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MR. GORER, who had already proved his mettle as an observer in “Africa Dances”, is now, as Prof. Hutton points out in his introduction to this book, a recruit to the ranks of serious anthropologists. He is fortunate in that his first essay in ethnographical study deals with a people, the Lepchas of Sikkim, whose country hitherto has been virtually closed to Europeans. In 1930 he accompanied Major C. J. Morris to Sikkim, and after two months spent at Kalumpong in study of the language, settled with him, under favour of the Maharajah and with his approval as their passport, in the village of Lingthem, which comprises a population of one hundred and seventy-six individuals. Mr. Gorer's book, and the account of the same village published recently by Major Morris, thus give from two different points of view what in sum is a comprehensive picture of a country and a culture, which though changing, up to now have been completely outside European influence and contact.
Himalayan Village:
an Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. By Geoffrey Gorer. Pp. 510 + 32 plates. (London: Michael Joseph, Ltd., 1938.) 25s . net.
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Himalayan Village:. Nature 144, 96 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144096a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144096a0