| 1 | Creator: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Franz Boas Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | 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.
This collection includes correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61 | | | | Extent: | 59.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Andrews, H.A. | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Anthropology--Research--United States | Anthropology--United States--History. | Anthropology--United States. | Arctic Indians | Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Ernst P., (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bowditch, Charles P., (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 | Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 | Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 | Cabinet cards | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946 | Crane, M. E. | Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961 | Ethnology--North America | Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 | Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Gelatin silver prints | Germanistic Society of America | Gordon, George Byron, 1911- | Heye, George G., (George Gustav), 1874-1957 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Ethnology | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--Nunavut | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 | Keppel, Frederick P., (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 | Maps | McGee, W. J., 1853-1912 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Negatives | Northwest Coast Indians | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Photomechanical prints | Postcards | Race, race relations, racism | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Refugees, Political | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sargent, H. E. | Scientists, Refugee | Seler, Eduard | Sketches. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Socialists--United States | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Tlingit Indians | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940 | |
| 2 | Creator: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans.
The Collection of the American Council of Learned Socities Committee of Native American Languages is one of the largest and most significant primary resources for study of the indigenous languages of North America. Beginning with the creation of the Committee in 1927, and periodically added to since by the APS, the collection has grown to over 80 linear feet of material representing at least 166 languages and dialects from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The formats range from field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars, and dozens of linguists and Native consultants are represented. Although most of the material was collected in the 1920s and 1930s, a signficant number of items have been added that extends the range of dates represented both backward and forward. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Achumawi language | African Americans--Florida | African Americans--Folklore | African Americans--West Virginia | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Banister, John, Jr. | Bella Coola language | Benin--History | Chehalis language | Cherokee language | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity--Africa | Chukchi--History | Clothing and dress--Middle East | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Drawings. | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology--Africa | Ethnology--Russia | Ethnology--United States | Face painting | Field notes. | Fijians--Social life and customs | Folk music--Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore--Africa | Folklore--British Columbia | Folklore--Florida | Folklore--Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Group portraits | Haida language | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kutenai language | Kwakiutl language | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pomo language | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Shasta language | Sketches. | Slip files | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Tsimshian language | Tunica language | Twi (African people) | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Volga River Region (Russia)--History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Word lists | Yana language | Zapotec language | |
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