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DR. GREAVES has broken new ground in her study of the economic activities and organisation found among backward peoples as the result of the introduction of European methods of exploitation of their resources. The data she has collected, as well as her conclusions, are of interest to economist, anthropologist and administrator alike. For the anthropologist they form an object lesson in culture contact, available equally for academic use and practical application; for the administrator, a message of guidance and warning; and for the economist, in the author's attitude to cultural differences, a new orientation in the assessment of comparative values.
Modern Production among Backward Peoples
By Dr. I. C. Greaves. (London School of Economics and Political Science: Studies in Economics and Commerce, No. 5.) Pp. 229. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Modern Production among Backward Peoples. Nature 136, 854 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136854c0
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