A Franz Boas Reader

A Franz Boas Reader
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780226062433
ISBN-13 : 0226062430
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis A Franz Boas Reader by : Franz Boas

"The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well. . . . He is, in a word, the foremost historian of anthropology in the world today. . . . The reader is both a collection of Boas's papers and a solid 23-page introduction to giving the background and basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology."—David Schneider, University of Chicago "While Stocking has not attempted to present a person biography, nevertheless Boas's personal characteristics emerge not only in his scholarly essays, but perhaps more vividly in his personal correspondence. . . . Stocking is to be commended for collecting this material together in a most interesting and enjoyable reader."—Gustav Thaiss, American Anthropologist

Franz Boas

Franz Boas
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 9781496216915
ISBN-13 : 1496216911
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Franz Boas by : Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

This is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, and social science, the visual and performing arts, and America's public sphere during a period of global upheaval and social struggle.

Anthropology and Modern Life

Anthropology and Modern Life
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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781473395978
ISBN-13 : 1473395976
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Anthropology and Modern Life by : Franz Boas

This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Anthropology and Modern Life' is a work on the study of humans and their lives in various societies. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. Boas completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. Boas became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Franz Boas had a long career and a great impact on many areas of study. He died on 21st December 1942.

Rethinking Race

Rethinking Race
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9780813188645
ISBN-13 : 0813188644
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Race by : Vernon J. WilliamsJr.

In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of "racial science" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. Williams explores these theories in a carefully crafted analysis of Franz Boas and his influence upon his contemporaries, especially W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, George W. Ellis, and Robert E. Park. Historians have long recognized the monumental role Franz Boas played in eviscerating the racist worldview that prevailed in the American social sciences. Williams reconsiders the standard portrait of Boas and offers a new understanding of a man who never fully escaped the racist assumptions of 19th-century anthropology but nevertheless successfully argued that African Americans could assimiliate into American society and that the chief obstacle facing them was not heredity but the prejudice of white America.

Gods of the Upper Air

Gods of the Upper Air
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9780525432326
ISBN-13 : 0525432329
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Gods of the Upper Air by : Charles King

2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world. A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced." What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature. In Gods of the Upper Air, a masterful narrative history of radical ideas and passionate lives, Charles King shows how these intuitions led to a fundamental reimagining of human diversity. Boas's students were some of the century's most colorful figures and unsung visionaries: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is among the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans on the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped civilizations from the American South to the South Pacific and from Caribbean islands to Manhattan's city streets, and unearthed an essential fact buried by centuries of prejudice: that humanity is an undivided whole. Their revolutionary findings would go on to inspire the fluid conceptions of identity we know today. Rich in drama, conflict, friendship, and love, Gods of the Upper Air is a brilliant and groundbreaking history of American progress and the opening of the modern mind.

Indigenous Visions

Indigenous Visions
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780300196511
ISBN-13 : 0300196512
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Indigenous Visions by : Ned Blackhawk

A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781487513290
ISBN-13 : 1487513291
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 by : Ludger Muller-Wille

In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound. This was his introduction to the Arctic and to anthropological fieldwork. This book presents, for the first time, his letters and journal entries from the year that he spent among the Inuit, providing not only an insightful background to his numerous scientific articles about Inuit culture, but a comprehensive and engaging narrative as well. Using a Scottish whaling station as his base, Boas travelled widely with the Inuit, learning their language, living in their tents and snow houses, sharing their food, and experiencing their joys and sorrows. At the same time he was taking detailed notes and surveying and mapping the landscape and coastline. Ludger Müller-Wille has transcribed his journals and his letters to his parents and fiancé and woven these texts into a sequential narrative. The result is a fascinating study of one of the earliest and most successful examples of participatory observation among the Inuit. Originally published in German in 1994, the text has been translated into English by William Barr, who has also published translations of other important works on the history of the Arctic. Illustrated with some of Boas's own photos and with maps of his field area, Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 is a valuable addition to the historical and anthropological literature on southern Baffin Island.

Anthropology [a Lecture Delivered at Columbia University in the Series on Science, Philosophy and Art, December 18, 1907]

Anthropology [a Lecture Delivered at Columbia University in the Series on Science, Philosophy and Art, December 18, 1907]
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Publisher : Legare Street Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1022441094
ISBN-13 : 9781022441095
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Anthropology [a Lecture Delivered at Columbia University in the Series on Science, Philosophy and Art, December 18, 1907] by : Franz 1858-1942 Boas

In this groundbreaking lecture, Franz Boas presents his revolutionary ideas on anthropology, challenging prevailing notions of race and culture and advocating for a more scientific and nuanced approach to the study of human societies. Boas' ideas remain influential to this day, making this book a must-read for anyone interested in the history of anthropology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Shaping Amern Anthropology

Shaping Amern Anthropology
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 0465077676
ISBN-13 : 9780465077670
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Shaping Amern Anthropology by : Stocking

The Ethnography of Franz Boas

The Ethnography of Franz Boas
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004358205
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Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ethnography of Franz Boas by : Franz Boas