Volume 4, Number 11 · July 1, 1965
Ladies on the War Path
By Edmund R. Leach
The Lost Universe
by Gene Weltfish
Basic Books, 506 pp., $12.50
The Warrior Herdsmen
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Knopf, 254 pp., $5.95
The spectrum of anthropology is very wide and these two books are at either end of it; apart from the sex of the authors they have hardly anything in common. Yet some reflection on the contrast of manner may be rewarding.
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