Word: nonspecialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contradictions in Henry's character so much as to make them comprehensible, balancing them against each other and putting them in their complex historical perspectives. This sounds unexciting-and it is. Scarisbrick's study is no swashbuckler, but a sober, patient amassing of significant details. For the nonspecialist it becomes tedious at times, as when Scarisbrick expounds canon law or traces a dense web of diplomatic maneuvering; but in the end it adds up to a monumental mosaic that has all the quiet authority of first-rate scholarship...
...more than six years, lived among the many tribes of Kenya. In hundreds of her paintings and photographs, she presents the people and their customs. Many of the ceremonies-for example, circumcision rites-have never before been observed by a white witness, and anthropologists as well as the nonspecialist reader will find much that is unusual. Among other things, the Adamson enterprise is sure to lead to some fresh thinking about the African future and the inevitable clash between Westernization and tribal contentment...