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MAX CHARLESWORTH, HOWARD MORPHY, DIANE BELL and KENNETH MADDOCK (eds) Religion in Aboriginal Australia: an anthology. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press. 1984. xii, 449 pp., index. $35.00 (cloth). Reviewed by Isobel White HANS MOL The firm and the formless: religion and identity in Aboriginal Australia. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press. 1982. viii, 93pp., bibliography, index. Reviewed by John Morton HOWARD MORPHY Journey to the crocodile's nest: an accompanying monograph to the film Madarrpa funeral at Gurka'wuy (Afterword by Ian Dunlop). Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 1984. xii, 142pp., plates, tables, figures, appendix, notes, references, index. $11.95 (paper). Reviewed by Ian Keen GARY PRESLAND The land of the Kulin. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books. 1985. vi, 99pp., further reading, picture sources. $12.95 (paper). Reviewed by E. Williams ROBERT W. HEFNER Hindu Javanese: Tengger tradition and Islam. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1985. xi, 276pp., tables, appendices, bibliography, index. US$41.40 (cloth). Reviewed by Patrick Guinness PATRICK GUINNESS Harmony and hierarchy in a Javanese kampung (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series 11). Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1986. xviii, 184pp., tables, map, chart, plates, glossary, bibliography, index. $16.95 (paper). Reviewed by R.H. Barnes INGELA GERDIN The unknown Balinese: land, labour and inequality in Lombok. (Gothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology 4). Göteborg, Sweden: ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 1982. 226pp., maps, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography. SEK 90.00. Reviewed by Ruth M. Krulfeld TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN Feasts of honor: ritual and change in the Toruja. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1985. xiv, 217pp., maps, plates, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. US$21.50 (paper). Reviewed by Lorraine V. Aragon LOUIS GOLOMB An anthropology of curing in multiethnic Thailand. (Illinois Studies in Anthropology,15). Urbana. and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1985. xiv, 280pp., bibliography, index. US$23.95 (paper). Reviewed by Scott Bamber JANICE NEWTON Orokaiva production and change (Pacific Research Monograph 11). Canberra: Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University. 1985. xv, 251pp., plates, figures, tables, references. $12.00 (paper). Reviewed by Chris Gregory MARY KAWENA PUKUI 'Õldo No'eau. Hawaiian proverbs & poetical sayings. Illustrated by Dietrich Varez. Bishop Museum Press (Special Publication No.71). 1983. xxii, 322pp., selected bibliography, indexes. Reviewed by Valerio Valeri MICHAEL HERZFELD The poetics of manhood: contest and identity in a Cretan mountain village. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1985. xix, 292pp., illustrations, figures, appendices, notes, references, index. Reviewed by Roger Just JEREMY RIFKIN (in collaboration with Nicanor Perlas) Algeny: a new word - a new world. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1984. 273pp., bibliography, index. $6.95 (paper). Reviewed by Colin P. Groves