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Anthropology and Modern Life

by: Boas, Franz

Anthropology and Modern Life

by: Boas, Franz

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9780486252452
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0486252450
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/01/1987
Publisher: Dover Publications

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The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.

Transaction Introduction	p. ix
Preface	p. 7
What is Anthropology?	p. 11
Anthropology treats of man as a member of a racial or social group
Pure and applied anthropology
The Problem of Race	p. 18
Significance of the term "Race"
Overlapping of racial types
Subjective existence of types
Racial heredity and family lines
Inbred and heterogeneous types
Attempts to determine constituent races of a population
Selection
Genetic differences between individuals of the same bodily form
Environmental influences upon bodily form
Summary
Races considered from an evolutionary viewpoint
Relation between the size of the brain and intelligence
Man as a domesticated form
Physiological and mental differences between races
Difficulty of distinguishing between hereditary and environmental conditions
Significance of intelligence tests
Tests of American Negroes
Relative importance of cultural experience and racial descent
Racial descent disregarded by ethnologists
The Interrelation of Races	p. 63
Race consciousness
Open and closed societies
Race a type of closed society
Intermingling of races
Conditions under which race antipathies break down
Nationalism	p. 81
Confusion between the terms "Race" and "Nationality"
Racial segregation within a nation
Mixed descent of European nations
Language as basis of national groupings
Nationality, political and cultural
Culture and political organization as basis of nationality
Fictitious groupings based on distant relation of speech
History of nationalism
Increase in size of political units
Early development of tribal units
The function of nationalism
Eugenics	p. 106
Effects of selection
Effect of environment and heredity
General degeneracy
Selection for development of specific qualities
Social effects of eugenic legislation
Elimination of the unfit
Dangers of eugenic procedure
Criminology	p. 122
Criminals as a class
Criminals as defectives
Social conditions and crime
Relative importance of hereditary and environmental factors
Stability of Culture	p. 132
Acceleration of cultural development
Periodicity of the rate of change
Automatic habits
Negative effect of automatism
Intolerance
Causes of conformity
Relation between material inventions and automatic habits
The relation between language and thought
Effect of uniformity of culture
The influence of individuals upon culture
Actions are more stable than their interpretations
Stability of patterns of thought
Education	p. 168
Phenomena of growth and development
Influence of heredity
Retardation and acceleration
Comparison of sexes
Application of generalized observations to the establishment of educational standards
Racial characteristics
Generalized standards are not applicable to individuals
Cases in which standards are applicable
Prediction of individual development
Cultural effects of education
Effect of education upon mental freedom
Conflicts in educational aims
Effect of education upon crises in the life of the individual
The cultural outlook of classes
Cultural outlook of educated class
Cultural outlook of the masses
Modern Life and Primitive Culture	p. 202
Valuation of different cultural aims
Objective study must be based on different cultures
Anthropology an historic science
Primitive cultures as historic growths
General social laws
Prediction of development of culture impossible
Progress in inventions and knowledge
Effect of leisure
Stability of moral ideas
Progress in ethical behavior
Self-perfection
Progress in social organization
Leadership
Position of women
Marriage
Property
Georgraphic determinism
Economic determinism
Is the direction of cultural development predetermined?
Culture not superorganic
Afterword	p. 247
References	p. 325
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Anthropology and Modern Life

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