The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911
Subtitle: a Franz Boas reader.
By: Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
Contributors: Stocking, George W., 1928- ed.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Anthropology
Notes: Bibliography: p. 341-348.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology; title: The background of Boas’ anthropology. The history of anthropology; title: Rudolf Virchow’s anthropological work; title: “The background of my early thinking”; title: Psychic life from a mechanistic viewpoint; title: A year among the Eskimo; title: Basic anthropological viewpoints. From geographical surroundings to historical facts; title: The principles of ethnological classification; title: The aims of ethnology; title: On alternating sounds; title: Remarks on the theory of anthropometry; title: The pattern of Boas’ fieldwork. From the Eskimo to Vancouver Island; title: Fieldwork for the British association, 1888-1897; title: The Jesup North Pacific expedition; title: Kathlamet texts; title: The documentary function of the text; title: A truthful picture for future times; title: “That book contains my speech”; title: Folklore and the critique of evolutionism. Tylor’s “adhesions” and the distribution of myth-elements; title: The mythologies of the Indians; title: The mythology of the Belle Coola Indians; title: The analytical study of language. Classification of the languages of the North Pacific Coast; title: A handbook of North American languages; title: Sketch of the kwakiutl language; title: A purely analytical study of language; title: The relation of Tlingit and Athapascan; title: The speech mannerisms of social groups; title: Some philological aspects of anthropological research; title: The critique of formalism in physical anthropology. The anthropology of the North American Indian; title: Changes in immigrant body form; title: Instability of human types; title: Racial capacity and cultural determinism. Human faculty as determined by race; title: Psychological problems in anthropology; title: Anthropological overviews. The religion of American Indians; title: Anthropology; title: The propagation of anthropology. The Boas plan for American anthropology; title: Anthropological instruction in Columbia University; title: Boas’ graduate seminar; title: A plea for a great oriental school; title: The educational functions of anthropological museums; title: Plans for research in Central and South America; title: A residue of bitterness; title: Anthropology and society. The outlook for the American negro; title: Changing the racial attitudes of white Americans; title: Race problems in America; title: American nationalism and World War I; title: A protest vote for the socialist party; title: Scientists as spies; title: Freedom to teach.