Abstract
PROF. LANDTMAN'S book, in spite of certain shortcomings, will obtain a permanent place in anthropological literature as an encyclopedia of fact and theory, on such subjects as the earliest differentiation of society according to age, sex and personality ; the role of wealth, manual skill and commercial efficiency in creating primitive stratification ; the question of early phases of priesthood, in its dogmatic, social and ritual aspects. The chapters on slavery are valuable as a summary of older work, supplemented by recent evidence. The book deals somewhat briefly in the last two divisions with the genesis of nobility and with the origins of government.
The Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes
By Prof. Gunnar Landtman. Pp. xvi + 444. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 21s. net.
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MALINOWSKI, B. The Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes. Nature 142, 687–688 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142687a0
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