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The Mind of Primitive Man (Umysł człowieka pierwotnego)
Książka oparta na wykładach w Bostonie i w mieście Meksyk w latach 1910–11, poprawiona w 1938 roku: Boas nie znajduje dowodów na to, by jakakolwiek grupa ludzka była z natury gorsza umysłowo; różnice kultur wynikają z historii i kontaktów, a nawet budowa ciała zmienia się wraz ze środowiskiem.
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Boas published “The Mind of Primitive Man” in 1911, based on lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston and at the National University of Mexico in 1910–11. The book takes up a question that many scientists of the time answered in the affirmative: whether some peoples are by nature less capable of civilisation than others. Boas reviewed anatomical, psychological and ethnographic evidence and concluded that it does not support a hierarchy of mental ability between human groups; what a people achieves depends on its history and on its contacts with others. He drew on his study for the United States Immigration Commission, which reported that the head form of immigrants’ children differed from that of their parents. A revised edition appeared in 1938.
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