Mario D. Zamora

MARGARET STROBEL. Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975. Pp. xiii, 258. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.

en vilo, microhistoria de San Jos6 de Gracia&dquo; (1969). Schryer takes the position that if a regime largely composed of &dquo;petit bourgeois&dquo; elements did come to power in 1917, then the peasant bourgoisie must have constituted a major part of it. I agree: the Carrera Torres brothers, the Cedillos brothers, the Santos brothers of Tamaulipas and San Luis, the Figueroa brothers in Guerrero, the Zapata brothers in Morelos, and so many more in Veracruz, Sinaloa, and Nayarit were all rancheros and played an important role during and after the revolution. A careful analysis of the class struc-

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Andre Beteille and T. N. Madan, eds. Encounter and Experience. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1975. viii + 225 pp. Bibliography.

Field work: A view from the third world

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Agaton P. Pal and Robert A. Poison. Rural Peoples Responses to Change. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1973. xi + 289 pp. Map, tables and glossary.

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changes that will undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences in the lives and fortunes of Indians, especially the villagers; these drastic changes range from the introduction of panchayat raj (democratic decentralization) to the eradication of one of India’s ancient institutions untouchability. The human dimensions of the efforts to eliminate untouchability in India in fulfillment of Article 17 of the Indian Constitution is the theme of The Untouchables in Contemporary India edited by J. Michael Mahar of the University of Arizona and co-authored by 17 eminent India specialists. These authors, four Indians and thirteen Americans, represent various disciplines such as law, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religion. The purpose of this book, according to Mahar, is to &dquo;... offer a greater variety of scholarly perspectives and a broader range of observations on that subject than any previous publication&dquo; (p. xxx). In the reviewer’s judgment, this purpose has been fulfilled to a great degree. In order to attain his objective, Mahar divides the book into four significant related parts and two important preliminary papers. The prefatory articles include

WILLIAM J. POMEROY, ed. Guerrilla Warfare and Marxism. Pp. 336. New York: International, 1968. No price

nese ; as a strategist he was incompetent; and as Chiang’s Chief of Staff he was insubordinate. The United States simply did not understand that, &dquo;China was confronted by two different enemies: externally, the Japanese ; internally, the Communists&dquo; (p. 230). The latter were supported by the &dquo;Davies-Service group,&dquo; foreign service officers who produced voluminous reports critical of the Nationalist government and extolling the virtues of the &dquo;agrarian reformers.&dquo; The Washington authorities, and especially General George C. Marshall, were influenced by the political assessments of these officials and the distorted versions of the military situation produced by Stilwell. Roosevelt, anxious to keep China in the war, made gestures to appease the Generalissimo by insisting that he not be treated as the head of a minor nation and by striving to induce Britain and Russia to include China as a