Book Reviews

[...]Japanese economie historians are pointing more and more to the unique roles of Chinese traders, indigenous trading networks, and Japanese involvement in the region as vital factors for analysing economie development in pre-war Southeast Asia. Except for the article, numerals, and quantifiers, all modifiers follow the head. Because of their importance to other parts of the noun phrase, the author discusses reduplication (indicating plurality or diminutiveness) and verbal nominalization (referring to locations, tools, and results) in an introduction. According to the introduction by Meinhard Schuster, which is virtually identical in both volumes, the project aims to assemble all the names of ethnic and linguistic groups that are to be found in the literature between 1873 and 1975, these dates marking the landing of Captain John Moresby on the island and the year of Independence of the State of Papua New Guinea. [...]she also stresses that the number of followers a person can assemble is still essential within vertical ranking of individuals. Since Reimar Schefold deals with myth and achievement in the following article, in which he compares Mentawai and Minahasa societies, his arguments adduced to show that heroic theft is an expression of individual action of benefit to others seem to fit into this modern environment.