The author of Primitive Culture offers a single-volume introduction to the study of humankind: man’s antiquity and his relation to other animals, the races of the world, the growth of language and writing, the arts of life from fire-making to tattooing, the arts of pleasure, and the beginnings of science, religion and society. Its racial classifications and ranking of ‘savage’ and ‘civilized’ peoples are those of 1881.
A foundational text of anthropology, valuable for anyone tracing how the discipline began and what its pioneers believed. Download the free EPUB.