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Race, culture, and evolution : essays in the history of anthropology : with a new preface / George W. Stocking, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1968.Edition: Phoenix edDescription: xxviii, 380 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0226774945
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • GN 17.S77 1982 19
LOC classification:
  • GN17 .S77 1982
Contents:
On the limits of "presentism" and "historicism" in the historiography of the behavioral sciences -- French anthropology in 1800 -- The persistence of polygenist thought in post-Darwinian anthropology -- Matthew Arnold, E.B. Tylor, and the uses of invention -- "Cultural Darwinism" and "philosophical idealism" in E.B. Tylor -- The dark-skinned savage, the image of primitive man in evolutionary anthropology -- From physics to ethnology -- The critique of racial formalism -- Franz Boas and the culture concept in historical perspective -- Lamarckianism in American social science, 1890-1915 -- The scientific reaction against cultural anthropology, 1917-1920.
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GN 17 .E9 1981 A history of anthropological thought / GN 17.L36 1974 The study of culture GN 17.L36 2005 The study of culture / GN 17.S77 1982 Race, culture, and evolution : GN 17.V63 1975 A history of ethnology / GN 17.3 .A352F33 2000 Out of our minds : GN 21.A746 A75 2010 Drinking the wind /

Reprint. Originally published : New York : Free Press, c1968.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the limits of "presentism" and "historicism" in the historiography of the behavioral sciences -- French anthropology in 1800 -- The persistence of polygenist thought in post-Darwinian anthropology -- Matthew Arnold, E.B. Tylor, and the uses of invention -- "Cultural Darwinism" and "philosophical idealism" in E.B. Tylor -- The dark-skinned savage, the image of primitive man in evolutionary anthropology -- From physics to ethnology -- The critique of racial formalism -- Franz Boas and the culture concept in historical perspective -- Lamarckianism in American social science, 1890-1915 -- The scientific reaction against cultural anthropology, 1917-1920.

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