Native Races Research Articles

The Preservation of Native Races

The Preservation of Native Races

Anthropology and the government of native races in the Pacific

Anthropology and the government of native races in the Pacific

2. The Effect on Native Races of Contact with European Civilisation

2. The Effect on Native Races of Contact with European Civilisation

West African Development1

II. IT is 134 years since William Pitt, speaking of Africa, said: “We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in the calm occupation of industry, in the pursuit of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon the land.” The material vision is fulfilled, but the beams of science and philosophy have not yet penetrated the veil of mists and obscurity in which our administration is enveloped. We have been in trading relationship with West Africa for more than three hundred years; the British Crown has been directly responsible for the administration of a great part of its territories since 1886; the native races in the British zones are among the most intelligent races of Africa: but we have been content to leave the education of its peoples to missionaries, with the result that an inordinate number of native lawyers, preachers, and clerks have been created, but practically no men trained in science or its application.

African Natives and European Civilisation

IN his presidential address to the British Association, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales spoke with singular felicity of the relations which do actually, and should, subsist between the State and scientific research. The discussion of a multiplicity of topics, which was released as it were from a floodgate immediately after the inaugural meeting, may have obscured the fact that the opportuneness of the Prince's reference to the application of scientific study to the problems of the Empire in our Dominions and Dependencies was conclusively demonstrated by the presidential address delivered in the Geographical Section on the following day. The lesson was further driven home by the discussion on the effect on the native races of Africa of contact with European civilisation which arose directly out of Mr. Ormsby-Gore's address, and took place in a joint session of the Sections of Geography and Anthropology.

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT IN AFRICA IN ITS RELATION TO TRADE AND THE NATIVE RACES1

Journal Article EMPIRE SETTLEMENT IN AFRICA IN ITS RELATION TO TRADE AND THE NATIVE RACES Get access G. HEATON NICHOLLS G. HEATON NICHOLLS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXV, Issue XCVIII, January 1926, Pages 105–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100707 Published: 01 January 1926

An International Campaign against Sleeping Sickness

AMONG the limited number of post-War changes that it is possible to regard with satisfaction, not the least is an enhanced sense on the part of representatives of European nations of their responsibilities towards what are known as native races. Conspicuous manifestations of this new spirit have been shown by the British Government, and recent action on the part of the League of Nations is evidence of similar breadth of view. In 1922 the Provisional Health Committee of the League appointed a Committee of Experts, under the chairmanship of Dr. Andrew Balfour, for the purpose of collecting information as regards sleeping sickness and tuberculosis in equatorial Africa, and making certain recommendations with reference to these diseases. The members of the Experts Committee, in addition to the chairman, are Dr. E. van Campenhout, Director of the Public Health Service at the Belgian Ministry of the Colonies; Prof. Gustave Martin, formerly head of the French Sleeping Sickness Mission in French Equatorial Africa; and Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Director of the Tropical Diseases Bureau, London. This Committee, which met for the first time in November 1922, submitted to the Health Committee of the League two most valuable Reports; and the outcome of the recommendations included in the second of these was an International Conference on Sleeping Sickness, which assembled last month in London, and was presided over by Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. All of the countries interested in tropical Africa, namely, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, were represented at the Conference by well-known authorities on tropical disease.

The Native Races of the Empire

The Native Races of the Empire

AINHUM, A FAMILY DISEASE

Ainhum is fairly common in British Honduras. It has been described as a chronic dystrophy of the fifth or fourth toe in native races, characterized by the formation of a furrow at the digitoplantar fold. This fibrosis extends, injuring the vessels, and producing an endarteritis obliterans and a rarefying osteitis. I have noticed a similar dystrophy in the little finger of an Indian. That the disease is inherited is proved by the fact that the father and brother of the patient, the condition of whose foot is illustrated herewith, suffered from the same condition, all ending in loss of the toe. The cause of this disease is unknown; but the theories that it is due to leprosy or self-mutilation are untenable. The condition resembles ground itch, except that in ground itch there is ulceration under every toe; in ainhum, under only one toe The treatment consists of an incision

The Bantu, Past and Present: An Ethnological and Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa

Journal Article The Bantu, Past and Present: An Ethnological and Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa Get access The Bantu, Past and Present: An Ethnological and Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa. By S. M. Molema. (Published by W. Green & Son, Ltd., Edinburgh.) African Affairs, Volume XX, Issue LXXVII, October 1920, Pages 69–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101722 Published: 01 October 1920

Native Races of the Empire

Native Races of the Empire

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

British Journal of InebrietyVolume 17, Issue 2 p. 48-56 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. First published: October 1919 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1919.tb04362.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Reviews in This Article On Longevity and Means for the Prolongation of Life. By Sir Hermann Weber, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edited by F. Parkes Weber, M.D., F.R.G.P., with a Preface by Sir Clifford Allbutt, K.C.B., F.R.S. Fifth enlarged edition, revised and partly rewritten. Pp. The Human Machine and Industrial Efficiency. By Frederick S. Lee, Ph.D., LL.D., Dalton Professor of Physiology in Columbia University. Pp. Vicious Circles In Disease. By Jamieson B. Hurry, M.A., M.D. Third and Enlarged Edition. Pp. Prostitution In Europe. By Abraham Flexner. Abridged Edition. Pp. Native Races And Their Rulers : Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria. By C. L. Temple, C.M.G., F.R.G.S., late Lieut.-Governor, Nórthern Provinces, Nigeria. Pp. The Religion Of A Doctor. By T. Bodley Scott. Pp. Psychic Science : An Introduction and Contribution to the Experimental Study of Psychical Phenomena. By Emile Boirac, Rector of the Dijon Academy. Translated by Dudley Wright. Pp. The A B C OF Exhibit Planning. By Evart G. Routzahn and Mary Swain Routzahn. Pp. The Romance of the Red Triangle. By Sir Arthur K. Yapp, K.B.E. Pp. Fishermen In War Time. By Walter Wood. Author of “Men of the North Sea,” etc. Pp. Volume17, Issue2October 1919Pages 48-56 RelatedInformation

