Children's language and maternal control

Jenny Cook‐Gumperz. Social Control and Socialization: A Study of Class Differences in the Language of Maternal Control. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. xii + 290 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, and index. $16.95.     

The social construction of persons within the school and society

Atkinson, Paul. Language, Structure and Reproduction: An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein. New York: Methuen, 1985. No front‐matter 216 pp. including bibliography and index. No price.

LeVine, Robert A., and Merry I. White. Human Conditions: The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. vii + 245 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 cloth.

Lowenthal, Leo. Literature and the Image of Man. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1986. v + 344 pp. including notes to chapters. $24.95 cloth.

Steedman, Carolyn, Cathy Urwin, and Valerie Walkerdine, eds. Language, Gender and Childhood. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. vi + 265 pp. including bibliography, name and subject indices. $18.95 paper.     

Copulation,conception and deception in aboriginal Australia

Ashley Montagu. Coming Into Being among the Australian Aborigines: A Study of the Procreative Beliefs of the Native Tribes of Australia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. Revised and Expanded Second Edition, xi + 426 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, and index.     

Toward a new humanism in social science

Maurice Roche. Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. x. + 361 pp. Bibliography and index. $15.50.     

Marxism: R. W. Connell; Wal Suchting

Istvan Meszaros (ed.), Aspects of History and Class Consciousness, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1971, pp. viii + 212, $8.15.     

Mary douglas and the “new anthropology”

Mary Douglas. Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. xxi + 325 pp. Figures and index. $23.50.     

Ethnicity as adaptation: Strategies and systems

John W. Bennett, ed. The New Ethnicity: Perspectives from Ethnology. 1973 Proceedings of The American Ethnological Society. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1975. xi + 334 pp. Tables, figures, and references. $9.95.

Leo A. Despres, ed. Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies. World Anthropology: An Interdisciplinary Series. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. (Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Company.) xii + 221 pp. Tables, figures, biographical notes, and indexes. $12.50.     

Elites and class in Australian society

Broom, L., Jones, F., McDonnell, P. and Williams, T., The Inheritance of Inequality. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, pp. 196. NP

Etzioni‐Halevy, E., Political Manipulation and Administrative Power. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, pp. 218. $31.50

Field, G. L. and Higley, J. Elitism. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, pp. 135. $24.50     

Primatological potpourri

Russell H. Tuttle, ed. Primate Functional Morphology and Evolution. The Hague and London: Mouton Publishers, 1975. A volume in the World Anthropology Series, Sol Tax, general editor. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Co. xv 1583 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, biographical notes, and indexes. $34.50.     

Toward an anthropology of women's liberation

Ruby Rohrlich‐Leavitt, ed. Women Cross‐Culturally: Change and Challenge. The Hague and London: Mouton Publishers. A volume in the World Anthropology Series, Sol Tax, general editor. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Co., 1975. xiv + 669 pp. Tables, figures, biographical notes, and indexes. $27.50.     

A contrapuntal commentary

Hanson, E Allan, and Louise Hanson. Counterpoint in Maori Culture. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. ix + 232 pp. including figure, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth.

Breeneis, Donald, and Fred R. Myers, eds. Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific. New York: New York University Press, 1984. xii + 284 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth, $16.50 paper.     

Review articles

Hugh Stretton: The Political Sciences, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1969, pp. xii + 453, $8.15.     

Sexual Phallacies

Bouhdiba, Abdelwahab. Sexuality in Islam. Alan Sheridan, transi. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. viii + 288 pp. including notes and bibliography. $42.50 cloth.

Gregor, Thomas. Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xii + 223 pp. including photographs, references, and index. $19.95 cloth.

La Barre, Weston. Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition about Sexuality. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xiii + 140 pp. including reference notes. $22.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.     

What's in a perspective? The history of mexicanist anthropology

Hewitt de Alcántara, Cynthia. Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. xiv + 224 pp. including footnotes and index. $32.95 cloth.     

Developmental cycles and commodity production in Africa

Okali, Christine. Cocoa and Kinship in Ghana: The Matrilineal Akan of Ghana. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. xi+ 179 pp. including appendices and references. $15.00 paper.     

The articulation of capitalism and traditional modes of production in Africa

Illife, John. The Emergence of African Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. ix + 113 pp. including reference notes and index. $29.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.

Vercruijsse, Emile. The Penetration of Capitalism: A West African Case Study. London: Zed Books, 1984. vi + 180 pp. including appendices, bibliography, and index. $26.25 cloth, $10.25 paper.

van Ginsbergen, Wim, and Peter Geshiere, eds. Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. xviii + 341 pp. including chapter references and indices. $49.95 cloth.     

Book Reviews

FOLK TALES FROM KOREA, COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED BY Z?NG IN-S?B. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1952. Pp. xxviii, 257, with a Map. Price 21s. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

FOLK TALES FROM ROUMANIA ; translated from the Roumanian of Ion Creangǎ, by MABEL NANDRI?. Pp. 170. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952. Price 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

BLOODSTOPPERS AND BEARWALKERS : Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula. By RICHARD M. DORSON. 9 + 305 pages, 4 plates. Harvard University Press. $5.50. Reviewed by Edward M. Wilson.

THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD. By AMOS TUTUOLA. Pp. 125. Faber &; Faber, 1952. Price 10s. 6d. Reviewed by Mary Danielli.

AFRICAN FOLK TALES AND SCULPTURE. Folk Tales selected and edited by PAUL RADIN in collaboration with Elinore Marvel, with an introduction by Paul Radin. Sculpture selected, with an introduction, by James Johnson Sweeney. Bollingen Series, XXXII. Pantheon Books, 1952. Pp. xxi–355, 165 Plates. Reviewed by Mary Danielli.     

Islam in Tribal societies

Ahmed, Akbar S., and David M. Hart, eds. Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. vii + 343 pp. including chapter references and index. $21.95 paper.     

Signs of the impending apocalypse?

Allan W. Eister, ed. Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xxii + 370 pp. Tables, figures, chapter notes, references, and index. $14.50.

J. Stillson Judah. Hare Krishna and the Counterculture. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xviii + 301 pp. Tables, figures, references, selected bibliography, glossary, appendix, and index. $14.95.

B. Z. Sobel. Hebrew Christianity: The Thirteenth Tribe. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xi + 413 pp. Chapter notes, bibliography, appendix, notes, references, and index. $12.50.

Edward A. Tiryakian, ed. On the Margin of the Visible: Sociology, the Esoteric, and the Occult. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xv + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, and author index. $9.95.     

Dermatoglyphics at your fingertips

Jamshed Mavalwala, ed. Dermatoglyphics, An International Perspective. The Hague and London: Mouton Publishers (distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Company), 1978. 383 pp. Tables, figures, bibliographical notes, and indexes. $40.00, cloth.

Mavalwala, ed., Dermatoglyphics, an International Prespective