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The lectures examine and rebut common racial prejudices that equate cultural achievement with innate biological superiority, analyzing anatomical claims, brain size, and alleged mental differences. They survey how environment, growth patterns, selection, and interbreeding affect bodily and psychological traits, assess heredity and Mendelian principles in local and mixed populations, and compare cognitive tendencies across societies using historical, ethnographic, and experimental evidence. The argument emphasizes variability and environmental influence over fixed racial hierarchy, presenting observed distinctions as quantitative and contingent rather than as proof of inherent inferiority.

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Title: The mind of primitive man

A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911

Author: Franz Boas

Release date: September 13, 2023 [eBook #71630]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911

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THE
MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN
BY
FRANZ BOAS
A Course of Lectures delivered before the Lowell
Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National
University of Mexico, 1910-1911
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
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Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1911.
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