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 ChicagoWhile 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
- ISBN10 0226774902
- ISBN13 9780226774909
- Publish Date 1 December 1982
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 September 2005
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition Univ of Chicago PR ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English