Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, and Sleeping beauties? Copulatory quiescence in arachnid females.

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 54 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Mobbing in animals: a thorough review and proposed future directions, Learned components of courtship: a focus on gestures, choreographies and construction abilities, Sexual selection in the true bugs, and Brain-behavior relationships of cognition in vertebrates: lessons from amphibians, Pre-Copulatory and Copulatory Courtship in Male-Dimorphic Arthropods.

This monograph investigates the nature of the relationship of the New Zealand State (the Crown) with Maori as a tribally-based people. Although recent New Zealand governments have tried to address the history of Crown injustice to Maori, the relationship of the Crown with the Maori tribally-based world continues to be fraught with contradictions and tension. In addressing the question as to why this situation continues, use is made of reports from the Waitangi Tribunal, which was established by the Government in 1987 to enquire into Maori grievances against the Crown. These reports include detailed testimonies from claimants about their way of life and culture and the manner of their treatment by the Crown. The monograph analyses evidence from the reports in order to identify what underlies the ongoing friction between the Crown and the Maori tribally-based world. This study is of interest to those who wish to understand the contradictions between the political economy of the modern state and the tribally-based world, and reasons for the continued assertion of tribal identity in spite of the ideology that casts the modern state as a superior social order.