The Franz Boas papers

by Boas, Franz

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Title Statements

Full title :The Franz Boas papers / Regna Darnell, general editor.

Summary

"This inaugural volume of The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858-1942). Few of Boas's intellectual progeny span the range of his disciplinary and public engagements. In his later career, Boas moved beyond Native American studies to become a public intellectual and advocate for social justice, particularly with reference to racism against African Americans and Jews and discrimination against women in science. He was a passionate defender of academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, and anthropology as a humane calling. The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1 examines Boas's stature as a public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography, and activism. The volume's contributors move across many of the disciplines within which Boas himself worked, bringing to bear their expertise in Native studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, folklore, ethnomusicology, museum studies, comparative literature, English, film studies, philosophy, and journalism. This volume demonstrates a contemporary urgency to reassessing Boas both within the field of anthropology and beyond."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:[2015]-

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
Place of Publication:Lincoln
Language:eng
Publication Date:[2015]-

Notes

"In partnership with the American Philosophical Society (APS) and the University of Nebraska Press, this volume initiates an ambitious project to digitize and critically edit the Franz Boas papers. We anticipate approximately twenty-five volumes ..."--Volume 1, page 345.

"The APS holdings include Boas's family and professional correspondence, field notebooks and diaries from the Northwest Coast and the Arctic, almost three thousand photographs and sketches of ethnographic material culture, anthropometric data ... numerous maps ... and public talks and academic lectures, all of which were produced between 1862 and 1942"--Volume 1, page 346.

Volume 1 is the product of a conference held in December 2010 at the University of Western Ontario.

The Physical Object

Description:volumes : : illustrations, facsimiles ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780803269842, 0803269846, 0803271999, 9780803271999
oclc:ocn908311128
LC Classification:GN21.B56
Dewey Decimal:301.092

Volume 1. Franz Boas as public intellectual : theory, ethnography, activism / edited by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith.

Subjects

Aktivismus BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Boas, Franz Diaries Ethnologie Ethnologie -- Histoire. -- Amérique du … Ethnology Ethnology -- History. -- North America History Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) North America Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Personal correspondence Rezeption SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology Theorie Wissenschaft