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100 1 _aBoas, Franz,
_d1858-1942
245 1 4 _aThe mind of primitive man
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_of_Primitive_Man
500 _aRelease date is 2023-09-13
508 _aAaron Adrignola, GĂ­sli 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1911
653 _aRace
653 _aEthnopsychology
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/mindofprimitivem0000fran
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71630
999 _c112356
_d112356