S. O SIMPLE and so basic is the aim of this book that its first sentence must be a warning to the reader not to look behind the words for hidden meanings or academic profundities. This aim is to describe the main events of human history from the time that man appeared on the face of the earth until the present moment, when he has the power to destroy it. For the best part of a cen tury historia…
As I am one of the oldest living anthropologists, my editor has asked me what has happened to the discipline during my lifetime. When I was a lad in my late teens and early twenties, anthropologists were so few that almost all of us knew each other, few outsiders knew what anthro- pology was or what anthropologists did.rn
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