Ebook: Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
Author: George W. Stocking Jr. (editor)
- Tags: Anthropology--Germany--History, Anthropology--Germany--Philosophy, Anthropology--United States--History, Anthropology--United States--Philosophy, Boas Franz --1858-1942, Electronic books, Anthropology -- Germany -- History, Anthropology -- Germany -- Philosophy, Anthropology -- United States -- History, Anthropology -- United States -- Philosophy, Boas Franz -- 1858-1942
- Series: History of Anthropology 8
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- City: Madison
- Language: English
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Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition -- The Study of Geography / Franz Boas -- Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition: From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an Anthropological Concept of Culture / Matti Bunzl -- From Virchow to Fischer: Physical Anthropology and "Modern Race Theories" in Wilhelmine Germany / Benoit Massin -- German Culture and German Science in the Bildung of Franz Boas / Julia E. Liss -- The Ethnographic Object and the Object of Ethnology in the Early Career of Franz Boas / Ira Jacknis;Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth-century German anthropology, and offers a new perspective on the historical development of ethnography in the United States.
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