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THIS new edition of a masterly work should be welcomed by all who take an interest in the study of primitive man, a study which, it is no paradox to say, has more practical bearing than academic history on the social problems of the future. Before his death Robertson Smith made corrections and added notes to the first edition of 1885, which are now incorporated. As anthropologists and orientalists know, the essay is an application of the theories of J. F. McLennan to early Arabia, conducted with the originality, insight, logical clearness and brilliance of exposition which are inseparable from the name of Robertson Smith.
Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia.
W. Robertson Smith. New Edition, with Additional Notes by the Author and by Prof. I. Goldziher, Budapest. Edited by Stanley A. Cook, M.A. Pp. xxii + 324. (London: A. and C. Black, 1903.) Price 10s. 6d.
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CRAWLEY, E. Kinship and Marriage . Nature 70, xiii (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070xiiia0
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