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Natural History by theNatural History Press.Directed by a joint editorialboard made up of members of the staff of the Mu-seum and Doubleday,this series is an extension ofthe Museum's scientific and educational activities,making available to the student and general readerinexpensive,up-to-date,and reliable books in thelife and earth sciences,including anthropology andastronomy.The Natural History Press is a divisionof Doubleday &Company,Inc.,and has its edi-torial offices at The American Museum of NaturalHistory,Central Park West at Seventy-ninth Street,New York 24,New York,and its business offices at501 Franklin Avenue,Garden City,New York.  \nDoUGLAS OLIVER is Professor of Anthropologyand Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at HarvardUniversity.  \nHe received his B.A.degree in Anthropologyfrom Harvard University in 1934 and his Ph.D.in Ethnology in 1935 from the University of Vi-enna.He has taught at Harvard since 1948.Hedid ethnographic field work in New Guinea andBougainville and,in 1955,he published a bookon this work,A Solomon Island Society.DuringWorld War II and until 1947 he served with theU.S.Board of Economic Warfare(subsequentlythe Foreign Economic Administration)through-out the South and Central Pacific.He was for atime a consultant on Pacific Islands affairs to theU.S.State Department and his recent field work(1954-55,1959-6o)has been in the Society Is-lands.  \nDr.Oliver is a member of the AmericanAnthropological Association and the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences,and he is theauthor of many articles and papers that haveappeared in anthropological journals.His otherbooks include Planning Micronesia's Future andThe Pacific Islands  \n# INVITATIONTOANTHROPOLOGY\n\nDouglas L.OliverProfessor of Anthropology,Harvard University  \nAMERICAN MUSEUM SCIENCE BOOKSPublished forThe American Museum of Natural History  \nThe Natural History PressGARDEN CITY,NEW YORK  \nThe illustrations for this book were prepared by theGraphic Arts Division of The American Museum ofNatural History.  \nPortions of this book have previously appeared inThe Social Studies and the Social Sciences,spon-sored by the American Council of Learned Societiesand the National Council for the Social Studies andpublished by Harcourt,Brace &World,Inc.,in1962.This material is used with the permission ofthe publisher.  \nThe American Museum Science Books edition isthe first publication of Invitation to Anthropology.  \nAmerican Museum Science Books edition:1964  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-11729Copyright 1964 by Douglas L.Oliver  \nAll rights reservedPrinted in the United States of America  \n# PREFACE\n\nThis is a bare-bones conspectus of one practition-er's view of the distinctive features of his kindof work.It was originally set down as an outlineof the things he,at least,would like to see everyhigh school graduate know about the rather mys-terious profession of anthropology.In its presentform what follows is not intended to serve as atextbook,nor even as a substantive introductionfor that publisher's darling,the General Reader;there are some excellent books of those kindsalready available(see the Bibliography at theend of the book).  \nWithout doubt,this short text could be filledout and enlivened by the addition of numerousillustrative examples-but then it would nolonger be short,and brevity(wedded,we hope,to salience)is one reason for bringing out thisparticular book at this time.Another reason,gen-erously put forward by Malcolm Collier and AlexWeingrod,is that it may prove “clarifying”toschool teachers in search of a guide through thelabyrinth of topical specialization and profes-sional jargon that now characterizes cultural an-thropology in this country.","cbCaidBx8ggN12FU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidBx8ggN12FU","pdf",4201284,124,"English","# Invitation to Anthropology\n## Preface","[{\"question\":\"Why does the preface emphasize brevity?\",\"answer\":\"Brevity, paired with salience, is presented as a reason for publishing this 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