The Central Eskimo

Franz Boas

University of Nebraska Press, 1964 - Social Science - 261 pages

Reprint of part of Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 1888, page 409-669. (AB1728).

Contents

• Introduction to Bison Book edition V: 1
• Distribution of the tribes: 11
• Trade and intercourse between the tribes: 54

About the author

Franz Boas, a German-born American anthropologist, became the most influential anthropologist of his time. He left Germany because of its antiliberal and anti-Semitic climate. As a Columbia University professor for 37 years (1899-1936), he created both the field of anthropology and the modern concept of culture. Boas played a key role in organizing the American Anthropological Association (AAA) as an umbrella organization for the emerging field. At both Columbia and the AAA, Boas encouraged the "four field" concept of anthropology; he personally contributed to physical anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, as well as cultural anthropology. His work in these fields was pioneering. Both directly and through the influence of such students as Ruth Benedict, Melville J. Herskovits, Alfred L. Kroeber, and Margaret Mead, he set the agenda for all subsequent American cultural anthropology. In His lifetime Boas had many leadership roles including: Assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History; editor of The Journal of American Folklore; president of the New York Academy of Sciences, and founder of the International Journal of American Linguistics. Boas is the author of hundreds of scientific monographs and articles. He died in 1942.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Central Eskimo; Volume 196 of Bison book; Bison books edition
• Author: Franz Boas
• Contributor: Henry Bascom Collins
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1964
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 16, 2008
• ISBN: 0803250169, 9780803250161
• Length: 261 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / General; Travel / Canada / General