Book reviews

Abstract

Capital and Peasant Production: Studies in the Continuity and Discontinuity of Agrarian Structures in Sri Lanka, edited by Charles Abeysekera. Colombo: Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka, 1985. Pp.xiv + 230; $12.

Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India, edited by Utsa Patnaik and Manjari Dingwaney. London: Sangam Books Ltd., 1985. Pp.vii + 377; £19.95.

The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China, by Philip C. C. Huang. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985. Pp. 382, appendices, tables, maps, glossary, bibliography, index; $35.

The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe, by Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.xii + 308; £25 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Popular Culture in Seventeenth‐Century England, edited by Barry Reay. London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985. Pp.x + 319; £19.95.

Political Change and Underdevelopment, by Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald. London: Macmillan, 1985. Pp. ix + 219; £20 (hardback); £6.95 (paperback).

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance. The Culture and History of a South African People, by Jean Comaroff. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp.xii + 296; £29.75 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback).

Notes

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH.

Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9EF, England

Department of History, University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201.

School of History, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT.

Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL.

Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE and Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 31 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HA.

University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX.