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Franz Boas - The Emergence of the Anthropologist (Hardcover)
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Franz Boas - The Emergence of the Anthropologist (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
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Rosemary Levy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one
of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a
two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist's
birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation
from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, while also
examining his role in training professional anthropologists from
his berth at Columbia University in New York City. Zumwalt follows
the stepping-stones that led Boas to his vision of anthropology as
a four-field discipline, a journey demonstrating especially his
tenacity to succeed, the passions that animated his life, and the
toll that the professional struggle took on him. Zumwalt guides the
reader through Boas's childhood and university education, describes
his joy at finding the great love of his life, Marie Krackowizer,
traces his 1883 trip to Baffin Land, and recounts his efforts to
find employment in the United States. A central interest in the
book is Boas's widely influential publications on cultural
relativism and issues of race, particularly his book The Mind of
Primitive Man (1911), which reshaped anthropology, the social
sciences, and public debates about the problem of racism in
American society. Franz Boas presents the remarkable life story of
an American intellectual giant as told in his own words through his
unpublished letters, diaries, and field notes. Zumwalt weaves
together the strands of the personal and the professional to reveal
Boas's love for his family and for the discipline of anthropology
as he shaped it.
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