Early State Formation in Central Madagascar: an Archaeological Survey of Western Avaradrano, edited by Henry T. Wright, 2007. Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology. (Museum of Anthropology Memoirs 43.) ISBN 978-0-915703-63-0 paperback \\pounds165 & US$38; xvi+311 pp., 232 figs., 24 tables.