This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology."Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology. The book, Race, Language, and Culture, is a collection of some of his most important essays."â€”David Schneider, University of Chicago "An exceptional book. Exceptional because it brings into one volume sixty-two papers written by the most influential figure in American anthropology. . . . Exceptional in that it exhibits the wide range of interests and scientific exactness which made it possible for one man to exert such a profound influence on the growing science of anthropology. . . . This is a volume every student of anthropology will wish to possess; it will also have a wide distribution among other students of the social sciences, and all interested in the problems of race."â€”Fay-Cooper Cole, American Anthropologist

Race, Language and Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Boas, Franz

Social Sciences

The Free Press

This classic study of the relationship between race and culture holds an important place in current scientific literature.  For not until its publication were scientists who refused to accept theories of racial superiority and inferiority able to point to a single comprehensive work in which data were presented in terms of wider implications and known facts marshaled to answer disputed questions.  The author insists that there is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man.  A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

The Mind of Primitive Man

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Free Pr

Presents an unfinished Boas manuscript and selected publications in which the renowned anthropologist records his observations of such aspects of Kwakiutl culture as social and economic organization, religion, and art

Kwakiutl Ethnography (Classics in Anthropology)

History

Americas

University of Chicago Press

This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology. "Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology. The book, Race, Language, and Culture, is a collection of some of his most important essays."—David Schneider, University of Chicago "An exceptional book. Exceptional because it brings into one volume sixty-two papers written by the most influential figure in American anthropology. . . . Exceptional in that it exhibits the wide range of interests and scientific exactness which made it possible for one man to exert such a profound influence on the growing science of anthropology. . . . This is a volume every student of anthropology will wish to possess; it will also have a wide distribution among other students of the social sciences, and all interested in the problems of race."—Fay-Cooper Cole, American Anthropologist

Race, Language, and Culture (Midway Reprints)

This volume provides a collection of Franz Boas's essays covering topics involved in the field of anthropology.

Race, Language, and Culture

Univ of Chicago Pr

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

A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 (Midway Reprints)

Indianische Sagen von de nord-pacifischen Küste Amerikas (German Edition)

Europe

Wentworth Press

A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art

Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history. Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate peoples were therefore examples of early stages of development. But Boas’s case studies from his own fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest demonstrated different tenets: the variety of history, the influence of diffusion, the symbolic and stylistic variation in art styles found among groups and sometimes within one group, and the role of imagination and creativity on the part of the artist. This volume presents Boas’s most significant writings on art (dated 1889-1916), many originally published in obscure sources now difficult to locate. The original illustrations and an extensive, combined bibliography are included. Aldona Jonaitis’s careful compilation of articles and the thorough historical and theoretical framework in which she casts them in her introductory and concluding essays make this volume a valuable reference for students of art history and Northwest anthropology, and a special delight for admirers of Boas.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history.Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate peoples were therefore examples of early stages of development. But Boas�s case studies from his own fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest demonstrated different tenets: the variety of history, the influence of diffusion, the symbolic and stylistic variation in art styles found among groups and sometimes within one group, and the role of imagination and creativity on the part of the artist.This volume presents Boas�s most significant writings on art (dated 1889-1916), many originally published in obscure sources now difficult to locate. The original illustrations and an extensive, combined bibliography are included.Aldona Jonaitis�s careful compilation of articles and the thorough historical and theoretical framework in which she casts them in her introductory and concluding essays make this volume a valuable reference for students of art history and Northwest anthropology, and a special delight for admirers of Boas.

One of the earliest studies of the relationship between race and culture which comprehensively presents known facts rather than implications of superiority and inferiority.
The first edition of the book appeared in 1911, and went through several printings before Boas revised it, as he said, to take into account of the findings of research carried on since the book was initially written. His conclusions, were that …there is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established. The concept of racial type as commonly used even in scientific literature is misleading and requires a logical as well as biological definition.

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Praeger

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Race, Language and Culture

The Mind of Primitive Man

Kwakiutl Ethnography (Classics in Anthropology)

Race, Language, and Culture (Midway Reprints)

Race, Language, and Culture

A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 (Midway Reprints)

Indianische Sagen von de nord-pacifischen Küste Amerikas (German Edition)

A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art

A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art

The Mind of Primitive Man