Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.
Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.
Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
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G 2020/5593
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English
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xxi, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Ardently desired boy: young Boas and his family -- Student life into its deepest depths: Boas at university -- In heaven, in love, and separation: preparing for the Arctic voyage -- Creating a future for us: to Baffin Land and back -- Divided desires: pulled between New York and Germany -- West to t...
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
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Nebraska
Date Published
[2019]
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"Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist's birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation from the American Museum of N...
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Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.
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Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
First of two volumes. Volume 2 (forthcoming) subtitled: Shaping anthropology and working for social justice. (Series editors' introduction)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-394) and index.
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G 2020/5593
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74VKadL4veDO
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9781496215543 (cloth : alk. paper)
1496215540
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301
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991024320110502626
