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LOWIE, ROBERT H. Indians of the Plains. (Anthropological Handbook Number One.) Pp. xiii, 222. New York: Mc- Graw-Hill Company (for the American Museum of Natural History), 1954.

PALMER, GLADYS L., with the assistance of CAROL P. BRAINERD. Labor Mobility in Six Cities: A Report on the Survey of Patterns and Factors in Labor Mobility, 1940-1950. Pp. xiv, 177. New York: Social Science Research Council, 1954.

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TAX, SOL, and members of the Viking Fund Seminar on Middle American Ethnology. Heritage of Conquest: The Ethnology of Middle America. Pp. 312. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1952.

2.25 paper. Labor Mobility in Six Cities is a product of exceptional collaboration even in this era of co-operative institutional resea.rch. The Social Science Research Council is of course itself an outstanding example of voluntary co-ordination for stimulating research. The work was sponsored financially by the Air Force. The ten-year work histories comprising the source data were collected by the Bureau of the Census. The planning and management of the survey were handled by a technical subcommittee, under the chairmanship of Gladys L. Palmer, for the Council’s Committee on Labor Market Research in co-operation with seven university research centers and the Office of Statistical Standards. The volume lists numerous preliminary reports too bulky for general publication but designed to meet the immediate interests or needs of agencies concerned with

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a discriminating perception of differences among those problems, a mature understanding of the need for greater knowledge and for patience, a recognition of pertinent resources of the church as well as recognition of the appropriate resources of other institutions and groups in meeting these problems. The position of voluntary individual abstinence is urged on grounds of prudence for the self and, more importantly, of responsible care for others in the Christian community-others who may be hurt by the example set by moderate drinkers.

KLUCKHOHN, CLYDE, and DOROTHEA LEIGHTON. The Navaho. Pp. xx, 258. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946.

at least, not to hinder him in his arduous tasks.&dquo; But these forces are not considered good or evil in themselves. The universe &dquo;is permeated by power which is helpful or destructive according to the medium through which it passes.&dquo; Thus there is not only reverence for, but fear of, power. On the one hand, communal ceremonies were practiced to bring rain and therefore food, while on the other, vision experiences enabled individuals to secure power. Many Indian groups are characterized by one of these patterns or the other; Papago religion is characterized by both. The major part of the book is devoted to a description of these two types of ceremonies. Another section discusses shamanism and healers other than the shaman, and there is a final chapter devoted to acculturation.