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tribes, are those by Dudley Kidd, Willoughby, and Dora Earthy. 

 German missionary work in this field is prominently represented 

 by A. W. Spieth in Togoland, B. Gutmann in Tanganyika, and 

 Father Siebert in the Belgian Congo. An important contribution 

 by a Swiss missionary on Portuguese East Africa is H. Junod's Life 

 of a South African Tribe. 



Among universities as centres for research and training in anthro- 

 pology, the three most important in England are Oxford, Cambridge, 

 and London. In South Africa, the leading university centres are 

 Capetown and the Witwatersrand. The Oxford and Cambridge an- 

 thropological departments provide the training for all the colonial 

 administrative probationers. Dr. R. R. Marett at Oxford, now 

 succeeded by Professor A. R. Radcliffe-Brown-, inspired several of 

 the best known anthropologists of to-day to turn to the subject; at 

 .Cambridge the African teaching is mainly in the hands of J. H. 

 Driberg. The London School of Economics is one of the leading 

 headquarters to-day for training specialists for research in the field, 

 and the outstanding teachers concerned have been Professor Selig- 

 man, whose monumental work in the Sudan has already been 

 mentioned, and in more recent years, Professor B. Malinowski, 

 whose emphasis on the functional as opposed to the structural 

 aspect of the science has had a profound influence on the present 

 generation of research workers and the relation between anthro- 

 pology and administration. Malinowski's own contributions to 

 research have been concerned with peoples outside Africa, but his 

 views on the place that should be taken by anthropology in the 

 African field are set down in several articles, especially those in 

 Africa (1929 and 1930). The anthropological department at 

 Capetown is under Professor L Schapera, who has studied the 

 Southern Bantu; at the University of the Witwatersrand, the 

 department is in charge of Dr. Audrey Richards, who has worked 

 extensively in Northern Rhodesia and who, in 1937, succeeded 

 Mrs. Hoernle, well known for her researches on the Hottentots. 



The International Institute of African Languages and Cultures 

 in London, working in conjunction with the London School of 

 Economics as a training centre, has been developed largely by 

 means of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and since 1931 

 has been able to carry out a considerable programme of anthro- 



