Race, language and culture, Franz Boas

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Label

Race, language and culture, Franz Boas

Statement of responsibility

Franz Boas

Instantiates

• Race, language and culture

Publication

• New York, Free Press, 1966, ©1940

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• The tempo of growth of fraternities
• Conditions controlling the tempo of development and decay
• Remarks on the anthropological study of children
• Growth, revised and condensed)
• Statistical study of anthropometry
• The half-blood Indian
• Review of Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, "Anthropologische studien ueber die ureinwohner brasiliens"
• Review of William Z. Ripley, "The races of Europe"
• Review of Roland B. Dixon, "The racial history of man"
• Some recent criticism of physical anthropology
• [1.]
• The relations between physical and social anthropology
• The analysis of anthropometrical series
• The measurement of differences between variable quantities
• Race and character
• [2.]
• Language:
• Introduction to International journal of American linguistics
• The classification of American languages
• Classification of American Indian languages
• Some traits of the Dakota language
• Race:
• Metaphorical expression in the language of the Kwakiutl Indians
• [3.]
• Culture:
• The aims of anthropological research
• Some problems of methodology in the social sciences
• The limitations of the comparative method of anthropology
• The methods of ethnology
• Evolution or diffusion
• Review of Graebner, "Methode der ethnologie"
• History and science in anthropology: a reply
• Race and progress
• The ethnological significance of esoteric doctrines
• The origin of totemism
• The history of the American race
• Ethnological problems in Canada
• Relationships between north-west America and north-east Asia
• The social organization of the Kwakiutl
• The social organization of the tribes of the North Pacific coast
• The growth of the secret societies of the Kwakiutl
• The relationship system of the Vandau
• The development of folk-tales and myths
• Modern populations of America
• Introduction to James Teit, "The traditions of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia"
• The growth of Indian mythologies
• Dissemination of tales among the natives of North America
• Review of G.W. Locher, "The serpent in Kwakiutl religion: a study in primitive culture"
• Mythology and folk-tales of the North American Indians
• Stylistic aspects of primitive literature
• The folk-lore of the Eskimo
• Romance folk-lore among American Indians
• Some problems in North American archaeology
• Archaeological investigations in the Valley of Mexico by the International School, 1911-12
• Report on an anthropometric investigation of the population of the United States
• Representative art of primitive people
• Review of Maccurdy, "Study of Chiriquian antiquities"
• The decorative art of the North American Indians
• Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U.S. National Museum
• The relationships of the Eskimo of East Greenland
• The idea of the future life among primitive tribes
• The concept of soul among the Vandau
• Religious terminology of the Kwakiutl
• [4.]
• Miscellaneous:
• Changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants
• Advances in methods of teaching
• The aims of ethnology
• The study of geography
• New evidence in regard to the instability of human types
• Influence of heredity and environment upon growth

Control code

ocm02831531

Dimensions

21 cm.

Extent

xx, 647 pages

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Other physical details

illustrations

Record ID

u34627

System control number

• (Sirsi) o02831531
• (OCoLC)02831531