...H. Clyde Wilson Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People . By Roy A. Rappaport . Foreword by A. P. Vayda. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1967 . xx, 311 pp. Preface, Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $9.50. Copyright © The Association...

...Robert Van Niel The Trauma of Decolonization: The Dutch and West New Guinea . By Arend Lijphart . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1966 . xi, 303 pp. Tables, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 341 Democracy, together...

...Douglas H. Mendel, Jr. Public Diplomacy and Political Change—Four Case Studies: Okinawa, Peru, Czechoslovakia, Guinea . Edited by Gregor Henderson With S. W. Barton , Johannes A. Binnendijk and Carolyn Setlow . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1973 . xxxv, 339 pp. $21.50...

...Paul W. van der Veur West New Guinea: The Dispute and Its Settlement . By William Henderson . South Orange, N.J. : Seton Hall University Press , 1973 . x, 281 pp. Appendix, Bibliographical Note. Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK...

...M. J. Meggitt Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind Anim Culture (South New Guinea) . By J. van Baal , with the Collaboration of Father J. Verschueren, MSC. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Translation Series 9. The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1966 . xxviii, 988...

...Aram A. Yengoyan Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 New Guinea: The Territory and Its Peoples . By D. A. M. Lea and P. G. Irwin . Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1967 . 116 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Graphs, Tables, Bibliography, Exercises, Index...

...Harold W. Scheffler Gods Ghosts and Men in Melanesia: Some Religions of Australian New Guinea and the New Hebrides . By P. Lawrence and M. J. Meggitt . Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1965 . 298 . Bibliography, Index. $9.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... that this book could not have lived up to the idea which gave it inspiration. ROBERT G. SCIGLIANO Michigan State University 221 The Dynamics of the Western New Guinea (Irian Barat) Problem. By ROBERT C BONE, JR. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, Interim Reports Series, 1958. x, 170. $1.50 (paper...

...James B. Watson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 The Australians in New Guinea 1914–1921 . By C. D. Rowley . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1958 . xi, 371 . BOOK REVIEWS 479 Only on Cebu was there any resistance. Philip- raphy which resulted...

...Lorraine V. Aragon Film and Video Reviews Turnim Hed: Courtship and Music in Papua New Guinea. Produced and directed by JAMES BATES. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993- VHS format, 52 minutes. Purchase $149.00; rental $75.00. Turnim Hed is based on an interesting premise...

...John M. Street A New Guinea Landscape: Community, Space, and Time in the Eastern Highlands . By K. J. Pataki-Schweizer . Seattle : University of Washington Press (Anthropological Studies in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, IV), 1980 . xv, 165 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index...

...James A. Field, Jr. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Volume VIII. New Guinea and the Marianas . March 1944-August 1944. By Samuel Eliot Morison . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1953 . xxiii...

...John T. Omohundro The Chinese in Papua New Guinea, 1880–1980 . By David Y. H. Wu . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 1982 . xx, 176 pp. Foreword, Preface, Tables, Maps, Figures, Plates, Appendixes, Bibliography. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984...

...). Maps. Each Vol. $3.25 (paper). Bibliography of West New Guinea . By K. W. Galis . Bibliography Series. New Haven : Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University , 1956 . vi, 135 . (mimeographed, paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 BOOK REVIEWS 157...

...H. Th. Fischer Land of Dahori: Tales of New Guinea . By Olaf Ruhen . New York : Lippincott , 1957 . x, 278 . $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 322 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES it could not cope with the Lun Daya and Kayan on its back doorstep...

...Robbins Burling Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village . By H. Ian Hogbin . New York ; Humanities Press , 1963 . 177 . Plates, Maps. $7.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 318 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES under the raised slats of the bathroom floor...

...Frances Gouda Besturen in Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, 1945–1962: Ontwikkelingswerk in een Periode van Politieke Onrust . Edited by Pim Schoorl . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1996 . vii, 658 pp. $58.00 (paper). Distributed by Cellar Book Store. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Amry Vandenbosch Nieuw Guinea Studien . Vol. I ( 1957 ), Nos. 1–4. The Hague : Stichtung Studiekring voor Nieuw-Guinea (Study Group for New Guinea) . 90 . Plates, Illustrations. $5.00 (year). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 642 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Elizabeth Bacon Island peoples of the Western Pacific. Micronesia and Melanesia . By Herbert W. Krieger . (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, No. 16) Washington : Smithsonian Institution , 1943 . iv, 104 p. The native peoples of New Guinea . By M. W. Stirling...

... the center of the Netherlands East Indies—Sumatra, Java, and Borneo—but also the Malay Peninsula, in itself almost an island and biologically a part of the region, the Philippine Islands to the northeast, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea. From northern Sumatra to eastern New...