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Bones, bodies, behavior : essays on biological anthropology / editor, George W. Stocking, Jr.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Stocking, George W., Jr. (George Ward), 1928-2013.
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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