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Australia and the pacific The Wind of Change in Central Australia, by Frederick G. C. Rose. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Völkerkundliche Forschungen, Berlin, 1965. Pp. iii‐ix, 1–363. Plates, diagrams, maps. (n.p.) Desert People: A Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia, by M. J. Meggitt Foreword by A. P. Elkin. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1962; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1965. Pp. i‐xv, 1–348. Illustrated with photographs and text figures. $A.7.50. Aboriginal Man in South and Central Australia. Part I. Edited by B. C. Cotton. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1966. Pp. 1–220. Illustrated. $A.1.50. Linguistic Fieldwork Methods in Australia, by S. A. Wurm. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1967. Manual No. 3. Pp. 1–52. (n.p.) Male Cults and Secret Initiations in Melanesia, by M. R. Allen. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967. Pp. v‐ix, 1–140. Maps. $A.6.00. New Guinea on the Threshold. Aspects of Social, Political and Economic Development, edited by E. K. Fisk. Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1966. Pp. v‐xii, 1–290, two end maps. $A.3.95. Choiseul Island Social Structure, by Harold W. Scheffler. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1965. Pp. v‐x, 1–322, 11 tables, 14 figures. $U.S.7.00. The Fern and the Tiki. An American View of New Zealand National Character, Social Attitudes, and Race Relations, by D. P. Ausubel. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, N.Y., 1965. (First pub. by Angus and Robertson, 1960.) Pp. 1–232, frontal matter, glossary, index. $A.2.25 (paper). Maori and Pakeha. A Study of Mixed Marriages in New Zealand, by J. Harré. A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington, for the Institute of Race Relations, 1966. Pp. 1–158, tables, maps, index. (n.p.) General Models of Social Organization, by Fredrik Barth. Occasional Paper No. 23, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1966. Pp. vi, 33. 15/‐ stg. The Development of Kinship and Marriage, by C. Staniland Wake. (Edited by Rodney Needham.) Classics in Anthropology series (Editor: Paul Bohannan), University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1967. Pp. i‐xlvii, xlix‐lvi, 1–510. $A.13.90. Villages in Indonesia, edited by Koentjaraningrat. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1966. Pp. v‐xi, 1–445, Index, Maps. $U.S.10.00. The Political System of the Jats of Northern India, by M. C. Pradhan. Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1966. Pp. v‐xvi, 1–275, maps, diagrams, tables, plates. Rs 25. Akan Religion and the Christian Faith. A Comparative Study of the Impact of Two Religions, by S. G. Williamson. (Edited by K. A. Dickson.) Ghana Universities Press, Accra, 1965. Pp. 1–185. (n.p.) The Ghost‐Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, by James Mooney. (Abridged, with an introduction by Anthony F. C. Wallace.) Classics in Anthropology series (Editor: Paul Bohannan), University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1965. Pp. v‐xxiii, 1–359. Maps, diagrams, plates, song texts and music. $U.S.6.95. Indian Police and Judges, by William T. Hagan. Yale Western Americana Series, 13. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1966. Pp. v‐viii, 1–194, Plates. $U.S.6.50. Man's Evolution: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology, by C. L. Brace and M. F. Ashley Montagu. Macmillan, New York, 1965. Pp. i‐xii, 1–352, 133 figures. (n.p.) Human Palaeopathology—Proceedings of a Symposium on Human Palaeopathology held in Washington, D.C., January 14, 1965, edited by Saul Jarcho. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1966. Pp. 1–182. 56/‐ stg.