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• Physical Description: vii, 165 pages illustrations.

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General Note:

Issued as the American anthropologist, v. 61, no. 5, pt. 2.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface / A.L. Kroeber -- Introduction / Walter Goldschmidt -- Influences during the formative years / Clyde Kluckhohn and Olaf Prufer -- Apprenticeship under Boas / Margaret Mead -- Boas' "natural history" approach to field method / Marian Smith -- The understanding of the Kwakiutl / Helen Codere -- Boas' contributions to knowledge of human growth and form / J.M. Tanner -- Boas as statistician / W.W. Howells -- Boas Sobre Cerámica y estratigrafía / Manuel Gamio -- Folklore / Melville jacobs -- Boas' view of grammatical meaning / Roman Jakobson -- Some central elements in the legacy / Leslie Spier.

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Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Anthropology.

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Essays.

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• American Anthropological Association. Memoirs, no. 89
• Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association ; no. 89.