Volume 8, Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
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.
Other volumes in the History of Anthropology series
Volume 7, Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
Volume 6, Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility
Volume 5, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology
Volume 4, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality
Volume 3, Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture
Volume 2, Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 1, Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
"A splendid series."-Joan Mark, Isis
"Among the most distinguished publications in anthropology, as well as in the history of social sciences."-George Marcus, Anthropologica Contributors: Judith Berman, Thomas Buckley, Matti Bunzl, Ira Jacknis, Julia E. Liss, Benoit Massin