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Tao Tao Liu and David Faure (ed.): Unity and diversity: local cultures and identities in China. ix, 212 pp. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996. £17.95.
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Hugh Baker and P.K. Ho: Teach Yourself Cantonese: a complete course for beginners. (Teach Yourself Series.) xv, 319 pp., Cassette. London: Hodder Headline, 1995. £9.99. Cassette £9.50.
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Mark A. Peterson: Korean adoption and inheritance: case studies in the creation of a classic Confucian society. (Cornell East Asia Series, no. 80.) xi, 267 pp. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1996. $25 (Paper $15).
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Tomi Suzuki: Narrating the self: fictions of Japanese modernity. x, 248 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. £25.
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Helen Hardacre: Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan. (Twentiethcentury Japan: the Emergence of a World Power, 7.) xxii, 310 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1997. £29.95, $35.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 384-385
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Central Asia - Shirin Akiner and Nicholas Sims-williams (ed.), Languages and Scripts of Central Asia. ix, 156 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1997. £23.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 385-386
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R.D. McChesney: Central Asia: foundations of Change. (Leon B.Poullada Memorial Lecture, vol.2.) 204 pp. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1996. $35.
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Roger Goepper: Alchi: Ladakh's hidden Buddhist sanctuary: the Sumtsek. Photography by Jaroslav Poncar. 286 pp. London: Serindia Publications, 1996. £80.
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Ulrich Pagel and Säan Gaffney: Location list to the texts in the microfiche edition of the Śel dkar (London) Manuscript bká ,gyur (Or. 6724). (Catalogus Codicum Tibetanorum, I.) xviii, 132 pp. London: British Library, 1996. £20.
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Marilyn M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman: Wisdom and compassion: the sacred art of Tibet. Expanded version. 488 pp., map [on endpapers]. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. £48.
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Thomas T. Allsen: Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire: a cultural history of Islamic textiles. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xvi, 137 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. £30, $49.95.
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South-East Asia - Barbara Harrisson: Later ceramics in South-East Asia: sixteenth to twentieth centuries. xxii, 116 pp., 32 [col.] Plates. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1995. £40.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 391-392
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Benjamin Brinner: Knowing music, making music: Javanese gamelan and the theory of musical competence and interaction. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) xxiv, 363 pp., 8 plates. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. £47.95, $59.95 (Paper £17.95, $22.50).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 392-394
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Mary F. Connors: Lao textiles and traditions. (Images of Asia.) xix, 82 pp., 16 plates. Kuala Lumpur etc.: Oxford University Press. 1996. £13.99.
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E. Paul Durrenberger (ed.), State Power and culture in Thailand. (Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph, 44.) vii, 200 pp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1996. $32 (Paper $20).
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Robert H. Barnes: Sea hunters of Indonesia: fishers and weavers of Lamalera. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology.) xxii, 467 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. £50.
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Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas (ed.) Narratives of nation in the South Pacific. (Studies in anthropology and history, Vol. 19.) xv, 256 pp. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. £37, $58 (paper £16, $24).
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Africa - Louis Brenner (ed.): Muslim identity and social change in sub-Saharan Africa. x, 250 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 1993. £35 (Paper £10.50).
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Africa - Martin Stone: The agony of Algeria. xiv, 274pp. London: Hurst & Company, 1997. £40 (paper £14.95).
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Ruth Finnegan: Oral traditions and the verbal arts: a guide to research practices. (ASA Research Methods in Social Anthropology Series, no. 4.) xviii, 284 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £12.99.
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