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A NTHROPOLOGISTS may cavil at Mr. Page's use of the term 'primitive' as applied to existing peoples of the simpler cultures ; but they will not quarrel with the acumen with which he has chosen his authorities, nor the ability with which he has singled out for mention the significant details in the various modes of life and their relation to environment, in these accounts of typical examples of food-gatherers, hunters, cultivators and nomadic herdsmen. The peoples whom he has elected to describe range in distribution from polar snows to the tropical forests of the equator and the islands of the Pacific. Not all still exist to-day as described here; and others, as Mr. Page notes, have long been diminishing in numbers, while rapid changes in culture are universal.
Primitive Races of To-day
By J. W. Page. Pp. 348. (London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Primitive Races of To-day. Nature 142, 235 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142235d0
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