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Volksgeist as method and ethic : essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition / edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- History of anthropology ; v. 8.
- History of anthropology ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Germany--History.
- Ethnology.
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
- Boas, Franz.
- Ethnology--United States--History.
- Ethnology--United States--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- United States.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline of America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. Though this fact is widely known, the significance of Boas' roots in German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth century German anthropology remains obscure. The essays in Volkgeist a Method and Ethic explore the Germanic influences on Boasian anthropology and clarify their implications for the ethnographic practice that Boas promulgated.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299145506
- OCLC:
- 33078150
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