File:The Races Of Man (3rd ed) (1913) (IA racesofmanocr).pdf

Title: The Races of Man (3rd ed): An Outline of Anthropoloty and Ethnography

Series: The Contemporary Science Series

Author: J. Deniker

Year: 1913

Publisher: London: Walter Scott Publishing, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Enhanced version with yellowed paper images removed, pages adjusted and centered and OCR text.

From the preface:

Mv object in the present work has been to give in a condensed
form the essential facts of the twin sciences of anthropology and ethnography. The very nature of such an undertaking condemns the author to be brief,· and at the same time somewhat dogmatic; inevitable gaps occur, and numerous inequalities in the treatment. To obviate, partly at least, such defects, I. have endeavoured not merely to present the actual facts of the subject, but also to summarise, with as much fidelity as possible, the explanations of these facts, in so far as such may be educed from theories among which there is often sufficient perplexity of choice. In many cases I have ventured, however, to give my personal opinion on different questions, as, for instance, on the signification of the laryngeal sacs among anthropoid apes, on many questions of anthropometry in general, on the classing of "states of civilisation," on fixed and transportable habitations, on the classification of races, on the races of Europe,on the Paleo-American race, etc.