Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition

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Contents BOASIAN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITION 3 THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY Franz Boas 9 FRANZ BOAS AND THE HUMBOLDTIAN TRADITION: FROM VOLKSGEIST AND NATIONALCHARAKTER TO AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF CULTURE Matti Bunzl 17 FROM VIRCHOW TO FISCHER: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND "MODERN RACE THEORIES" IN WILHELMINE GERMANY Benoit Massin 79 GERMAN CULTURE AND GERMAN SCIENCE IN THE BILDUNG OF FRANZ BOAS Julia E. Liss 155 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OBJECT AND THE OBJECT OF ETHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY CAREER OF FRANZ BOAS Ira Jacknis 185 "THE CULTURE AS IT ApPEARS TO THE INDIAN HIMSELF": BOAS, GEORGE HUNT, AND THE METHODS OF ETHNOGRAPHY Judith Berman 215 viii CONTENTS "THE LITTLE HISTORY OF PITIFUL EVENTS"; THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND MORAL CONTEXTS OF KROEBER'S CALIFORNIAN ETHNOLOGY Thomas Buckley 257 ORIENTALlSM AS KULTURPOLITIK: GERMAN ARCHEOLOGY AND CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN ASIA MINOR Suzanne Marchand 298 INDEX 337 Yo/bl/eistas Methodand Ethic ...