This title was used as the first section heading in Eli Edward Burriss's work Taboo, Magic, Spirits.
This title was used as the first section heading in Eli Edward Burriss's work Taboo, Magic, Spirits. It opens with a discussion of the "two meanings" of a titular adjective, one of which refers to physical characteristics. This idea is seen throughout, in chapters such as "The Instability of Human Types" and its final chapter, "The Race Problem in Modern Society," in which its author asserts that "no real biological chasm separated recent immigrants from Mayflower descendants." Famously ending with an appeal to "look on foreign races with greater sympathy," it also claims that some "civilized" beliefs are as pre-logical and mystic as any "savage's." FTP, name this work based partly on its author's research of the Kwakiutl Islanders, an exploration of the psychological implications of culture by Franz Boas.
This title was used as the first section heading in Eli Edward Burriss's work Taboo, Magic, Spirits.
The {Mind of Primitive Man}