The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, ‘clinetship’, messianic movent, witchcraft, and ‘rece, tribalism and nationalism’.rn‘One hardly needs to say that Professor Mair’s writing shows at once clarity and elegance of presentation, combined with knowledge of the problems, and an impeccable grasp of both their theoretical and admisntrative implications, which makes all her work significant. It is especially important for the many university departments which now teach anthropology to students for other reasons than to make them into new little anthropologists’.rnRosemary Firth in Man