The Making of Man: An Outline of Anthropology (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 149)

xv, 879 pp. Includes section of biographical sketches of the various authors, and an extensive bibliography. A collection of contributions by various authorities in the field of anthropology, including: Franz Boas; Margaret Mead; Sigmund Freud; J.G. Frazer; Edward Westermarck; W.H.R. Rivers; Robert H. Lowie; William Graham Sumner; et al. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction: Modern Anthropology and the Theory of Cultural Compulsives; Fossil and Prehistoric Man; Race and Language; Social Organization; Sexual Customs and Social Practice; Religion; Evolution of Attitudes; Biographies; Bibliographies.