The golden age of American anthropology / Par Margaret Mead; Ruth Leah Bunzel.

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Cont.: Part I. Exploring the new world -- Columbus, Ramon Pane, and the beginnings of American anthropology / Edward Gaylord Bourne -- Cortés and Montezuma / Bernal Díaz del Castillo -- The character and customs of the Huron / Samuel de Champlain -- The Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriweather Lewis -- Part II. Trying to cope with Indians -- Aztec beliefs and practices / Bernardino de Sahagún -- Notes on the northern tribes / Paul Le Jeune -- The character and customs of the Illinois / Jacques Marquette -- Concerning the Natchez / Maturin Le Petit -- On the character and capacities of the North American Indians / Thomas Jefferson -- The doctrine of the unity of the human race examined on the principles of pure science / John Bachman -- Indian preachers and prophets / John G.E. Heckewelder -- A frontier mission / Manasseh Cutler -- Conjectures respecting the origin and history of the authors of the ancient works in Ohio, &c. / Caleb Atwater -- The Cheerake Nation / James Adair -- A Manadan village on the Upper Missouri / George Catlin -- League of the Iroquois / Lewis H. Morgan -- The Cheyenne Indians / George Bird Grinnell -- Part III. Gaining understanding of the Indians -- Nursery and cradle songs of the forest Indian prophets / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- General observations upon systems of relationships / Lewis H. Morgan -- The carrying of children / Otis T. Mason -- The origin of ceramic ornament / William H. Holmes -- The preparation of the cornfield / Frank Hamilton Cushing -- Zuñi origin myth: the origin of corn / Matilda Coxe Stevenson -- Hopi snake washing / J. Walter Fewkes -- The night chant: a Navaho ceremony / Washington Matthews -- The Omaha tribe: ceremonies for children / Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche -- Rite of the chiefs: prayer for painting the body / Francis La Flesche -- The Hako: a Pawnee ceremony / Alice Cunningham Fletcher -- The central Eskimo: domestic occupations a