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EDWARD LIPUMA The gift of kinship: structure and practice in Maring social organization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. x, 241pp., figures, maps, tables, glossary, references, index. A$99.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 34483 2.

MARK S. MOSKO Quadripartite structures: categories, relations and homologies in Bush Mekeo culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. xiii, 298pp., appendixes, maps, tables, figures, references, index. $119.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 26452 9.

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ROBERT TONKINSON and MICHAEL HOWARD (eds) Going it alone? Prospects for Aboriginal autonomy: essays in honour of Ronald and Catherine Bemdt. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 1990. xi, 252pp., maps, plates. $22.95 (paper) ISBN 0 85575 211 4.

DJ. MULVANEY Encounters in place: outsiders and Aboriginal Australians 1606-1985. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. 1989. xvii, 263 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. $44.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 7022 2153 8.

R.M.W. DIXON (comp. and ed.) with flora identification and interpretation by Tony Irvine. Words of our country: stories, place names and vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal language of the Cairns-Yarrabah region. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. 1991. xiv, 312pp., maps, plates, index. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 0 7022 2360 3.

LAMONT LINDSTROM and GEOFFREY M. WHITE Island encounters: black and white memories of the Pacific war. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. xii, 194 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, place index. US$39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 874774 457 1.

C.A. GREGORY and J.A. ALTMAN Observing the economy (ASA Research Methods 3). London: Routledge. 1989. xi, 253pp., tables, bibliography, index. $83.95 (hard) ISBN 0 415 01754 8; $24.95 (paper) ISBN 0 415 01755 6.

JOHN MCKINNON and BERNARD VIENNE (eds) Hill tribes today: problems in change. Bangkok: White Lotus-Orstom. 1989. xxvii, 507pp., 101 plates (98 colour), maps. $39.50 (paper) ISBN 974 8495 25 6.

TANIA LI Malays in Singapore: culture, economy and ideology (East Asian Social Science Monographs). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1989. xvii, 206pp., tables, glossary, bibliography, index. $44.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 588914 2.

OWEN M. LYNCH (ed.) Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990. x, 312pp., glossary, references, index. $40.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 520 06647 2.

MARGARET TRA WICK Notes on love in a Tamil family. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press. 1990. xix, 299pp., figures, plates, references, index. $40.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 9520063 67.

MAYSMOR, BOB Te manu tukutuku: a study of the Maori kite. Wellington/Sydney: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson. 1990. iii, 87pp., plates, glossary, bibliography, appendixes, index. A$ 19.95 (paper) ISBN 0 04 658261 4.

WENDY ARBEIT with Douglas Peebles Baskets in Polynesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1990. x, 116pp., maps, tables, plates, references. $24.95 (paper) ISBN 0 8248 1281 6.

SIDNEY W. MINTZ Caribbean transformations. New York: Columbia University Press. 1989. xxviii, 355pp., references, index. $18.50 (paper) ISBN 0 231 071156 9.

CLUNY and LA'AVASA MACPHERSON Samoan medical belief and practice. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 1990. 272pp., plates, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. $32.95 (paper) ISBN 1 86940 045 3.

PAT HOLDEN and JENNY LITTLEWOOD (eds) Anthropology and nursing. London: Routledge. 1991. x, 228pp., bibliography, indexes. $32.95 (paper) ISBN 0 415 04881 8.

GEORGE WEISZ (ed.) Social science perspectives on medical ethics (Culture, Illness and Healing 16). Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1990. xii, 298pp., bibliographies, indexes. Dfl 120.00, US$59.00, UK£39.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7923 0566 3.

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