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Among books on special subjects may be mentioned those on 

 modern sculpture by Georges Hardy (1927) and a general work 

 on art in West Africa by Sir Michael Sadler (1935). Music has 

 been studied by E. M. von Hornbostel (1933), while Bantu folk- 

 lore has been described by Dr. Alice Werner (1933) and the legends 

 of other peoples have been included in many of the books already 

 cited. Willoughby (1928) and Sir James Frazer in his GifFord 

 Lectures (1926) have written on religion, and Driberg (1935) has 

 studied the African conception of law. In addition to the works 

 mentioned above there are, of course, many valuable articles on 

 social anthropology scattered through the pages of scientific and 

 other journals, notably the J. R. anthrop. Inst., Man, Africa, the 

 J. Afr. Soc, Lond., Sudan Motes and Records, the Uganda J. and the 

 Bull. Com. A.O.F. 



This review of the existing literature serves to show how much 

 work remains to be done. Edwin Smith suggests that the most 

 pressing requirements are: (i) A handbook of tribes for the whole 

 continent, which would presumably be somewhat on the lines of 

 Torday's work (1930), but on a less ambitious scale. The Inter- 

 national Institute of African Languages and Cultures undertook to 

 prepare such a book, but the enterprise was given up. (2) A series 

 of synthetic and critical studies on a regional basis, collecting all 

 available information and supplementing the handbook. These 

 would include the material stored up in the books of Government 

 officers as well as that in various periodicals. An example of such a 

 volume is Schapera's Khoisan peoples of South Africa (1930). (3) 

 Additional comprehensive studies on individual tribes, including 

 ethnographical accounts of family life, education and agriculture 

 (4) Further research on African cultures as they are to-day, in a 

 state of transition, taking full account of the degree of disintegra- 

 tion or reintegration of culture, economic and ethical systems, agri- 

 culture, etc., which has resulted from European influence. Of 

 these desiderata, perhaps most emphasis may be laid on the last. 



