- Paperback: 255 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications; New edition edition (Feb 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486252450
- ISBN-13: 978-0486252452
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #456,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?In the compass of this short volume Franz Boas accomplishes the annihilation of the bases of almost all the prejudices and passions on which modern society rests, and arrives by the least spectacular kind of reasoning at revolutionary and yet strangely hopeful conclusions.?-Nation
--This text refers to the
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The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.
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Key work to have in your library. One of the foundational works of American anthropology.
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