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• ISBN: 0226062430
• ISBN: 9780226062433
• Physical Description: 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.

Part VI. The critique of formalism in physical anthropology -- The anthropology of the North American Indian -- Changes in immigrant body form -- Instability of human types -- Part VII. Racial capacity and cultural determinism -- Human faculty as determined by race -- Psychological problems in anthropology -- Part VIII. Anthropological overviews -- The religion of American Indians -- Anthropology -- Part IX. The Propagation of anthropology -- The Boas plan for American anthropology -- Anthropolological instruction in Columbia University -- Boas' Graduate seminar -- A plea for a great Oriental school -- The educational functions of anthropological museums -- Plans for research in Central and South America -- A residue of bitterness -- Part X. Anthropology and society -- The outlook for the American Negro -- Changing the racial attitudes of White Americans -- Race problems in America -- American nationalism and World War I -- A protest vote for the Socialist Party -- Scientists as spies -- Freedom to teach.

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Anthropology.
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.