Race, culture and evolution essays in the history of anthropology

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.