PSYCHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE
Methuen, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 275pp., + 31 ads. 12mo, sewn binding in burgundy cloth, gilt stamped spine lettering and blind stamped title to front cover. Spine toned and dulled, a bit foxed and thumbed, bit of marginal penciling but sound and mostly unmarked. 'In a series of essays and addresses on various ethnological subjects, this book presents a variety of appeals to the psychologist for the employment of his methods in a new and fertile field. Dr. Marett initiates the appeal by urging a more inclusive training for the field worker in anthropology. Folk-lore is not merely a set of fossilized customs; it is a living force. To interpret the dance, the drama, the song accurately the anthropologist must himself acquire the emotion by actual participation--the doing to become the knowing.' (A. L. Gould, review in The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology, 1921). GOOD. Item #514189
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