General Note:
Originally published: The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911. New York : Basic Books, 1974.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-348) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology -- pt. 1. The background of Boas' anthropology: The 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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 ; The truthful picture for future times ; "That book contains my speech" -- pt. 4. 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 -- pt. 5. The analytic 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 -- pt. 6. The critique of formalism in physical anthropology: The anthropology of the North American Indian ; Changes in immigrant body form ; Instability of human types -- pt. 7. Racial capacity and cultural determinism: Human faculty as determined by race ; Psychological problems in anthropology -- pt. 8. Anthropological overviews: The religion of American Indians ; Anthropology -- pt. 9. The Boas plan for American anthropology ; Anthropological 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 -- pt. 10. 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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