essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by George W. Stocking, Jr
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Madison, Wis. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Wisconsin Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1996
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 349 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
History of anthropology ;
Volume Designation
v. 8
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition -- The study of geography / Franz Boas -- Franz Boas and the Humboldtian tradition : from Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an anthropoligical concept of culture / Matti Bunzl -- From Virchow to Fischer : physical anthropology and "modern race theories" in Wilhelmine Germany / Benoit Massin -- German culture and German science in the Bildung of Franz Boas / Julia E. Liss -- The ethnographhic object and the object of ethnologoy in the early career of Franz Boas / Ira Jacknis -- "The culture as it appears to the Indian himself" : Boas, George Hunt, and the methods of ethnography / Judith Berman -- "The little history of pitiful events" : the epistemological and moral contexts of Kroeber's Calilfornian ethnologooy / Thomas Buckley -- Orientalism as Kulturpolitik : German archeology and cultural imperialism in Asia Minor / Suzanne Marchand