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Volume 40 - February 1977

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James W. St. G. Walker: The Black Loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870. (Dalhousie African Studies Series.) xvii, 438 pp., 8 plates. London: Longman and Dalhousie University Press, 1976. £8.75.

Gordon Innes (ed. and tr.): Kaabu and Fuladu: historical narratives of the Gambian Mandinka. [vii], 310 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1976. £7.50.

M. O. Woelders: Het sultanaat Palembang, 1811–1825. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 72.) xii, 512 pp., front. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Guilders 87.

Joseph C. Miller: Kings and kinsmen: early Mbundu states in Angola. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xx, 312 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. £9.50.

Milton Osborne: River road to China: the Mekong river expedition, 1866–1873. xxii, 249 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1975. £4.95.

David Robinson: Chiefs and clerics: Abdul Bokar Kan and Futa Toro, 1853–1891. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xiv, 239 pp., 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £7.50.

Guy Nicolas. Dynamique sociale et appréhension du monde au sein d'une société hausa. (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Travaux et Mémoires de l'lnstitut d'Ethnologie, LXXVIII.) 661 pp., 5 plates. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1975.

David S. Moyer: The logic of the laws: a structural analysis of Malay language legal codes from Bengkulu. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 75.) xi, 304 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Guilders 55.

Ivor Wilks: Asante in the nineteenth century: the structure and evolution of a political order. (African Studies Series, 13.) xvii, 800 pp., 16 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1975. £16.

John Lamphear: The traditional history of the Jie of Uganda. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xiv, 281 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. £9.75.

J. Boulbet: Paysans de la forêt. (Publications de l'École Française d'Extreme-Orient, Vol. cv.) [iv], 150 pp., 30 plates, 6 maps. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1975.

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J. Harmatta and G. Komoróczy (ed.): Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im alten Vorderasien. 540 pp. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1976. £18.40.

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Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz: Kinship in Bali. xiii, 213 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1975. $12.50, £8.45.

J. Forbes Munro: Colonial rule and the Kamba: social change in the Kenya highlands, 1889–1939. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) ix, 276 pp., 2 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £7.50.

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Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green: The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Near East. (American Schools of Oriental Research. Dissertation Series, No. 1.) xvi, 383 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for the American Schools of Oriental Research, [C1975].

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G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville: A modern atlas of African history. 63 pp. London: Rex Collings, 1976. £3.50.

J. O. Asamani: Index Africanus. (Hoover Institution Bibliographies, 53.) xiii, 659 pp. + 2 pp. errata. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [1975]. $25.

Andrzej Zaborski: Studies in Hamito-Semitic, I. The verb in Cushitic. (Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, CCCXCVII. Prace Językoznawcze, Zeszyt 48.) 184 pp. [Kraków]: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, [1975]. Zł 24.

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Markus Wäfler: Nicht-Assyrer neuassyrischer Darstellungen. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 26.) xiii, 394 pp., 34 plates [bound separately]. Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon und Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1975. DM 245.

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