The golden age of American anthropology
By: selected and edited with introd. and notes by Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Bunzel.
Contributors: Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898- joint ed.
Publisher: G. Braziller
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
Subjects: Indians of North America; Anthropology
Description: Part I of this book is devoted to the explorers and conquistadors, the wonders and horrors of the first encounters, the great civilization of the Aztecs laid in ruins, and the strangeness of the simpler Indians to the north. In Part II are accounts by those who had to deal with the Indians as traders or missionaries, statesmen or soldiers, and who struggled with problems of culture difference and the meaning of race. Part III takes up the task of rescuing records. The contribution of this period was a series of volumes in which an infinite wealth of strange detail found publication. In Part IV, we show how the organization of voluntary effort shaped the future development of American anthropology. Part V includes the writers who laid the groundwork of anthropological theory.