Africa Dances: A Book About West African Negroes

1935. In 1934, Geoffrey Gorer wrote confidently that The West African Negro... is (more than anything else) the man who expresses every emotion with rhythmical bodily movement. Ten years after its publication, Gorer admitted that rereading his anthropological survey of West Africa, Africa Dances, was a chastening and, in some ways, humiliating experience. But, although his methodology is now outdated, cultural and racial generalizations such as this paved the way for modern-day anthropology.