Race, culture, and evolution
Subtitle: essays in the history of anthropology : with a new preface
By: George W. Stocking, Jr.
Edition: Phoenix ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Anthropology -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint. Originally published : New York : Free Press, c1968.
Table of contents: title: On the limits of "presentism" and "historicism" in the historiography of the behavioral sciences; title: French anthropology in 1800; title: The persistence of polygenist thought in post-Darwinian anthropology; title: Matthew Arnold, E.B. Tylor, and the uses of invention; title: "Cultural Darwinism" and "philosophical idealism" in E.B. Tylor; title: The dark-skinned savage, the image of primitive man in evolutionary anthropology; title: From physics to ethnology; title: The critique of racial formalism; title: Franz Boas and the culture concept in historical perspective; title: Lamarckianism in American social science, 1890-1915; title: The scientific reaction against cultural anthropology, 1917-1920.