Spencer & Gillen

A journey through Aboriginal Australia

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Physical Description

09.12.1903. From B.S. (Melbourne) to J.G.F. More about the missing proof pages. Criticism of an article by Durkheim referred to in a footnote on one of the missing pages. Strong criticism of the work (in anthropology) of “semi-educated German Lutheran missionaries”. A paper by Strehlow only occupies 1½ pp. foolscap “but has more utter misleading nonsense packed into a small space than I recollect having come across before”. Lang has sent this paper to B.S. for perusal and comment before translation and appearance in “Folklore”. The fallacious idea of native belief in “a High God”.

Primary Comments

Correspondence with Sir James Frazer

Rights: Pitt Rivers Museum

Document Details

Document Details

Letter From
Sir, Spencer, Walter Baldwin
Letter To
Sir, Frazer, James George

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People

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Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
Registration
PRM5_61