Download or read book Adolf Bastian and the Psychic Unity of Mankind written by Klaus Peter Köpping and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1983 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Bastian mapped a programme for anthropological research in the nineteenth century which is still accepted in the international scholarly community today, without the figure of its founder being known. This is the first time that seminal pieces of the work of this much-neglected scholar have been translated into English. Bastian had an impact, directly and indirectly, on geography, psychology, comparative religious studies, and ethnology in the twentieth century.