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WHILE anthropologists frequently maintain the necessity for insight and sympathy in the administration of the affairs of backward races, it is not often that concrete examples of the peculiar psychology of primitive man are put to the layman so convincingly as some of the instances which Mr. Melland has singled out in this book. As an official of some twenty-two years' standing, he is in a position to speak with authority. From this point of view his book can be recommended heartily to every one interested in the government of our backward races.
In Witch-Bound Africa: an Account of the Primitive Kaonde Tribe and their Beliefs.
By F. H. Melland. Pp. 316 + 24 plates. (London: Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 21s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 112, 824 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112824c0
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