Book Reviews

Whale hunting in small craft and with primitive tools, often called aboriginal whaling (though not. by the author of this book), is and always has been a rare phenomenon in Asia. By way of compnsation, the book ends with ari incredibly detailed subject index (pp. 437-67) which leaves nothing to be desired. '" Janet Carsteh, The heat of the hear th; The process ofkinship in a Malay fishing community. The book brings together the ethnographer's earlier, highly idiosyncratic work, which has covered such varied topics as, women and household-community relations,' the morality and meanings of money, inheritance, child-fostering, future-oriented kinship, feeding, personhood and relatedness, Lvi-Strass' concept of 'house socities', and migration and memory. In Langkawi, the ideals of sameness and equality. are typified by the central sibling relationship. [...]the 'house' is identified as the. indigenous social unit which allows an approach both to the individual and to the community.