Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (Volume 8) (History of Anthropology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299145506 ISBN 13: 9780299145507

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

Synopsis

Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth-century German anthropology, and offers a new perspective on the historical development of ethnography in the United States.

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From the Publisher:

Other volumes in the series Volume 1, Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork

Volume 2, Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology

Volume 3, Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture

Volume 4, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality

Volume 5, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology

Volume 6, Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility Volume 7, Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge

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Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline of America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. Though this fact is widely known, the significance of Boas' roots in German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth century German anthropology remains obscure. The essays in Volkgeist a Method and Ethic explore the Germanic influences on Boasian anthropology and clarify their implications for the ethnographic practice that Boas promulgated.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0299145506
• ISBN 13: 9780299145507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Stocking Jr. George W.