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The mind of primitive man : $b A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911Boas, Franz

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The mind of primitive man : $b A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911

Name: The mind of primitive man : $b A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911
Author: Boas, Franz

Boas, Franz

Ethnopsychology; Race

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                                CONTENTS


 CHAPTER                                                            PAGE

 I.      RACIAL PREJUDICES                                             1

         Racial achievement and aptitude, 1.—The white race,
           having achieved the highest civilization, represents
           the highest physical type, 2.

         Does cultural achievement depend upon hereditary aptitude
           alone? 5.—Many races have contributed to the origin of
           civilization, 5.—Early civilization in America,
           7.—Interpretation of rapidity of development, 8.—The
           spread of civilization, 10.—Summary, 16.

         Are anatomical characteristics of foreign races
           expressions of inferiority? 17.—Lower characteristics
           of various parts of the body, 18.—Development in
           different races of traits differentiating man from
           animal, 21.—Significance of these traits for discussion
           of mental character, 22.—Size of brain, 24.—Lack of
           correlation between size of brain and ability,
           28.—Structure of brain, 29.—Summary, 29.


 II.     INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT UPON HUMAN TYPES                    30

         Problems of racial and social characteristics,
           30.—Definition and description of variability of types,
           31.

         Differences between civilized and primitive members of
           the same race, 39.—Problem of stability of type of the
           human species, 41.—Evolution of human species,
           41.—Problem of stability of races, 44.—Variations due
           to changes in rate of growth, 45.—Arrest of growth,
           49.—Variations not due to growth, 50.—Differences
           between rural and urban types, 50.—Influence of
           selection, 53.—Changes in bodily form of American
           immigrants, 53.—Explanation of changes, 57.—Range of
           changes, 63.—Changes of mental traits, 64.

         Domestication, 65.—Changes due to environment,
           70.—Changes due to selection, 72.—Changes due to
           crossing, 73.


 III.    INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY UPON HUMAN TYPES                       76

         Importance of heredity, 76.—Alternating and mid-parental
           heredity, 77.—Heredity in race-mixture,
           78.—Intra-racial heredity, 80.—Regression to ancestral
           types, 81.—Similarity of brothers and sisters,
           83.—Mendelian inheritance, 84.

         Origin of local types, 84.—Descent in large and in small
           communities, 84.—Johannsen’s observations on plants,
           89.—Mixture of local types, 90.—Variability in local
           types and in races, 91.


 IV.     THE MENTAL TRAITS OF PRIMITIVE MAN AND OF CIVILIZED MAN      95

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