Abstract
THIS handsome volume contains the anthropological results of a short residence of about eighteen months in the Andaman Islands on behalf of the “Anthony Wilkin Students' Research,” and may therefore be taken as a sample of approved work by the modern type of Cambridge-trained student. It is well produced by the Cambridge University Press, and is excellently illustrated from photographs taken, it is presumed, by the author. Indeed, so good are these last that the present writer recognises the originals of several of the portraits. As regards photographs illustrating these aborigines, their surroundings, habits, manners, and customs, the scientific world is specially well off, owing to the efforts extended over many years by such competent illustrators as Messrs. E. H. Man and M. V. Portman, the many magnificent volumes of the latter observer, deposited in the India Office Library, being not nearly so well known as they should be.
The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology.
(Anthony Wilkin Studentship Research, 1906.) By A. R. Brown. Pp. xiv + 504 + 20 plates + 2 maps. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1922.) 40s. net.
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T., R. The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology . Nature 110, 106–108 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110106a0
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