Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies: Volume 37 - Issue 3

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Volume 37 - Issue 3 - February 1974

Reviews

Michael Crowder, Revolt in Bussa: a study of British ‘native administration’ in Nigerian Borgu, 1902–1935. 273 pp., 4 plates. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1973. £5.

Charlotte A. Quinn: Mandingo kingdoms of the Senegambia: traditionalism, Islam, and European expansion. xxiii, 211 pp. Evanston: Northwestern University Press; London: Longman, 1972. $10.00, £3.75.

E. E. Evans-Pritchard (ed.): Man and woman among the Azande. 197 pp., 4 plates. London: Faber and Faber, 1974. £4.50.

Paul Spencer: Nomads in alliance: symbiosis and growth among the Rendille and Sambuni of Kenya. (School of Oriental and African Studies.) x, 230 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1973. £2.25.

Jean Buxton: Religion and healing in Mandari. xiv, 443 pp., front., 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. £6.

Henry W. West: Land policy in Buganda. (African Studies Series, 3.) xiv, 244 pp., 13 maps. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. £6.50.

Pierre Alexandre (ed.): French perspectives in African studies: a collection of translated essays. viii, 240 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1973. £4.20.

George Eaton Simpson: Melville J. Herskovits. (Leaders of Modern Anthropology Series.) ix, 200 pp. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1973. $10, £3.

Francis Korn: Elementary structures reconsidered: Lévi-Strauss on kinship. xv, 168 pp. London: Tavistock Publications, 1973. £2.90.

Bruce L. Derwing: Transformational grammar as a theory of language acquisition: a study in the empirical, conceptual and methodological foundations of contemporary linguistics. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 10.) xii, 346 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1973. £6.60.

Short Notices

Emil Schürer: The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.–A.D. 135). A new English version revised and edited, by Geza Vermes and Fergus Millar. Vol. I. xvii, 614 pp., front. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark Ltd., 1973. £10.

M. Gonçalves da Costa (ed.): P.eJerónimo Lobo: Itinerário e outros escritos inéditos. (Biblioteca Histórica de Portugal e Brasil. Série Ultra-marina.) xxviii, 832 pp., front., 16 plates. [Barcelos]: Livraria Civilização, [1971].

Udo Steinbach: Ḏᾱt al-Himma: kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu einem arabischen Volksroman. (Freiburger Islamstudien, Bd. IV.) 151 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1972. DM 46.

Yahya Haqqi: The saint's lamp, and oilier stories. Translated… by M. M. Badawi. (Arabic Translation Series of the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 2.) xiii, 90 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. Guilders 16.

Y. Linant de Bellefonds: Traité de droit musulman comparé, III. (Maisou des Sciences de I'Homme. Recherches Méditerranéennes. Éludes, IX.) 467 pp. Paris, La Haye: Mouton & Co., 1973. Fr. 96.

R. A. Jairazbhoy: An outline of Islamic architecture, xvi, 388 pp., 80 plates, 2 maps [on endpapers]. London: Asia Publishing House, [1973]. £5.

Robert Montagne: The Berbers: their social and political organisation. Translated… by David Seddon. xliv, 93 pp. London: Frank Cass, 1973. £2.75.

Jacob M. Landau: Middle Eastern themes: papers in history and politics. vii, 309 pp. London: Frank Cass, 1973. £3.75.

G(h)eghard. (Documenti di Architettura Armena, 6.) 73 pp. Milano: Edizioni Ares, 1973. $6.

Ann Perkins: The art of Dura-Europos. xiii, 130 pp., 32 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. £7.50.