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BOTH for the anthropologist, who wants well-sifted and trustworthy material, and for the ordinary reader who would like to know something about the life of the native Australian, this is a most useful book. In fact, for the latter purpose it may be said to stand entirely alone. There is no other work on the Australians which gives anything like so good a general view; it is clear of superfluous technicalities, eminently readable, and written with so much sympathy that we cease to be surprised at the success of the writer in getting at such secret matters as male initiation ceremonies and beliefs about Byamee, all of which are strictly forbidden lore to the Euahlayi woman. Mr. Lang's introduction explains the bearing of the book on current controversies.
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T., N. The Life of the Australian Blacks 1 . Nature 73, 610–611 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073610a0
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