bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Oximoaspergillimide, a Fungal Derivative from a Marine Isolate of Aspergillus sp.
Authors: Cardoso‐Martínez Faviola , de la Rosa José M. , Díaz‐Marrero Ana R. , Darias José , D'Croz Luis , Cerella Claudia , Diederich Marc , Cueto Mercedes
Published: February 2015

A new alkaloid, oximoaspergillimide (1), and the known neohydroxyaspergillic (2) and neoaspergillic (3) acids, have been isolated from the extract of a cultured marine‐derived fungus (strain CF07002) identified as a member of the genus Aspergillus. The structure of 1 was determined by interpretation of NMR spectroscopic data, and confirmed by synthesis. The antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of compounds 1–3 were evaluated.
Noradrenergic α2 receptor attenuated inflammatory pain through STEP61/ERK signalling
Authors: Xu Y.M. , Wang X.T. , Zhang Z.Y. , Suo Z.W. , Yang X. , Hu X. D.
Published: February 2015

Background

Activation of noradrenergic α2 receptor in spinal dorsal horn effectively alleviates the pathological pain. However, the precise mechanisms underlying noradrenergic pain suppression are not fully understood. Convincing evidence has indicated that extracellular signal‐regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) play a key role in spinal sensitization. The present study investigated the potential influence of noradrenergic α2 receptor agonist clonidine on ERK1/2 activity.

Method

Clonidine was intrathecally given after intraplantar injection of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) in mice. The possible changes of ERK1/2 signalling were detected by Western blot, immunohistochemistry, co‐immunoprecipitation and behavioural tests.

Results

CFA significantly enhanced ERK1/2 activity in spinal dorsal horn, which was, however, greatly attenuated by clonidine application. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin abolished the inhibitory effect of clonidine on ERK1/2, suggesting the involvement of Giα subunit (Gi protein). Noradrenergic α2 receptor/Gi protein might repress ERK1/2 through cAMP‐dependent protein kinase (PKA) pathway, because direct ERK1/2 activation by PKA agonist forskolin was also suppressed by clonidine. We found that 61 kD isoform of striatal‐enriched protein phosphatase (STEP61) was a key intermediary for α2 receptor/Gi protein/PKA signalling to manipulate ERK1/2 activity. By reducing PKA‐mediated phosphorylation of STEP61 at Ser221, clonidine significantly resumed the inhibition conferred by STEP61 on ERK1/2. Direct expression of STEP61 mutant devoid of Ser221 phosphorylation mimicked clonidine by inhibiting ERK1/2 and pain sensitization in CFA‐injected mice.

Conclusion

The analgesic action produced by noradrenergic α2 receptor agonist clonidine involved the reversal of ERK1/2 hyperactivity in spinal dorsal horn of inflamed mice.
A population‐based, incidence cohort study of mid‐back pain after traffic collisions: Factors associated with global recovery
Authors: Johansson M.S. , Boyle E. , Hartvigsen J. , Jensen Stochkendahl M. , Carroll L. , Cassidy J.D.
Published: February 2015

Background

Traffic collisions often result in a wide range of symptoms included in the umbrella term whiplash‐associated disorders. Mid‐back pain (MBP) is one of these symptoms. The incidence and prognosis of different traffic injuries and their related conditions (e.g. neck pain, low back pain, depression or others) has been investigated previously; however, knowledge about traffic collision‐related MBP is lacking. The study objectives were to describe the incidence, course of recovery and prognosis of MBP after traffic collisions, in terms of global self‐reported recovery.

Methods

Longitudinal data from a population‐based inception cohort of all traffic injuries occurring in Saskatchewan, Canada, during a 2‐year period were used. Annual overall and age‐sex‐specific incidence rates were calculated, the course of recovery was described using the Kaplan–Meier technique, and associations between participant characteristics and time‐to‐self‐reported recovery were explored in 3496 MBP cases using Cox proportional hazards models.

Results

The yearly incidence rate was 236 per 100,000 population during the study period, and was highest in women and in young persons. The median time‐to‐first reported recovery was 101 days (95% CI: 99–104) and about 23% were still not recovered after 1 year. Participant's expectation for recovery, general health, extent of severely affecting comorbidities and having experienced a previous traffic injury were some of the prognostic factors identified.

Conclusions

These findings show that MBP is common after traffic collisions, may result in a long recovery process and that a range of biopsychosocial factors are associated with recovery.
Microwave Activation of Palladium Nanoparticles for Enhanced Ethanol Electrocatalytic Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Medium
Authors: Rohwer Mark B. , Modibedi Remegia M. , Ozoemena Kenneth I.
Published: February 2015

The impact of microwave irradiation on the structure and electrochemistry of monodispersed palladium nanoparticles is reported for the first time. When compared to the Pd that was not subjected to microwave treatment, the microwaved Pd nanocatalyst gave higher electrochemical active surface area (EASA≈67 m2 g−1), aggregation/uniformity of dispersion, showed higher amount of the palladium oxides, and showed remarkable electrocatalytic behaviour towards ethanol oxidation reaction in alkaline medium (in terms of high mass activity, stability and fast reaction kinetics). The remarkable microwave‐induced properties on the Pd catalyst promise to revolutionize the use of microwave for catalyst activation for enhanced heterogeneous catalysis and fuel cell chemistry.
Machine learning approaches for integrating clinical and imaging features in late‐life depression classification and response prediction
Authors: Patel Meenal J. , Andreescu Carmen , Price Julie C. , Edelman Kathryn L. , Reynolds Charles F. , Aizenstein Howard J.
Published: February 2015

Objective

Currently, depression diagnosis relies primarily on behavioral symptoms and signs, and treatment is guided by trial and error instead of evaluating associated underlying brain characteristics. Unlike past studies, we attempted to estimate accurate prediction models for late‐life depression diagnosis and treatment response using multiple machine learning methods with inputs of multi‐modal imaging and non‐imaging whole brain and network‐based features.

