ANTHROPOS 
Publishers: Anthropos-Institut, D-5205 St. Augustin 1 (W. Germany) 
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Louis J. Luzbetak SVD 
Acting Editor: Dr. Josef Franz Thiel 
Editorial Board: Dr. Alfons Altehenger SVD (Physical Anthropology); Dr. Arnold Burgmann SVD (Linguistics, 
Indonesia, and Oceania); Dr. Heinrich Busch SVD (East Asia); Dr. Joseph Henninger SVD (Middle East, North 
Africa, and History of Religions); Dr. Wilhelm Müller SVD (Oriental Philosophy); Dr. Rudolf Rahmann SVD 
(Philippines, South and Southeast Asia). 
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CONTENTS 
Articles 
W. Arens: Evans-Pritchard and the Prophets: Comments on an Ethnographic Enigma j 
David Hicks; Unachieved Syncretism: The Local-Level Political System in Portuguese Timor, 1966- 
1967 17 
Rainer Waßner: Der Beitrag von Emesto de Martino zur italienischen Kulturanthropologie 41 
Patrick C. Douaud: Canadian Metis Identity: A Pattern of Evolution 71 
D.K. Feil; A World Without Exchange: Millennia and the Tee Ceremonial System in Tombema-Enga 
Society (New Guinea) 89 
Joseph Nevadomsky: Changing Patterns of Marriage, Family, and Kinship Among the East Indians 
in Rural Trinidad 107 
Andrew H. Aptcr: In Praise of High Office: The Politics of Panegyric Among Three Sou them-Ban tu 
Tribes 149 
Karl Leopold Hutterer: The Natural and Cultural History of Southeast Asian Agriculture: Ecological 
and Evolutionary Considerations 169 
Reports and Comments 
Egon Renner: Cognitive Anthropology Reconsidered: Reply and Challenge 213 
Andrzej Bronk: Die semiotische Kulturtheorie als eine ,,neue“ Ethnologie 236 
S. Boissya, C.L. Boissya, and R. Majumder: Economic Aspect of Some Medicinal Plants Available in 
Nowgong District of Assam, India 241 
Joachim Stcrly: Zwei Erzählungen der Kuglkane 246 
Aequatoria: Bibliothèque et revue 254 
Ainu and Okinawa Collections in the Museums of Central Europe 255 
Notes on Books and Articles (256-272) 
Time and Language — Structural Anthropology in the Netherlands in the Nineteenseventies — Beyond Death: 
The Gates of Consciousness — Local History and Oral History — Digging up Bones — Arnold van Gennep: The 
Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine — Die toten Lebenden — Die wörtliche Übersetzung (Französisch-Deutsch) — Die 
Sonnenuhr — Konsequenzen ökonomischen Wandels in zirkumpolaren Gebieten — „Gottes Bund mit Abraham“ 
in religionswissenschaftlicher Sicht • Africa: Edification by Puzzlement — Stufen der Lebenserfüllung: Zur 
rituellen Symbolik der Simbete (Tansania) — Les insectes comme aliments de l’homme — Réparation de 
l’infidélité conjugale chez les Yansi (Rép, du Zaïre) — Mukanda, l’école traditionelle pende • The Americas: 
Papers of the Thirteenth Algonquian Conference — Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians — Die Salish — 
Blackfoot-Indianer — Curt Nimuendajus ethnohistorische Karte — Die künstliche Schädeldeformation als 
Vorbild für „Scheinköpfe“ altperuanischer Mumienbündel • Asia: Preservation of Jewish Ethnic Identity in 
Yemen: Segregation and Integration as Boundary Maintenance Mechanisms — What is a Shaman? — Pile 
Houses in Ancient China — Sammlung Wogulischer Volksdichtung — Griechische und römische Quellen zum 
peripheren Tibet — Ehe und Familie in der chinesischen Welt — La relation forgeron-chaman chez les Yakoutes 
de Sibérie • Europe: The Races and Peoples of Europe — Nautische Attribute römischer Gottheiten* Oceania: 
Cottage Industry and the Easing of Rural Poverty in the Philippines: A Comparison of an Entrepreneurial and 
a Cooperative Approach — The Dialects of Marinduque Tagalog — From Pigs to Pearlshells; The Transforma 
tion of a New Guinea Highlands Exchange Economy — Tolai and Tok Pisin: The Influence of the Substratum 
on the Development of New Guinea Pidgin — A Comparative Word List of the Mabuso Languages, Madang 
Province, Papua New Guinea — A Comparative Word Languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea — A 
Comparative Word List of the Southern Adelbert Range Languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea — 
The Samoan Fono: A Sociolinguistic Study — Aboriginal Land Rights: A Handbook — Die religiöse Be 
deutung der kosmischen Vorstellungen bei den Ngada (Indonesien).