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Volume 35 - Issue 1 - February 1972

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George Woodcock: Into Tibet: the early British explorers. (Great Travellers.) 277 pp., front., 8 plates. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. £2.75.

Saṅs-rgyas Bstan-'jin and Alexander W. Macdonald (ed.): Documents pour L'étude de la religion et de L'organisation sociale des Sherpa. 1. [iv], [50] pp. Junbesi, Paris-Nanterre: [Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Université de Paris], 1971.

Yen-p'ing Hao: The comprador in nineteenth century China: bridge between East and West. (Harvard East Asian Series, 45.) xvii, 315 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970. $10. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £4.75.)

Tso-liang Hsiao The land revolution in China, 1930–1934: a study of documents. (Far Eastern and Russian Institute Publications on Asia, No. 18.) ix, 361 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1969. $12.50, £5 19s.

H. Epstein: Domestic animals of China. (Technical Communication of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Breeding and Genetics, No. 18.) xviii, 166 pp., 104 plates. Farnham Royal, Bucks.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1969. £4.

William R. Wilson (tr.): Hōgen monogatari: Tale of the disorder in Hōgen. (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph Series.) xii, 176 pp., plate, 2 maps. Tokyo: Sophia University, [1971]. $7.

Donald Keene (tr.): Chūshingura (The treasury of loyal retainers): a puppet play by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series.) xiii, 183 pp. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1971. $6, £2.85.

Richard H. Minear: Japanese tradition and Western law: emperor, state, and law in the thought of Hozumi Yatsuka. (Harvard East Asian Series, 48.) [xi], 244 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970. $9. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £4.25.)

Kunio Yanagita: About our ancestors — the Japanese family system. Translated by Fanny Hagin Mayer and Ishiwara Yasuyo. (Japanese National Commission for UNESCO.) [xi], 193 pp., map. [Tokyo]: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, [c1970]. (Distributed by Kinokuniya Book-Store, Tokyo. $12.)

Sepp Linhart: Sozialer Wandel in ländlichen Siedlungen auf Hokkaidō: Studien zur Minwanderung, Kolonisation und Entwicklung der modernen Agrargesellschaft. (Beiträge zur Japanologie, Bd. 7.) xi, 300 pp. + errata sheet. Wien: Institut für Japanologie an der Universitat Wien, 1970.

H. N. van der Tuuk: A grammar of Toba Batak. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Translation Series, 13.) li, 405 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971. Guilders 80.

Muhammad Naguib al-Attas: The mysticism of Ḥamzah Fanṣūrī. xvii, 556 pp. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1970. M$50.

Bali: further studies in life, thought, and ritual. (Selected Studies on Indonesia, Vol. 8.) xvi, 268 pp., map [on front endpapers]. The Hague: W. van Hoeve Publishers Ltd. for the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1969. Guilders 25.

Hans-Jürgen Greschat and Herrmann Jungraithmayr (ed.): Wort und Religion: Kalima na dini. Studien zur Afrikanistik, Missionswissenschaft, Religionswissenschaft. Ernst Dammann zum 65. Geburtstag. 384 pp., front. Stuttgart: Evangelisher Missionsverlag GmbH, 1969. DM 32.

Robert I. Rotberg (ed.): Africa and its explorers: motives, methods, and impact. [xi], 351 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1970. £3.75.

Margaret Priestley: West African trade and Coast society: a family study. (West Aftican History Series.) xv, 210 pp., 4 plates. London, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1969. 55s.

Robert Smith: Kingdoms of the Yoruba. (Studies in African History, 2.) xiii, 226 pp. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1969. 30s.

Abner Cohen: Custom and politics in urban Africa: a study of Hausa migrants in Yoruba towns. xii, 252 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 36s.

A. S. Kanya-Forstner: The conquest of the Western Sudan: a study in French military imperialism. viii, 297 pp., 2 maps. Cambridge: University Press, 1969. 85s.

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