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Bones, bodies, behavior : essays on biological anthropology / editor, George W. Stocking, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- History of anthropology ; 5.
- History of anthropology ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical anthropology--History.
- Physical anthropology.
- Ethnology--History.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores issues relating to the history of physical or biological anthropology - the application of the concept of ""race"" to humankind, the comparison of animal minds to those of humans, the evolution of humans from primate forms, and the relationship between science and racial ideology.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Bones, Bodies, Behavior""; ""On the Origins of French Ethnology: William Edwards and the Doctrine of Race""; ""The Minds of Beavers and the Minds of Humans: Natural Suggestion, Natural Selection, and Experiment in the Work of Lewis Henry Morgan""; ""Prologue to a Scientific Forgery: The British Eolithic Movement from Abbeville to Piltdown ""; ""The Shadow Man Paradigm in Paleoanthropology, 1911-1945""; ""From Anthropologie to Rassenkunde in the German Anthropological Tradition""; ""Mobilizing Scientists Against Nazi Racism, 1933-1939""; ""Remodelling the Human Way of Life: Sherwood Washburn and the New Physical Anthropology, 1950-1980"" ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612643187
- 9781282643185
- 1282643185
- 9780299112530
- 0299112535
- OCLC:
- 927483104
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