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Volume 34 - Issue 2 - June 1971

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Paolo Contini: The Somali Republic: an experiment in legal integration. (Cass Library of African Studies. African Law Series.) vii, 92 pp. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1969. 42s.

J. S. Boston: The Igala kingdom. xiv, 258 pp., front., 8 plates. Ibadan: Oxford University Press for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1968. £5.

Alan Harwood: Witchcraft, sorcery, and social categories among the Safwa. xvii, 160 pp. front., 4 plates. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1970. 50s.

Harry Sawyerr: God: ancestor or creator? Aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. xiii, 118 pp. London: Longman Group Ltd., 1970 40s.

Simon Ottenberg: Double descent in an African society: the Afikpo village-group. (American Ethnological Society. Monograph 47.) xviii, 284 pp., 4 plates. Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, [c1968]. $7.95, 75s. 6d.

Claude Meillassoux: Urbanization of an African community: voluntary associations in Bamako. (American Ethnological Society. Monograph 45.) xii, 165 pp., 8 plates. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, [C1968]. $6.95, 66s.

Polly Hill: Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa. (African Studies Series, 2.) xxiii, 173 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £3.50.

Yuen Ren Chao: Languages and symbolic systems. xv, 240 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1968. £30s.

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Simo Parpola: Letters from Assyrian scholars to the kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. Part I: texts. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 5/1.) xxi, 341 pp. Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon und Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehungsvereins, 1970. DM 72.

P. R. Ackroyd and C. F. Evans (ed.): The Cambridge history of the Bible. Vol. 1. From the beginnings to Jerome. x, 649 pp., 24 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £4.50.

Salman H. al-Ani: Arabic phonology: an acoustical and physiological investigation. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 61.) 104 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1970. Guilders 35.

G. E. von Grunebaum: Classical Islam: a history, 600–1258. Translated by Kaikerine Watson. 243 pp., 15 plates. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1970. £3.

Ira M. Lapidus (ed.): Middle Eastern cities: a symposium on ancient, Islamic, and contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism. xiii, 206 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. $6. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. 57s.)

Douglas L. Johnson: The nature of nomadism: a comparative study of pastoral migrations in southwestern Asia and northern Africa. (University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography. Research Paper No. 118.) viii, 200 pp. Chicago: Dept. of Geography, 1969.

Özdemir Nutku: Darülbedayi'in elli yili (Darülbedayi'den Şehir Tiyatrosu'na). (Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coǧrafya Fakültesi Yayinlari, 191.) viii, 309 pp. [Ankara]: Ankara Universitesi Baismevi, 1969. TL 32.

Hermann Jocobi: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Bernhard Kölver. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 4.) 2 vols.: xxiii, 546 pp.; [v] 547–1156 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1970. DM 98.

David Pingree (comp.): Census of the exact sciences in Sanskrit. Series A, Vol. 1. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 81.) vii, £60 pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1970. $5.

J. M. Somasundaram Pillai: A history of Tamil literature, with texts and translations, from the earliest times to 600 A.D. [iv], ii, xxv, 424 pp., 22 plates. Annamalainagar: the author, 1968. Rs. 12.

Devapoopathy Nadarajah: Women in Tamil society: the classical period. (University of Malaya. Dept. of Indian Studies. Monograph Series, No. 15.) x, 189 pp. Kuala Lumpur: Feculty of Arts, University of Malaya, 1969. M$10.

T. V. Mahalingam: Kāñcīpuram in early South Indian history. viii, 243 pp. London: Asia Publishing House, [1969]. £3.

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