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IT is difficult, and may be dangerous, to apply statistical methods to the sociology of uncivilised peoples. There are only a few monographs written on scientific lines; the greater part of the evidence consists in the incomplete and often prejudiced accounts of travellers. Results, therefore, over a wide field, must necessarily be rough, and, to attain even these, a very skilled judgment is required. But, for all that, even rough results of very careful work are valuable.
The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples: An Essay in Correlation.
By L. T. Hobhouse G. C. Wheeler M. Ginsberg. Pp. 299. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1915.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples: An Essay in Correlation . Nature 95, 672 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095672a0
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