Methods

Late‐life depression patients (medicated post‐recruitment) (n = 33) and older non‐depressed individuals (n = 35) were recruited. Their demographics and cognitive ability scores were recorded, and brain characteristics were acquired using multi‐modal magnetic resonance imaging pretreatment. Linear and nonlinear learning methods were tested for estimating accurate prediction models.

Results

A learning method called alternating decision trees estimated the most accurate prediction models for late‐life depression diagnosis (87.27% accuracy) and treatment response (89.47% accuracy). The diagnosis model included measures of age, Mini‐mental state examination score, and structural imaging (e.g. whole brain atrophy and global white mater hyperintensity burden). The treatment response model included measures of structural and functional connectivity.

Conclusions

Combinations of multi‐modal imaging and/or non‐imaging measures may help better predict late‐life depression diagnosis and treatment response. As a preliminary observation, we speculate that the results may also suggest that different underlying brain characteristics defined by multi‐modal imaging measures—rather than region‐based differences—are associated with depression versus depression recovery because to our knowledge this is the first depression study to accurately predict both using the same approach. These findings may help better understand late‐life depression and identify preliminary steps toward personalized late‐life depression treatment. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Modelling of wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology applied to two case studies
Authors: Mahat Vinod , Anderson Axel , Silins Uldis
Published: February 2015

We used a conceptual modelling approach on two western Canadian mountainous catchments that were burned in separate wildfires in 2003 to explore the potential of using modelling approaches to generalize post‐wildfire catchment hydrology in cases where pre‐wildfire hydrologic data were present or absent. The Fishtrap Creek case study (McLure fire, British Columbia) had a single gauged catchment with both pre‐fire and post‐fire data, whereas the Lost Creek case study (Lost Ck. fire, Alberta) had several instrumented burned and reference catchments providing streamflows and climate data only for the post‐wildfire period. Wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology were assessed by comparing pre‐wildfire and post‐wildfire model calibrated parameter sets for Fishtrap Creek (Fishtrap Ck.) and the calibrated parameters of two burned (South York Ck. and Lynx Ck.) and two unburned (Star Ck. and North York Ck.) catchments for Lost Ck. Model predicted streamflows for burned catchments were compared with unburned catchments (pre‐fire in the case of Fishtrap Ck. and unburned in the case of the Lost Ck.). Similarly, model predicted streamflows from unburned catchments were compared with burned catchments (post‐fire in the case of Fishtrap Ck. and burned in the case of the Lost Ck.). For Fishtrap Ck., different model parameters and streamflow behaviour were observed for pre‐wildfire and post‐wildfire conditions. However, the burned and unburned model results from the Lost Ck. wildfire did not show differing streamflow responses to the wildfire. We found that this hydrological modelling approach is suitable where pre‐wildfire and post‐wildfire data are available but may provide limited additional insights where pre‐disturbance hydrologic data are unavailable. This may in part be because the conceptual modelling approach does not represent the physical catchment processes, whereas a physically based model may still provide insights into catchment hydrological response in these situations. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
REVIEW
Authors: Radcliffe‐Brown A. R.
Published: February 2015

Report of the Mission entrusted with a Survey of Health Conditions in the Pacific Islands. By Dr. P. Hermant and Dr. R. W. Cilento. League of Nations Health Organization. Geneva, 1929.
REVIEW
Authors: Hogbin H. Ian
Published: February 2015

Growing up in New Guinea. By Margaret Mead. William Morrow, New York, 1930, pp. xii+372, with Plates and Maps.
REVIEWS
Authors: Hogbin H. Ian
Published: February 2015

Ethnology of Melanesia. By Albert B. Lewis. Part 5 of the Guide to the Department of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1932. Pp. 209, with 2 maps and 64 plates.
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Authors: Fortune R. F.
Published: February 2015

The Psychology of Laughter: A Study in Social Adaptation. By Ralph Piddington. Figurehead. 1933. Pp. 227. Price 10/6 (in England).
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Melanesian Design. A study of style in Wood and Tortoiseshell Carving. By Gladys A. Reichard. 2 Vols. (Vol. I, pp. 172; Vol. II, 151 plates). Columbia University Press. Price 10 dollars.
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Authors: Wedgwood C. H.
Published: February 2015

MELANESIA: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. By Margaret Mead. Pp. 335 + ix. William Morrow & Co., New York.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Die Sozialen Verhältnisse Indonesiens. By B. A. G. Vroklage. Münster i Wien. Pp. 1–532. Anthropos Bibliothek, Band IV.
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Authors: Williams F. E.
Published: February 2015

New Guinea Expedition. By Richard Archbold and A. L. Rand. Robert McBride & Co., New York. 1940. Pp. 206, with 10 maps and 114 plates.
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Authors: Hogbin H. Ian
Published: February 2015

Work of the Gods in Tikopia, Vol. II. By Raymond Firth. London School of Economics Monographs in Social Anthropology. Percy Lund, Humphries and Co., 12 Bedford Square, London. Pp. i‐iv+189–378. Price in England, 5/‐.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

The Social Life of Primitive Man. By S. A. Sieber and F. H. Mueller. (H. Herder Book Co., St. Louis and London, 1941) Pp. 566. American price, $3.50.
REVIEW
Authors: Berndt Ronald M. , Berndt Catherine H.
Published: February 2015

Bring Another Glass. A Mystery Story of the Solomon Islands. By Georgina Seton. Angus & Robertson, 1944, Sydney.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Syntkatische Probleme im Polynesischen. Arnold Burgmann, Hamburg, 1942, pp. 74. Reprinted from the Zeitschrift für Eingeborenen‐Sprachen, Band XXXII.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Jungle Pimpernel. Lloyd Rhys. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947. Pp. 1–239, with plates and maps.
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Authors: Berndt Ronald M.
Published: February 2015

