Fritsch's “South African Races”

Abstract

IT is to be hoped that this work will have a good effect on the Science of Man, as a much-needed example which, once seen, will no doubt be followed. So far as the writer of the present notice is aware, the attempt at a systematic monograph of a race has never yet been made with so near an approach to success. With all our hundreds of volumes full of information as to the lower races of mankind, it is generally a difficult task for the ethnologist to piece together out of them anything like a complete picture of any tribe, with scientific fulness and accuracy of bodily, mental, social, geographical, and historical detail. Where, for instance, could he go for full information as to the two African races of whom Dr. Fritsch's work treats, the Kafirs and Hottentots?

Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's, ethnographisch und anatomisch beschrieben.

Von Gustav Fritsch. (Breslau: Hirt, 1872.)