Franz Boas papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Anthropology; Linguistics; Race relations; Study and teaching; Academic freedom; Science; Social sciences
Description: Personal and professional correspondence, diaries, and Boas (Boaz) family papers relating chiefly to Boas's career as an anthropologist and social scientist.  Subjects include anthropology and linguistics in the U.S.; the development of their study; and anthropology in Latin America.  Other subjects include academic freedom, race, and science.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm produced from originals in the American Philosophical Society Library. Philadelphia, Pa.

American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.

Purchase, 1981.

Anthropologist, linguist, ethnologist, educator, and curator.

Collection material in English, French, German, and Spanish.

The finding aid to the originals of this collection and other Boas material at the American Philosophical Society is available online.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010175