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Volume 47 - November 1988

Book Reviews—South Asia

Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual, Bazaar, and Rebellion in a Bengali Society. By Ákos Östör. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1984. 224 pp.

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India's Political Administrators, 1919–83. By David C. Potter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. xviii, 289 pp. $49.95.

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“Minorities” on Themselves. Edited by Hugh van Skyhawk. South Asian Digest of Regional Writing 2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1985. x, 212 pp. DM 44 (paper).

The Toda of South India: A New Look. By Anthony R. Walker. New Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corp., 1986. xx, 371 pp. $40.00.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music. Vol. 2. Edited by Judith Becker assisted by Alan H. Feinstein. Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia 30. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1987. xx, 401 pp. $36.50.

Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand. By Viggo Brun and Trond Schumacher. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. xx, 349 pp. $48.00.

A Sensation of Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall. By Chan Heng Chee. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984. xii, 260 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Babaylanism in Negros: 1896–1907. By Evelyn Tan Cullamar. Quezon City, Phils.: New Day Publishers, 1986. xii, 119 pp. $8.50(paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by the Cellar Bookshop, Detroit, Mich.)

Islamic Revivalism in a Changing Peasant Economy: Central Sumatra, 1784–1847. By Christine Dobbin. Reprint; Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series 47. Copenhagen: Curzon Press, 1987. xii, 300 pp. L9.50 (paper).

The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. By James William Gibson. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. xii, 523 pp. $24.95.

Iban Shamanism: An Analysis of the Ethnographic Literature. By Penelope Graham. Canberra, Australia: Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Anthropology, 1987. x, 174 pp. $12.00 (paper).

Pusaka: Heirloom Jars of Borneo. By Barbara Harrisson. Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1986. xvi, 55 pp. $68.00.

The White Apos: American Governors on the Cordillera Central. By Frank Lawrence Jenista. Quezon City, Phils.: New Day Publishers, 1987. xii, 321 pp. $ 14.00 (paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by the Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich.)

Changing Economy in Indonesia. Vol. 7: Balance of Payments, 1822–1939. By W. L. Korthals Altes. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1987. 167 pp. NDG 26.00 (paper).

Rebuilding a Nation: Philippine Challenges and American Policy. Edited by Carl H. Landé. Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press, 1987. xvi, 592 pp.

Prelude to Revolution: Palaces and Politics in Surakarta, 1912–1942. By George D. Larson. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Foris Publications, 1987. xvi, 242 pp. Dfl. 30 (paper).

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