Anthropology and modern life (Registro nro. 117902)
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| control field | 77181 |
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| control field | UtSlPG |
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| control field | 20260610134804.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 28029158 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | GN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Boas, Franz, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1858-1942 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Anthropology and modern life |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-11-05 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | What is anthropology? -- The problem of race -- The interrelation of races -- Nationalism -- Eugenics -- Criminology -- Stability of culture -- Education -- Modern civilization and primitive culture. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Sean/IB@DP |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Anthropology and Modern Life" by Franz Boas is a scientific treatise written in the early 20th century. It argues that anthropological insight clarifies modern social problems—especially race, nationalism, eugenics, crime, and education—by showing how culture and environment, not innate racial heredity, shape human differences. Drawing on empirical critique of popular errors and testing practices, it challenges biological determinism and urges policy guided by rigorous, culture-centered analysis.<br/><br/>The opening of the work redefines anthropology as the study of humans in groups, focusing on how bodily, physiological, and mental traits are distributed and molded by social conditions rather than by individual “types.” It then dismantles common ideas about race: most traits vary within populations, visible “types” are subjective, heredity acts along family lines, environment can slightly alter form, and differences (including brain size) overlap so much that they do not index intelligence. Test scores and behaviors, Boas shows, reflect training, language, and circumstance more than innate capacity, and ethnology consistently finds cultural patterns cutting across bodily types. Turning to race consciousness, he calls it a learned habit of closed societies, reinforced by visible markers and law; intermarriage patterns follow power and norms, not instinct, with contemporary color-based assortative mating among Black Americans producing predictable shifts. He urges mixing children’s social groups and judging migrants and mates by individual and family qualities rather than racial labels. Finally, he distinguishes nation from nationality, rejects myths of pure “Aryan” or national races, notes Europe’s deep intermixture, explains why language alone cannot found a nation, and points toward a federation of nations serving shared human aims. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1928 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Social problems |
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| Uncontrolled term | Anthropology |
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| Uncontrolled term | Race |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/anthropologymode0000unse_b7z0/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/anthropologymode0000unse_b7z0/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77181">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77181</a> |
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