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Tahitian Society Before the Arrival of the Europeans. By Edmond de Bovis, translation and introduction by Robert D. Craig. Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University, Hawaii Campus, Laie, Hawaii, 1980. Pp. iv + 75. Price $US3.50.     

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Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884–1920. By Michael Young New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xxx + 690 Price: £. 25.00.     

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Seafaring in the Pacific Islands. Edited by R. Feinberg. de Kalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. Pp 237. Price: US$35     

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Les Contes Moralisés De Nicole Bozon. Publiés pour la premiére fois par Lucy Toulmin Smith et Paul Meyer. (Société des Anciens Textes Français.) Paris, 1889, 8vo., pp. lxxiv, 333. By Joseph Jacobs.     

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Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. By Christina Toren. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Price: $pD16.99     

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Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915–1918. By Michael W. Young. The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. x + 306. Price: US $40.00     

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Book reviewed in this article: America and the Persian Gulf: The Third Party Dimension in World Politics, Steve A. Yetiv The Sultanate of Oman: A Twentieth Century History, Miriam Joyce     

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“DEMOCRACY IN WORLD POLITICS”, By Lester B. Pearson. (Oxford University Press.)     

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Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, Valentine M. Moghadam Women in the Middle East: Perceptions, Realities, and Struggles for Liberation, Haleh Afshar, editor     

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Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race By Gillian Cowlishaw Carlton South, VIC: Blackwell Publishing Asia 2004 Pp:xvi + 272. Price: A$48.95 (PB)     

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In the course of the seventeenth century, ideas concerning the beliefs of Canadian Indians underwent a slow process of modification. Chroniclers at the beginning of the century, influenced by those who, the century before, had flatly declared a number of Indian nations to be “faithless, kingless and lawless,”; continued to describe them pejoratively. However, as they gradually came to see that the Indians were not irreligious, their declarations grew increasingly contradictory. An attentive reading of documents left by missionaries and explorers reveals that towards the middle of the seventeenth century — at a time when, in Europe, conceptions of witchcraft and religion were changing — the observation of American facts became more nuanced. The discovery of a “false religion”; launched the debate as to whether or not the Indians had preserved a secret sentiment of God.

Were the Indians monotheistic or polytheistic? At the beginning of the twentienth century, Paul Radinwasto take up the question and propose a tertium quid — namely that the Indians had practised monolatry or henotheism.     

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Grundriss der Germanischen Philologie, hrsg. von H. Paul. Vol. II, Part II, Section 6: Uebersicht über die aus mündlicher Ueberiieferung geschöpften Sammlungen der Volkspocsie (a) Skandinavische Volkspoesic, von A. Lundell. By A. Nutt.     

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Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society. By Paul Alexander Second revised and enlarged edition. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1995. Pp. xiv+306, biblio, index.