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The making of man : an outline of anthropology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Calverton, V. F. (Victor Francis), 1900-1940 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Library, ©1931.
Series:Modern library of the world's best books.
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Anthropology
Anthropologie.
anthropology.
Antropologia.
Primitive societies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Modern anthropology and the theory of cultural compulsives / V.F. Calverton
  • I. Fossil and prehistoric man
  • 1. Fossil men / Marcelin Boule
  • 2. The structure of prehistoric man / Wilson D. Wallis
  • 3. The Tasmanians / W.J. Sollas
  • 4. The art of the Reindeer Epoch / Joseph Déchlette
  • 5. The Peking man / J.H. McGregor
  • II. Race and language
  • 1. The problem of race / Franz Boas
  • 2. Language, race, and culture / Edward Sapir
  • III. Social organization
  • 1. Das Mutterrecht / J. Bachofen
  • 2. Organization of society upon the basis of sex / Lewis H. Morgan
  • 3. Motherright / E.S. Hartland
  • 4. Group-marriage and sexual communism / Robert Briffault
  • 5. Property / W.H.R. Rivers
  • 6. The solidarity of the individual with his group / Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
  • 7. Initiation ceremonies / Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen
  • 8. The coming of the warriors / W.J. Perry
  • 9. Law and anthropology / Huntington Cairns
  • 10. Totemism / Alexander Goldenweiser
  • 11. The influence of ancient Egyptian civilization in the East and in America / G. Eilliot Smith
  • 12. Causality and culture / F. Graebner
  • 13. Banaro society / Richard Thurnwald
  • 14. Technology / Clark Wissler
  • 15. Cannibalism / William Graham Sumner
  • IV. Sexual customs and social practice
  • 1. The origin of love / Robert Briffault
  • 2. Homosexual love / Edward Westermarck
  • 3. The relations between the sexes in tribal life / Bronislaw Malinowski
  • 4. Formal sex relations in Samoa / Margaret Mead
  • 5. The savage's dread of incest / Sigmund Freud
  • 6. The intermediate type as prophet or priest / Edward Carpenter
  • V. Religion
  • 1. Animism / Edward B. Tylor
  • 2. The conception of mana / R.R. Marett
  • 3. Animism and the other world / Gez Róheim
  • 4. Magic and religion / James Frazer
  • 5. The growth of a primitive religion / A.L. Kroeber
  • 6. Woman and religion / Robert H. Lowie
  • VI. Evolution of attitudes
  • 1. Evolution of human species / Robert Briffault
  • 2. Collective representation of primitives' perceptions and the mystical character of such / Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
  • 3. The science of custom / Ruth Benedict
  • 4. Concept of right and wrong / Paul Radin
  • 5. Class relations / L.T. Hobhouse.