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Volume 58 - October 1995

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Liza Dalby: Kimono: fashioning culture, xi, 384 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. £25, $30.

John Lagerwey (comp.): Comportement rituel et corps social en Asie. (Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, no. 79.2.) iv, 378 pp. Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 1992.

Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen: Trance and possession in Bali: a window on Western multiple personality, possession disorder, and suicide, xvi, 264 pp. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1993. £19.50.

Graeme Lang and Lars Ragvald: The rise of a refugee god: Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin. x, 204pp. Hong Kong, etc.: Oxford University Press. 1993. £35.

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David Ayalon: Islam and the abode of war: military slaves and Islamic adversaries. (Collected Studies Series, CS456.) xii, 298pp. Aldershot, Hants.: Variorum Publishing Ltd.; Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994. £47.50.

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Ian Astley-Kristensen (ed. and tr.): The Rishukyō: the Sino-Japanese Tantric Prajñāpāramitā in 150 verses (Amoghavajra's version). (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua, in.) Tring, Herts: Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1991.

Mary Margaret Steedly: Hanging without a rope: narrative experience in colonial and postcolonial Karoland. xvi, 306 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. $49.50 (paper $16.95).

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Benjamin Z. Kedar: The Franks in the Levant, 11th to 14th centuries. (Collected Studies Series, CS423.) xii, 322pp. Aldershot, Hants.: Variorum Publishing Ltd.; Brook-field, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.; 1993. £49.50.

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Roger J. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim: Making capitalism: the social and cultural construction of a South Korean conglomerate, xii, 276 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. $35.

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Marietta T. Stepaniants: Sufi Wisdom. (Suny Series in Islam.) 132pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, Albany, 1994. $12.95.

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Robert Van Niel: Java under the Cultivation System: collected writings. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, no. 150.) [V], 244 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1992. Guilders 40, $26.

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Gilbert Puech: Ethnotextes maltais. (Studia Melitensia, 1.) xi, 201 pp. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag, 1994. DM 98.

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Claudine Salmon (ed.): Le moment ‘sino-malais’ de la littérature indonésienne. (Cahier d'Archipel, 19.) vi, 184 pp. Paris: Association Archipel, 1992. Fr. 120.

Delmer M. Brown (ed.): The Cambridge history of Japan. Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, xxiii, 602 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £70.

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P.-S. Filliozat et al. (ed.): Pandit N. R. Bhatt Felicitation Volume, xi, 607 pp., front., 5 plates. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. Pte. Ltd., [1994].

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Sebastian Izzard: Kunisada's world. With essays by J. Thomas Rimer and John T. Carpenter. xi, 199 pp. New York: Japan Society of America [and] Ukiyo-e Society of America, 1993.

Edwin L. Ferdon: Early observations of Marquesan culture, 1595–1813. XV, 185 pp. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, 1993. $40.

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Francis X. D'Sa and Roque Mesquita (ed.): Hermeneutics of encounter: Essays in honour of Gerhard Oberhammer on the occasion of his 65th Birthday. (Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, Vol. xx.) 303 pp. Wien: Sammlung De Nobili, 1994.

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Karatani Kōjin: Origins of modern Japanese literature. Transl. by Brett de Bary et al.xx, 219 pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993., $15.95 (paper).

J. C. Russell and N. C. Pollock. New from Masasi. (Veroffenlich-ungen der Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien, Nr. 62; Beiträge zur Afrikanistik, Bd. 45.) 164 pp. Wien: Afro-Pub, 1993. ÖS 60.

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