Abstract
THE Institute of Social Anthropology, which has X recently been formed within the Smithsonian Institution, has started to issue an important series of monographs*. The five which have so far appeared deal with Latin America and have a very wide range. Their object is both scientific and practical, and the co-operation afforded by the national authorities both in Mexico and in Peru is a measure of the importance which they ascribe to the work. Leaving aside No. 1, on houses and house use of the Sierra Tarascans, which was published so long ago as 1944, the following brief comments are intended to give some indication of the nature of the series.
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BUSHNELL, G. Latin American Cultures. Nature 161, 697 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161697a0
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