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Volume 56 - February 1993

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Robert Parkin: A guide to Austroasiatic speakers and their languages. (Oceanic Linguistics, Special Publication, no. 23.) ix, 198, [xv] pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. $21.

Isidore Okpewho: The epic in Africa: towards a poetics of the oral performance. [Revised paperback edition.] xvii, 288 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. $20.

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Peter Mark: The wild bull and the sacred forest: form, meaning and change in Senegambian initiation masks, xv, 170 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press. 1992. £35, $64.95.

Andrew Apter: Black critics and kings: the hermeneutics of power in Yoruba society, xvii, 280 pp., 16 plates. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. £14.25, $20.75.

Robin Law: The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550–1750: the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on an African society. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xii, 376 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. £45.

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Jean and John Comaroff: Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, colonialism and consciousness in South Africa. Vol. 1. xx, 414 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. $60 (paper $18.95).

John W. Burton: An introduction to Evans-Pritchard. (Studia Instituti Anthropos, vol. 45.) 177 pp. Fribourg, Suisse: Editions Universitaires, 1992. SFr. 38.

David Chidester: Religions of South Africa. (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) xvi, 286 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £13.99.

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Alan Barnard: Hunters and herders of southern Africa: a comparative ethnography of the Khoisan peoples. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 85.) xxv, 349 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £40. $74.95 (paper £13.95, $19.95).

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Sabine Schmidtke: The theology of al-‘Allāma al-Hillī (d. 726/1325). (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 152.) iv, 292 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1991.

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Jean Kennedy: New currents, ancient rivers: contemporary African artists in a generation of change. 204 pp. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. $49.95.

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Peter Thorau: The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century. Transl. by P. M. Holt. xiii, 321 pp. London and New York: Longman, 1992. £13.50.

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Paul Stoller: The cinematic griot: the ethnography of Jean Rouch. xvii, 247 pp. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992. £31.95, $45.95 (paper £13.50, $19.50).

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Zdzislav ŻygulskiJr.: Ottoman art in the service of the empire. xii, 192 pp. New York and London: New York University Press, 1992. $50.

Jean-Marie Durand (ed.): Florilegium marianwn: receuil d'études en I'honneur de Michel Fleury. (Mémoires de Nabu, 1./Supplément à Nabu, no. 4, 1991.) 160 pp. Paris: Société pour l'Étude du Proche-Orient Ancien, 1992. Fr. 150.

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