Race, culture and evolution : essays in the history of anthropology : with a new preface /
George W. Stocking
- xxviii, 380 páginas
Reimp. publicado originalmente: New York : Free Press, c 1968
On the limits of "presentism" and "historicism" in the historiography of the behavioral sciences -- French anthropology in 1800 -- The persistence of polygenist thought in post-Darwinian anthropology -- Matthew Arnold, E.B. Tylor, and the uses of invention -- "Cultural Darwinism" and "philosophical idealism" in E.B. Tylor -- The dark-skinned savage the image of primitive man in evolutionary anthropology -- From physics to ethnology -- The critique of racial formalism -- Franz Boas and the culture concept in historical perspective -- lamarckianism in American social science, 1890-1915 -- the scientific reaction against cultural anthropology, 1917-1920.