Isles of the Torres Straits : An Australian Responsibility. Gerald Peel. Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1947. Pp. 7–139, including line drawings.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Character and Structure of the Action in Maori. By J. Prytz Johansen. Det. Kgl. Danske Videnskabets Selskab, Historisk‐Filologiske Meedelelser. Bind XXXI, Nr. 5, pp. 1–65. Copenhagen, 1948.
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Authors: Berndt C. H.
Published: February 2015

Tell the White Man. By H. E. Thonemann. Collins, Sydney, 1949. Pp. 1–190, with plates.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Man in the Primitive World—An Introduction to Anthropology. By E. A. Hoebel. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1949. 543 plus xii pages. 73 text‐figures and photos. Price $5.00.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

De Bergpapoea's van Nieuw‐Guinea en hun Woongebied. By C. C. F. M. Le Roux. Eerste Deel. E. J. Brill, Leiden. Pp. 484.
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Authors: Berndt Ronald M.
Published: February 2015

Modern Australian Aboriginal Art. By Rex Batterbee. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1951. 21 coloured plates, 12 photographic illustrations. Price £3 3s.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Studies in the Kiwai Languages, Fly Delta, Papua, New Guinea. By Stefan Wurm. Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica, No. 2. Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität, Wien. 1951. Pp. 126, cyclostyled and bound.
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Authors: Bell J.
Published: February 2015

Sociology: The Science of Society. J. Rumney and J. Maier. Henry Schuman, New York, 1953. Pp. 1–192. $3.00.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Fijian Way of Life. By G. K. Roth. Oxford University Press. 1953. Pp. 176. Australian price, 21/‐.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

De Kunst van Nieuw Guinea. By S. Kooijman. Published by Servire, den Haag, Holland. Pp. 134, n.d.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

De Islamietische Staat en de Grondwet 1956 Van Pakistan. R. L. Melema. Published by the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, Mededeeling No. CXX, Afdeling Culturele en Physische Anthropologie, No. 54., pp. 103.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Un Siècle et Demi de Contacts Culturels à Tanna, Nouvelles Hébrides. By Jean Guiart. Paris: Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No. 5. 1956.
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Authors: Bell J. H.
Published: February 2015

An Illustrated Ethnography of Formosan Aborigines: The Yami. Volume I. By Tadao Kano and Kokichi Segawa. The Maruzen Company, Tokyo, 1956. Pp. 468. Price $10.
REVIEW
Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Kultuur en Kultuurveranderingen in het Moejoe‐Gebied. By J. W. Schoorl (Doctorate Thesis, Leiden, 1957). Pp. 299 (no place or price given).
REVIEW
Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Papers in Linguistics, 1934–1951. By J. R. Firth. Oxford University Press, August 1957. Price 59/3.
REVIEW
Authors: Hogbin Ian
Published: February 2015

Customary Land Tenure in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. By Colin H. Allan. Report of the Special Lands Commission, Western Pacific High Commission, Honiara, 1957. Pp. 320. Price £A1/5/–.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Bibliographie, Methodique, Analytique et Critique des Nouvelles‐Hébrides. By Patrick O'Reilly. Publications de la Société des Oceanistes, No. 8; Musée de l'Homme; Paris, 1958. Pp. i‐xii, 1–305. Stiff paper cover.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific. By Andrew Sharp. A Pelican Book. Pp. 1–240. Priced in Australia, 5/6.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Aku‐Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. By Thor Heyerdahl. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1958. Pp. 1–367. English price, 21/–.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Classification des Langues Papoues. By Čestmír Loukotka. Extract from Lingua Poznaniensis, Vol. VI. 1957. Pp. 19–83.
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Authors: Meggitt M. J.
Published: February 2015

Indigenous Political Systems of Western Malaya. By J. M. Gullick. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 17. 1958. Pp. 1–151, maps, diagrams. Price in England, 25/–.
SOCIAL CHANGE: A REVIEW
Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Social Change. By H. Ian Hogbin. C. A. Watts & Co., London, 1958. Pp. 1–257. English price, 21/–.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Illustrated Topical Dictionary of the Western Desert Language, Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. By W. H. Douglas: United Aborigines' Mission, Perth, 1959.
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Authors: Berndt Ronald M.
Published: February 2015

The Tiwi of North Australia. By C. W. M. Hart and A. R. Pilling. Holt and Co., New York. 1960. pp. v–ix, 1–118, 2 maps, 3 photographs. Price, $1.65.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Vergleichendes Wörterverzeichnis der Sichule Sprache auf der Insel Simalur an der Westküste von Sumatra. By Hans Kähler. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin. 1959. Pp. 90.
TIKOPIA AGAIN: A REVIEW ARTICLE
Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Social Change in Tikopia. By Raymond Firth. George Allen & Unwin. London. 1959. Pp. 1–360. Illustrated. Price, 45/– sterling.

