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Volume 48 - Issue 4 - November 1989

Book Reviews—South Asia

Studies in Indian Literature and Philosophy: Collected Articles of J. A. B. van Buitenen. Edited by Ludo Rocher. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. xxiv, 339 pp.

In Pursuit of Lakshmi: A Political Economy of the Indian State. By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xviii, 529 pp. $46.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India. By Robert Wade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xii, 213 pp. $44.50.

Indian Diary. By Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb. Edited by Nirja Gopal Jayal. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. xlviii, 222 pp.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, vol. 3. Edited by Judith Becker and Alan H. Feinstein. Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia 31. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1988. viii, 503 pp. $36.50.

Decision Against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954. By Melanie Billings-Yun. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xvi, 199 pp. $25.00.

The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification. 2d ed. By Roxanna M. Brown. Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988. xxiv, 130 pp. $88.00.

Cultural Identity in Northern Peninsular Malaysia. Edited by Sharon A. Carstens. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 63. Athens: Ohio University, Center for International Studies, 1986. x, 91 pp. $9.00 (paper).

The Army and Politics in Indonesia. Rev. ed. By Harold Crouch. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. 384 pp. $10.95 (paper).

Diplomatie of strijd: Het Nederlands beleid tegenover de Indonesische revolutie, 1945–1947 [Diplomacy or war: Dutch policy toward the Indonesian revolution, 1945–1947]. By J. J. P. de Jong. Amsterdam: Boom Meppel, 1988. 530 pp.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia. Edited by Michael R. Dove. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. xiv, 289 pp. $32.00.

The Poems of Hamzah Fansuri. Translated and edited by G. W. J. Drewes and L. F. Brakel. Biblioteca Indonesica, published by the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde, no. 26. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications, 1986. x, 285 pp. DFL 75 (paper).

Understanding Islam and Muslims in the Philippines. Edited by Peter Gowing. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1988. x, 176 pp. (paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by the Cellar Bookshop)

To Be Made Over: Tales of Socialist Reeducation in Vietnam. Edited and translated by Huỳnh Sanh Thông. The Lac-Viêt Series 5. New Haven: Yale University, Center for International and Area Studies, Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 1988. xiv, 242 pp. $12.00 (paper).

Policy Options for the Singapore Economy. By Lim Chong Yah Singapore: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1988. xvi, 499 pp. S$39.90.

A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau. By Michael Gates Peletz. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. xxvi, 383 pp. $39.95.

Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Spanish Rule. By Vicente L. Rafael. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiv, 230 pp. $28.95.

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