The golden age of American anthropology ; selected and edited with introd. and notes by Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Bunzel.

Contributor Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.

Imprint:New York : G. Braziller, 1960.

Description630 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Note:Columbus, Ramon Pane and the beginnings of American anthropology / Edward Gaylord Bourne -- Cortés and Montezuma / Bernal Diaz del Castillo -- The character and customs of the Huron / Samuel de Champlain -- The Lewis and Clark expedition / Merriwether Lewis -- Aztac beliefs and practices / Bernardino de Sahagún -- Notes on the northern tribes / Paul Le Jeune -- The character and customs of the Illinois / Jacques Marquette -- Concerining the Natchez / Maturin le Petit -- On the character and capacities of the North American Indians / Thomas Jefferson -- The doctrine of the unity of the human race examined on the principles of pure science / John Bachman -- Indian preachers and prophets / John G. E. Heckewelder -- A frontier mission / Manasseh Cutler -- Conjectures respecting the origin and history of the authors of the ancient works in Ohio, &c. / Caleb Atwater -- The Cheerake nation / James Adair -- A Mandan village on the upper Missouri / George Catlin -- League of the Iroquois / Lewis H. Morgan -- The Cheyenne Indians / George Bird Grinnell -- Nursery and cradle songs of the Forest Indian prophets / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- General observations upon systems of relationships / Lewis H. Morgan -- The carrying of children / Otis T. Mason -- The origin of ceramic ornament / William H. Holmes -- The preparation of the cornfield / Frank Hamilton Cushing -- Zuñi origin myth: the origin of corn / Matilda Coxe Stevenson -- Hopi Snake Washing / J. Walter Fewkes -- The night chant: a Navajo ceremony / Washington Matthews -- The Omaha tribe: ceremonies for children / Alice C. Fletcher, Francis la Flesche -- Rite of the chiefs: prayer for painting the body / Francis la Flesche -- The Hako: a Pawnee ceremony / Alice Cunningham Fletcher -- The central Eskimo: domestic occupations and amusements /Franz Boas -- Types of Haida and Tlingit myths / John R. Swanton -- The ghost-dance religion / James Mooney -- Southwestern archaeology: conclusions / Alred Vincent Kidder -- Chronological aspects of American archaeology / Alfred M. Tozzer -- The decorative art of the North Pacific coast / Franz Boas -- The Chukchee / Waldemar Bogoras -- Yukaghir picture writing and loveletters / Waldemar Jochelson -- The social life of the Blackfoot Indians / Clark Wissler -- The Crow Indians / Robert H. Lowie -- The sun dance of the Oglala / J. R. Walker -- The sun dance of the plains indians: comparison with the tribal ceremonial system / Leslie Spier -- The mental traits of primitive man: report on an anthropometric investigation of the population of the United States / Franz Boas -- Origin of the American aborigines / Alex Hrdlicka -- The grammarian and his language / Edward Sapir -- The structure of language / Leonard Bloomfield -- Introduction: International Journal of American Linguistics / Franz Boas -- Language and literature / Edward Sapir -- The nature of culture / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Social organization / Robert H. Lowie -- The family as a social unit / Robert H. Lowie -- The principle of limited possibilities in the development of culture / Alexander Goldenweiser -- New world origins / Clark Wissler -- Patterns / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Cultural intensity and climax / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Holding back in crisis ceremonialism / Elsie Clews Parsons -- Nativity myth at Laguna and Zuñi / Elsie Clews Parsons -- The relations between religion and morality in primitive culture / John Montgomery Cooper -- The aims of anthropological research / Franz Boas -- The conflict and survival of cultures / Clark Wissler -- The autobiography of a Winnebago Indian / Paul Radin -- The contributions of psychiatry to an understanding of behavior in society / Edward Sapir -- Values as a subject of natural science inquiry / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Is western civilization disintegrating or reconstituting / Alfred L. Kroeber.

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