441 pp.
A. B. Zack-Williams
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07 December 2011, pp. 92-94
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Adam Kuper, Wives for Cattle: bridewealth and marriage in southern Africa, International Library of Anthropology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, 215 pp., £11.95.
Gwyn Prins
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07 December 2011, pp. 94-95
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W. D. Hammond-Tooke. Boundaries and Belief: the structure of a Sotho worldview. Human Science Research Council Publication Series, No. 74. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1981, 170 pp., R12.00 paperback.
G. C. Uhlenbeck
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07 December 2011, p. 96
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Marion and Burton Benedict, Men, Women, and Money in Seychelles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 289 pp., ISBN 0 520 04592 0.
A. P. Cohen
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Jeffrey A. Fadiman, An Oral history of Tribal Warfare: the Meru of Mount Kenya. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982, 185 pp., £14.70 hardback, £5.60 paperback.
Paul Spencer
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07 December 2011, pp. 97-98
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Barbara Frank, Die Kulere: Bauern in Mittelnigeria Studien zur Kulturkunde 57. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981, 267 pp., DM75 paperback.
M. Guenther
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07 December 2011, pp. 99-100
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Sheila S. Walker, The Religious Revolution in the Ivory Coast: the Prophet Harris and the Baptist Church. University of North Carolina Press, 1983, £22.50, ISBN 0 8278 1503 9.
Peter B. Clarke
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07 December 2011, pp. 100-101
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Donald Cosentino, Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story performance. Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 226 pp., £19.50, ISBN 0 521 24197 9.
Charles Jedrej
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Adam Jones, German Sources for West African History 1599–1669, Studien zur Kulturkunde 66. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983, 417 pp., DM76, ISBN 3 515 03728 4.
Tom McCaskie
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07 December 2011, pp. 102-103
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Bernd Heine, Thilo C. Schadeberg, Ekkehard Wolff (eds.), Die Sprachen Afrikas: Ein Handbuch. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1981, 665 pp., DM124.
David Dalby
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Ludwig Gerhardt, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sprachen des Nigerianischen Plateaus, Afrikanistische Forschungen Band IX. Glückstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin, 1983,246 pp., ISBN 3 87030 062 0.
Kiyoshi Shimizu
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Günther Schlee, Das Glaubens- und Sozialsystem der Rendille: Kamelnomaden Nord-Kenias. Marburger Studien zur Afrikaund Asienkunde Series A Afrika, No. 16. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1979, 466 pp., DM40.
Alison Redmayne
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07 December 2011, p. 106
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Gabriel M. Nissim, Le Bamileke-Ghomálá: parler de Bandjoun, Cameroun, Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. Paris: CNRS, 1981, 313 pp.
Philip A. Noss
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07 December 2011, p. 106
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Ushari Ahmad Mahmud, Arabic in the Southern Sudan: history and spread of a pidgin Creole. Khartoum: FAL Advertising and Printing Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 2158 Khartoum, 1983, 168 pp.
John Morton
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07 December 2011, p. 107
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Aki'o Nakano, Somali Folktales (1). Texts in Somali (1), Studia Culturae Islamicae No. 17. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1982, 58 pp.
B. W. Andrzejewski
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07 December 2011, p. 107
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Yoichi Tsuge, Ethnographical Texts in Amharic (I), Studia Culturae Islamicae No. 15. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1982, 68 pp.
Richard Pankhurst
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07 December 2011, p. 107
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Jeanette Hanby (illustrated by David Bygott; preface by Jane Goodall), Lions Share: The story of a Serengeti pride. London: Collins, 1983, 221 pp., £12.95. ISBN 0 00 216455 8.
Kath Homewood
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07 December 2011, p. 108
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A. Triulzi, Salt, Gold and Legitimacy: prelude to the history of a no-man's land Bela Shangul, Wallagga, Ethiopia (1800–98). Naples: Tipografia Don Bosco, 1981, 212 pp., 20,000 lire paperback.
John Mack
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General Index to Volume 54
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Reviews of Books

Joel S. Kahn and Joseph R. Llobera (eds.), The Anthropology of Pre-capitalist Societies, Critical Social Studies. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1981, 441 pp.

Adam Kuper, Wives for Cattle: bridewealth and marriage in southern Africa, International Library of Anthropology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, 215 pp., £11.95.

W. D. Hammond-Tooke. Boundaries and Belief: the structure of a Sotho worldview. Human Science Research Council Publication Series, No. 74. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1981, 170 pp., R12.00 paperback.

Marion and Burton Benedict, Men, Women, and Money in Seychelles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 289 pp., ISBN 0 520 04592 0.

Jeffrey A. Fadiman, An Oral history of Tribal Warfare: the Meru of Mount Kenya. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982, 185 pp., £14.70 hardback, £5.60 paperback.

Barbara Frank, Die Kulere: Bauern in Mittelnigeria Studien zur Kulturkunde 57. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981, 267 pp., DM75 paperback.

Sheila S. Walker, The Religious Revolution in the Ivory Coast: the Prophet Harris and the Baptist Church. University of North Carolina Press, 1983, £22.50, ISBN 0 8278 1503 9.

Donald Cosentino, Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story performance. Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 226 pp., £19.50, ISBN 0 521 24197 9.

Adam Jones, German Sources for West African History 1599–1669, Studien zur Kulturkunde 66. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983, 417 pp., DM76, ISBN 3 515 03728 4.

Bernd Heine, Thilo C. Schadeberg, Ekkehard Wolff (eds.), Die Sprachen Afrikas: Ein Handbuch. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1981, 665 pp., DM124.

Ludwig Gerhardt, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sprachen des Nigerianischen Plateaus, Afrikanistische Forschungen Band IX. Glückstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin, 1983,246 pp., ISBN 3 87030 062 0.

Shorter Notices

Günther Schlee, Das Glaubens- und Sozialsystem der Rendille: Kamelnomaden Nord-Kenias. Marburger Studien zur Afrikaund Asienkunde Series A Afrika, No. 16. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1979, 466 pp., DM40.

Gabriel M. Nissim, Le Bamileke-Ghomálá: parler de Bandjoun, Cameroun, Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. Paris: CNRS, 1981, 313 pp.

Ushari Ahmad Mahmud, Arabic in the Southern Sudan: history and spread of a pidgin Creole. Khartoum: FAL Advertising and Printing Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 2158 Khartoum, 1983, 168 pp.

Aki'o Nakano, Somali Folktales (1). Texts in Somali (1), Studia Culturae Islamicae No. 17. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1982, 58 pp.

Yoichi Tsuge, Ethnographical Texts in Amharic (I), Studia Culturae Islamicae No. 15. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1982, 68 pp.

Jeanette Hanby (illustrated by David Bygott; preface by Jane Goodall), Lions Share: The story of a Serengeti pride. London: Collins, 1983, 221 pp., £12.95. ISBN 0 00 216455 8.

A. Triulzi, Salt, Gold and Legitimacy: prelude to the history of a no-man's land Bela Shangul, Wallagga, Ethiopia (1800–98). Naples: Tipografia Don Bosco, 1981, 212 pp., 20,000 lire paperback.

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