(1) Les races et les peuples de la terre (2) Race and History: an Ethnological Introduction to History

Abstract

THE reluctance of anthropologists whole-heartedly to apply to the human family the strict principles of classification and phylogenetic arrangement adopted in the wider field of biology is a very curious phenomenon. Yet it is a fact that students of man, even biologists, commonly disregard the significance usually associated in biology with such terms as race and species; and even when this element of confusion is eliminated there still remains some uncertainty as to what constitute the criteria of race. Many years ago Huxley humorously claimed exemption from the disturbing influence of race consciousness that so obviously distorts the outlook of many, if not most, writers on anthropology, on the ground that he enjoyed the serene impartiality of a mongrel.

(1) Les races et les peuples de la terre.

Par Dr. J. Deniker. Deuxième édition revue et considérablement augmentee. Pp. 750. (Paris: Masson et Cie, 1926.) 75 francs.

(2) Race and History: an Ethnological Introduction to History.

By Prof. Eugène Pittard. (The History of Civilisation Series.) Translated by V. C. C. Collum. Pp. xxiii + 505. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.) 21s. net.