Anthropology in North America
By: by Franz Boas ... [et al.].
Contributors: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958.; Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934.; Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933.; Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947.; Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943.; Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928.; Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957.; Radin, Paul, 1883-1959.; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.; Goldenweiser, Alexander A., 1880-1940.
Publisher: G.E. Stechert & Co.
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Indians of North America.; Ethnology -- North America.
Description: Papers presented by the American Anthropological Association and the American Folk-Lore Society to the nineteenth International Congress of Americanists, October 1914. Topics include mythology, religion, physical anthropology, material culture etc. of North American Indians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Primitive American history / John R. Swanton and Roland B. Dixon; title: Areas of American culture characterization tentatively outlined as an aid in the study of the antiquities / W.H. Holmes; title: Material cultures of the North American Indians / Clark Wissler; title: Physical anthropology in America / Aleš Hrdlička; title: The present condition of our knowledge of the North American languages / Pliny Earle Goddard; title: Ceremonialism in North America / Robert H. Lowie; title: Religion of the North American Indians / Paul Radin; title: Mythology and folk-tales of the North American Indians / Franz Boas; title: Social organization of the North American Indians / A.A. Goldenweiser.