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perturbation (11:121-3). For the author, such cross-cutting and interlocking forms of classification make the task of identifying the referent of a term more complex (u: 123-4). This problem, however, arises from her undeviating adherence to structuralist semantics; and the reader could wish that she turned her analytical attention to alternative theories of meaning here. The final part of the second volume of this study is devoted to an account of the Palawan's almanach pdrjama. This is pre-Copernican in its assumption of geocentrism; and identifies 19 asterisms of which 11 play a role in determining the phases of the agricultural cycle. The relationships between these asterisms and the constellations of occidental astronomy, and indeed the understanding of celestial mechanics in each case, make fascinating reading. Against this background, the Palawan attitude to natural events is to watch and wait rather than to predict from astronomical observation; and in relation to the local weather patterns, this may make good sense (n:282).