History and Traditions of Tikopia. By Raymond Firth. Published by the Polynesian Society (Incorporated), Wellington, New Zealand. 1961. Pp. 1–203. Price, £1/5/– N.Z.
REVIEW
Authors: Bell J. H.
Published: February 2015

The Wildbooters. By Fritz Kern. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London. 1960. Pp. 204.
REVIEW
Authors: Macintosh N. W. G.
Published: February 2015

The Aboriginal Races of India. By S. S. Sarkar. Bookland Limited, Calcutta. First published in 1954. Pp. 151. Price, 12 rupees.
REVIEW
Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Religion in Primitive Society. By Edward Norbeck. Harper and Bros., New York, 1961. Pp. 318. Price $5.50.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Band 86, Heft 2.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Masks and Men in a Melanesian Society. By C. H. Valentine. University of Kansas Publications, Social Science Series. 1961. Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 76.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Beiträge zur Ethnographie des Wantoat Tales, Nordost Neuguinea. By Carl Schmitz. Kölner Ethnologische Mitteilungen. Köln. 1960. Kölner Universitäts Verlag. Pp. 226 with 61 plates and map.
ROCK ENGRAVINGS FROM DRIEKOPS EILAND: A REVIEW ARTICLE
Authors: Macintosh N. W. G.
Published: February 2015

Rock Engravings from Driekops Eiland and other sites south‐west of Johannesburg. By Mrs. Lina M. Slack. Centaur Press Ltd., London, 1962. Pp. 103, 1 map, Pls. 7 and 104 rubbings and photographs. Price in England, £8 8s.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

In de Ban der Voorouders. Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, No. CXXIX.
REVIEW
Authors: Bell J. H.
Published: February 2015

Etudes Rurales, No. 1, April–June, 1961. Mouton and Co., Paris. Price 7.50 new francs.
REVIEW
Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Problemi di Storia delle Religioni. By Ugo Bianchi. Studium Publishers, Rome, 1958. Pp. 151. 300 lire.

Teogonie e Cosmogonie. By Ugo Bianchi. Studium Publishers, Rome. Pp. 190. 300 lire.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Island of Passion (Ra'ivavae). By Donald Marshall. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London. 1962. Pp. 1–301. Illustrated. Price 25/‐ English.
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Authors: MacLaurin E. C. B.
Published: February 2015

Marsh‐Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta, by S. M. Salim. London School of Economics: Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 23. The Althone Press of the University of London, 1962. Pp. 1–157; 16 plates; 3 maps. Price 30/– sterling.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Mon‐Khmer Studies I. John and Elizabeth Banker, John and Carolyn Miller, Richard and Saundra Watson, David D. Thomas (general editor). Published by the Linguistic Circle of Saigon and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Saigon, 1964.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Texte von der Insel Simalur. By Hans Kähler. Publications of the Department of Indonesian and South Sea Language of the University of Hamburg, Volume 4, pp. 387. Berlin, 1963.
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Authors: Oxley H. G.
Published: February 2015

The Sonjo of Tanganyika, Robert F. Gray. Oxford University Press, 1963.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Panorama der Volkenkunde, Deel II: Volken van Azië, ed. Dr. P. van Emst. J. J. Romen and Sons, Roermond and Maaseik, 1965. Pp. 464.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Ornamented Bark Cloth in Indonesia. By Dr. S. Kooijman. Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, No. 16. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1963. Pp. 145 plus 32 plates.
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Authors: Hogbin Ian
Published: February 2015

Choiseul Island Social Structure. By H. W. Scheffler. Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, 1965. Pp. xiv plus 322. Price: $US7.00.
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Authors: Hogbin Ian
Published: February 2015

From the Two Canoes: Oral Traditions of Rennell and Bellona. By S. H. Elbert and T. Monberg. Danish National Museum and University of Hawaii, Copenhagen and Honolulu, 1965. Pp. 428+X, with plates, diagrams, and maps.
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Authors: Anderson Eugene
Published: February 2015

The Sea Nomads: A Study Based on the Literature of the Maritime Boat People of Southeast Asia. By David E. Sopher. Published by the National Museum, Singapore (Memoirs, No. 5), 1965, pp x and 422, figures and maps. Price, $5 or 12s. 6d.
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Authors: Billings Dorothy K.
Published: February 2015

Anthropology, A Human Science: Selected Papers, 1939–1960. By Margaret Mead. Princeton, Van Nostrand, 1964. viii, 260 pp. Price $U.S.A. 1.95.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Road Belong Cargo. By Peter Lawrence. Manchester and Melbourne University Presses, 1964. Pp. I‐XVI, 1–291. Price $A4.50, stiff paper cover edition $A3.
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Authors: Coy Peter
Published: February 2015

Tonalá. Conservatism, Responsibility and Authority in a Mexican Town. By May N. Diaz. University of California Press, 1966. 234 pages. $US5.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Formal Semantic Analysis: Special Publication of the “American Anthropologist”. Vol. 67, No. 5, Pt. 2, October 1965. Ed. E. A. Hammel. Pp. vi+316. $US2.75.
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Authors: McElhanon K. A.
Published: February 2015

Voyagers of the Vitiaz Strait: A Study of a New Guinea Trade System. By Thomas G. Harding. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1967. Pp. v–x, 1–282. Price, $US7.50, UK56/–.
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Authors: Sinha D. P.
Published: February 2015

Traditional Exchange and Modern Markets. By Cyril S. Belshaw. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1965. Pp. VIII+149.
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Authors: Mackenzie R. W.
Published: February 2015

Among the Indians of Guiana. By Everard F. im Thurn. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1967 (paper, pp. xvi+445, 53 ill., map, $US3.00.)
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Te Reo, Vol. 9, 1966. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. University of Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 71. Xerographed, Price 10/‐ N.Z.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. By James Backhouse. Illustrated by maps, etchings and wood‐cuts. Pp. i‐xviii; 1–560; Appendices, i‐cxliv. Published by Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1843. Reproduced by photo offset process by Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, U.S.A., 1967, in its Landmarks in Anthropology series. Price US$30.00.
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Authors: Appell G. N.
Published: February 2015

Sarawak Museum Journal Special Monograph No. 1, Borneo Writing and Related Matter. Edited by Tom Harrisson. The Museum, Kuching, 1966. Pp. xii + 426. Plates and line illustrations. Price $10.00.
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Authors: Sinha D. P.
Published: February 2015

