Brown, R. W. (1955). Review of Language in culture. [Review of the book Language in culture. H. Harry]. Psychological Bulletin, 52(4), 359-360.
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Reviews the book, Language in culture edited by Harry Hoijer (see record 1955-05628-000). This book makes an interesting proposal for comparing general cultural similarities with linguistic affiliations among the Navaho, Hopi, and other American Indians. Hoijer has condensed and edited some 919 pages of typescript to obtain the 150 pages of discussion that appear in the book. These discussions read smoothly and are generally intelligible. However, the transcribed dialogue of ideas never has the sustained direction and thoughtfulness of a literary construction. The unfortunate fact is that not even every other idea expressed in a conference is worth recording. As a result, this book makes an extremely uneconomical presentation of a small number of good ideas. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)