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Book Reviews Bibliographie des Langues Aymard et KiEua Vol PAULRIVET and GEORGESDE CR QUI-MONTFO R ??Tr avaux et MCmoiresde ? Institut d ? Ethnologie ? Tome LI UniversitC de Paris pp This is the second volume of a thoroughly comprehensive bibliography of all source materials containing data on the following languages of the Andean area Pukina Mochica Aymara and Quechua The ?rst volume of this monumental work published in the same series in dealt chronologically with the period from the Spanish conquest to and contained some entries while this volume deals in the same manner with the period from to and contains entries Although the authors do not discuss such linguistic problems as the possible relationship among the languages considered they have nevertheless supplied excellent summaries of all sources and in a large number of instances the title pages of the original works are reproduced All in all this is a work of great patience diligence and scholarship the result of a devotion to a task for some forty years It is to be hoped that this excellent bibliography will spark new investigations on the many unsolved linguistic problems of the Andean area ALLANHOLMBERCGor ltell University OTHER Intelligeltce and Cultural Di ?erences KENNETHEELLS ALLISONDAVIS ROBERTJ HAVIGHURVSITR GILE HERRICKan d RALPHTYLERC hicago University of Chicago Press xii p t ables Studies by anthropologists involving both anthropological and psychological techniques have by and large been disappointing primarily it would seem because anthropologists are not willing to supplement or complement psychological techniques with their own but instead uncritically take over insu ?ciently validated psychological devices and apply them among primitive peoples where any attempt a t validation is hopeless The results obtained from this kind of practice are disappointing both for the anthropologist and the psychologist An examination of psychological literature will I believe demonstrate that the anthropological studies most useful to psychologists are those where the anthropologist has used his own techniques to test the hypotheses and assumptions used by psychologists The work of Malinowski and Margaret Mead may be cited in this connection I n using psychological implements in the ?eld anthropologists not only tend to accept the instruments blindly but fail to evaluate them in the light of that knowledge of human organization and behavior that they as anthropologists should possess Dennis Intelligence and Cultural Dijerences is an example of what can be done when anthropologists and psychologists cooperate It is a detailed report on the material summed up by Allison Davis in his Social Class In uences Upon Learning All but the ?rst pages or so were written by Eells The other authors provide brief chapters on the problem and its setting Virgil Herrick summarizes what was already known about the relation of the IQ to cultural background Robert Havighurst discusses what cultural di ?erences may a ?ect performance on intelligence tests Allison Davis discusses how cultural bias and intelligence tests arise and what the basic issues in the relation of intelligence tests to cultural background are Ralph Tyler

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