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Hardcover, blue coth sans dust-jacket. 296pp., Index. A scholarly overview of the history of ethnological theory from the pioneers: Meiners, Klemm and Waitz, on through Adolf Bastian, Lewis Morgan, Edward Taylor and Franz Boas. Includes chapters on British and German Diffusionists respectively, French Sociology [focusing on Duirkheim] and Functionalism. A modern reprint, post 1970, albeit with only the 1937 copyright date on verso of title page. Very mild and sporadic pencil marking to text by former owner. A clean, square, tight copy in very good+ condition.