The dynamics of tradition in Panajachel and Zinacantan

George A. Collier. Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975. xv + 255 pp. Appendix, bibliography and index. $9.75.

Robert E. Hinshaw. Panajachel: A Guatemalan Town in Thirty‐Year Perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. xxvii + 203 pp. Forward, epilogue, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $16.95.     

The beginnings of royal pardon in Scotland

The well attested (and comprehensively studied) animus that informed English attitudes towards the Gaelic-speaking peoples of the British Isles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries has tended to obscure important developments in the legal landscape of contemporary Scotland. This article argues that soon after 1200, the king of Scots deliberately abandoned as barbaric, obnoxious and unbecoming a Christian prince the practice of mutilating high-status political enemies and ritually defiling their bodily remains. The transformation reflected influences from England and Europe in general, but the argument here is that ultimately the change reflected the maturation of the Scottish ideas about Christian kingship, royal justice and royal mercy.     

The landed properties of northern Scotland

Progress in Agricultural Geography. Edited By Michael Pacione. 22 × 14, 267pp. Croom Helm, Beckenham, 1986. £27.95.

URBAN

Regional Cities in the U.K. 1890–1980. By G. Gordon (ed.). 23 × 15, 252 pp., Harper &; Row, London, 1986. £7.95.

Shopping Centre Development: Policies and Prospects, By John A. Dawson and J. Dennis Lord (editors), 269pp, Croom Helm, London, 1985. £19.95.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography and Ecosystems of South Africa. By M. E. Meadows. 21 × 14, 153pp., South African Geography and Environmental Studies Series, Juta &; Co., Cape Town, 1985.

EDUCATIONAL

Inequality and Development. By Andrew Reed. 18.5 × 24.5, 96 pp., Man and Environment Series, Bell &; Hyman, London, 1985. £3.95.

Recreation and Tourism. By G. J. Ashworth. 18.5 × 24.5, 96 pp., Bell &; Hyman, London, 1984. £3.95.