The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2: Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography

by Franz Boas

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau as revealed through the correspondence between Franz Boas and the Scottish-born James Teit, who married into an Interior Salish family and community and became fluent in the Nlaka'pamux language. The letters between Teit (1864-1922) and Boas (1858-1942) chronicle Teit's varied career as an ethnographer, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496235711
• ISBN13: 9781496235718
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 1056 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.8" x 7.3" x 10.3"