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MR. DRIBERG'S “At Home with the Savage” is a remarkable book. It has an attractive title, it is popular in aim, and it contains nothing that the person of average intelligence should not be able to understand. Yet it is a book which has a very real significance from the point of view of science. Although the author expressly denies it the character of a textbook, it does, as a matter of fact, restate the subject matter of social anthropology from the point of view of the group of workers who study the activities of man as a member of a society in accordance with principles and methods which have come to be known as ‘functional’ anthropology.
At Home with the Savage.
By J. H. Driberg. Pp. x + 267 + 16 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1932.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Anthropology. Nature 130, 617 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130617a0
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