Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays in Behavioral Anthropology

282 Pages·1988·21.432 MB·English

by  George W. Stocking Jr. (editor)

Bones, Bodies, Behavior
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 1
Observers Observed
Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Volume 2
Functionalism Historicized
Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 3
Objects and Others
Essays on Museums and Material Culture
Volume 4
Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others
Essays on Culture and Personality
Bones, Bodies,
Behavior
ESSAYS ON
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited by
George W. Stocking, Jr.
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 5
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bones, bodies, behavior.
(History of anthropology ; v. 5)
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Physical anthropology-History.
2. Ethnology-History.
l. Stocking, George W., 1928-
II. Series
GN50.4.B66 1988 573'.09 87-40377
ISBN 0-299-11250-0
ISBN 0-299-11254-3 (pbk.)
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
EDITOR
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
EDITORIAL BOARD
Talal Asad
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Hull
James Boon
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
James Clifford
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Donna Haraway
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Curtis Hinsley
Department of History, Northern Arizona University
Dell Hymes
Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Henrika Kuklick
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Trigger
Department of Anthropology, McGill University
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Contents
BONES, BODIES, BEHAVIOR
3
ON THE ORIGINS OF FRENCH ETHNOLOGY:
WILLIAM EDWARDS AND THE DOCTRINE OF RACE
Claude Blanckaert
18
THE MINDS OF BEAVERS AND THE MINDS OF HUMANS:
NATURAL SUGGESTION, NATURAL SELECTION, AND EXPERIMENT
IN THE WORK OF LEWIS HENRY MORGAN
Marc Swetlitz
56
PROLOGUE TO A SCIENTIFIC foRGERY:
THE BRITISH EOLITHIC MOVEMENT
FROM ABBEVILLE TO PILTDOWN
Frank Spencer
84
THE SHADOW MAN PARADIGM IN PALEOANTHROPOLOGY,
1911-1945
Michael Hammond
117
FROM ANTHROPOLOGIE TO RASSENKUNDE
IN THE GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITION
Robert Proctor
138
MOBILIZING SCIENTISTS AGAINST NAZI RACISM,
1933-1939
Elazar Barkan
180
vii
viii CONTENTS
REMODELLING THE HUMAN WAY OF LIFE:
SHERWOOD WASHBURN AND THE NEW PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,
1950-1980
J.
Donna Haraway
206
INDEX
261
Bones, Bodies, Behavior