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A Franz Boas reader : the shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911
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- ISBN: 0226062430
- ISBN: 9780226062433
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Physical Description:
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xi, 354 pages : portraits ; 23 cm. - Edition: Midway reprint ed.
- Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989, c1974.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911. New York : Basic Books, 1974. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. The Background of Boas' anthropology -- History of anthropology -- Rudolf Virchow's anthropological work -- The background of my early thinking -- Psychic life from a mechanistic viewpoint -- A year among the Eskimo -- Part II. Basic anthropological viewpoints -- From geographical surroundings to historical facts -- The principles of ethnological classification -- The aims of ethnology -- On alternating sounds -- Remarks on the theory of anthropometry -- Part III. The Pattern of Boas' fieldwork -- From the Eskimo to Vancouver Island -- Fieldwork for the British Association 1888-1897 -- The Jesup North Pacific Expedition -- Kathlamet texts -- The documentary function of the text -- A truthful picture for future times -- "That book conains my speech" -- Part IV. Folklore and the critique of evolutionism -- Tylor's adhesions and the distribution of myth-elements -- The mythologies of the Indians -- The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians -- Part V. The Analytical study of language -- Classification of the languages of the North Pacific Coast -- A handbook of North American languages -- Sketch of the Kwakiutl language -- A purely analytical study of language -- The relation of Tlingit and Athapascan -- The speech mannerisms of social groups -- Some philological aspects of anthropological research. |
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| Subject: | Anthropology Boas, Franz 1858-1942 |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GN 6 .B57 1989 | 282315 | Stacks | Available | - |