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Cora Du Bois has certainly written one of the best accounts of field work in anthropology. Dr. Kardiner should be regarded as co-author of this publication because the origins of the book go back to his seminars, he has helped in providing the funds for the field work and he has contributed theoretical chapters. Anthropologists will probably go on record with the statement that this is the first time that material concerning an individual is provided in an anthropological study and they will probably overlook the fact that I did so already as far back as 19321 and that Wulff Sachs has published an analysis of a South African medicine man.2 The psychoanalytic material in this book is given in the form of autobiographies interspersed with the dreams of the informant. The fact that Dr. Du Bois succeeded in getting so much personal material from her informants is an outstanding testimony to her skill as a field worker. The autobiographies have been analyzed by Dr. Kardiner who also draws the final conclusions. The book contains a chapter on Porteus Maze Tests (pp. 552–556), one on Word Associations (pp. 556–566), one on Children's Drawings (pp. 566–588), and an important contribution by Dr. Oberholzer on the Rorschach experiment (pp. 588–641).
The excellent quality of this record of field work consists of the detailed information presented which will make the book equally welcome to those who agree and to those who disagree with the main thesis. Cora Du Bois writes, 'Since women are primarily