Marett Robert Ranulph. Head, heart and hands in human evolution

London: Hutchinson Scientific Books, 1935. — 303 p.The title will, I Trust, be found to cover the somewhat miscellaneous contents of a book which nevertheless has unity in the sense that its working principles are throughout the same. After an Introduction which calls attention to the rich variety of the fare awaiting the student of human culture, Pan I deals with the larger issues of a theoretical kind involved in sociological inquiry — in short, with the question how to use, and to keep, one's had in the matter. In Part II we pass on to the central topic of Religion, which, in its pre-theological phase at any rate, is shown to be essentially an affair of the heart; Part III being meant to afford particular illustrations of this general contention. Finally, in Part IV, the material side of human culture—in a word, the work of human hands—is considered as it develops out of sundry rude beginnings. Let me apologize to those of my brother-anthropologists who are more especially concerned with technology if I seem to be trespassing on their preserves; but my attempt at a bird's-eye view of the subject may serve a useful purpose in the absence of any existing monograph that is at once detailed and comprehensive. Part I embodies three Presidential Addresses, delivered to the Sociological Institute in the years 1933-35, two of which the Editors of the Sociological Review have kindly allowed me to reproduce with a few modifications. Pan II represents the hitherto unpublished Donellan Lectures given by me in 1933 at Trinity College, Dublin, and afterwards repeated in a rather different form at Bangor. Of Part III the first chapter on Ritualism is a paper read at the International Congress of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in London in 1934: it has subsequently appeared in Folklore, and I have to thank its Editor for leave to reprint. The second chapter on the Sacrament of Food was originally written for Essays presented to C. C. Seligman (Regan Paul, Trench, -Trubner & Co., 1934), and I am grateful to the Editors and Publishers for allowing it to see the light once more. The other chapters of Part III, together with the Introduction, arc extracts from Afanners and Customs of Mankind, edited by Sir J. A. Hammerton and issued by The Amalgamated Press, while Part IV is taken from another publication of the same Editor and Proprietors, namely, Harms: varies Universal History; and it is very good of them to let me put to a further use my occasional contributions to these two works of multiple authorship and encyclopedic range. In conclusion, if the reader find cause to complain that the treatment ranges all too freely between the academic and the popular—and, admittedly, the first half of the book deals mainly with theory, while the second half consists almost entirely of illustrative facts—let me venture to urge that the way to construct a true Science of Man can never be by depriving the subject of its hun-an appeal.Introduction. The Variety of Human Experience.
The Sociological Outlook.
Evolution and Progress.
Fast and Value.
Race and Society.
Pre-theological Religion in General.
Religious Feeling.
Religious Thinking.
Religious Acting.
Pre-theological Religion: Particular Illustrations.
Ritualism as a Disease of Religion.
The Sacrament of Food.
Religion and the Means of Life.
Religion and Trade.
Religion and Blood-revence.
War-charms and Love-charms.
The Medicine Man.
Taboo.
Totems.
Primitive Tecnology.
Arts and Crafts of Prehistoric Man.
Arts and Crafts of the Modern Savage.