A physician and psychotherapist, W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922) was also interested in anthropology. In 1901-2 he studied the genealogies and customs of the Todas, inhabitants of a high plateau in south-west India. This illustrated book, published in 1906, was regarded as a standard ethnography for half a century.
This illustrated book, published in 1906, was long regarded as a standard ethnography on a people in south-west India.
