Biological Anthropology

Contents: 1. The nature of anthropology. 2. The beginnings of human culture. 3. Growing up human. 4. Sex and marriage. 5. Family and household. 6. Grouping by sex, age, common interest and class. 7. Culture change. 8. Prehistory. 9. Physical anthropology. 10. Primitive technology. 11. Language.

"The present textbook Biological Anthropology is the most liberating of all the sciences. Not only has it exposed the fallacies of racial and cultural superiority, but its devotion to the study of all people, everywhere and throughout time, has cast more light on human nature than all the reflections of sages or the studies of laboratory scientists. This book is designed for introductory anthropology courses at the college level. Thorough current, accurate, and scholarly in its coverage, the book is nonetheless simply written and attractively designed to appeal to students. Thus they will find that it pleases as it teaches." (jacket)