ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
VOLUME 10    NUMBER 2    2001

CONTENTS

Articles

DROZDÝK, Ladislav:
Language and Linguistics in Postmodern Discourse

113

DIETRICH, Michael H.:
Ein "himmlischer Spagat". Das Zeichen für den Stern Algol in Rongorongo

119

KRUPA, Viktor:
Bicknell's Translation of St. John's Gospel into Marguesan

143

KAULBACH, Barbara:
Street Theatre in China in the 1930s

148

lSLAM, Syed Serajul:
Elections and Politics in the Post-Ershad Era in Bangladesh

160

BALESIN, A.S.:
Europäische Missionare in Ost- und Südafrika :Kulturbegegnung oder Gewalt? (Anhand Archivquellen)

174

BONDARENKO, Dmitri M. - ROESE, Peter M.:
Ancient Benin: Where Did the First Monarchs Come from?

185

Review    Articles

KOZIEL, Miroslav:
Poverty in Africa
199

Book Reviews

SEL'UTINA, Irina Jakovlevna:
Kumandinskij vokalizm. Eksperimental’nofoneticheskoe issledovanie. By Yuri Tambovtsev

210

EDZARD, Lutz:
Polygenesis, Convergence, and Entropy: An Alternative Model of Linguistic Evolution Applied to Semitic Linguistics. By Ladislav Drozdik

214

SCHULZ, E. - G. Krahl - W. Reuschel:
Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course. By Ladislav Drozdik

219

OLIVERIUS, Jaroslav: 
Kapitoly ze syntaxe moderni spisovné arabštiny. By Ladislav Drozdik

223

OWENS, Jonathan (Ed.):
Arabic as a Minority Language. By Ladislav Drozdik

225

KLEIN, Martin: Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. By Miroslav Koziel

227