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Volume 55 - June 1992

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†John Edgar: A Masalit grammar with notes on other languages of Ddrfur and Wadai. (Sprache und Oralitat in Afrika, Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik, 3.) 121 pp. + errata. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1989.

U Maung Maung: Burmese nationalist movements 1940–1948. xvii, 395 pp. Edinburgh: Kiscadale; Bangkok: White Lotus, 1989 [pub. 1990]. £36 (paper £15.50).

Jonathan Barker: Rural communities under stress: peasant farmers and the state in Africa. (African Society Today.) xi, 228 pp. Cambridge ,etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £25, $44.50 (paper £8.95, $13.95).

Kandioura Drame: The novel as transformation myth: a study of the novels of Mongo Beti and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. (Foreign and Comparative Studies. African Series, 43.) xi, 123 pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1990.

Unni Wikan: Managing turbulent hearts: a Balinese formula for living. xxvi, 343 pp., 16 plates. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. $63, £43.95 (paper $22.95, £15.95).

Alan Christopher Waterman: Juju: a social history and ethnography of an African popular music, xii, 277 pp. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. $45 (paper $16.95)

Neil G. Kotler (ed.): Sharing innovation: global perspectives on food, agriculture, and rural development. (Papers and proceedings of a colloquium organized by the Smithsonian Institution.) [xv], 265 pp. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1990.

Amalie M. Kass and Edward H. Kass: Perfecting the world: the life and times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798–1866. xxx, 642 pp. Boston, San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, $34.95.

Charles Macdonald: Sinsin: le théâtre des génies, le cycle rituel féminin de Punang-Iräräj, Palawan, Philippines. 202 pp. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. 1991. Fr. 190.

Bill Nasson: Abraham Esau's war: A black South African war in the Cape, 1899–1902. (African Studies Series, 68.) xxvi, 245 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35, $54.50.

Robert Harms: Games against nature: an eco-cultural history of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. (Studies in Environment and History.) xi276 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1988].£30 ($42.50).

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Giorgio Levi Della Vida: Pitagora, Bardesane e altri studi siriaci. A cura di Riccardo Contini. (Universitá di Roma ‘Studi Orientali’ pubblicati a cura del dipartimento di studi orientali, Vol. vm.) xxi, 194 pp. Rome: Bardi Editore, 1989.

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H. J. Mackinder: The first ascent of Mount Kenya. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by K. Michael Barbour. x, 287 pp. London: C. Hurst, 1991. £25.

Bawuro M. Barkindo: The Sultanate of Mandara to 1902. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 91.) 292 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH. 1989. DM 74.

Luise White: The comforts of home: prostitution in colonial Nairobi, xiii, 285 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990 [pub. 1991]. $34.95 (paper $14.95).

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Robert Mantran and others: Les grandes dates de I'lslam. 288 pp.16 maps Paris: Larousse, 1990.

David Hook and Barry Taylor(ed.): Cultures in contact in medieval Spain:historical and literary essays presented to L. P. Harvey. (King's College Medieval Studies, 111.) xvi, 216 pp. + errata slip. London: King's College, University of London, 1990.

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David C. Conrad (ed.): A state of intrigue: the epic of Bamana Segu according toTayiru Banbera. (Union Académique Internationale. Fontes Historiae Africanae. Serie varia, vi.) x, 360 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1990. £27.50.

David Parkin: Sacred void: spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 80.) xvii, 259 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35, $54.50.

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