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Volume 47 - Issue 2 - June 1984

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Guy C. Z. Mhone: The political economy of a dual labor market in Africa: the copper industry and dependency in zambia, 1929–1969. 254 pp. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1982. £12.

Elisabeth Motte: Les plantes chez les Pygmées Aka et les Monzombo de la Lobaye (Centrafrique). Étude ethnobotanique comparative chez des chasseurs-cueilleurs et des Pêcheurs-cultivateurs dans un même milieu. vêgêtal. (Bibliothèque de la Selaf, 80-82.) 573 pp. Paris: SELAF, 1982. Fr.200.

G. D. Gibson and others: The Kavango Peoples. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 56.)viii, 276 pp., 15 plates, map. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981. DM 48.

Janet Hodgson: The god of the Xhosa: a study of the origins and development of the traditional concepts of the supreme being. xiv, 131 pp. Cape town: Oxford University Press, 1982 [pub. 1983]. £9.50.

Norbert Boretzky: Kreolsprachen, Substrate und Sprachwandel. xiv, 316 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 98.

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T. G. Pinches: Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum. Parts 55–57: Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid economic texts. 2 vols. xii pp., 322 plats: xiii pp., 317 plates. London: British Museum Publications Ltd. for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1982. £30 each.

Sheldon R. Brunswick (ed): Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy on his Eightieth Birthday. 285, [34] pp. [Hebrew and Yiddish text]. Ramatgan: Bar-Ilan University Press, [1982].

Mohammed Arkoun: Lectures du Coran. (Ľislam ďaujourďhui.) xxxiii, 175 pp. Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1982.

Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson: Quseir al-Qadun 1980. (American Research Center in Egypt Reports, Vol. 7.) xi, 406 pp. Malibu, California: Undena Publications, 1982. $27.50 (PaPer $22).

Olivier Carré (ed.): L'Islam et l'état dans le monde dďaujonurd'hui. (Politique d'Aujourd'hui.) 270 pp. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1982.

Hanna Sohrweide: Türkische Handschriften, Teil 5. (Verzeichins der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. xiii,5.) xix, 324 pp., 12 plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag Gnbh, 1981. DM 196.

Mehdi Keyvani: Artisans and guild life in the later Safavid perod: contributions to the social-economic history of Persia. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 65.)xii, 339 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlage, 1982.

Vladimir Minorsky: Medieval Iran and is its neighbours. [viii], 326 pp. London: Variorum reprints, 1982.£26.

[Gianroberto Scarcia (ed.)]: La bisaccia dello Sheikh. Omaggio ad Alessandro Bausani Islamista nel sessantesimo compleanno. (Quaderni del Seminario di Iranistica, UraloAltaistica e Caucasologia dell'Universitá degli Studi di Venezia, 19.) 384pp. Venezia: Universitá degli Studi di Venezia, 1981.

Ahmad Saeed Khan (comp.): A biblography of the works of Abū'l Raihān al-Bīrūnī. [iv], 77 pp. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982. Rs. 30.$10.

F. Gros (ed.): Chants dévotionnels tamouls de Kāraikkār, edition et traduction par Kârâvelâne. Nouvelle edition. Introduction par Jean Filliozat. (Publications de l'Institut Frnçais d'Indologie, No. 1.) 172 pp. 20 Plates. Pondichéry: Insttut Français ďd'Indologie. 1982.

Pandurang Ganesh Deshpande: A modern English–Gujarati dictionary. (Reprinted with corrections.) viii, 809 pp. Bombay, ect.: Oxford University Press, 1982. Rs. 40.

Hermann Kulke and others: Orossa: a comprehensive and classified bibliography. (Beiträge Zur Sôdasian-For-schung [Heidelberg], Bd.72.) xxiii, 416 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982. DM 96, Rs. 200.

Anthony C. Yu (tr.): The journey to the west. Vol.4. [ix], 469 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. £28.

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