Native Races and Their Rulers. Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria

Native Races and Their Rulers. Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria

Reviews of Books

Book reviewed in this article:THE MESSAGE OF HUDSON TAYLOR'S LIFE: Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission. The Growth of a Work of God. By Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor.CHINA AMONG THE NATIONS: The International Relations of the Chinese Empire. Vol. i. The Period of Conflict, 1834–1860. 727 pp. 20s. net. Vol. ii. The Period of Submission, 1861–1893. 479 pp. 25s. net. Vol. iii. The Period of Subjection, 1894–1911. 530 pp. 25s. net. By H. B. Morse, LL.D.PHONETICS AND LANGUAGE STUDY: The Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister to enquire into the Position of Modern Languages in the Educational System of Great Britain.NATIVE RACES AND THEIR RULERS: Native Races and their Rulers. By C. L. Temple.SOME BUDDHIST PROSE AND VERSE: The Book of the Kindred Sayings (Sanyutta‐Nikāya); or Grouped Suttas. Part I. Kindred Sayings with Verses. Translated by Mrs Rhys DavidsTHIRTY YEARS IN TROPICAL AUSTRALIA: Thirty Years in Tropical Australia. By the Right Rev. Gilbert White, D.D.NEW ENGLAND AND HAWAII: The Pilgrims of Hawaii. By Orramel Hinckley Gulick and his Wife.CO‐OPERATION IN CONGO MISSIONS: Congo Missionary Conference.WOMEN WORKERS OF THE ORIENT: Women Workers of the Orient. By Margaret E. Burton.THE MISSIONARY STUDY OF THE BIBLE: The Gospel of the Kingdom. An Outline for Missionary Study of the Bible. By Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Bishop of Pennsylvania.

Native Races and their Rulers

Native Races and their Rulers

German Colonies: A Plea for the Native Races

German Colonies: A Plea for the Native Races

The Royal Society's Conversazione

A LARGE company assembled in the rooms of the Royal Society at Burlington House on Wednesday, May 12, on the occasion of the first of the two conversaziones given annually by the society. The visitors were received by the president, Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., and great interest was shown in the exhibits of apparatus and results of recent scientific investigations. During the evening short demonstrations were given by Dr. A. E. H. Tutton, F.R.S., and Dr. Hans Gadow, F.R.S. Dr. Tutton's subject was crystals and colour: the revelation of crystal structure by polarised light. He gave a demonstration of the use of a new form of lantern polariscope to illustrate recent progress in knowledge of the internal structure of crystals. Magnificent colours were projected upon the lantern screen, though no coloured materials whatever were used to produce them, all the crystals employed being colourless. A new method of performing the Mitscherlich experiment with gypsum, without any extraneous heating of the crystal, was also shown. Dr. Gadow gave an account of the fauna, flora, and native races of Mexico.

Physiological and Medical Observations among the Indians of South-western United States and Northern Mexico

THIS publication is a bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution), and comprises the result of observations among a large number of Indian tribes. It will prove a mine of useful information to those interested in anthropology, but, like the publications of most Government institutions, is hardly written in a manner to make it interesting to the general reader. It contains, for instance, nearly 200 pages of statistical tables. Its title—physiological and medical observations—is justified because the data collected include what is so often missing in books on ethnology, details not only of size, stature, date of puberty, rate of pulse, muscular development, and so forth, but also statistics relating to prevalent diseases and native methods of treatment. Not the least attractive feature of the work is a series of twenty-eight beautiful plates, which illustrate the physiognomy and dwellings of the native races, as well as other points interesting to those who study folk-lore.

New Lights on the Anthropology of California

THE anthropological department of the University of California, thanks to Mrs. Hearst's munificent endowment, is able to issue a further series of studies on the native races of that State. The most voluminous contribution is that of Mr. S. A. Barrett on the “Ethno-geography of the Porno and Neighbouring Indians,” a group of tribes numbering at present about 1000 souls, and occupying the region known to geographers as the Coast Range Mountains immediately north of San Francisco Bay, and running eastward to the Sacramento River. These people are now partially civilised, and support themselves by farming and labour. But sufficient is known of their primitive condition to show that they had no totemic clans or groups, and that their tribal organisation was weak, there being no chief in the commonly accepted sense of the term. There was a sort of council of minor chiefs presided over by a chief captain, whose authority was strictly limited, and who was elected by the community. The inferior chiefs, on the other hand, held their offices by hereditary right, and the succession passed from one incumbent to the family of that sister who was nearest to him in age, kinship and descent being in the female line.

The Moral Development of the Native Races in South Africa

The Moral Development of the Native Races in South Africa