Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy, 1944- author.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.

Boas, Franz.

Anthropologists--Germany--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Anthropologists--United States--Biography.

Anthropology.

History.

United States.

Germany.

Racism in anthropology.

Anthropology--History--19th century.

Anthropology--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Contents:

1. Ardently desired boy : young Boas and his family

2. Student life into its deepest depths : Boas at university

3. In heaven, in love, and separation : preparing for the Arctic voyage

4. Creating a future for us : to Baffin Land and back

5. Divided desires : pulled between New York and Germany

6. West to the Indians : Northwest Coast fieldwork, employment by science, and marriage

7. All our hopes come to such a disgrace : Boas at Clark University

8. The World's Columbian Exposition : Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam

9. Your orphan boy : struggling to find a place

10. The greatest undertaking of its kind : the Jesup North Pacific Expedition

11. Taking hold in New York : from the AMNH to Columbia University.

Notes:

First of two volumes. Volume 2 (forthcoming) subtitled: Shaping anthropology and working for social justice. (Series editors' introduction)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-394) and index.

ISBN:

9781496215543

1496215540

OCLC:

1088606590