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Social Change in Simpler Societies

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Nomads of Arnhem Land. By Wilbur S. Chaseling. Pp. xxvi + 173 + 13 plates. (London: The Epworth Press, 1957.) 21s. net.

Easter Island

A Stone-Age Civilization of the Pacific. By Dr. Alfred Metraux. (Translated from the French by Michael Bullock.) Pp. 249 + 16 plates. (London: Andre Deutsch, Ltd., 1957.) 21s. net.

Work and Life on Raroia

An Acculturation Study from the Tuamotu Group, French Oceania. By Dr. Bengt Danielsson. Pp. 244 + 7 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1956.) 25s. net.

Social Change in the South Pacific

Rarotonga and Aitutaki. By Prof. Ernest Beaglehole. Pp. x + 268. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1957.) 28s. net.

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FIRTH, R. Social Change in Simpler Societies. Nature 182, 280–281 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182280a0

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