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Volume 48 - Issue 3 - October 1985

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David P. Chandler: A history of Cambodia. xvi, 237 pp. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. (Distributed by Bowker Publishing Co., Erasmus House, Epping, Essex. £21.75.)

Lorraine Gesick (ed.): Centers, symbols and hierarchies: essays on the classical states of Southeast Asia. (Monograph Series No. 26.) x, 241 pp. New Haven: Yala University southeast Asia Studies, 1983.

Michael W. Young: Magicians of Manumanua: Living myth in Kalauna. x, 317 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1983. £19.95.

Air Chief Marshal SirDavid Lee: Eastward : a history of the Royal Air Force in the Far East, 1945–1972. xxi, 280 pp., 32 plates. London: HMSO, 1984.

Denise Paulme: La statue du commandeur: essais d, éthnolgie. 340 pp. Paris: Le Sycomore, 1984. Fr. 120.

Ali Amahan: Abadou de Ghoujdama: peuplement et vie quotidienne dans un village du Haut-Atlas marocain. Étudescio-linguistique. (Comptes rendue du Groupe Linguistique d,Études Chamito-Sémitiques, Supplément 1.) 243 pp., 4 plates. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1983. Fr.120.

Elizabeth Isichei: A history of Nigeria. With a contribution by Peter Uche Isichi. xix, 579 pp. London, Lagos and New York: Longman, 1983. £19.95 (paper £7.95).

David Birmingham and Phyllis M. Martin(ed.): History of Central Africa. 2 vols. xii, 315; x, 432 pp. London and New York: Longman, 1983. £24.95, $27.95 (paper £7.95; $8.95).

André du Toit and Hermann Giliomee (ed.): Afrikaner political thought: analysis and documents. Vol. I: 1780-1850. (Perspectives on Southern Africa, 22.) xxx, 309 pp. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1983. £31.75, $48.75.

Jeff Opland: Xhosa oral poetry: aspects of a black South African tradition. (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture.) xii, 303 pp., map. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983 [pub. 1984]. £25.

Eugene L. Mendonsa: The politics of divination: a processual view of reactions to illness and deviance among the Sisala of northern Ghana. xii, 270 pp., 6 plates. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, [1983]. £24, $37.

Edgar Graham [and] Ingrid Floering : The modern plantation in the Third World. Edited with a foreword by David Fieldhouse. xvii, 231 pp. London and Sydney : Croom Helm, 1984. £25.

Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguistics, August 29-September 4, 1982, Tokyo. Edited by ShirÔ Hattori, Kazuko Inoue and others. 1xii, 1453 pp. Tokyo: The Proceedings Publishing Committee under the auspices of the CIPL [The Hague], 1983.

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Leonard Gorelick and Elizabeth Williams-Forte (ed.): Ancient seals and the Bible. (Occasional Papers on the Near East, 2/1.) [vi], 63 pp., 12 plates. Undena, California: Undena Publications, 1983. $13.50.

Josep Puig (ed.): Epitome in physicorum libros. (Union Académique Internationale. Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem, A:Series Arabica.) [ix], 283 pp. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1983.

Gerald M. Browne: Chrysostomus Nubianus: an Old Nubian Version of Ps. Chrysostom, In venerabilem crucem sermo. (Papyrologica Castroctaviana, Vol. 10.) 160 pp., 14 plates. Roma and Barcelona: Papyrologica Castroctaviana, 1984. L.30,000; $22.

Nelly Hanna: An urban history of Būlāg in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. (Supplément aux Annales Islamologiques. Cahier No. 3.) [vii], 112 pp., 10 plates. Le Caire: Institut Français d, Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1983.

S. M. Stern: History and culture in the medieval Muslim world. F. W. Zimmerman. [xi], [344] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1984. £28.

Dionisius A. Agius: Arabic literary works as a source of documentation for technical terms of the material culture. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 98.) [viii005D;, 375 pp. Berlin: klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1984.

Mohammed Arkoun: Pour une critique de la raison islamique. (Islamd’hier et d’aujourd’hui, 24.) 378 pp. Paris: Èditions Maisonneuve et Larose, 1984. Fr. 120.

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