REVIEWS

Private Politics: A Multi‐Disciplinary Approach to ‘Big‐man’ Systems . Edited by Martin A. van Bakel, Renée R. Hagesteijn and Peter van de Velde . The Politics and Finance of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea . By Norman Bonney . Torres trait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism . By J. Beckett . Aging and Its Transformations: Moving Towards Death in Pacific Societies . Edited by Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts . Gender and Society in the New Guinea Highlands: an Anthropological Perspective on Antagonism Towards Women . By Marilyn G. Gelber . An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies . By W.H. Edwards . Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea . By Fredrik Barth . Cultural Models in Language and Thought . Edited by D. Holland and Naomi Quinn . Leslie A. White: Ethnological Essays . Edited by Beth Dillingham and Robert L. Carneiro . Wetan Fieldnotes: Some Eastern Indonesian Texts with Linguistic Notes and a Vocabulary . By J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong . The Heart of the Pearlshell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality . By James F. Weiner . Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 . By David Hanlon . Copra Marketing and Price Stabilization in Papua New Guinea. A History to 1975 . By Harry H. Jackman . Wealth of the Solomons: a History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800–1978 . By Judith A. Bennett . An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas . By Jules S‐C. Dumont D'Urville — Translated and edited by Helen Rosenman . Connections: Essays on Black Literatures . Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson . Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text . By Brian Morris . Human Resources Development in the Pacific . Edited by C.D. Throsby . Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopoeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number . By Jadran Mimica . La Dernière Isle . By Joel Bonnemaison .