Abstract
THE professor of anthropology in the University of California has written a notable book—one which deserves to be known and studied in Europe as well as in America. He seeks to provide answers to the questions: When and where did the races of mankind become differentiated? When and where did they come by their languages? When and where did they acquire their customs, beliefs and ways qf living and their manner of doing things? He does not answer these questions by culling quotations from authorities, but, using his well-stocked mind, a wide personal experience, a sane judgment, and a happy gift of expression, returns answers that all who read may understand and, at the same time, feel that they are in touch with the live problems of anthropology. His main aim is to explain how peoples in every land have come by their cultures, particularly how the peoples of the New World, both ancient and modern, came by theirs.
Anthropology.
By Prof. A. L. Kroeber. Pp. x+523. (London, Calcutta and Sydney: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Anthropology . Nature 116, 238–239 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116238c0
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