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Volume 34 - Issue 1 - February 1971

Book Review

David C. Montgomery (comp.): Mongolian newspaper reader: selections from Ünen. (Indiana University Publications. Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 102.) xiii, 208 pp. Bloomington: Indiana University; The Hauge: Mouton and Co., [1969]. $8, guilders 29.

John MacGregor [pseudonym]: Tibet: a chronicle of exploration. x, 373 pp., front., 24 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. £4.

Marián Gálik: Mao Tun and modern chinese literary criticism. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 2.) XV, 185 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1969. DM 32.

Holmes Welch: The Buddhist revival in china. (Harvard East Asian Series, 33.) xi, 385 pp., 22 plates. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £5 15s.)

Rutherford John Gettens: The Freer Chinese bronzes. Vol. II. Technical studies. (Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art. Oriental Studies, No. 7; Smithsonian Publication 4706.) xviii. 257 pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1969. $20.

David A. Dilworth (tr.): Nishida Kitaro's fundamental problems of philosophy: the world of action and the dialectical world. (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph Series.) xiii, 258 pp. Tokyo: Sophia University, [1970]. $10.75.

Tatsuo Arima: The failure of freedom: a portrait of modern Japanese Intellectuals. (Harvard East Asian Series, 39.) XV, 296 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. 95s.)

F. S. V. Donnison: Burma. (Nations of the Modern World.) 263 pp., 16 plates, 2 maps. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1970. £2.50.

Sinnappah Arasaratnam: Indians in Malaysia and Singapore. xiii, 214 pp. Bombay, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, London, 1970. 25s.

Tom Harrisson and Stanley J. O'Connor: Excavations of the prehistoric iron industry in west Borneo. (Data Paper No. 72.) 2 vols.: xxi, 222 pp.; xxiii–xxxix, 223–417 pp. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1969. $5.

Johnson U. J. Asiegbu: Slavery and the politics of liberation, 1787–1861: a study of liberated African emigration and British anti-slavery policy, xvi, 231 pp., 8 plates. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1969. £3.

P. H. Gulliver (ed.): Tradition and transition in East Africa: studies of the tribal element in the modern era. [vi], 378 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 55s.

John Beattie and John Middleton (ed.): Spirit mediumship and society in Africa, xxx, 310 pp., 8 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 50s.

William Bascom: Ifa divination: communication between gods and men in West Africa. xii, 575 pp., 15 plates. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press, [1969]. $20, £9 6s.

Anne Retel-Laurentin: Oracles et ordalies chez les Nzakara. (École Pratique des Hautes Études—Sorbonne. Sixième Section: Science Économiques et Sociales. Le Monde d'Outre-Mer, Passé et Présent. Premièe Série: Études, XXXIII.) 418 pp., 8 plates. Paris, La Haye: Mounton & Co., 1969. Fr. 63.

Victor W. Turner: The ritual process: structure and anti-structure. (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, 1966.) x, 213 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 55s.

Meyer Fortes: Kinship and the social order: the legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan. (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, 1963.) xii, 347 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. 80s.

Jack Goody: Comparative studies in kinship. xvii, 261 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 42s.

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Book Review