The Political System of the Jats of Northern India. By M. C. Pradhan. Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. XVI + 275. Price 25 Rupees.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Sarawak: Its Inhabitants and Productions. By Hugh Low. Pp. i–xxiv, 1–416. Published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., London. New Impression, 1968. (Photo off‐set of First edition, 1848.) Price £7 English.
PONAPE: A PACIFIC ECONOMY IN TRANSITION: A REVIEW ARTICLE
Authors: Jackman Harry H.
Published: February 2015

Ponape: A Pacific Economy in Transition. A Review Article. By William R. Bascom. Anthropological Records, Vol. 22. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, U.S.A., 1965. Pp. 156. Price $US; 3.
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Authors: Berry J. W.
Published: February 2015

The Individual and Culture. By Mary Ellen Goodman. The Dorsey Press, Homewood, Illinois, 1967. Pp. 265. Price $US4.95.
REVIEWS
Authors: Peterson Nicolas
Published: February 2015

Culture in Process. By Alan R. Beals, with George and Louise Spindler. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1967. Pp. ix‐xii, 1–284, drawings. Price $US3.95 paperbound.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

The Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas, 1833–1896. By R. G. and Marjorie Crocombe. Pacific History Series No. 2. Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968. Pp. i–xxv, 1–164. Price $A6.00.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

La Monda Lingvo Problems. Edited by V. Sadler. Nieuwe Binnenweg 176, Rotterdam, 2, Nederlands, under the auspices of the Centre for Research and Documentation on the Language Problem. Three numbers in Vol. 1, 1969, each 64 pp. Subscription $US 7; single numbers $US 2.75 each.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea. Three volumes. Stiff paper covers. Photostat. Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968. Vol. 1, Author Index, pp. 318. Vol. 2, District Index, pp. no. Vol. 3, Proper Names Index, pp. 255. Price 3 vols. $A12.00.
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Authors: Howard A.
Published: February 2015

Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians: Socio‐Economic Change Among the Tahitians of French Polynesia. By Ben R. Finney. Wellington: Polynesian Society Reprints Series No, 9, 1965. Pp. 62. Reprinted from The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 74: 269–328. Price $US2.00.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

The Native Tribes of Central Australia. By Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen. Reprint by Dover Publications, New York, 1968. Pp. i–xviii, 1–669. Price $US5.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Oceanic Mythology. By Roslyn Poignant. Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. Pp. 1–141. Size of page 11×8 inches. Illustrated. Price $A2.50.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

The Farthest Coast. Edited and with an Introduction by C. C. MacKnight. Melbourne University Press, 1969. Pp. i–xiv, 1–218. With plates and maps. Price $A4.50.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Kamus Manggarai. I. Manggarai‐Indonesia. By J. A. J. Verheijen, S.V.D. Koninklijk Insitutuut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde. ‘S‐Gravenhage‘, Martinus Nijhoof, 1967. Pp. xxviii+772, with folding map at end.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Cannibal Cargoes. By Hector Holthouse. Rigby Ltd., Adelaide, 1969. Pp. 1–233, illustrated. Price $3.95.
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Authors: Strathern Marilyn
Published: February 2015

Government in Wanggulam. By A. Ploeg. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde 57, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1969. Pp. xii+216, figures and maps. Price 23.90 guilders.
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Authors: Maddock Kenneth
Published: February 2015

An Adjustment Movement in Arnhem Land. By R. M. Berndt. Mouton & Co. (Cahiers de l'homme), Paris and The Hague, 1962. Pp. 112. Illustrated, plates and map. No price stated.
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Authors: Crocombe R. G.
Published: February 2015

Land Tenure in West Irian. Edited by Anton Ploeg. New Guinea Research Bulletin, No. 38. Australian National University, Canberra. 1970. Pp. xii+65. Price $1.50.
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Authors: Moore David R.
Published: February 2015

Quipus and Witches Knots. By Cyrus Lawrence Day. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. 1967. Pp. ix, 158. Price $US7.50.

Tikopea String Figures. By Raymond Firth and Honor Maude. Royal Anthropological Institute, London. 1970. Pp. 64. Price UK£2.10 USA$5.10.

The String Figures of Nauru Island. By Honor Maude. Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide. 1971. Pp. xxxii, 155. Price $A5.00.
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Authors: Jayawardena Chandra
Published: February 2015

History and Social Anthropology. Edited by I. M. Lewis. A.S.A. Monographs No. 7. Tavistock Publications, London. 1968. Pp. 307+xviii. Price £2.50 stg. (Also now available in paperback, £·95p. stg.)
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Authors: Kartomi Margaret J.
Published: February 2015

Neue Musik in Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien, Diskographie und historisch‐stilistischer Überblick. By Wolfgang Laade. Heidelberg. 1971. Pp. 464. Price DM 52.
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Authors: Fairbairn I. J.
Published: February 2015

Tradition and Economic Progress in Samoa: A Case Study of the Role of Traditional Social Institutions in Economic Development. By David Pitt. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970. xii, 295 pp. Price $A9.30.
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Authors: Yallop Colin
Published: February 2015

The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. By R. M. W. Dixon. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne and London, 1972. Pp. 1–420, 2 maps, 4 plates. Paperback version for sale in Australia only. Price $27.30 (cloth), $12.65 (paper).
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Black versus White. Being Vol. 2 of Racism, The Australian Experience: A Study of Race Prejudice in Australia. Edited by F. S. Stevens. Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, 1972. Pp. 1–266. Price $A7.50.
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Authors: Allen Joy
Published: February 2015

People of the Four Winds. By B. Kernot. Hicks, Smith & Sons Limited, Wellington, 1972. 79 pp. Price: A$4.10.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Bei Gua: Itinéraire des Ancêtres: Mythes des Bunaq de Timor. By Louis Berthe, Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris, 1972. Pp. 532 + folding charts. Price 90.30F.
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Authors: Elkin A. P.
Published: February 2015

