Anthropology and human nature.
Series: An Extending horizons book
Publisher: P. Sargent
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: h
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Anthropology
Table of contents: title: Why anthropology. Why anthropology -- Man and human nature. The young of human kind -- Man - and human nature -- Time-binding and the concept of culture -- Morals and moralisms -- Race. A consideration of the concept of race -- Some psychodynamic factors in race prejudice -- Natural selection and the mental capacities of mankind -- Anthropology and medicine. Anthropology and medicine -- Contributions of anthropology to psychosomatic medicine -- Sexual development and sex beliefs. Infertility of the unmarried in primitive societies -- The existence of a sterile phase in female adolescence -- The origin of subincision in Australia -- Physiology and the origins of the menstrual prohibitions -- Psychobiological development. The mind of the skin -- Constitutional and prenatal factors in infant and child health -- Wolf-children and feral man -- The biologist looks at crime -- Crime. Crime and the anthropologist -- Primitive medicine. Primitive medicine -- The evolution of man and mind. Time, morphology, and neotony in the evolution of man -- Neotony and the evolution of the human mind -- Appendix.