Abstract
IT is a remarkable tribute to the enduring qualities of the work of the veteran American anthropologist that a new edition of this book should be demanded so many years after its original publication, and when so many developments have supervened in anthropological thought in the interval. The book on its first appearance attained a position of considerable authority not only on account of the originality of its views on the calibre of the mind of primitive man, but also for its statement of the results of the author's observations on changes in the physical characters of immigratits and their descendants after entry into the United States. In the now edition, which has been thoroughly revised, Prof. Boas denounces with unimpaired vigour, in a review of anthropological theories of race, the perversion of racial theory in the interests of political prejudice and propaganda.
The Mind of Primitive Man
Franz
Boas
By. Revised edition. Pp. x+285. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.) 12s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 144, 738 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144738b0
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