Frontiers of anthropology
By: Edited, with an introd. and notes, by Ashley Montagu.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 617
Subjects: Anthropology -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 597-617.
Table of contents: title: Columbus “discovers” America and is enthusiastic about the American Indian -- The ancient Greeks do not recognize “race,” and, indeed, deny it -- Herodotus: the “father” of anthropology -- Benjamin Franklin on the American Indian, 1784 -- Samuel Stanhope Smith, the first American anthropologist on the causes of the variety of the human species -- Charles Darwin on the origin of species -- Darwin carefully explains what he means by the phrase “the struggle for existence”  -- Paul du Chaillu and the rediscovery of the (“ferocious”) gorilla -- Charles Darwin on the descent of man -- Charles Darwin on the expression of the emotions -- The great debate between science and religion as to man’s place in nature -- Thomas Henry Huxley’s evidence as to man’s place in nature, 1863 -- James hunt and the Negro’s place in nature -- Bishop Codrington on mana -- Ignorance of physiological paternity -- Lewis Henry Morgan and Charles Martin on the American Indian -- Anthropology into literature, Sir James Frazer -- Arnold van Gennep on the rites of passage -- Franz Boas demonstrates the plasticity of human traits -- Alfred Kroeber on the superorganic -- What informed speculation can do / Carveth Read -- W. H. R. Rivers on “the giving-up” syndrome -- Karl Pearson on the alien Jewish population of London -- Karl Pearson soliloquizes as scientist and socialist on the fate of “superannuated races” -- The idea that war is natural anatomized and decently interred -- William Ernest Castle on race and half-castes -- The racists, eugenists, and hereditarians anatomized --  The solution of the problem of the infertility of the unmarried in nonliterate societies -- Malinowski on method and functionalism -- Ruth Benedict on the individual and culture -- Cashiering the idea of race -- The concept of “race” is challenged -- A physiologist explains the mechanism of “voodoo” death -- Why the mental capacities of the various ethnic groups of mankind are probably pretty much of a muchness -- Leslie White on the concept of culture -- The new physical anthropology.