Abstract
PROF. SELIGMAN'S book on Africa is almost a tour de force in condensation. As an introduction to the study of African peoples and culture it will be of the greatest assistance to students. Apart from its value as a comprehensive, if brief, summary of the present state of our knowledge, it serves to bring home to the public how great are the gaps in our information to be made up before anything approaching certainty in our conclusions can be attained. As the author points out in his introductory chapter, there are still in Africa unsurveyed areas and uncharted tribes. In physical anthropology a beginning has scarcely been made in the anthropometric survey which is an essential condition of valid argument on the racial history and affinities of the African peoples.
Races of Africa.
Prof. C. G. Seligman. (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) Pp. 256. (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1930.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Races of Africa . Nature 126, 53 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126053d0
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