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IN the interests of his topographical work the author, of the memoir under consideration was obliged to be almost constantly on the move; though this rendered any intensive study of a special people impossible, yet it afforded him opportunities for personal comparison of various peoples and cultures over a wide area. He has worked up the older sources with great care, and in many instances extends his comparisons to America, as he is anxious to see a full treatment of Malayo-Polynesian affinities with South American cultures worked out; the cursory treatment of this vast theme in Graebner's “Bogenkultur” he regards as quite inadequate and faulty in method.
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H., A. Comparitive Studies in Melanesia 1 . Nature 89, 439–440 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089439b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089439b0