The golden age of American anthropology / selected and edited with introduction and notes by Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Bunzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, editor, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990, editor, author of introductions.

George Braziller, Inc., publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Anthropology.

Indians, North American.

Anthropology--United States.

Ethnology--United States.

Medical Subjects:

Anthropology.

Indians, North American.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph, December 1973) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

x, 630 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

New York : George Braziller, 1960.

Summary:

Part I of this book is devoted to the explorers and conquistadors, the wonders and horrors of the first encounters, the great civilization of the Aztecs laid in ruins, and the strangeness of the simpler Indians to the north. In Part II are accounts by those who had to deal with the Indians as traders or missionaries, statesmen or soldiers, and who struggled with problems of culture difference and the meaning of race. Part III takes up the task of rescuing records. The contribution of this period was a series of volumes in which an infinite wealth of strange detail found publication. In Part IV, we show how the organization of voluntary effort shaped the future development of American anthropology. Part V includes the writers who laid the groundwork of anthropological theory.

Contents:

Part I. Exploring the new world

Columbus, Ramon Pane, and the beginnings of American anthropology / Edward Gaylord Bourne

Cortés and Montezuma / Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The character and customs of the Huron / Samuel de Champlain

The Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriweather Lewis

Part II. Trying to cope with Indians

Aztec beliefs and practices / Bernardino de Sahagún

Notes on the northern tribes / Paul Le Jeune

The character and customs of the Illinois / Jacques Marquette

Concerning the Natchez / Maturin Le Petit

On the character and capacities of the North American Indians / Thomas Jefferson

The doctrine of the unity of the human race examined on the principles of pure science / John Bachman

Indian preachers and prophets / John G.E. Heckewelder

A frontier mission / Manasseh Cutler

Conjectures respecting the origin and history of the authors of the ancient works in Ohio, &c. / Caleb Atwater

The Cheerake Nation / James Adair

A Manadan village on the Upper Missouri / George Catlin

League of the Iroquois / Lewis H. Morgan

The Cheyenne Indians / George Bird Grinnell

Part III. Gaining understanding of the Indians

Nursery and cradle songs of the forest Indian prophets / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

General observations upon systems of relationships / Lewis H. Morgan

The carrying of children / Otis T. Mason

The origin of ceramic ornament / William H. Holmes

The preparation of the cornfield / Frank Hamilton Cushing

Zuñi origin myth: the origin of corn / Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Hopi snake washing / J. Walter Fewkes

The night chant: a Navaho ceremony / Washington Matthews

The Omaha tribe: ceremonies for children / Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

Rite of the chiefs: prayer for painting the body / Francis La Flesche

The Hako: a Pawnee ceremony / Alice Cunningham Fletcher

The central Eskimo: domestic occupations and amusements / Franz Boas

Types of Haida and Tlingit myths / John R. Swanton

The ghost-dance religion / James Mooney

Part IV. Preserving the remnants of Indian cultures: the role of the private museums

Southwestern archaeology: conclusions / Alfred Vincent Kidder

Chronological aspects of American archaeology / Alfred M. Tozzer

The decorative art of the North Pacific Coast / Franz Boas

The Chukchee / Waldemar Bogoras

Yukaghir picture writing and loveletters / Waldemar Jochelson

The social life of the Blackfoot Indians / Clark Wissler

The Crow Indians / Robert H. Lowie

The sun dance of the Oglala / J.R. Walker

The sun dance of the Plains Indians: comparison with the tribal ceremonial system / Leslie Spier

Part V. Building a science of man in America: the classical period in American anthropology, 1900-1920

The mental traits of primitive man / Franz Boas

Report on an anthropometric investigation of the population of the United States / Franz Boas

Origin of the American aborigines / Ales Hrdlicka

The grammarian and his language / Edward Sapir

The structure of language / Leonard Bloomfield

Introduction: International journal of American linguistics / Franz Boas

Language and literature / Edward Sapir

The nature of culture / Alfred L. Kroeber

Social organization / Robert H. Lowie

The family as a social unit / Robert H. Lowie

The principle of limited possibilities in the development of culture / Alexander Goldenweiser

New World origins / Clark Wissler

Patterns / Alfred L. Kroeber

Cultural intensity and climax / Alfred L. Kroeber

Holding back in crisis ceremonialism / Elsie Clews Parsons

Nativity myth at Laguna and Zuñi / Elsie Clews Parsons

The relations between religion and morality in primitive culture / John Montgomery Cooper

Part VI. New horizons

The aims of anthropological research / Franz Boas

The conflict and survival of cultures / Clark Wissler

The autobiography of a Winnebago Indian / Paul Radin

The contributions of psychiatry to an understanding of behavior in society / Edward Sapir

Values as a subject of natural science inquiry / Alfred L. Kroeber

Is Western civilization disintegrating or reconstituting? / Alfred L. Kroeber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center Adams copy retains dust jacket.

Other Format:

Online version: Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978. Golden age of American anthropology.

OCLC:

418730

Online:

French equivalent / Équivalent français