The Mind of Primitive Man
by Franz Boas
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About this eBook
- Author
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
- Title
- The mind of primitive man : A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911
- Original Publication
- New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911, pubdate 1911, copyright 1921.
- Credits
- Aaron Adrignola, Gísli Valgeirsson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology
- Subject
- Ethnopsychology
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 71630
- Release Date
- September 13, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.I. RACIAL PREJUDICES
- 5.II. INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT UPON HUMAN TYPES
- 6.III. INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY UPON HUMAN TYPES
- 7.IV. THE MENTAL TRAITS OF PRIMITIVE MAN AND OF CIVILIZED MAN
- 8.V. RACE AND LANGUAGE
- 9.VI. THE UNIVERSALITY OF CULTURAL TRAITS
- 10.VII. THE EVOLUTIONARY VIEWPOINT
- 11.VIII. SOME TRAITS OF PRIMITIVE CULTURE
- 12.IX. SUMMARY
- 13.X. RACE PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES
- 14.NOTES
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