Anthropology and modern life / by Franz Boas.

  • Franz Boas
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[1929]
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Credit: Anthropology and modern life / by Franz Boas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents CHAPTER I. WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? .... Anthropology treats of man as a member of a social group—-Pure and applied anthropology. II. THE PROBLEM OF RACE . . . signifi. cance of the term “Race”—Overlapping of racial types—Subjective existence of types—Racial hered- ity and family lines—^Inbred and heterogeneous types—Functional differences between individuals of the same bodily form—Environmental influences upon bodily form—Races considered from an evolu- _ tionary 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 heredi- tary and environmental conditions—Significance of intelligence tests—^Tests of Amjeriqan Negroes— Relative importance of cultural experience and racial descent—^Racial descent disregarded by eth- nologists. III. THE INTERRELATION OF RACES . . Race consciousness—Open and closed societies—^Race a type of closed society—Intermingling of races— Conditions under which race antipathies break down. IV. NATIONALISM . . Confusion between the terms “Race” and “Nationality’—Mixed descent of European nations—Language as basis of national groupings — Culture and political organization as basis of nationality—Fictitious groupings based on distant relation of speech—Increase in size of po- V PAGE II i8 6a 78
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