A Franz Boas Reader - The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911

"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"

Product details

• Authors: Franz Boas
• Assisted by: George W. Stocking (Editor), Jr Stocking (Editor), George W. Stocking Jr (Editor), George W. Stocking Wiscdelete (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1989
• EAN: 9780226062433
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06243-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 564 g
• Series: Midway Reprints; Midway Reprints
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous