In this Book
- Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
- Book
- 1996
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: History of Anthropology
summary
Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth-century German anthropology, and offers a new perspective on the historical development of ethnography in the United States.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780299145538
Related ISBN(s)
9780299145507, 9780299145545
MARC Record
OCLC
657217642
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1998