The Franz Boas papers
by Darnell, Regna Hamilton, Michelle A. Hancock, Robert L. A. Smith, Joshua, (Joshua James)
"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. / edited by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith.
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
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication:Lincoln
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 381 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780803271999, 0803271999
- oclc:ocn911618947
- LC Classification:GN21.B56
- Dewey Decimal:301.092
Table of Contents
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Historiographic Conundra: The Boasian Elephantin the Middle of Anthropology's Room -- Part 1. Theory and Interdisciplinary Scope -- 1. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: BoasianTheory at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man -- 2. The Individual and Individuality in Franz Boas's Anthropology and Philosophy -- 3. The Police Dance: Dissemination in Boas's Field Notes and Diaries, 1886- 1894 -- 4. Franz Boas and the Conditions of Literature -- 5. From Baffin Island to Boasian Induction: How Anthropology and Linguistics Got into Their Interlinear Groove -- 6. The Boasian Legacy in Ethnomusicology: Cultural Relativism, Narrative Texts, Linguistic Structures, and the Role of Comparison -- PART 2 Ethnography -- 7. Friends in This World: The Relationship of George Hunt and Franz Boas -- 8. The Ethnographic Legacy of Franz Boas and James Teit: The Thompson Indians of British Columbia -- Part 3. Activism -- 9. Anthropological Activism and Boas's Pacific Northwest Ethnology -- 10. Franz Boas, Wilson Duff, and the Image of Anthropology in British Columbia -- 11. Cultural Persistence in the …
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