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Sex And Religion Among The Savages

Francis King BLACK ROBE by Brian Moore Jonathan Cape, .£8.95 W hether in the abrasive satire of his The Emperor of Ice-cream, the exuberant fantasy of The Great Victorian......

Patriarchs Or Parasites?

Richard Tapper NOMADS AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD by A.M.Khazanov Cambridge University Press, £37.50 e do not take kindly to those who W transgress what we have defined as the normal'......