Reviews and book notes

The Philosophy of Money, by Georg Simmel, trans. Tom Bottomore and David Frisby. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978, pp. 512. £12.50.

Jean Holmes and Campbell Sharman, The Australian Federal System (Allen and Unwin: 1977).

? Royal Institute of Public Administration National Monograph Series Nos. 1–4, all published by National Council, Royal Institute of Public Administration, Brisbane:.

1. Helen Dent, Stuart Hamilton, Sue Hamilton, Trevor Matthews: Index to the Report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, 1977, pp. 31, $1.95 posted.

2. Michael Court: Towards a Nationally Integrated Health‐Welfare System for Australia, 1977, pp. 47, $2.95 posted.

3. Nancy Viviani and Peter Wilenski: The Australian Development Assistance Agency — A Post‐Mortem Report, 1978, pp. 29, $3.50 posted.

4. Bernard Schaffer and Elizabeth O'Keeffe: People and Agencies, 1978, pp. 58, $3.30 posted.

Australasian Political Studies Association, Australian Labor Party — National Committee of Inquiry Discussion Papers. APSA Monograph No. 23, 1979. $5.00.

John Summers, Dennis Woodward and Andrew Parkins (eds), Government, Politics and Power in Australia, Flinders University of SA, 1979.

Broido, Vera, Apostles into Terrorists: Women and the Revolutionary Movement in the Russia of Alexander II, Maurice Temple Smith, London, and ANU Press, Canberra, 1979, 238 pp.     

Reviews

A THEORY OP FOREIGN POLICY. George Modelski. London, Pall Mall Press, 1962. Pp. xiv + 152. Stg. 21/‐.

THE CONTROL OP THE ARMS RACE. Hedley Bull. For the Institute for Strategic Studies. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961. Pp. xiv + 215. Stg. 12/6.

SOCIALISM IN THE NEW SOCIETY. Douglas Jay. London, Longmans, 1962. Pp. vi + 414. Australian price 42/3.

THE CONSPIRATORS: A STUDY OF THE COUP D'ETAT. D. J. Goodspeed. London, Macmillan & Co., 1962. Pp. xii + 252. Australian price 31/‐.

ELOGE DU COLONIALISME: ESSAI SUR LES REVOLUTIONS D'ASIE. Julien Cheverny. Paris, Rene Julliard, 1961. Pp. 372.

THE KREMLIN SINCE STALIN. Wolfgang Leonhard. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Wiskemann and Marian Jackson. London, O.U.P., 1962. Pp. 403. Australian price 62/‐.

EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE WORLD: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE POST‐STALIN ERA. Stephen D. Kertesz (ed.). University of Notre Dame. Press, 1962. Pp. x + 386. Price, U.S. $6.50.

THE ACTION FRANCAISE. Edward R. Tannenbaum. N.Y., John Wiley & Sons, 1962. Pp. x + 316. U.S. $7.50.

TOWARDS A MALAYAN NATION. T. H. Silcock. Singapore, Eastern Universities Press, 1961. Pp. vi + 112. Malayan price $5.

JAREN VAN RECONSTRUCTS: NIEUW‐GUINEA VAN 1949 TOT 1961. C. S. I. J. Lagerberg. ’s Hertogenbosch, Zuid‐Nederlandsche Drukkerij N. V., 1962. Pp. 232. 10 Guilders.

AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMACY AND JAPAN, 1945–1951. B. N. Rosecrance. Melbourne, M.U.P., 1961. Pp. xii + 288. Australian price 45/‐.

AUCUPARIUS: RECOLLECTIONS OF A RECRUITING OFFICER. Ralph Furse. London, O.U.P., 1962. Pp. xv + 330. Stg. 35/‐.     

Foraging–Farming Transitions in Island Southeast Asia

The origins of agriculture have been debated by archaeologists for most of the discipline’s history, no more so than in Island Southeast Asia. The orthodox view is that Neolithic farmers spread south by sea from mainland China to Taiwan and thence to Island Southeast Asia, taking with them a new material culture and domestic rice and pigs and speaking the precursor of the Austronesian languages that are spoken in the region today. Opponents of this ‘farming/language dispersal’ theory have proposed models of acculturation, in which foragers acquired new material culture and food resources by trading with farmers. However, new work in archaeology, palaeoecology, palynology and anthropology, especially in Borneo, and in genetics and linguistics for the region as a whole, is suggesting that foraging/farming transitions in Southeast Asia were far more complex than either of these opposing ‘grand narratives’ of discontinuity (population colonisation) or continuity (acculturation) allows. Through the course of the Early/Mid-Holocene new material culture, technologies and foods were variously taken up, promoted or resisted in order to provision changes in the social and ideological constitution of societies. Whilst new readings of the data for foraging–farming transitions in the region vary, a consensus is emerging that it is more useful to focus on how materials and modes of life were used to underwrite changes in social networks than to seek to explain the archaeological record in terms of migrating farmers or acculturating foragers.