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Subtitle: Historical Review, Library Classification and Select, Annotated Bibliography; With a List of the Chief Publications of Leading Anthropological Societies and Museums General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: The Open Court Publishing Co. Subjects: Anthropology Classification Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry Science / Life Sciences / Biology / Molecular Biology Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The idea then entered my mind to prepare a select bibliography of the scope and content of the science, with a view to thoroughly revising my classification and preparing an explanation and a defence of the conclusions, which I should ultimately reach. The work was immediately begun and the result is now laid before the reader with an apology for its necessary imperfections. The great bulk of my material has been found in the Library of Congress, a smaller part in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and a few titles in the Bureau of Ethnology. The bibliography does not aim at any completeness, and no special effort has been made to record all the issues of each single work. It is to be regarded as "pieces justificatives" for the classification and for the historical introduction. This explains the rather unusual way of giving more or less extensive extracts from most of the books and papers listed and of quoting them, as a rule, in the vernacular. It has been thought that most of the readers for whom the book is intended would prefer it this way, especially since the greater part of the quotations are summarized in the first part of the work. Anthropology may
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The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthropology
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