(1) Both Sides of Buka Passage: (2) Coral Gardens and their Magic

Abstract

(1) ONE of the greatest misfortunes of anthropology is to have been set up as a school in imitation of old and tried sciences before it had proved itself sufficiently experienced and mature to take its place beside them. Having no discipline to offer, it has tempted those who dislike discipline. It is all the greater pleasure, therefore, to welcome a recruit imbued with the spirit of the older sciences. (1) Both Sides of Buka Passage: an Ethnographic Study of Social, Sexual and Economic Questions in the North-Western Solomon Islands By Beatrice Blackwood. Pp. xxiii + 624 + 81 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 35s. net. (2) Coral Gardens and their Magic: a Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. By Bronislaw Malinowski. Vol. 1: The Description of Gardening. Pp. xxxv + 500 + 116 plates. Vol. 2: The Language of Magic and Gardening. Pp. xxxii + 350. (London: George Alien and Unwin, Ltd., 1935.) 2 vols., 42s. net.