The Boas family's lifelong habit of writing frequent, frank, and informative letters allows a rich and intimate look at Boas's childhood, family, schooling, and marriage, as well as his early expeditions among the Central Eskimo and ...
Combining German and American intellectual history with Boas's first-person accounts, this important book relates Boas to his times, establishes his predispositions and influences, traces the course of his developing ideas, and clarifies ...
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 Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism, edited by Regina Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Building the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University -- 2. Franz Boas and His Early Students, 1901-1915 -- 3. Race and the Quest for Social Justice -- 4. Folklore and Ruins in Mexico and Puerto Rico -- 5.
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt's two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual.
Franz Boas: The Science of Man in the Making
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.