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the aim of this bibliography is to function a medium for informing these concerning the contents of books and articles that have up to now seemed facing the above-mentioned 3 cultures. Anthropology this is utilized in its widest experience: actual anthropology, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology and ethno­ historical past. l In view of the truth that Kennedy's bibliography has lately been pointed out to date,2 a couple of phrases of rationalization to justify this bibliography are valuable. This paintings makes an attempt at completeness, that's to claim, the goods (especially present in missionary journals) that have been ignored by way of those that did the luxurious task of revising Ken­ nedy's bibliography, were integrated right here. simply these goods which the current compiler was once unable to pay money for were left unannotated. In different phrases approximately each merchandise in this article has been learn or skimmed via. in addition these items that have rarely any worth or relevance to those cultures yet which, none the fewer, are discovered indexed in Kennedy (e. g. Buys below Nias) were precluded from attention the following. Likewise these (few) articles facing smooth advancements that have been exposed were in this article in addition, opposite to the coverage taken by way of the compilers of Kennedy's revised version. remember the fact that the debt one owes to those compilers for this sort of paintings as this - certainly for nearly any examine which one undertakes facing Indonesia - is untold.