Taruru: Aboriginal Song: Poetry from the Pilbara. By C. G. von Brandenstein and A. P. Thomas. Rigby Ltd., Adelaide, 1974. Pp. i–xx, 1–91. Price $A7.95.
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Authors: Lawrence Peter
Published: February 2015

Symbols Public and Private. By Raymond Firth. Allen and Unwin, London, 1973, Pp. 9–469. Price (in U.K. only) £6.60.
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Authors: Finney Ben
Published: February 2015

Leadership and Socio‐economic Change in Sinasina. By Sachiko Hatanaka. New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 45. New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby and Canberra. 1972. Pp. 130, Price $A1.50.
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Authors: Jackson Michael
Published: February 2015

Primitive Polynesian Economy. By Raymond Firth. London; Routledge and Kegan Paul. First paperback edition, 1974. Pp. xiii + 385. Price $A5.50.
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Authors: Sutton Peter
Published: February 2015

Papers in Australian Linguistics, No. 5. By Jean F. Kirton, Pacific Linguistics Series A — No. 27, A.N.U., Canberra, 1971. Pp. iv+69. Price: $1.50.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Place Name Types and Cultural Sequence in Polynesia. By Aarne A. Koskinen. Annals of the Finnish Society for Missiology and Ecumenics. Helsinki, 1973. Pp. 107. Price: FMark12.00.
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Authors: James Kerry
Published: February 2015

Mateship in Local Organization. By H. G. Oxley. University of Queensland Press. 1974, pp. xvi + 240. Price $A8.00.

Bradstow. By R. A. Wild. Angus and Robertson. 1974. Pb. pp. 256. Price $A6.95. (Hardback, $A11.50). ISBN 0.207‐12884.7.
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Authors: Scheffler H. W.
Published: February 2015

Encountering Aborigines: A Case Study: Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal. By Kenelm Burridge. Pergamon Press Inc., New York and Oxford, England. 1973. Pp. xii + 260. Price: Paper $US6.95, £2.95. Stg.
THE ORIGINS OF PREGNANCY SUPERSTITIONS RELATING TO CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS
Authors: Pearn John , Sweet Judith
Published: February 2015

PREGNANCY superstitions relating to abnormal foetal development are common in modern societies. The universality and intensity of such beliefs suggest that their origins might be found in less‐modified cultural groups. This study, from Mornington Island, indicates that such beliefs are already highly evolved in Aboriginal peoples. Three types of beliefs are identified — maternal impression, spirit influence and totemic identification. Examples of each type are presented, as they relate to congenital malformation, and reasons advanced for their origin and cultural stability. A knowledge of the origins of such beliefs is of help to the counsellor of parents who have children with congenital malformations.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Te Reo: 1974–5. Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. Vol. 17–18. Linguistic Society of New Zealand. Pp. 94.
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Authors: Sackett Lee
Published: February 2015

Tribes and boundaries in Australia. Nicolas Peterson (Ed.). Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976. Pp. xii + 250. Price: $8.50.
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Authors: Capell A.
Published: February 2015

Paluan Reference Grammar. By Lewis S. Josephs, with the assistance of Masa‐aki Emesiochei, Masaharu Tmodrang, PALI Language Texts: Micronesia, University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1975. Pp. 18 + 556.
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Authors: Newell William H.
Published: February 2015

Encounter and Experience: personal accounts of fieldwork. By André Béteille and T. N. Madan (Eds.). Delhi, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. 1975 pp. x + 225. Price: Rs. 40.
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Authors: Feil D. K.
Published: February 2015

War in Ecological Perspective. By Andrew P. Vayda. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, 1976. Price: $US17.94. Pp. xiv + 129.
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Authors: Meggitt M. J.
Published: February 2015

Francis Edgar Williams: “The Vailala Madness” and Other Essays. Erik Schwimmer, (editor). Pp. 1–427, illustrations and maps. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1977.
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Authors: McCall Grant
Published: February 2015

Tin Roofs and Palm Trees. A Report on the New South Seas. By Robert Trumbull. University of Washington Press, Seattle & London, and Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1977. Pp. x 302.
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Authors: Larnach S. L.
Published: February 2015

Philippe Diolé: The Forgotten People of the Pacific. Translated from the French by J. F. Bernard. Pp. 303; 145 photographs (125 coloured); 6 maps. 1976. Barons/Woodbury, New York. Price: cloth $US12.95.
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Authors: Scheffler H. W.
Published: February 2015

Culture and Practical Reason. By Marshall Sahlins. University of Chicago Press, 1976. Price: $U.S.17.50. Pp. i–xii, 1–252.
Reviews
Authors: Hanlon David L. , Ballendorf Dirk A.
Published: February 2015

The Book of Luelen: Luelen Bernart. Translated and edited By John L. Fischer Saul H. Riesenberg, and Marjorie G. Whiting. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1977. $15.00, Annotations $10.00.
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Authors: Basham Richard
Published: February 2015

Ethos and Identity: Three Studies in Ethnicity. By A. L. Epstein. London, Tavistock; Chicago; Aldine. 1978 (hardcover £6.95; paperback £2.95).
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Authors: Mimica Jadran
Published: February 2015

The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut. By Beatrice Blackwood. Edited from her published articles and unpublished field‐notes, and with an Introduction By C. R. Hallpike. 218 pages, 38 plates, 16 figures, 3 maps. Pitt Rivers Museum, Monograph Series No. 2, University of Oxford, 1978.
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Authors: Keen Ian
Published: February 2015

Symbolic Classification, By R. Needham. The Good Year Perspectives in Anthropology Series. General editor, James J. Fox, 1978. Pp. xii + 78.
Reviews
Authors: Sutton Peter
Published: February 2015

Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 6. By B. Schebeck, L. A. Hercus, I. M. White. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics Series A — No. 36. 1973. Pp. iv + 76, 4 pages of photographs, 2 maps. Price $A2.50.
Reviews
Authors: Koller Karl
Published: February 2015

“Catastrophe Theory.” By A. Woodcock and M. Davis. Pelican, Harmondsworth Middlesex, 1980. Pp. 171. $A3.95.
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Authors: Clark Ross
Published: February 2015

A Grammar of the Northern Dialect of Sakao. By J. B. M. Guy. Pacific Linguistics, Series B, No. 33. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. Pp. vi + 99. Price $A3.00.
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Authors: Pertierra Raul
Published: February 2015

Diego Silang and the Origins of Philippine Nationalism. By David Routledge. Monograph No. 5, University of the Philippines Press, 1979. Pp. x + 144, 13 plates.
Reviews
Authors: Bell J. H.
Published: February 2015

Structural Anthropology 2.: By Claude Lévi‐Strauss. Penguin Book, 1978. Harmondsworth. Australian price $12.95.
Reviews
Authors: Rumsey Alan
Published: February 2015

Ngandi Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary.: By Jeffery Heath. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 1978. Pp. xii + 297. Price: $A18.95.
Reviews
Authors: Campbell Shirley
Published: February 2015

Fragmenta Ethnographica.: By Giancarlo G. Scoditti. Edited by Giancarlo Serafini, New York, 1980. 118 pages, 47 plates, 4 tables, 1 map.
Reviews
Authors: McConvell Patrick
Published: February 2015

Ngadjumaja, An Aboriginal Language of South‐East Western Australia. By Carl George von Brandenstein. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Sonderheft 48, Innsbruck 1980.
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Authors: Tomasetti Friedegard
Published: February 2015

Sago und Schwein. Ethnologie von Kwieftim und Abrau in Nordost‐Neuginea.: By A. and H. Kelm. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Vol. 51. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag. 1980. Pp. xi + 397 + 1 map + 20 black and white plates.
Review
Authors: Feil D. K.
Published: February 2015

Contrast and Context in New Guinea Culture.: By Ernest Brandewie. Studia Institui Anthropos. Redaktion 5205 St. Augustin., Deutschland. 1981. Pp. 216. Price $12.50 U.S.
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Authors: Norton Robert
Published: February 2015

The Fijian Colonial Experience: A study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II. By Timothy Macnaught. Australian National University, Pacific Research Monograph No. 7, 1982. Pp. xviii + 203. Price: $10.00.
Missiology and Anthropology: A Viable Relationship?
Authors: Trompf Garry
Published: February 2015

Theologische Beiträge aus Papua Neuguinea. Edited by Horst Bürkle (Erlanger Taschenbücher 43). Erlangen: Evangelische ‐ Lutheranische Mission, 1978. Pp. 345.

Traditionen und Christentum in Chimbu‐Gebiet Neuguineas; Beobachtungen in der Lutherischen Gemeinde Pare. By Friedegard Tomasetti. (Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe‐Universität Frankfurt an Main 6). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. 1976. Pp. 200.

Papuan Belief and Ritual. John Parratt. New York, Washington, Atlanta and Hollywood: Vantage. 1976. Pp. xvi + 101.
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Authors: Hooper Antony
Published: February 2015

Margaret Mead and Samoa. The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. By Derek Freeman. Australian National University Press, 1983. Pp. xvii + 379.
Review
Authors: Alexander Paul
Published: February 2015

Europe and the People without History. By Eric R. Wolf. Berkeley: University of California Press 1982. Pp. xi + 503. (Cloth $A 50.95).
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Authors: Hamilton Annette
Published: February 2015

The Self‐Made Anthropologist. By Tigger Wise. Sydney: George Allen and Unwin, 1985. Pp. vii + 286. Price $14.95.
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Authors: Lincoln P. C.
Published: February 2015

Glottochronology Without Cognate Recognition. By J. B. M. Guy. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Series B, No. 79. 1981. Pp. viii + 134. Price $A6.00.
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Authors: Bell J. H.
Published: February 2015

Anthropology in Australia: Essays to Honour 50 Years of ‘Mankind‘. Edited by Grant McCall. Sydney: The Anthropological Society of New South Wales. 1982. Pp.iv + 134. (Copies available from the Department of Anthropology, The Australian Museum, Sydney).
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Authors: Fox James
Published: February 2015

Panji. The Culture Hero: A Structural Study of Religion in Java. by W.H. Rassers Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal, Land en Volkenkunde: Translation Series 3. Second Edition with an Introduction by P.E. de Josselin de Jong. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. pp xiv + xix + 304, glossary plates. Soft cover.
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Authors: Dutton T.E.
Published: February 2015

Grammatical and Semantic Aspects of Fitzroy Valley Kriol. By Joyce Hudson. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch (Series A, Volume 8), 1983. Pp. xiv + 191. Price $4.75.
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Authors: Lederman Rena
Published: February 2015

Ways of Exchange: The Enga Tee of Papua New Guinea. By D.K. Feil. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 1984. Pp. xvi + 269. Price: $A40 (cloth).
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Authors: Schoeffel Penelope
Published: February 2015

The Samoan Journals of John Williams 1830–1832. Edited by Richard Moyle. Canberra: Australian National Universtity Press. 1984. Pp. 302. $29.95 (cloth).
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Authors: Alexander Jennifer
Published: February 2015

Unity in Diversity: Indonesia as a Field of Anthropological Study. Edited by P.E. de Josselin de Jong. Dordrecht‐Holland: Foris Publications. 1984. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde No. 103). Pp. x + 292. Price: Dfl. 25.00 (paper bound).
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Authors: Thomas Nicholas
Published: February 2015

Children of the Land: Exchange and Status in a Hawaiian Community. By Jocelyn Linnekin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1984. Pp. xvi + 264. Price: $US27.
REVIEW
Authors: Connell John
Published: February 2015

