ABSTRACT
The primary work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute is sociological research, and that work is about to expand under a grant from the Colonial Development Fund. I consider therefore that in this first issue of our journal addressed to the citizens of British Central Africa, I may well explain what social anthropology is, what are its difficulties, limitations and achievements, and what its researches contribute to an understanding of human problems.
From Journal of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1 (1944): 22–43. Copyright © 1944 by the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher. Max Gluck-man is professor of Social Anthropology. Manchester University.
