【作者简介】：
作者简介：弗朗茨·博厄斯（Franz Boas），德国裔美国人类学家，现代人类学的先驱之一，在哥伦比亚大学任教五十余载，开创了人类学的四大研究分支：体质人类学、语言人类学、考古学与文化人类学，其研究对人类学的发展具有深远的影响。
导读、注释者简介：余华博士，上海外国语大学语言研究院副研究员，哈佛大学人类学访问学者（2015-2016）。

【内容简介】：
《种族、语言与文化》是博厄斯自1887年到1939年的63篇重要论文的合辑，内分“种族”“语言”“文化”三大主题，涉及当时学界充满争议的几大问题。如，体质人类学与社会人类学的关系问题，种族血统与民族特征问题，不同区域的语言形态与起源问题，文化相对论与文化进化论问题、文化传播、文化变迁与文化涵化问题等。本书较为全面地汇聚了博厄斯的人类学研究成果，呈现了博厄斯与众不同的研究方法，对相关领域研究人员具有重要的参考价值。
导读注释者在英文原版的基础上进行导读、注释，并增加了术语汇编和简释，帮助读者扫除阅读障碍，更好地理解书中的内容。

【目录】：
导 读
— 001 —

PREFACE
— 003 —

RACE
— 005 —
RACE AND PROGRESS (1931)
— 007 —
MODERN POPULATIONS OF AMERICA (1915)
— 026 —
REPORT ON AN ANTHROPOMETRIC INVESTIGATION OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES (1922)
— 040 —
CHANGES IN BODILY FORM OF DESCENDANTS OF IMMIGRANTS (1910-1913)
— 086 —
NEW EVIDENCE IN REGARD TO THE INSTABILITY OF HUMAN TYPES (1916)
— 107 —
INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT UPON GROWTH (1913)
— 115 —
THE TEMPO OF GROWTH OF FRATERNITIES (1935)
— 120 —
CONDITIONS CONTROLLING THE TEMPO OF DEVELOPMENT AND DECAY (1935)
— 124 —
REMARKS ON THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF CHILDREN (1912)
— 131 —
GROWTH (1892-1939， revised and condensed)
— 144 —
STATISTICAL STUDY OF ANTHROPOMETRY (1902)
— 177 —
THE HALF-BLOOD INDIAN (1894)
— 186 —
REVIEW OF DR． PAUL EHRENREICH， “ANTHROPOLOGISCHE STUDIEN UEBER DIE UREINWOHNER BRASILIENS” (1897)
— 201 —
REVIEW OF WILLIAM Z． RIPLEY， “THE RACES OF EUROPE” (1899)
— 209 —
REVIEW OF ROLAND B． DIXON， “THE RACIAL HISTORY OF MAN” (1923)
— 216 —
SOME RECENT CRITICISM OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1899)
— 223 —
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1936)
— 232 —
THE ANALYSIS OF ANTHROPOMETRICAL SERIES (1913)
— 237 —
THE MEASUREMENT OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VARIABLE QUANTITIES (1922)
— 244 —
RACE AND CHARACTER (1932)
— 258 —

LANGUAGE
— 265 —
INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS (1917)
— 267 —
THE CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN LANGUAGES (1920)
— 283 —
CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES (1929)
— 294 —
SOME TRAITS OF THE DAKOTA LANGUAGE (1937)
— 304 —
METAPHORICAL EXPRESSION IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS (1929)
— 312 —

CULTURE
— 323 —
THE AIMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH (1932)
— 325 —
SOME PROBLEMS OF METHODOLOGY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (1930)
— 348 —
THE LIMITATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF
ANTHROPOLOGY (1896)
— 361 —
THE METHODS OF ETHNOLOGY (1920)
— 375 —
EVOLUTION OR DIFFUSION (1924)
— 388 —
REVIEW OF GRAEBNER， “METHODE DER ETHNOLOGIE” (1911)
— 395 —
HISTORY AND SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY： A REPLY (1936)
— 408 —
THE ETHNOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ESOTERIC DOCTRINES (1902)
— 418 —
THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM (1910)
— 424 —
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RACE (1911)
— 434 —
ETHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN CANADA (1910)
— 444 —
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NORTH-WEST AMERICA AND NORTHEAST ASIA (1933)
— 463 —
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE KWAKIUTL (1920)
— 480 —
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST (1924)
— 499 —
THE GROWTH OF THE SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE KWAKIUTL
(1896)
— 510 —
THE RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM OF THE VANDAU (1922)
— 517 —
THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOLK-TALES AND MYTHS (1916)
— 533 —
INTRODUCTION TO JAMES TEIT， “THE TRADITIONS OF THE
THOMPSON INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA” (1898)
— 547 —
THE GROWTH OF INDIAN MYTHOLOGIES (1895)
— 571 —
DISSEMINATION OF TALES AMONG THE NATIVES OF NORTH AMERICA (1891)
— 586 —
REVIEW OF G． W． LOCHER， “THE SERPENT IN KWAKIUTL RELIGION： A STUDY IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE” (1933)
— 598 —
MYTHOLOGY AND FOLK-TALES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (1914)
— 604 —
STYLISTIC ASPECTS OF PRIMITIVE LITERATURE (1925)
— 656 —
THE FOLK-LORE OF THE ESKIMO (1904)
— 673 —
ROMANCE FOLK-LORE AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS (1925)
— 693 —
SOME PROBLEMS IN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (1902)
— 704 —
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE VALLEY OF MEXICO BY THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL， 1911-12 (1912)
— 710 —
REPRESENTATIVE ART OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLE (1916)
— 717 —
REVIEW OF MACCURDY， “STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES” (1911)
— 725 —
THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (1903)
— 732 —
DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF ALASKAN NEEDLECASES： A STUDY IN
THE HISTORY OF CONVENTIONAL DESIGNS， BASED ON 564-592 MATERIALS IN THE U． S． NATIONAL MUSEUM (1908)
— 754 —
THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE ESKIMO OF EAST GREENLAND (1909)
— 791 —
THE IDEA OF THE FUTURE LIFE AMONG PRIMITIVE TRIBES (1922)
— 793 —
THE CONCEPT OF SOUL AMONG THE VANDAU (1920)
— 811 —
RELIGIOUS TERMINOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL (1927)
— 816 —
MISCELLANEOUS
— 825 —
ADVANCES IN METHODS OF TEACHING (1898)
— 827 —
THE AIMS OF ETHNOLOGY (1888)
— 833 —
THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY (1887)
— 852 —

术语汇编与简释
— 865 —