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MICHAEL W. YOUNG Magicians of manumanua: living myth in Kalauna. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1983. x, 300 pp., appendices, notes, glossary of Kalauna terms, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth). Reviewed by Terence E. Hays ANDREW STRATHERN A line of power. London: Tavistock. 1984. vi, 158 pp., references, indexes. $17.95 (paper). Reviewed by Wayne Warry R.E. ELSON Javanese peasants and the colonial sugar industry: impact and change in an East Java residency, 1830–1940. Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1984. xxiv, 256pp., tables, maps, glossary, selected bibliography, index. $24.95 (cloth), $13.95 (paper). Reviewed by William J. O'Malley SOEPOMO POEDJOSOEDARMO Javanese influence on Indonesia. Materials in Languages of Indonesia no.7, W.A.L. Stokhof (series ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, D-38. 1982. vii, 187pp., map, bibliography, index. $25.65 (paper). SOESENO KARTOMIHAROJO Ethnography of communicative codes in East Java. Materials in Languages of Indonesia no.8, W.A.L. Stokhof (series ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, D-39. 1981. xi, 212pp., map, tables, bibliography. $25.65 (paper). IGNATIUS SUHARNO A descriptive study of Javanese. Materials in Languages of Indonesia no.11, W.A.L. Stokhof (series ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, D-45. 1982. xiv, l75pp., bibliography. $19.20 (paper). Reviewed by James J. Fox P. COHEN and G. WIJEYEWARDENE (eds) Spirit cults and the position of women in Northern Thailand (Dedication to Richard Davis). Mankind 14, no.4 (Special Issue 3). Sydney: The Anthropological Society of New South Wales. 1984. 249–356pp., bibliography. Annual subscription $25/US$31 (students), $32/US$33 (individuals) and $38/US$40 (institutions). Reviewed by Penny Van Esterik AROONRUT WICHIENKEEO and GEHAN WIJEYEWARDENE (translator and editor) The laws of King Mangrai (Mangrayathammasart). The Wat Chang Kham, Nan Manuscript from the Richard Davis Collection. Transcribed in modern Thai by Aroonrut Wichienkeeo. Translated and edited by Aroonrut Wichienkeeo and Gehan Wijeyewardene. Canberra: The Australian National University (a publication of the Richard Davis Fund and an Occasional Paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies). 1986. xi, 168pp., glossary. $15 (US$13) (paper). Reviewed by D. O'Connor ROBERT KIRK and EMÖKE SZATHMARY (eds) Out of Asia: peopling the Americas and the Pacific. Canberra: The Journal of Pacific History Inc., The Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1985. xiii, 226pp., maps, tables, index, $18.50 (paper). Reviewed by Robert Burns DONALD LAWRENCE BRENNEIS and FRED R. MYERS (eds) Dangerous words: language and politics in the Pacific. New York: New York University Press. 1984. xii, 266pp., bibliography, index. US$45.50 (cloth), US$21.50 (paper). Reviewed by Eric Gable C.R. BADCOCK Madness and modernity: a study in social psychoanalysis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1983. 171pp., bibliography, index. $39.95 (cloth). Reviewed by R.H. Hook STANLEY PARKER Leisure and work. London: George Allen and Unwin. 1984. xv, 137pp., bibliography, index. $41.50 (cloth), $15.95 (paper). Reviewed by Anne Morrison ROGER LEWIN Human evolution: an illustrated introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1984. viii, 100pp., further reading, index. $19.95 (paper). R.I.M. DUNBAR Reproductive decisions: an economic analysis of gelada baboon social strategies. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1985. x, 244pp., appendices, references, author index, subject index. US$52.00 (cloth), US$19.00 (paper). Reviewed by Vern Weitzel