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...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...
...most of them boggled over those last 50 pages. "Difficult to swallow," said London's Sunday Times. "Too openly schematic," said the critic of The Listener. Said the critic of the New Statesman and Nation: "This, it might seem, is the last book by Graham Greene which a nonspecialist [in religion] will be able to review...
...Scrap dealers consider it an insult to be called junkmen, have their own national trade body, the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc. Nonspecialist dealers who are equally touchy are organized in the National Association of Waste Materials Dealers...