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The mind of primitive man

Por: Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2023Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
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Resumen: "The Mind of Primitive Man: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell..." by Franz Boas is a book published in 1911. This groundbreaking anthropological work challenges racist and eugenic theories about race and intelligence that dominated early twentieth-century thought. Boas examines claims linking physical characteristics to mental capacity, explores the role of environment versus heredity, and compares languages and cultures across civilizations. His analysis dismantles the concept of racial hierarchies and argues that cultural development depends on historical causes rather than biological race. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_of_Primitive_Man

Release date is 2023-09-13

Aaron Adrignola, Gísli Valgeirsson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

"The Mind of Primitive Man: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell..." by Franz Boas is a book published in 1911. This groundbreaking anthropological work challenges racist and eugenic theories about race and intelligence that dominated early twentieth-century thought. Boas examines claims linking physical characteristics to mental capacity, explores the role of environment versus heredity, and compares languages and cultures across civilizations. His analysis dismantles the concept of racial hierarchies and argues that cultural development depends on historical causes rather than biological race. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911

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