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Franz Boas: Race, Language, and Culture – First Russian Edition
This is the first Russian-language edition of Franz Boas’s seminal work Race, Language, and Culture. In it, the pioneering anthropologist challenges early 20th-century claims about the existence of gifted and less gifted races. Boas argues that a race’s achievements or anatomical traits cannot be taken as proof of differing intellectual capacities. Instead, he concludes that early humans possessed all the core cognitive abilities found in modern humans. The differences in thinking between primitive and civilized peoples, he maintains, stem from differences in the nature of knowledge and the amount of experience accumulated by previous generations.
This edition is intended for specialists in ethnology and cultural studies, humanities students, and anyone interested in the history of anthropology. Price: 2005.00 RUB.
