Title:
Race, language and culture / by Franz Boas.
Main Entry:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. author.
Publisher:
The Macmillan Co.,
Publication Date:
1940.
Publication Place:
New York :
Subject:
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America -- Languages.
Race.
Etnologia -- Colecciones.
Indios de América del Norte.
Indios de América del Norte -- Idioma.
Raza.
Anthropologie.
Ethnologie -- Collections.
Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord.
Langues indiennes d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord.
Race.
Contents:
Race: Race and progress (1931). Modern populations of America (1915). Report on an anthropometric investigation of the population of the United States (1922). Changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants (1910-1913). New evidence in regard to the instability of human types (1916). Influence of heredity and environment upon growth (1913). The tempo of growth of fraternities (1935). Conditions controlling the tempo of development and decay (1935). Remarks on the anthropological study of children (1912). Growth (1892-1939, revised and condensed). Statistical study of anthropometry (1902). The half-blood Indian (1894). Review of
Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, "Anthropologische studien èuber die ureinwohner Brasiliens" (1897). Review of William Z. Ripley, "The races of Europe" (1899). Review of Roland B. Dixon, "The racial history of man" (1923). Some recent criticism of physical anthropology (1899). The relations between physical and social anthropology (1936). The analysis of anthropometrical series (1913). The measurement of differences between variable quantities (1922). Race and character (1932). --LANGUAGE: Introduction to International Journal of American linguistics (1917). The classification of American languages (1920). Classification of American Indian languages (1929). Some traits of the Dakota language (1937). Metaphorical
expression in the language of the Kwakiutl Indians (1929). CULTURE: The aims of anthropological research (1932). Some problems of methodology in the social sciences (1930). The limitations of the comparative method of anthropology (1896). The methods of ethnology (1920). Evolution or diffusion (1924). Review of Graebner, "Methode der ethnologie" (1911). History and science in anthropology: a reply (1936). The ethnological significance of esoteric doctrines (1902). The origin of totemism (1910). The history of the American race (1911). Ethnological problems in Canada (1910). Relationships between north-west America and north-east Asia (1933). The social organization of the Kwakiutl (1920). The social
organization of the tribes of the North Pacific Coast (1924). The growth of the secret societies of the Kwakiutl (1896). The relationship system of the Vandau (1922). The development of folk-tales and myths (1916). Introduction to James Teit, "The traditions of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia" (1898). The growth of Indian mythologies (1895). Dissemination of tales among the natives of North America (1891). Review of G. W. Locher, "The serpent in Kwakiutl religion: a study in primitive culture" (1933). Mythology and folk-tales of the North American Indians (1914). Stylistic aspects of primitive literature (1925). The folk-lore of the Eskimo (1904). Romance folk-lore among American Indians (1925).
Some problems in North American archaeology (1902). Archaeological investigations in the valley of Mexico by the International school, 1911-12 (1912). Representative art of primitive people (1916). Review of McCurdy, "Study of Christian antiquities" (1911). The decorative art of the North American Indians (1903). Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U. S. National museum (1908). The idea of the future life among primitive tribes (1922). The concept of soul among the Vandau (1920). Religious terminology of the Kwakiutl (1927). -- MISCELLANEOUS: Advances in methods of teaching (1898). The aims of ethnology (1888). The study of geography (1887).
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