Kiribati: A Changing Atoll Culture. Edited by Leonard Mason. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. 1985. Pp. xxiii + 202. Price: $F11 (hardback); $F8 (paperback).
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Authors: White Isobel
Published: February 2015

Yuru and Udnyu: A historv of the Adnyamathanha of the North Flinders Ranges. By Peggy Brock. Wakefield Press in association with Aboriginal Heritage Branch, Department of Environment and Planning. South Australia. 1985. Pp.72. Price: $10.00 (paper bound). Adnymathanha Genealogy. By Christine Davis and Pearl McKenzie. South Australia: Government Printer, for Aboriginal Heritage Branch, Department of Environment and Planning. Pp.227. Price $6.00 (paper bound).
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Authors: Harlow Ray
Published: February 2015

Hawaiki: A New Approach to Maori Tradition. By M. Orbell. Christchurch: The University of Canterbury. 1985. Pp. vi + 81.
GAMBLING IS HARD WORK: CARD PLAYING IN TIWI SOCIETY
Authors: Goodale Jane C.
Published: February 2015

This paper examines the gambling activities of Tiwi women and men of North Australia and situates the activities within the anthropology of work. It is shown that gambling for money redistributes an unequal resource (wages and pensions) while the derivative game using beer rather than money redistributes an equal resource unequally. The principal conclusion is that for women the activity may be equated to foraging — a low risk activity but fundamental for personal status in that it is directed toward providing daily subsistence, while for men the activity closely resembles hunting — a high risk activity where success is less likely but also essential for personal status.
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Authors: Weiner James F.
Published: February 2015

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Edited by Gilbert H. Herdt. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1984. Pp. xvii + 409. Price: US$24.95.
DOMINANT KINGS AND FORGOTTEN QUEENS
Authors: Weiner Annette
Published: February 2015

Islands of History. By M. Sahlins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xix + 180. Price: US$22.50.

Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. By V. Valeri. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvii + 446.
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Authors: Norton Robert
Published: February 2015

Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians. Brij Lal. Canberra: The Journal of Pacific History. 1983. Pp. viii + 152. Price: $A9.75.
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Authors: Thomas Nicholas
Published: February 2015

TRANSFORMATIONS OF POLYNESIAN CULTURE. Edited by Antony Hooper and Judith Huntsman. Auckland: The Polynesian Society. 1985. Pp. 226. Price: $NZ 35. (paper).
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Authors: Johnson Dianne
Published: February 2015

READING THE COUNTRY. By Krim Benterrak, Stephen Muecke and Paddy Roe. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1984. Pp. 215. Price $A 34.95
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Authors: Macintyre Martha
Published: February 2015

KUNAI MEN: HORTICULTURAL SYSTEMS OF A PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOCIETY. By Thomas G. Harding Berkeley: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. vii + 100. Price US$13.50.
ANCESTORS, TRICKSTERS AND DEMONS: AN EXAMINATION OF CHIMBU INTERACTION WITH THE INVISIBLE WORLD1
Authors: Hughes Jenny
Published: February 2015

The fundamental premiss of Gods, Ghosts and Men in Melanesia (Lawrence and Meggitt 1965) was that the epistemology of people of the Seaboard of Papua New Guinea was more dominated by religion than was that of the Highlanders. Among the latter, the Chimbu have commonly been portrayed as supreme pragmatists. However, they believe in a complex and variegated spirit‐world, described in some detail in this paper.
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Authors: Connell John
Published: February 2015

Recent Fertility Trends in the Pacific Islands. By Michael J. Levin and Robert D. Retherford. Honolulu: Papers of the East‐West Population Institute No.101.1986. Pp. viii + 70. Price: US$ 3.00
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Authors: Spriggs Matthew
Published: February 2015

Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Julius L. Brenchley Collection. By Deborah B. Waite. London: British Museum Publications. 1987. Pp. 94 + 16 plates. Price: UK £40.
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Authors: Kolig Erich
Published: February 2015

Traditionelle Heilkundige ‐ Aerztliche Persoenlichkeiten im Vergleich der Kulturen und Medizinischen Systeme. Edited by W. Schiefenhoevel, J. Schuler and R. Poeschl. Sonderband Curare 5: Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Vieweg. 1986. Pp.458.
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Authors: Hyndman David
Published: February 2015

The Situation of Children In Papua New Guinea. By Patricia Townsend Boroko: Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research. 1985. Pp. 135. Price: P.N.G. Kina 6.00.
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Authors: Lederman Rena
Published: February 2015

The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya. By Maurice Godelier Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. Pp. xv + 251.
SINGING SUBJECTS AND SACRED OBJECTS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE ‘TRANSFORMATION OF SUBJECTS INTO OBJECTS’ IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN MYTH
Authors: Morton John
Published: February 2015

In an earlier paper published in this journal Nancy Munn's ‘The Transformation of Subjects into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjatjara Myth’ was discussed and related to Aranda mythology. This paper commences where the earlier one finished and offers a psychological account of ‘the transformation of subjects into objects’. In particular, it discusses, within a psychoanalytic framework, the relationship between communication, the body and the environment inherent in Aranda myth and rite, suggesting that what Munn calls ‘the a priori grounds’ of the Aboriginal moral order can be understood as a set of dialectical shifts occurring within the life‐cycle. These shifts involve the realisation and reconciliation of a number of oppositions, including male and female; earth and sky, death and life; conscious and unconscious; and, in particular, language and speech.
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Authors: Harlow Ray
Published: February 2015

The Kamapua'a Literature: The Classical Traditions of the Hawaiian Pig God as a Body of Literature. By John Chariot La'ie, Hawaii: The Institute for Polynesian Studies. 1987. Pp. x + 165.