num_pages: 368
description: "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
language: English
title: A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911
titlecomplete: A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 (Midway Reprints)
genres: History, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 23
publisher: University of Chicago Press