This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today. The book begins with a discussion of the historical context of Boasian anthropology, and an overview of its nature and limitations. The work of Boas and his leading students is then discussed in detail, including biographical data, a review and critique of their research, a review in detail of each of their major publications, and an overall assessment of their contribution to anthropology, as seen in their own time and today.
- ISBN10 076186802X
- ISBN13 9780761868026
- Publish Date 2 September 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of America
- Imprint Hamilton Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 356
- Language English