Social Anthropology: By Paul Radin. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1932. xii+432 p.

Without attempting, in the absence of competence to do so, to pronounce upon the value of this work as an introduction to social anthropology intended for "that vast array of students in economics, history, political science, jurisprudence, sociology and psychology, who realize the bearing of social anthropology on their subjects"—in which rôle, however, it seems to the reviewer to stan d approximately midway, in scope and method, between Lowie's Are We Civilized? and Kroeber's Anthropology, and at the same time to possess few of the more signal merits of either—the reviewer may at least set down such notations as will indicate the value of the book to the psychoanalytic reader. This value is, alas, rather smaller than it might be; and its consideration will take us little further—but the readers of this review shall presently be the judge—than the introductory chapter on The History of Ethnological Theories.

First, however, as conveying some general idea of the content and method of approach of the work, it should be stated that its author has made his treatment of primitive cultures strictly topical. That is to say, under each of his five main headings of The