A Franz Boas Reader the Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1989
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'The Shaping of America Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well...He is, in a word, the foremost historian of anthropology in the world today...The reader is both a collection of Boas's papers and a solid 23-page introduction giving the background and basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology.'
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