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Volume 34 - February 1971

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J. Clyde Mitchell (ed.): Social networks in urban situations: analyses of personal relationships in central African towns. x, 378 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia, 1969. 55s.

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Paolo Contini: The Somali Republic: an experiment in legal integration. (Cass Library of African Studies. African Law Series.) vii, 92 pp. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1969. 42s.

J. S. Boston: The Igala kingdom. xiv, 258 pp., front., 8 plates. Ibadan: Oxford University Press for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1968. £5.

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Lloyd A. Fallers: Law without precedent: legal ideas in action in the courts of colonial Busoga. xiii, 365 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $12, £5 8s.

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E. A. Ayandele: Holy Johnson, pioneer of African nationalism, 1836–1917. (Africana Modern Library, No. 13.) 417 pp., front., 4 plates. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1970. £3.75.

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Walter Goldschmidt: Kambuya's cattle: the legacy of an African herdsman. x, 242 pp., front., 8 plates, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. $7.50. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. 72s.)

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Alan Harwood: Witchcraft, sorcery, and social categories among the Safwa. xvii, 160 pp. front., 4 plates. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1970. 50s.

Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann (ed.): Colonialism in Africa, 1870–1960. Vol. 3. Profiles of change : African society and colonial rule. Edited by Victor Turner. (Hoover Institution Publications.) viii, 455 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. £5

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C. R. Boxer: The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415–1825. (The History of Human Society.) xxvi, 426 pp., 16 plates, map. London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1969. 55s.

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Harry Sawyerr: God: ancestor or creator? Aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. xiii, 118 pp. London: Longman Group Ltd., 1970 40s.

John S. Mbiti: New Testament eschatology in an African background: a study of the encounter between New Testament theology and African traditional concepts. xii, 216 pp. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. £2.25.

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Giulio C. Lepschy: A survery of structural linguistics. 192 pp. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. £2.50.

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Simon Ottenberg: Double descent in an African society: the Afikpo village-group. (American Ethnological Society. Monograph 47.) xviii, 284 pp., 4 plates. Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, [c1968]. $7.95, 75s. 6d.

J. R. Firth: Selected papers of J. R. Firth, 1952–59. Edited by F. R. Palmer. (Longmans' Linguistics Library.) x, 209 pp. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1968. 30s.

Claude Meillassoux: Urbanization of an African community: voluntary associations in Bamako. (American Ethnological Society. Monograph 45.) xii, 165 pp., 8 plates. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, [C1968]. $6.95, 66s.

Birgit A. Blass and others: A provisional survey of materials for the study of neglected languages. [By] Birgit A. Blass, Dora E. Johnson, William W. Gage, vii, 414 pp. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, [c1969]. $9.50.

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Francesco Vattioni (ed.): Ecclesiastico: testo ebraico con apparato critico e versioni greca, latina e siriaca. (Istituto Orientale di Napoli. Publicazioni del Seminario di Semitistica. Testi, I.) liv, 285 pp. Napoli: [Istituto Universitario Orientale], 1968.

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E. A. S. Butterworth: The tree at the navel of the earth, xii, 239 pp., 31 plates. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter and Co., 1970. DM 68.

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