xii, 856, xxxix pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents
What anthropology is about -- Man's place in nature -- Fossil man -- Living races -- Problems of race difference -- Language -- The nature of culture -- Patterns -- Culture processes -- Culture change -- Some histories of inventions: the interplay of factors -- Culture growths and spreads -- Story of the alphabet -- Distributions -- Cultural psychology -- The beginnings of human civilization -- Later prehistory and ethnology in the old world -- American prehistory and ethnology -- Retrospect and prospect.
Summary
Covers the recent findings.
Bibliography
Includes "Correspondences and sources" (pages 851-856) and index.
