The Races of Man and Their Distribution

by Alfred C. Haddon

Book Overview

The Cambridge anthropological expedition of 1898-9 to the Torres Strait and New Guinea, led by the zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940), marked an epoch in field methodology. This edition, published in 1924, examines some of the major physical differences between human beings that Haddon used to distinguish race, looking at skin colour, hair, stature, nose, face, and head form, and is thorough and wide-ranging in offering examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108046274
• ISBN13: 9781108046275
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"