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Volume 57 - October 1994

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Hal Hill (ed.): Unity in diversity: regional economic development in Indonesia since 1970. xxx, 610 pp., map [on endpapers] Singapore, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1991. £25.

Wazir Jahan Karim: Women and culture: between Malay adat and Islam. xiv, 255 pp. San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1992. £25.95.

John Middleton: The world of the Swahili: an African mercantile civilization. xii, 254 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. £19.95.

Joan Maw: Narrative in Swahili: sentence structure, intonation and the storyteller. 107 pp. London: : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992. £8.

Philip J. Jagger: An advanced Hausa reader with grammatical notes and exercises. xv, 173 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992. £12.

Herrmann Jungraithmayr: A dictionary of the Tangale language (Kaltungo, northern Nigeria), with a grammatical introduction. In collaboration with Njeno Anirya Galadima and Ulrich Kleinwillinghöfer. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, 12. Bd.) 219 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1992. DM 76.

Thomas A. Dowson: Rock engravings of Southern Africa. x, 124 pp. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand Press, 1992. £32.

Wim Van Binsbergen: Tears of Rain; ethnicity and history in central western Zambia. (Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden.) xxii, 495 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992. £45.

Victor Turner: Blazing the trail: way marks in the exploration of symbols. Edited by Edith Turner, xxi, 181 pp. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, 1992. $32.50.

Robert W. Hefner (ed.): Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation. x, 326 pp. Berkeley, New York, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1993. $45.

Mike Parnwell: Population movements and the Third World. (Routledge Introductions to Development.) xii, 158 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. £7.99.

Nigel Harris (ed.): Cities in the 1990s: the challenge for developing countries. xxiii, 232 pp. London: University College London Press, 1992. £30 (paper £11.95).

Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin (ed.): Bush base: forest farm. Culture, environment and development. xii, 263 pp. London and New York. Routledge, 1992. £12.99.

Frank Perlin: ‘The invisible city’; monetary, administrative and popular infrastructures in Asia and Europe, 1500–1900. (Collected Studies Series, CS387.) xii, 366 pp. Aldershot, Hants.: Variorum; Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1993.

Robert H. Robins and Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck (ed.): Endangered languages. xiv, 273 pp. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1991. £24.50.

Short Notices

Marianna E. Vogelzang and Herman L. J. Vanstiphout (ed.): Mesopotamian epic literature: oral or aural? xii, 320 pp. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. £39.95.

John Curtis (ed.): Early Mesopotamia and Iran: contact and conflict c. 3,500–1600 B.C. Proceedings of a seminar in memory of Vladimir G. Lukonin. 95 pp., 12 [col.] plates. London: British Museum Press, 1993. £14.95.

Sebastian Brock: Studies in Syriac Christianity: history, literature and theology. (Collected Studies Series, CS357.) x, 308 pp. Aldershot, Hants.: Variorum; Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1992.

Ora Rodrigue-Schwarzwald and Michael Sokoloff: A Hebrew dictionary of linguistics and philology. [v], 288 pp. Even-Yehuda: D. Reches Publishing Ltd., 1992.

Mahmoud M. Ayoub: The Ǫur'an and its interpreters. Vol. n. The House of‘lmrān. x, 433 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992. $19.95.

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