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Research among Primitive Peoples

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IT will, no doubt, be the pleasing duty of some future historian of the progress of science in the first third of the twentieth century to trace in the development of anthropological studies the influence of the Cambridge Expedition which set out for the Torres Straits in 1898 under the leadership of Dr. A. C. Haddon. It was as a result of what he saw on that expedition that the late W. H. R. Rivers took up the serious pursuit of ethnology, while on the same expedition Prof.

Essays presented to C. G. Seligman.

Edited by E. E. Evans-Pritchard Raymond Firth Bronis-law Malinowski Isaac Schapera. Pp. ix + 385 + 19 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 21s. net.

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Research among Primitive Peoples . Nature 135, 376–377 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135376a0

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