A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226062433)

"The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well. . . . He is, in a word, the foremost historian of anthropology in the world today. . . . The reader is both a collection of Boas's papers and a solid 23-page introduction to giving the background and basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology."-David Schneider, University of Chicago

"While Stocking has not attempted to present a person biography, nevertheless Boas's personal characteristics emerge not only in his scholarly essays, but perhaps more vividly in his personal correspondence. . . . Stocking is to be commended for collecting this material together in a most interesting and enjoyable reader."-Gustav Thaiss, American Anthropologist


Author: Franz Boas
ISBN-10: 0226062430
ISBN-13: 9780226062433
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/1989
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.02w x 0.75d