Race, language and culture

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Race, language and culture / Franz Boas.

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 (Author).

Summary:

Early history of man and its effect on our current problems.

Record details

Physical Description: xx, 647 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Free Press, 1966, ©1940.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: [1.] Race: Race and progress -- Modern populations of America -- Report on an anthropometric investigation of the population of the United States -- Changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants -- New evidence in regard to the instability of human types -- Influence of heredity and environment upon growth -- The tempo of growth of fraternities -- Conditions controlling the tempo of development and decay -- Remarks on the anthropological study of children -- Growth, revised and condensed) -- Statistical study of anthropometry -- The half-blood Indian -- Review of Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, "Anthropologische studien ueber die ureinwohner brasiliens" -- Review of William Z. Ripley, "The races of Europe" -- Review of Roland B. Dixon, "The racial history of man" -- Some recent criticism of physical anthropology -- The relations between physical and social anthropology -- The analysis of anthropometrical series -- The measurement of differences between variable quantities -- Race and character -- [2.] Language: Introduction to International journal of American linguistics -- The classification of American languages -- Classification of American Indian languages -- Some traits of the Dakota language -- Metaphorical expression in the language of the Kwakiutl Indians -- [3.] Culture: The aims of anthropological research -- Some problems of methodology in the social sciences -- The limitations of the comparative method of anthropology -- The methods of ethnology -- Evolution or diffusion -- Review of Graebner, "Methode der ethnologie" -- History and science in anthropology: a reply -- The ethnological significance of esoteric doctrines -- The origin of totemism -- The history of the American race -- Ethnological problems in Canada -- Relationships between north-west America and north-east Asia -- The social organization of the Kwakiutl -- The social organization of the tribes of the North Pacific coast -- The growth of the secret societies of the Kwakiutl -- The relationship system of the Vandau -- The development of folk-tales and myths -- Introduction to James Teit, "The traditions of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia" -- The growth of Indian mythologies -- Dissemination of tales among the natives of North America -- Review of G.W. Locher, "The serpent in Kwakiutl religion: a study in primitive culture" -- Mythology and folk-tales of the North American Indians -- Stylistic aspects of primitive literature -- The folk-lore of the Eskimo -- Romance folk-lore among American Indians -- Some problems in North American archaeology -- Archaeological investigations in the Valley of Mexico by the International School, 1911-12 -- Representative art of primitive people -- Review of Maccurdy, "Study of Chiriquian antiquities" -- The decorative art of the North American Indians -- Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U.S. National Museum -- The relationships of the Eskimo of East Greenland -- The idea of the future life among primitive tribes -- The concept of soul among the Vandau -- Religious terminology of the Kwakiutl -- [4.] Miscellaneous: Advances in methods of teaching -- The aims of ethnology -- The study of geography.