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THE cinema is characteristic of the age. It responds to a craze to see from an arm-chair an exact likeness of the reality in which we daily move. This spirit has invaded the social sciences. Archaeology is giving up the attempt to explain civilization; its highest ambition is to photograph it at any given period. Anthropology has caught the infection in the most virulent form, because it is fatally easy to visit some obscure tribe, bring back continuous verbal pictures, and reel them off in volume after volume.
We, the Tikopia:
a Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia. By Dr. Raymond Firth. Pp. xxv + 605 + 25 plates. (London: George Alien and Unwin, Ltd., 1936.) 30s. net.
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HOCART, A. Cinematographic Anthropology. Nature 139, 447–448 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139447a0
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