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• Physical Description: x, 930 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Evanston, Ill., Row, Peterson [1960]

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The beginnings of anthropology in America / A. Irving Hallowell -- I. The development of anthropology. The nomenclature and teaching of anthropology / Daniel G. Brinton and comment by J.W. Powell (vol. V, 1892, 263-271) -- The World's Fair Congress of Anthropology / W.H. Holmes (vol. VI, 1893, 423-434) -- Recent progress in American anthropology (v. 8, 1906, 441-444) -- Obituary of John Wesley Powell (vol. 4, 1902, 564-565) -- Obituary of Frederic Ward Putnam / A.L. Kroeber (vol. 17, 1915, 712-718) -- II. American Indian origins. The views of Alfred R. Wallace on the antiquity of man in North America (vol. I, 1888, 182-183) -- Stone art in America / J.W. Powell (vol. VIII, 1895, 1-7) -- Symposium on the problems of the unity or plurality and the probable place of origin of the American aborigines (vol. 14, 1912, 1-59) -- III. American archeology. The prehistoric culture of Tusayan / J. Walter Fewkes (vol. IX, 1896, 151-173) -- A revival of ancient Hopi pottery art / Walter Hough (vol. 19, 322-323) -- Some aspects of North American archeology / Roland B. Dixon, including the discussion of The relation of archeology to ethnology / W.H. Holmes, George Grant MacCurdy, Berthold Laufer (vol. 15, 1913, 549-577) -- Chronology of the Tano ruins, New Mexico / N.C. Nelson (vol. 18, 1916, 159-180) -- IV. Physical anthropology. Physical anthropology in America / Aleš Hrdlička (vol. 16, 1914, 508-554) -- Dermal topography (correspondence between Francis Galton and Otis T. Mason) (vol. I, 1888, 171) -- Physical characteristics of the Indians of the North Pacific coast / Franz Boas (vol. IV, 1891, 25-32) -- Aboriginal trephining in Bolivia / Adolph F. Bandelier (vol. 6, 1904, 440-446) -- Note on the molar teeth of the Piltdown mandible / William K. Gregory (vol. 18, 1916, 384-387) -- V. Language. The present condition of our knowledge of North American languages / Pliny Earl Goddard (vol. 16, 1914, 555-561 and 593-601) -- On alternating sounds / Franz Boas (vol. II, 1889, 47-53) -- Preliminary report on the language and mythology of the Upper Chinook / Edward Sapir (vol. 9, 1907, 553-544) -- Numeral systems of the languages of California / Roland B. Dixon and A.L. Kroeber (vol. 9, 1907, 663-672) -- Language and environment / Edward Sapir (vol. 14, 1912, 226-242) -- VI. Ethnology. Ethnographic sketches. -- The Navajo / A.M. Stephen (vol. VI, 1893, 345-362) -- The Chukchi of northeastern Asia / Waldemar Bogoras (vol. 3, 1901, 80-108) -- Preliminary sketch of the Mohave Indians / A.L. Kroeber (vol. 4, 1902, 276-285) -- Notes on the Indians of Maryland, 1705-1706 / D.I. Bushnell, Jr. (vol. 15, 1913, 535-536) -- Art and technology. On the evolution of ornament : an American lesson / W.H. Holmes (vol. III, 1890, 137-146) -- Primitive copper working : an experimental study / Frank Hamilton Cushing (vol. VII, 1894, 93-117) -- The technic of aboriginal American basketry / Otis T. Mason (vol. 3, 1901, 109-128) -- Society and social life. The development of the clan system and of secret societies among the northwestern tribes / John R. Swanton (vol. 6, 1904, 477-485) -- The social organization of American tribes / John R. Swanton (vol. 7, 1905, 663-673) -- The family hunting band as the basis of Algonkian social organization / Frank G. Speck (vol. 17, 1915, 289-305) -- Family and sib / Robert H. Lowrie (vol. 21, 1919, 28-40) -- The Zuñi a d́oshlĕ and suukĕ / Elsie Clews Parsons (vol. 18, 1916, 338-347) -- War. Coup and scalp among the Plains Indians / George Bird Grinnell (vol. 12, 1910, 296-310) -- Review of Georg Friederici: Skalpieren und ähnliche Kriegsgebräuche in Amerika / James Mooney (vol. 9, 1907, 185-187) -- Ceremonialism and religion. Orenda and a definition of religion / J.N.B. Hewitt (vol. 4, 1902, 33-46) -- Ceremonialism in North America / Robert H. Lowrie (vol. 16, 1914, 602-631) -- Review of Emile Durkheim: Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse / A.A. Goldenweiser (vol. 17, 1915, 719-735) -- SBeTeTDA Q́, a shamanistic performance of the Coast Salish / Herman K. Haeberlin (vol. 20, 1918, 249-257) -- Legend and myth. The mythology of the Koryak / Waldemar Jochelsen (vol. 6, 1904, 413-425) -- Native account of the meeting between La Perouse and the Tlingit / G.T. Emmons (vol. 13, 1911, 294-298) -- Review of Franz Boas: Tsmishian mythology / C.M. Barbeau (vol. 19, 1917, 548-563) -- VII. Method and theory of ethnology. Piratical acculturation / W J McGee (vol. 16, 1914, 447-505) -- Material cultures of the North American Indians / Clark Wissler (vol. 16, 1914, 447-505) -- Review of Clark Wissler: The American Indian / A.L. Kroeber (vol. 20, 1818, 203-209) -- Review of Robert H. Lowrie: Primitive society / by A.L. Kroeber (vol. 22, 1920, 377-381) -- The methods of ethnology / Franz Boas (vol. 22, 1920, 311-321) -- Selected bibliography on the history of anthropology in America -- Portraits of contributors to the American anthropologist -- Index of authors and titles.

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