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Explore how race, language, and culture intersect across humanity and why simple ideas of superiority miss the mark.
A provocative overview that asks big questions about what makes people different or alike. It argues that physical type and cultural life do not always move together and that environment and history shape minds as strongly as biology.
The book surveys how past classifications of mankind mixed anatomy, language, and culture and often produced conflicting results. It points out that people can adopt new languages and ways of life without changing their bodily type, and that blood is not a fixed predictor of civilization.- Learn how classifications varied across time and culture
- See examples of language and cultural change without major changes in physical type
- Explore cases like the North American Negro, the Alpine type, the Vedda of Ceylon, the Japanese and Ainu, and the Yukaghir
- Consider the role of environment, upbringing, and tradition in shaping human behavior
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Franz Boas (born July 9, 1858, died December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology."
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