Review of The Psychology of a Primitive People. A Study of the Australian Aborigine

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Psychology of a Primitive People. A Study of the Australian Aborigine by Stanley D. Porteus (1931). This latest work of Mr. Porteus' is concerned with the Australian aborigines who are generally considered the most primitive of the genus Homo. With this tradition the author does not agree and he offers cogent arguments in the first two sections of the book to prove his contention. A report of a testing program does not add to the coherence of the whole book nor to the author's thesis as earlier presented. It would probably have appeared to much greater advantage as a separate monograph without the many pages of justifying argument. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)