Franz Boas

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Franz Boas : biography

July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942

Writings on Boas and Boasian anthropology

  • Baker, Lee D. 1994. "The Location of Franz Boas Within the African American Struggle". Critique of Anthropology, Vol 14(2):199–217.
  • Baker, Lee D. 2004. "Franz Boas Out of the Ivory Tower". Anthropological Theory 4(1):29–51.
  • Bashkow, Ira 2004. "A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries" in American Anthropologist 106(3): 443–458
  • Benedict, Ruth. "Franz Boas." Science. New Series, Vol. 97, No. 2507. January 15, 1943. Pages 60–62. The American Association for the Advancement of Science. JSTOR. Print. .
  • Boas, Norman F. 2004. Franz Boas 1858–1942: An Illustrated Biography ISBN 0-9672626-2-3
  • Bunzl, Matti 2004. "Boas, Foucault, and the ‘Native Anthropologist’", in American Anthropologist 106(3): 435–442
  • Cole, Douglas 1999. Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858–1906. ISBN 1-55054-746-1
  • Darnell, Regna 1998. And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology. ISBN 1-55619-623-7
  • Kroeber, Alfred 1949. "An Authoritarian Panacea" in American Anthropologist 51(2) 318–320
  • Kuper, Adam. 1988. The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion ISBN 0-415-00903-0
  • Lesser, Alexander 1981. "Franz Boas" in Sydel Silverman, ed. Totems and Teachers: Perspectives on the History of Anthropology ISBN 0-231-05087-9
  • Lewis, Herbert 2001a. "The Passion of Franz Boas" in American Anthropologist 103(2): 447–467
  • Lewis, Herbert 2001b. "Boas, Darwin, Science and Anthropology" in Current Anthropology 42(3): 381–406 (On line version contains transcription of Boas’s 1909 lecture on Darwin.)
  • Lewis, Herbert 2008. "Franz Boas: Boon or Bane" (Review Essay). Reviews in Anthropology 37 (2–3): 169–200.
  • Lowie, Robert H. "Franz Boas (1858–1942)." The Journal of American Folklore: Franz Boas Memorial Number. Vol. 57, No. 223. January–March 1944. Pages 59–64. The American Folklore Society. JSTOR. Print. .
  • Lowie, Robert H. "Bibliography of Franz Boas in Folklore." The Journal of American Folklore: Franz Boas Memorial Number. Vol. 57, No. 223. January–March 1944. Pages 65–69. The American Folklore Society. JSTOR. Print. .
  • Maud, Ralph. 2000. Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks. ISBN 0-88922-430-7
  • Price, David 2000 "" The Nation Vol. 271, Number 16, 24–27, November 20, 2000.
  • Price, David 2001 History of Anthropology Newsletter Vol. XXVII(2):9–12.
  • Stocking, George @., Jr. 1960. "Franz Boas and the Founding of the American Anthropological Association." American Anthropologist. Vol. 62, No. 1.
  • Stocking, George W., Jr. 1968. Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology ISBN 0-226-77494-5
  • Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. 1996. Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition ISBN 0-299-14554-9
  • Williams, Vernon J. Jr. 1996. . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
  • Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy. American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent. Ed. Alan Dundes. Bloomington and Indianapolis; Indiana University Press, 1988. Print.

Boas, anthropology, and Jewish identity

  • Glick, Leonard B. 1982. "Types Distinct from Our Own: Franz Boas on Jewish Identity and Assimilation" in American Anthropologist 84(3) pp. 545–565.
  • Frank, Gelya. 1997. "Jews, Multiculturalism, and Boasian Anthropology" in American Anthropologist 99(4), pp. 731–745.
  • Mitchell Hart, 2003. "Franz Boas as German, American, Jew." In German-Jewish Identities in America, eds. C. Mauch and J. Salomon (Madison: Max Kade Institute), pp. 88–105.