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Volume 54 - Issue 2 - June 1991

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R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee (ed.): Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. xiv, 309 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, [1990]. $25.

Kozo Yamamura (ed.): The Cambridge history of Japan. Vol. 3: Medieval Japan. xxi, 712 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £65, $99.50.

Marius B. Jansen (ed.): The Cambridge history of Japan. Vol. 5: The nineteenth century. [xiv], 828 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £60, $89.50.

Paul Gordon Schalow (ed.): Ihara Saikaku, The great mirror of male love. ix, 317 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. $37.50.

Ann Yonemura: Yokohama: prints from nineteenth-century Japan. 198 pp., maps [on end papers]. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1990. $45 (paper $26.95).

John H. Seto and others: Handbook of the Oriental Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art. 224 pp. Birmingham, Alabama: Museum of Art, Birmingham. [1989]. $22.50.

Henri J. M. Claessen and David S. Moyer (ed.): Time past, time present, time future: essays in honour of Professor P. E. de Josselin de Jong. (Verhandelingen van het KITLV, 131.) viii, 295 pp. front. Dordrecht-Holland/Providence-U.S.A.: Foris Publications, 1988. Guilders 35.

Rosemary Gianno: Semelai culture and resin technology, xxiv, 238 pp. front. New Haven, Connecticut: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1990.

David Bradley, Eugénie J. A. Henderson and Martine Mazaudon (ed.): Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R. K. Sprigg. (Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 104.) vi, 330 pp. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, [1989].

Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson (ed.): Pacific Island languages: essays in honour of G. B. Milner. viii, 196 pp., front. London: School of Oriental and African Studies; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. £12.

Ian Brown (ed.): The economies of Africa and Asia in the inter-war depression, viii, 285 pp. London: Routledge, 1989. £30.

Claire L. Dehon: Le roman camerounais d’expression francaise. vi, 358 pp. Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 1989. $37.50.

Donal B. Cruise O’Brien, John Dunn and Richard Rathbone (ed.): Contemporary West African states. (African Studies Series, 65.) vii, 227 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989 [pub. 1990]. £30, $47.50 (paper £9.95, $12.95).

Suzette Heald: Controlling anger: the sociology of Gisu violence. (International African Library, no. 6.) xii, 296 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.

Herman Jungraithmayr and Al-Amin Abu-Manga: Einfüihrung in die Ful-Sprache. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik. Erster Band.) xxxiii, 250 pp., map. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1989.

Roy J. Enquist: Namibia: land of tears, land of promise, [v], 174 pp. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1990. £19.95.

David William Ohen and E. S.Atieno Odhiambo: Siaya: the historical anthropology of an African landscape.(East African Studies.) viii, 152 pp.8 plates. London: James Currey; Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya; Athens, Ohio: Ohio: OhioUniversity Press, 1989. £19.95 (paper £7.95).

Richard P. Werbner: Ritual passage, sacred journey: the process and organisation of religious movement. ix, 396 pp. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press; Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. $32.50.

Short Notices

Bo Holmberg: A treatise on the unity and trinity of God by Israel of Kashkar (d. 872). Introduction, edition and word index. (Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions. Vol. 3.) 168, 120 pp. [Arabic text], 6 plates, addenda et corrigenda. Lund: Plus Ultra, 1989.

Ingeborg Huhn: Der Orientalist Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als preussischer Konsul in Damaskus (1849–1861) dargestellt nach seinen hinterlassenen Papieren. [IslamkundlicheUntersuchungen, Bd. 136.) ix, 465 pp., front., 2 maps [Bin end-pocket]. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1989.

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