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Volume 17 - Issue 2 - February 1958

Book Reviews

Masterworks of Japanese Art. Compiled and Edited by Charles S. Terry. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1956. x, 252, Plates, Index. $15.00.

The Art of the Netsuke Carver. By Frederick Meinertzhagen. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. viii, 80, 20 pp. of plates. Tables, Index. 45 s., $9.50.

Japanese Gardens. By Jiro Harada. Boston: Charles T. Brandford Co., 1956. vii, 160. Photographs, Glossary. $8.50.

Hankuk sŏhae tosŏ. (Islands off the West Coast of Korea). Compiled by Kim Chewon. Seoul: Eul-Yu Publishing Co., 1957. 260. 38 Plates. English résumé 14 p.

The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Part II. Their Religious Life. By Louis M. J. Schram, C.I.C.M. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 47, Part 1. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1957. 164. Index. $3.00.

Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskaya istoriya Tuvy, XlX-nachalo XX vv [Social-Economic History of Tuva, 19th to early 20th century]. By Vsevolod Ivanovich Dulov. Moscow: Academy of Sciences, 1956. 608. Map.

An Annotated Bibliography of Philippine Social Science. Vol. I, Economics. Comp. by Alejandrino Hufana and Rony Diaz. Quezon City: Social Science Research Center, University of the Philippines, 1956. x, 525. $12.00.

The Peasants of the Tonkin Delta: A Study of Human Geography. By Pierre Gourou. Behavior Science Translations. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files, 1955. 2 vols. 889. $3.00 ea. vol.

Contribution à l'histoire de la nation vietnamienne. By Jean Chesneaux. Paris: Editions Sociales, 1955. 322. Bibliography, Index.

A Preliminary Description of the Javanese Kinship System. By R. M. Koentjaraningrat. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Cultural Report Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. 111. Glossary of Javanese Terms, References. $1.50.

Indonesian Society in Transition: A Study of Social Change. By W. F. Wertheim. The Hague and Bandung: W. van Hoeve Ltd., Distributed by IPR. 1956. xi, 360, Maps, Index. $5.00.

North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak (British Borneo). Country Survey Series. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files, 1957. xi, 287. Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index.

Land of Dahori: Tales of New Guinea. By Olaf Ruhen. New York: Lippincott, 1957. x, 278. $3.75.

Work and Life on Raroia: An Acculturation Study from the Tuamotu Group in French Oceania. By Bengt Danielsson. New York: Macmillan, 1957. 244. Photographs, Maps, Tables, Bibliography. $5.75.

The Union of Burma: A Study of the First Years of Independence. By Hugh Tinker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. xiv, 424. Maps, Bibliography, Index. $6.75.

To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson. By Courtney Anderson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1956. xiv, 530. Index, Illustrations. $6.00.

Geographical Essays on British Tropical Lands. Ed. R. W. Steel and C. A. Fisher. London: George Philip & Son, 1956. x, 344. Maps, Diagrams. 35 s.

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