Commonwealth of Nations

• DOI: 10.1177/000271625630400154
• Date: 01 March 1956
• Published date: 01 March 1956
• Subject Matter: Articles

174

vidual.

Education

and

Anthro pology

rep-

resents

an

attempt

to

examine

the

above

areas

of

common

concern

as

well

as

such

related

topics

as

models

for

the

analysis

of

the

educative

process,

the

school

in

the

context

of

the

community,

conflicts

be-

tween

cultural

ideals

and

educational

ac-

tion,

problems

relating

to

intercultural

understanding,

contrasts

between

prepuber-

tal

and

postpubertal

education,

communi-

cation

theory

in

learning

situations,

and

the

relationships

between

anthropological

and

educational

theory.

This

book

is

the

report

of

papers

and

discussions

occasioned

by

a

conference

held

at

Stanford,

California

under

the

joint

aus-

pices

of

the

School

of

Education

and

the

Department

of

Sociology

and

Anthropol-

ogy,

Stanford

University,

and

the

Ameri-

can

Anthropological

Association.

In

this

conference

twenty-two

recognized

educators

and

anthropologists

met

for

six

days

to

exchange

ideas

and

opinions

for

the

mutual

benefit

of

the

two

fields.

An

especially

heartening

feature

of

this

book

is

the

realistic

approach

evidenced

by

the

various

conference

participants

on

the

contributions

each

discipline

could

make

to

the

other.

The

anthropologists

in

particu-

lar

were

quick

to

point

out

that

their

major

contribution

to

education

is

not

the

supply-

ing.

of

direct

answers

to

specific

questions,

but

rather

enabling

educators

to

obtain

newer

insights

through

the

use

of

methodo-

logical

tools

for

the

study

and

analysis

of

educational

and

cultural

processes.

Both

educators

and

anthropologists,

while

recog-

nizing

the

need

for

more

anthropological

knowledge

in

the

study

of

the

educational

process,

agreed

that

it

would

be

&dquo;dread-

fully

dangerous&dquo;

to

argue:

&dquo;there

was

a

psychological

phase

of

education;

now

there

should

be

the

anthropological&dquo;

(p.

277).

Dr.

Spindler

has

not

only

done

an

ad-

mirable

job

in

so

editing

the

book

as

to

retain

the

informal

&dquo;flavor&dquo;

of

the

con-

ference,

but

has

contributed

a

most

valu-

able

overview

which

summarizes

the

major

written

works

that

deal

with

the

relation-

ships

between

anthropology

and

education.

The

book

concludes

with

a

paper

by

Solon

T.

Kimball

on

the

Supreme

Court

desegre-

gation

decision

and

a

discussion

of

its

edu-

cational

consequences.

Authors

of

other

papers

presented

at

the

conference

are

I.

James

Quillen,

Bernard

J.

Siegal,

John

Gillin,

Cora

Du

Bois,

C.

W. M.

Hart,

Dorothy

Lee,

Jules

Henry,

and

Theodore

Brameld.

A

minor

criticism

that

the

reviewer

has

of

this

otherwise

excellent

compilation

is

the

apparent

reluctance

of

the

conference

participants

to

give

further

attention

to

the

relationships

between

education

and

that

part

of

the

field

of

sociology

that

is

closely

allied

to

social

and

cultural

anthropology.

Znaniecki,

for

example,

in

his

discussion

of

the

scientific

function

of

the

sociology

of

education

deals

with

a

remarkably

large

number

of

relationships

similar

to

those

found

in

this

book.

STANLEY

P.

WRONSKI

Boston

University

COMMONWEALTH

OF

NATIONS

LEWIS

BROAD.

Anthony

Eden:

The

Chron-

icle

of

a

Career.

Pp.

280.

New

York:

Thomas

Y.

Crowell

Company,

1955.

$5.00.

The

dust

cover

blurb

states

that

although

for

twenty-five

years

Sir

Anthony

Eden

has

loomed

large

in

foreign

affairs,

little

is

known

of

the

man

behind

the

elegantly

dressed

public

figure.

It

may

be

true,

but

this

book

makes

no

great

progress

toward

revealing

him.

It

is

a

readable

sketch

based

upon

slight

research;

the

bibliogra-

phy

consists

of

a

few

biographies,

personal

accounts,

and

Eden’s

own

published

speeches.

The

result

in

many

chapters

is

a

sketchy

narrative

in

which

Eden

appears

occasionally

by

name

and

in

a

few

quota-

tions.

Nowhere

are

there

signs

of

thorough

study

to

satisfy

the

serious

reader,

though

outlines

are

traced

for

a

popular

audience

who

likes

easy

sentences

and

short

para-

graphs.

The

point

of

view

is

that

of

an

admirer

of

the

Conservative

party

and

of

the

Prime

Minister.

The

authdr

likes

Eden

the

man,

the

idealist

who

supported

the

League

of

Nations,

the

skilled

diplomatist,

and

the

social

Conservative

whose

slogan

is

&dquo;a

property

owning

democracy.&dquo;

He

is

like-

wise

an

enthusiast

for

Stanley

Baldwin

as