The Franz Boas papers
"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 America…
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- 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. "--
"The introductory volume to the Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition, which examines Boas' stature as public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography and activism"--
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2015-
- Edition:Documentary edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication:Lincoln
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015-
The Physical Object
- Description:volumes : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780803269842, 0803269846
- oclc:on1029400251
- LC Classification:GN21.B56
- Dewey Decimal:301.092
Table of Contents
Volume 1. Franz Boas as public intellectual : theory, ethnography, activism / edited by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith. Historiographic conundra : the Boasian elephant in the middle of anthropology's room / Regna Darnell -- Mind, body, and the Native point of view : Boasian theory at the centennial of The mind of primitive man / Regna Darnell -- The individual and individuality in Franz Boas's anthropology and philosophy / Herbert S. Lewis -- The police dance : dissemination in Boas's field notes and diaries, 1886-1894 / Christopher Bracken -- Franz Boas and the conditions of literature / J. Edward Chamberlin -- From Baffin Island to Boasian induction : how anthropology and linguistics got into their interlinear groove / Michael Silverstein -- The Boasian legacy in ethnomusicology : cultural relativism, narrative texts, linguistic structures, and the role of comparison / Sean O'Neill -- Friends in this world : the relationship of George Hunt and Franz Boas / Isaiah Lorado Wilner -- The ethnographic legacy of Franz Boas and James Teit : The Thompson Indians of British Columbia / Andrea Laforet -- Anthropological activism and Boas's Pacific N…
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