Vol. 4 · No. 1 · 2000

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Roe, Emery, 1999. Remaking Development, Rethinking Power. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. 204 pages, index. Paperback.
Review by Gudrun Dahl, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Chakravarty-Kaul, Minoti, 1996. Common Lands and Customary Law. Institutional Change in North India over the Past Two Centuries. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 315 pages, 26 tables, 5 maps, index. Indian Rupees 495. ISBN 019563862X, Hardback.
Review by Aparna Rao. Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Cologne

Allsen, T. T., 1997. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire. A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. Cambridge University Press. xv +137 pages. ISBN 0521583012. Hardback.
Review by Peter A. Andrews, Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Cologne

Li, Cai and Gerald Weiner, 1997. The Yak. Bangkok: UN/Food and Agricultural Organization. 237 pages, maps, diagrams, photographs. ISBN 9748935108.
Miller, Daniel J., Sienna R. Craig and Greta Rana (eds.) 1997. Conservation and Management of Yak Genetic Diversity. Kathmandu: ICIMOD. 220 pages, maps, diagrams, photographs. ISBN 9291156760.
Miller, Daniel J. and Sienna R. Craig (eds.) 1997. Rangelands and Pastoral Development in the Hindukush-Himalayas. Kathmandu: ICIMOD. 268 pages, maps, diagrams, photographs. ISBN 9291151580.
Lensch, Jürgen, Peter Schley and Rong-Chang Zhang (eds.) 1996. Der Yak (Bos grunniens) in Zentralasien. Berlin: Duncker and Humblodt. 269 pages, maps, diagrams, photographs. ISBN 3428084438.
Review by Nigel J. R. Allan, Department of Geography, University of California, Davis.