Drama of Orokolo The Swazi

Abstract

(1)THIS book is dedicated to the late Sir Hubert Murray, fittingly enough. Not only does the author, the Government anthropologist of Papua, owe his existence, in an official sense, to that great administrator, but also the science of anthropology is indebted to him for his practical demonstration of its value in promoting the joint interests of people of different cultures and varied grades of civilization in the great administrative system which he built up by its aid in Papua in the course of more than thirty years of governorship.

Drama of Orokolo

The Social and Ceremonial Life of the Elema. By F. E. Williams. Pp. xxvi + 464 + 62 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 30s. net.

The Swazi

An Ethnographic Account of the Natives of the Swaziland Protectorate. By Brian Allan Marwick. Pp. xvii + 320 + 8 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1940.) 18s. net.