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

by Franz Boas

Book Overview

""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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226774902
• ISBN13: 9780226774909
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.