A history of anthropologyA concise yet comprehensive history of anthropology and a timely reassessment of the discipline. The entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. |
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Beginnings | 1 |
Victorians Germans and a Frenchman | 16 |
Four Founding Fathers | 36 |
Copyright | |
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