Volksgeist As Method and Ethic : Essays in

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.

George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the author of After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951; Victorian Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; and The Ethnographer’s Magic. In 1993, he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

BOASIAN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITION

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THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY

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Franz Boas

FRANZ BOAS AND THE HUMBOLDTIAN TRADITION: FROM VOLKSGEIST AND NATIONALCHARAKTER TO AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF CULTURE

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Matti Bunzl

FROM VIRCHOW TO FISCHER: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND "MODERN RACE THEORIES" IN WILHELMINE GERMANY

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Benoit Massin

GERMAN CULTURE AND GERMAN SCIENCE IN THE BILDUNG OF FRANZ BOAS

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Julia E. Liss

THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OBJECT AND THE OBJECT OF ETHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY CAREER OF FRANZ BOAS

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Ira Jacknis

"THE CULTURE AS IT APPEARS TO THE INDIAN HIMSELF": BOAS, GEORGE HUNT, AND THE METHODS OF ETHNOGRAPHY

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Judith Berman

"THE LITTLE HISTORY OF PITIFUL EVENTS": THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND MORAL CONTEXTS OF KROEBER'S CALIFORNIAN ETHNOLOGY

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Thomas Buckley

ORIENTALISM AS KULTURPOLITIK: GERMAN ARCHEOLOGY AND CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN ASIA MINOR

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Suzanne Marchand

INDEX

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Volksgeist As Method and Ethic : Essays in Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition

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