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IT is announced that a Rockefeller fellowship for research work in Africa has been awarded to Miss L. C. Mair. Miss Mair has worked with Prof. B. Malinowski at the London School of Economics as research assistant. She has already left for Uganda, where she will study native social institutions with special reference to the changes which have been, brought about by European settlement. The comparatively highly organised character of the social institutions of the Baganda before they came into contact with Europeans, and the readiness the people have shown in adapting themselves in certain directions to European ideas, should make this a fruitful and particularly instructive field of inquiry, especially if opportunity should arise for comparison with other areas of East Africa in which contact with European civilisation has been neither so prolonged nor so intense.
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Fellowship of African Research. Nature 129, 311 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129311c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129311c0