Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-385) and index.
Contents
The society of mutual autopsy and the liturgy of death -- Evangelical atheism and the rise of French anthropology -- Scientific materialism and the public response -- Careers in anthropology and the Bertillon family -- No soul, no morality : Vacher de Lapouge -- Body and soul : Leonce Manouvrier and the disappearing numbers -- The Leftist critique of determinist science -- Coda.
