The Binding of a God: A Study of the Basis of Idolatry

ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN, by LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES TOD, edited by WILLIAM CKOOKE, 3 vols. Oxford University Press. London : Milford. Reviewed by M. Longworth Dames.

THE DENDROGLYPHS OR “CARVED TREES” OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological Series, No. 3. Sydney: W. A. Gullick, Govt. Printer. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

DAS WEIB IM ALTINDISCHEN EPOS : EIN BEITRAG ZUR INDISCHEN UND ZUR VERGLEICHENDEN KULTURGESCHICHTE. Von JOHANN JACOB MEYER. Wilhelm Heims. Leipzig, 1915. M. 15. Reviewed by W. H. D. Rouse.

MAGIC IN NAMES AND IN OTHER THINGS, by EDWARD CLODD. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1920. 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.     

Land and man in highland Ethiopia

Allan Hoben. Land Tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. $9.50.     

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.     

SOME HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE “DOWN EAST” ROUTE

For over three centuries, explorers and privateers, fishermen and planters, job seekers and tourists have plied the “Down East” route–bearing witness to the close connection between New England and Atlantic Canada. Today the traditional “good neighborliness” is threatened by a series of complex issues: American ownership of recreational land, environmental problems and jurisdictional disputes. This article seeks to place these present controversies in perspective by a historical overview of some key factors which have contributed to the interdependence of the two regions.     

Protecting historic Hanoi in a context of heritage contestation

Abstract

Since the introduction of the doi moi (renovation) policies in 1986, economic liberalisation and modernisation have led to redevelopment pressures on the cultural heritage of Vietnam's cities. A lively debate has ensued, most notably in the capital. Hanoi, about what is worth keeping. The views of international and local developers are opposed to the ‘Vietnamese heritage only’ of the most narrowly nationalistic of politicians and planners. The complicated decision‐making environment is made more difficult by the presence of Western planning advisers who argue for the protection of the French and Russian layers in Hanoi's cultural landscape. This is part of a long history of heritage contestation and redefinition in Hanoi which largely reflects the succession of political regimes controlling the city. Consideration of key philosophical and practical issues is timely given the current intervention by the Australian Hanoi Planning and Development Control Project team which is helping shape the future of a variously‐defined ‘historic Hanoi’.