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THIS first number of a new series of anthropological studies sets a high standard for its successors. The author of the bibliography has been engaged in its compilation on and off for about twelve years and the result is comprehensive and most useful, covering as it does the aboriginal population of the whole of North America. The principle of classification by tribal groups was adopted, the norm being the “nationally self-conscious tribes of regions with some measure of political development, e.g., those of the Plains”. Where this standard could not be obtained a number of tribelets or local groups on approximately the same linguistic or cultural plane were united under the name of one of them.
Ethnographic Bibliography of North America
By George Peter Murdock. (Yale Anthropological Studies, Vol. 1.) Pp. xvi + 168. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1941.) 12s. net.
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RISHBETH, K. Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Nature 150, 619 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150619c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150619c0