Two for students and

a "better read”

Among the more technical books about the Pacific which are coming from various publishers, and which are useful and yet unlikely to quicken the heart of the general reader looking for a good read, are two from the University Press of Hawaii.

Culture-bound Syndromes, Ethnopsychiatry, and Alternate Therapies is the long title of Volume IV of a series put out on mental health research by the Program for Culture and Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, which was established in 1966 at the University of Hawaii under the

sponsorship of the National Institute of Mental Health, the East-West Center and the Social Science Re search Institute of the university, Price is SUSI 6.

This volume, edited by William P. Lebra, comprises the principal offerings of the fourth and final con ference of the programme, which was in 1972, and the studies have special interest for students of trans cultural psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology, and psychological anthropology, as well as for those directing international training programmes in mental health fields.

The papers represented include

Spirit Possession in a Japanese Healing Cult; Healing in a West Polynesian Village; and Native Healers in Malaysia.

Professor Lebra is Professor of Anthropology and director of the Culture and Mental Health Program in the Social Sciences and Linguistics Institute of the Universi ty of Hawaii.

Transactions in Kinship: Adop tion and Fosterage in Oceania, from the same press, is Number 4 of the monograph series of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

The editor of this volume is Ivan Brady, and the book deals with adoption and land tenure, alliance and social mobility in specified areas of Micronesia. Polynesia and Melanesia. The book is also SUSI 6.

Something of more general in terest from the University Press of Hawaii, and a far better “read”, is For Whom Are the Stars? by Alber tine Loomis (5U59.95). She gives the first complete account of the three-year period in Hawaii’s histo ry from 1893 when Queen Lili’uokalani surrendered the crown, through the first months of the Republic of Hawaii, and the final desperate attempt by the queen’s loyal supporters to restore the monarchy. The events following the monarchy’s fall are recounted in detail for the first time, including the trial of the conspirators and their eventual fate. The author was helped by recently-discovered papers of Nathaniel B. Emerson, which incorporated many first-hand statements from participants in the

armed uprising of 1895.

E. W.