Presents an unfinished Boas manuscript and selected publications in which the renowned anthropologist records his observations of such aspects of Kwakiutl culture as social and economic organization, religion, and art
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Boas's suggestions to her as to what to look for in the field (5/3/27), rather than evidence of “Boas's control of Hurston's work” (Meisenhelder 1999:201), are the suggestions that any good advisor might give to a young student.
Translated Kwakiutl texts dealing with dreams and information relating to the social organization of the tribe.
This volume explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau through the correspondence between Franz Boas and James Teit.
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
"The introductory volume to the Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition, which examines Boas' stature as public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography and activism"--
This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Methods of Ethnology' is a work on the techniques of anthropology.
Building the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University -- 2. Franz Boas and His Early Students, 1901-1915 -- 3. Race and the Quest for Social Justice -- 4. Folklore and Ruins in Mexico and Puerto Rico -- 5.
The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island. ... Kwakiutl. In Boas, ed., 1911:1, 423-557. . 1912. Tsimshian texts, new series. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 3: 65-284. ... Kwakiutl grammar, with a glossary of the suffixes.