The ethnography of Franz Boas / compiled and edited by Ronald P. Rohner ; with an introduction by Ronald P. Rohner and Evelyn C. Rohner ; Translated by Hedy Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942, author.

Rohner, Evelyn C., 1937- author of introduction.

Contributor:

Rohner, Ronald Preston, 1935- editor, compiler, author of introduction.

Parker, Hedy, translator.

University of Chicago. Press, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942--Correspondence.

Boas, Franz.

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942--Diaries.

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.

Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America.

Indians of North America.

North America--Northwest Coast of North America.

Ethnology--North America--Northwest Coast of North America.

Genre:

Diaries.

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph, January 1974) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 331 pages, 1 unnumbered page : genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Letters and diaries of Franz Boas

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Contents:

pt. I: Initial Field Work on the Northwest Coast (1886)

1. Letter-diary to parents (1886)

2. Letter-diary to parents (1886) (continued)

pt. II: Research Primarily for the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1888-1894)

3. 1888 Diary

4. Family letters (1889)

5. Diary to parents and family letters (1890)

6. Family letters (1894)

7. Family letters (1894) (continued)

pt. III: Research for the Jesup Expedition (1897-1901)

8. Family letters (1897)

9. Family letters (1900)

pt. IV: Independent Research (1914-1931)

10. Family letters (1914-1931)

Appends.

Notes:

At head of title: Letters and diaries of Franz Boas written on the Northwest coast from 1886 to 1931.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center Adams copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

0226062384

9780226062389

OCLC:

72417

Online:

French equivalent / Équivalent français