A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 - Softcover

Stocking, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226774902 ISBN 13: 9780226774909

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1982

Synopsis

"The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well. . . . He is, in a word, the foremost historian of anthropology in the world today. . . . The reader is both a collection of Boas's papers and a solid 23-page introduction to giving the background and basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology."-David Schneider, University of Chicago "While Stocking has not attempted to present a person biography, nevertheless Boas's personal characteristics emerge not only in his scholarly essays, but perhaps more vividly in his personal correspondence. . . . Stocking is to be commended for collecting this material together in a most interesting and enjoyable reader."-Gustav Thaiss, American Anthropologist

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'The Shaping of America Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well...He is, in a word, the foremost historian of anthropology in the world today...The reader is both a collection of Boas's papers and a solid 23-page introduction giving the background and basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0226774902
• ISBN 13: 9780226774909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354