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This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today.
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William Y. Adams was a student of Robert H. Lowie at the University of California, and is thus a second-generation Boasian. As a professor of anthropology he taught 33 different courses, and has published 22 books. He has done ethnological fieldwork in the U.S. Southwest, where he grew up, and archaeological fieldwork in both the Southwest and the Nile Valley.
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William Adams has...produced a valuable work by marshalling so much information about the men and women who created the distinctive discipline that is (or was) American anthropology. (Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute)
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- PublisherHamilton Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 076186802X
- ISBN 13 9780761868026
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages356
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