PREFACE
Theproblem discussed in the following pages has occupied my attention for many years, and I have at various times dealt with it in brief essays. Some of these, in revised form and enlarged, are embodied in the present volume:—
Human Faculty as determined by Race (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. xliii [1894], pp. 301-327).
The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology (Science, N. S., vol. iv [1896], pp. 901-908).
The Mind of Primitive Man (Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. xiv [1901], pp. 1-11).
Some Traits of Primitive Culture (Ibid., vol. xvii [1904], pp. 243-254).
Race Problems in America (Science, N. S., vol. xxix [1909], pp. 839-849).
Psychological Problems in Anthropology (American Journal of Psychology, vol. xxi [1910], pp. 371-384).
I have also utilized a small part of the Introduction to my “Handbook of American Indian Languages”(Bulletin 40 of the Bureau of American Ethnology), and some of the results of my report on “Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants” (vol. 39, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington, Government Printing Office).
FRANZ BOAS.