Subject | • | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture |
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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | • | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology |
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| | 1 | Author: | McGee, William J., 1853-1912 | | | | | Anthropologist, geologist. Land surveying and justice-court practice, 1873-1875; invention and manufacture of agricultural implements, 1874-1876; geological and topographical survey of northeastern Iowa, 1877-1881; U.S. Geological Survey, 1883-1893; ethnologist in charge, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1893-1903; chief, department of anthropology, St. Louis Exposition, 1904; director, St. Louis Public Museum, 1905-1907; U.S. commissioner, International Archaeological and Ethnological Commission, 1902-1912, Inland Waterways Commission, 1907-1912 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William McGee and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 December 1893 - 7 May 1910 | | | | Extent: | 373 letters | | | | Abstract: | 366 letters (232 to Boas, 134 to McGee) + 7 letters from McGee to D.G. Brinton, W.H. Holmes, H.H. St.Clair, Charles D. Walcott, RS. Woodward. Bureau of American Ethnology; American Anthropological Association; Smithsonian Institute; American Anthropologist; St. Louis Purchase Expn.; anthropometry of American Indians; philology; research funding; American ethnography; professional positions; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
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