A book which, although taking nearly no account of psycho-analytical anthropology, the analyst qua layman in the realm of anthropology may read with advantage. The author is in full touch with the methods and aims of modern anthropology, has an intimate first-hand knowledge of primitive man and a lively literary style. I much prefer the anthropologist, if he has no real knowledge of psycho-analysis, to omit the subject than to commit some of the gross errors that are usual in this connection. As it is he seems to think he can dispose of Freud's primal horde theory by a casual reference to the 'fantastic picture of an Oedipus-ridden menage' (p. 78). He deals with the importance of the psychological point of view in anthropology in the right spirit (p. 10), although it seems that by psychology he really means an intuitive knowledge of 'savage' ways. He is himself a good psychologist in this sense, and one can heartily appreciate his remark