Book reviews

Cutlass and Crescent Moon: a case study in social and political change in outer Indonesia, by Douglas Miles. Centre for Asian Studies, University of Sydney 1976, 160 pp, 3 maps, 3 figs., 18 tables. ISBN 0 909203 00 8.

Steinalder i atomtiden (Stone age in the atomic era), by Karl Skjerdal. Oslo: J W Cappelens Forlag, 1977. 187 pp.

Indonesia by Donald D Fryer and James C Jackson. Nations of the Modern World, London: Ernest Benn 1977, 313 pp, 1 map, 16 pp of b/w illustrations, index. Hardcover £9.25.     

INDUSTRIAL DIVERSIFICATION IN THE CANADIAN URBAN SYSTEM

On the basis of a statistical analysis of their employment profiles, Canadian cities are grouped into four economic categories: manufacturing, mixed, nodal, and a heterogeneous group containing political, military, and mining towns. Indexes of industrial diversification are calculated for all cities for 1951, 1961, and 1971 using comparable data for the three years. It is shown that industrial diversification is significantly related to the economic typology and also to city size; but city size is not related to economic type. Through time, most cities become more diversified as they grow larger, lending support to the theory of import substitution.
Si on se réfère à une analyse statistique de leurs profils d'emploi, on peut regrouper les villes canadiennes en quatre catégories économiques: industrielles, mélangées, nodales, et un groupe hétérogène composé de villes à vocation politique, militaire, et minière. On calcule les indices de diversification industrielle de toutes les villes pour 1951, 1961, et 1971 en utilisant des données comparables pour chaque année. Ils montrent que la diversification industrielle est liée d'une manière significative à la fois au type d'économie et à la taille des villes, mais que celle-ci n'est pas fonction du type d'économie. Au fil du temps, la plupart des villes diversifient leurs activités au fur et à mesure de leur croissance, ce qui vient à l'appui de la théorie du remplacement des importations.     

Book reviews

Tsuyoshi Kato. Matriliny and migration: evolving Minangkabau traditions in Indonesia. 267 pp. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. $28.10.

E. M. Beekman (tr.). The poison tree. Selected writings of Rimphius on the natural history of the Indies. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. (Library of the Indies.) $20.

Nigel Phillips. Sijobang: sung narrative poetry of West Sumatra, xi, 255 pp. Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1981. (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, I.) £22.50.

Bernd Nothofer. Dialektatlas von Zentral‐Java. vi, 32 pp., 337 maps. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981. DM 64.

Marlene van Doom and cthers (ed.). Improving access to Indonesian collections in the Netherlands: contributions to a survey of Dutch library and documentation activities in the field of Indonesian studies. Edited by Mavlene van Doorn, Irene Farjon, Ciska Pattipilohy, Gerard J Telkamp. [iv], 78 pp. Leiden: Centre for the History of European Expansion (University of Leiden) in cooperation with the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen for the Contactgroep Documentatie Indonesie, 1981. (Intercon‐tinenta, No. 2.)

Leo Suryadinata. Eminent Indonesian Chinese: biographical sketches. Revised edition. 218 pp. Singapore: Gunung Agung, 1981.

A. Ed. Schmidgall‐Tellings and Alan M Stevens. Contemporary Indonesian‐English dictionary: a supplement to the standard Indonesian dictionaries with particular concentration on new words₃ expressions, and meanings, xv, 388 pp. Athens, Ohio, etc: Ohio University Press, [^C1981].

Peter B R Carey (tr.). Babad Dipanagara. An account of the outbreak of the Java War (1825–30). “ The Surdkarta court version of the Babad Dipanagara with translations into English and Indonesian Malay, lxxiii, 344 pp., front., 4 plates, map. Kuala Lumpur: printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Art Printing Works Sdn. Bhd., 1981. (Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Monograph No. 9.) M$55.     

Crossing boundaries: making connectiions

This Presidential address to the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences was given at Lausanne in September 1999. It reviews some of the contributions given at that conference and provides a brief overview of the history of the mind-brain problem in Western neuroscientific thought.     

Eighteenth‐Century Meissen Porcelain Reference Data Obtained By Proton‐Beam Analysis (PIXE–PIGE)

Prior to their restoration, the porcelain bodies of broken pieces from 31 authentic Meissen objects of the early 18th century were investigated by proton‐beam analysis. Attention was paid so that the proton beam probed only the bare porcelain paste areas of fractures. Thus, contributions to the measured X‐ray and γ‐ray spectra from adjacent surface glaze were prevented. The chemical compositions, obtained by simultaneous detection of elements with Z ≥ 13 (X‐rays) and lighter elements Z ≤ 14 (γ‐rays), represent rather consistent mixtures of paste ingredients. This result highlights the durable recipes and raw materials used in early Meissen porcelain production in the years 1725–50. Mean concentration values of element oxides, deduced from the detailed measurements, prove suitable for use as a database for Meissen porcelain paste identification. Material authentication of intact objects, without access to the bare porcelain body, is demonstrated by inspection of the white glaze. Unique museum objects are examined in atmosphere and without sampling. A low proton‐beam intensity and a short irradiation time ensure non‐destructive analysis. Simultaneous radiation and backscattered particle detection allow complete composition analysis, using the established ion beam techniques of particle‐induced X‐ray emission (PIXE), particle‐induced gamma‐ray emission (PIGE) and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS).