Salemink (social and cultural anthropology, Vrije U., Amsterdam) documents the changing and often diverging ethnographic discourses about the people of the Central Highlands as an ongoing struggle between evolutionist and relativist perspectives. He did not stay long in any one location during his research, so attempts no village study or overall ethnographic study, but concentrates on oral history while acknowledging its pitfalls. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)