Abstract
MORE than thirty years ago, Prof. Barton wrote a book on Semitic origins when he was very strongly under the influence of Robertson Smith. Owing to the strides which have been made in the study of the prehistory of Egypt and western Asia since that date, Prof. Barton now confesses, quite frankly, that there is scarcely a topic of importance in his earlier work—such, for example, as totemism, descent and marriage among the early Semites—upon which he has not had reason entirely to change his views.
Semitic and Hamitic Origins, Social and Religious.
By Prof. G. A. Barton. Pp. xvi + 395. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1934.) 17s. net.
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Semitic and Hamitic Origins, Social and Religious. Nature 135, 5–6 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135005a0
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