THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Colophon] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN BY FRANZ BOAS A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE LOWELL INSTITUTE, BOSTON, MASS., AND THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO, 1910-1911 New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 _All rights reserved_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. -------------- Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1911. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE THE problem discussed in the following pages has occupied my attention for many years, and I have at various times dealt with it in brief essays. Some of these, in revised form and enlarged, are embodied in the present volume:— Human Faculty as determined by Race (_Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science_, vol. xliii [1894], pp. 301-327). The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology (_Science_, N. S., vol. iv [1896], pp. 901-908). The Mind of Primitive Man (_Journal of American Folk-Lore_, vol. xiv [1901], pp. 1-11). Some Traits of Primitive Culture (_Ibid._, vol. xvii [1904], pp. 243-254). Race Problems in America (_Science_, N. S., vol. xxix [1909], pp. 839-849). Psychological Problems in Anthropology (_American Journal of Psychology_, vol. xxi [1910], pp. 371-384). I have also utilized a small part of the Introduction to my “Handbook of American Indian Languages” (Bulletin 40 of the Bureau of American Ethnology), and some of the results of my report on “Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants” (vol. 39, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington, Government Printing Office). FRANZ BOAS.