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FANDANGO-Robed Briffault-Scribner's ($2.50). Because a few years ago many reviewers would not call a rotten book rotten-or couldn't get the scent-if its politics were Left, Anthropologist Robert Briffault developed an extraordinary reputation through his first novel, Europa, scarcely diminished it with Europa in Limbo. Robert Forsythe wrote of him, in New Masses: "I not only consider him the most brilliant writer in the English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious...
Year and a half ago a Royal Commission headed by Anthropologist Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, left England for the West Indies to find out what was wrong with that restless segment of Empire. In Jamaica the Commission got its first smell of economic and physical deterioration. That sunny island, whose white 2% of the population (largely descendants of "lazy and immoral" Irish girls, "Scotch rogues and vagabonds" sent there by Oliver Cromwell) rules its black 98% (descendants of West African slaves), was in such a state that the two female members of the Commission pressed handkerchiefs to their noses...
Harvard's ace anthropologist, Earnest Albert Hooton, summed it up this way: "Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has stood like Horatius at the land bridge between Asia and North America, mowing down with deadly precision all would-be geologically ancient invaders of the New World...
...Robert Redfield, dean of U. of C.'s Division of Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who had the pleasure of discovering, in 1937, a town in Guatemala whose inhabitants had never heard of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Wallis Warfield Windsor, the Dionne Quintuplets. Last week Dr. Redfield declared that the big city pattern, to be thoroughly understood, should be studied in the light of its opposite pole-the primitive tribe-and of intermediate societies such as peasants. Peasants may seem to be primitive in their simple, stable way of life but they have definite urban connections if they...
...Anthropologist Embree does not speculate on the future of Suye Mura or the Empire in general. But his book offers good evidence that it will take many a long year to Westernize the Japanese peasant...