| 1 | Creator: | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Anthropologist at work: writings of Ruth Benedict / by Margaret Mead
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | This item is the first working draft of the book published in 1959. Arrangement is different from published version, and lacks correspondence with Edward Sapir. More letters, fuller texts, fuller identification of references in this version, however. Includes correspondence of Ruth Benedict with Franz Boas, Reo Fortune, and Margaret Mead. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B428.mx | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropology | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Fortune, Reo, 1903-1979 | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Franz Boas Professional Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1860-1942 | | | | Abstract: | During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism.
The Boas Professional Papers contain a diverse assemblage of professional correspondence, family letters, and diaries, with a valuable series of essays and lectures by Boas on both professional and political topics (democracy, race, etc.). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61p | | | | Extent: | 12.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology--Research--United States | Anthropology--United States. | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration | Baffin Island (N.W.T.) | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Ernst P., (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Boas, Marie Anna Ernestina Krackowizer, 1861-1929 | Cartozian, Tatos | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Deloria, Ella Cara | Diaries. | Efron, David | Eskimos--Baffin Island (N.W.T.) | Ethnology--North America | Fortune, Reo, 1903-1979 | Hunt, George | Indians of North America--Ethnology | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Kwakiutl Indians | Kwakiutl language | Languages | Lectures | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Photographs | Refugees, Political | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions. | Scientists, Refugee | Sketches. | Socialists--United States | Tlingit Indians | Weike, Wilhelm, 1859-1917 | |
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