Book reviews

Barbara Harrisson. Pusaka: heirloom jars of Borneo. xvi, 55 pp., 142 plates. Singapore, etc: Oxford University Press, 1986. (Oxford Asia Studies in Ceramics.) £48.

E. E. van Delden (comp). Klein repertorium: index op tijdschriftenarti‐kelen met betrekking tot voormalig Nederlands‐Indië. Deel l. Tijdschrift voor het Binnenlandsch Bestuur, 1887–1900. 79 pp. Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, 1986. Guilders 40.     

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Haryati Soebadio and Carine A. du Marchie Sarvaas (ed.) Dynamics of Indonesian history. Amsterdam: North‐Holland, 1978. xvi, 395 pp. Guilders 120, US$58.50.     

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Harvest of the Palm: ecological change in Eastern Indonesia, by James J Fox. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1977; xv, 290pp, 19 plates, 10 tables, 11 maps and figs. £10.25.

MAN AND ENVIRONMENT IN EASTERN TIMOR

Man and Environment in Eastern Timor: A Geoecological Analysis of the Baucau‐Viqueque Area as a possible basis for Regional Planning by Joachim K Metzner. Development Studies Centre Monograph No 8, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1977, pp 380, Illus.

DR JIGGINS REPLIES Iwan Simatupang, The Pilgrim, translated by Harry Aveling, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd, Writing in Asia Series, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, 1975.

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COMMENT ON DR JIGGINES’ REVIEW OF Man and Environment in the Eastern Timor

Iwan Simatupang, The Pilgrim, translated by Harry Aveling, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd, Writing in Asia Series, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, 1975.     

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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.     

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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.