Book Reviews

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- Peter Boomgaard, R.H. Barnes, Sea hunters of Indonesia; Fishers and weavers of Lamalera. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, xxii + 467 pp. - Sini Cedercreutz, Janet Carsten, The heat of the earth; The process of kinship in a Malay fishing community. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, xv + 314 pp., plates, figures, maps, bibliography, index. - Freek Colombijn, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Contesting space; Power relations and the urban built environment in colonial Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, Singapore and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, xxiii + 351 pp., tables, figures, plates, index. - Robert Cribb, H.A.J. Klooster, Bibliography of the Indonesian Revolution; Publications from 1942 to 1994. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1997, viii + 666 pp., indices. [Bibliographical Series 21.] - Gavin W. Jones, Sharifah Zaleha Syed Hassan, Managing marital disputes in Malaysia; Islamic mediators and conflict resolution in the Syariah courts. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997, 252 pp., Sven Cederroth (eds.) - Bernice de Jong Boers, G.J. Schutte, State and trade in the Indonesian archipelago. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1994, viii + 199 pp. [Working Papers 13.] - Nico Kaptein, Greg Barton, Nahdlatul Ulama; Traditional Islam and modernity in Indonesia. Clayton, Victoria: Monash Asia Institute, 1996, xvii - 293 pp., Greg Fealy (eds.) - Gerrit Knaap, J.E. Schooneveld-Oosterling, Generale Missiven van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Vol. XI. Den Haag: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. [Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, Grote Serie 232], 1997, xii + 949 pp. - Niels Mulder, Unni Wikan, Managing turbulent hearts; A Balinese formula for living. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1990, xxvi + 343 pp. - Sandra Niessen, Janet Rodenburg, In the shadow of migration; Rural women and their households in North Tapanuli, Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press, vii + 214 pp. [Verhandelingen 174.] - Dianne W.J.H. van Oosterhout, Roy Ellen, The cultural relations of classification; An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram. Cambridge University Press 1993, 315 pp. [Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 91] - Anton Ploeg, Douglas James Hayward, Vernacular Christianity among the Mulia Dani; An ethnography of religious belief among the western Dani of Irian Jaya. Lanham, Maryland: American Society of Missiology and University Press of America, 1997, ix + 329 pp. - M.J.C. Schouten, Laura Summers, Gender and the sexes in the Indonesian Archipelago. (complete issue of Indonesia Circle 67 (November 1995), pp. 165-359.), William Wilder (eds.) - Bernard Sellato, Y.C. Thambun Anyang, Daya Taman Kalimantan; Suatu studi etnografis organisasi sosial dan kekerabatan dengan pendekatan antropologi hukum. Nijmegen: Nijmegen University Press, 1996, xii + 268 pp. - Gerard Termorshuizen, E.M. Beekman, Troubled pleasures; Dutch colonial literature from the East Indies, 1600-1950. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, 654 pp. - Jeroen Touwen, J.Th. Lindblad, Historical foundations of a national economy in Indonesia, 1890s-1990s. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1996, iv + 427 pp. [KNAW Verhandelingen, Afdeling Letterkunde, Nieuw Reeks 167.]