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ALL anthropologists will feel grateful to Mr. Ormsby-Gore, as well as to NATURE, for the vigorous pleading on behalf of the Imperial importance of our science by the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and for the interesting leading articles in the issues of October 30 and November 6. The passage from the Under Secretary's report quoted in NATURE is of special value for the right appreciation of anthropological methods. Mr. Ormsby-Gore sees clearly that “personal contact” is not enough. A “scientific study of their [the natives'] mental and moral characteristics, of native law and customs, of native history, language, and tradition” is indispensable. As is pointed out in the leading article, “There is now a wealth of accumulated experience and knowledge at our command in our schools of anthropology”. I should like to add a few concrete suggestions as to how anthropology should be studied in order to be of direct use to the administrator.
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MALINOWSKI, B. Anthropology and Administration. Nature 118, 768 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118768a0
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