Stocking, George W., Jr. 1928-2013.

Race, culture, and evolution : essays in the history of anthropology : with a new preface / George W. Stocking, Jr. - Phoenix ed. - 1982. - xxviii, 380 pages ; 21 cm.

Reprint. Originally published : New York : Free Press, c1968.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Anthropology--History.

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