Women in Suburbia

This research investigates the influence of a suburban lifestyle upon the attitudes of women. Specifically, a sample of suburban women are interviewed and information is ascertained concerning their attitudes toward commercial and social isolation in suburbia. Additionally, demographic data are acquired from the sample in order to describe the sample and compare it to the suburban female population that has previously been researched.     

Let no space go to waste: comparing the uses of space between two Late Classic centers in the El Paraíso valley,Copan, Honduras

Phosphorus analysis of earthen and plaster floors has been used in Mesoamerica to locate and identify activities at ancient sites. This study uses phosphorus analysis to discern if the inhabitants of two Late Classic coeval and proximal sites located in the El Paraíso Valley of Honduras were different culturally from each other. The buried earthen and plaster surfaces of both sites were systematically sampled and analyzed for phosphorus remains. The patterns of elevated phosphorus from these open spaces were subsequently compared to determine if differences in the habitual use and treatment of open spaces could be discerned. These differences are evaluated as a function of behavioral norms, functional responses, and cultural dispositions in order to evaluate the extent to which these two populations were indeed different from each other.     

Madness and Mother Ireland in the fiction of Patrick McCabe

This article explores the relationship between madness and the figure of Mother Ireland in the work of the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. It situates his work in relation to contemporary feminist responses to representations of Ireland as a woman, by identifying different versions of the Mother Ireland figure as a cause of psychosis in McCabe's writing. It argues that McCabe, in contrast to writers such as Eavan Boland and Edna O'Brien, finds an alternative and radical means of contesting this historically troublesome literary motif.     

Experimental reconstruction of a short cist

An experiment was carried out to determine the methods, labour force and time needed to reconstruct a cist of massive slabs. The most difficult and time-consuming task was the bringing of the slabs to the site. It was concluded that the whole operation of construction would occupy at least eight able-bodied adults for to 3 days.     

Book reviews

Werner Röoll. Indonesien: Entwicklungsprobleme einer tropischen Inselwelt. Stuttgart: Klett, 1979. 206 pp.

Shirley Deane. Ambon: island of spices. London: John Murray, 1979. 222 pp. £5.95.

G. W. J. Drewes (ed. and tr.). An early Javanese oode of Muslim ethics. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. viii, 104 pp. (Bibliotheca Indonesica, 18.)

Tunku Shamsul Bahrin and P. D. A. Perera. FELDA: 21 years of land development. [Kuala Lumpur: Federal Land Development Authority, 1977.] x, 167pp., map.

Urs Ramseyer. The art and culture of Bali, [Translated from the German by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 266 pp.

J. P. Sarumpaet. Modern usage in Bahasa Indonesia. Carlton: Pitman, 1980. vii, 264 pp.

F. van Anrooij and others (ed.). Between people and statistics. Essays on modern Indonesian history presented to P. Creutzberg. Editorial committee: F. van Anrooij, D. H. A. Kolff, J. T. M. van Laanen, G. J. Telkamp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff [for] the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1979. 315 pp. Paper, guilders 39.50./