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| | 1 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frank Baker and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 December 1898 - 10 March 1902 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 6 letters (4 to Boas, 2 to Baker). American Anthropologist | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 2 | Author: | Tylor, Edward Burnett, 1832-1917 | | | | | Anthropologist. Worker in family brass-foundry, 1848-1855; independent travel, research and writing, 1855-1883; keeper, Oxford University Museum, 1883-1884; reader in anthropology, Oxford University, 1884-1896, professor, 1896-1909, emeritus professor, 1909-1917 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Tylor and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 August 1888 - 8 March 1908 | | | | Extent: | 29 letters | | | | Abstract: | 29 letters (25 to Boas, 4 to Tylor). BAAS Northwest Coast Tribes Committee; Northwest coast material culture collections; Northwest coast fieldwork; anthropology teaching at Oxford; Eskimo ethnography; research support by BAAS and Canadian government | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 3 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Tylor and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 August 1888 - 8 March 1908 | | | | Extent: | 29 letters | | | | Abstract: | 29 letters (25 to Boas, 4 to Tylor). BAAS Northwest Coast Tribes Committee; Northwest coast material culture collections; Northwest coast fieldwork; anthropology teaching at Oxford; Eskimo ethnography; research support by BAAS and Canadian government | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 4 | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Daniel Brinton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 September 1886 - 1 December 1898 | | | | Extent: | 57 letters | | | | Abstract: | 57 letters: 51 to Boas, 5 to Brinton, 1 letter to Brinton from Frank McGee. Linguistics; folklore; Congress of Americanists; foundation of American Anthropology; Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 5 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Daniel Brinton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 September 1886 - 1 December 1898 | | | | Extent: | 57 letters | | | | Abstract: | 57 letters: 51 to Boas, 5 to Brinton, 1 letter to Brinton from Frank McGee. Linguistics; folklore; Congress of Americanists; foundation of American Anthropology; Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 6 | Author: | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology and anthropology, University of Buffalo, 1927-1928, assistant professor, 1928-1930; assistant professor, anthropology, University of Michigan, 1930-1932, associate professor, 1932-1943, professor, 1943-1970, chairman of department, 1945-1957; visiting professor, anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-1975; curator, anthropology, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1927-1930 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 September 1931 - 16 April 1936 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Boas, 2 to White). Keresan linguistics; Fanny Bandelier; research funding | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 7 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 September 1931 - 16 April 1936 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Boas, 2 to White). Keresan linguistics; Fanny Bandelier; research funding | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 8 | Author: | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | | | | | Anthropologist, psychologist, museum curator. Assistant, psychology. Indiana University, 1895-1897; instructor, psychology and education, Ohio College, 1897-1899; assistant, psychology, Columbia University, 1899-1900; instructor, pedagogy, New York University, 1901-1902; assistant, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1902-1905, curator, 1905-1907, curator of anthropology, 1907-1942, editor, anthropology publications, 1907-1942, emeritus curator, 1943-1947; assistant, anthropology, Columbia University, 1903-1904, lecturer, 1904-1909; professor, Institute for Human Relations, Yale University, 1924-1940, emeritus professor, 1940-1947 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 May 1903 - 17 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 45 letters (5 to Boas, 40 to Wissler) + 11 letters to/from American Anthropological Association; W. Jochelson; B. Laufer; T. Michelson; W.K. Moorehead; C. Rau; E. Sapir; E.R. Seligman. Anthropology at Columbia University; anthropology teaching; American Museum of Natural History; relations between Columbia University and AMNH; museum collections; NRC; Berthold Laufer; fieldwork funding; American Anthropologist; congresses; Jesup North Pacific expedition; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 9 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 May 1903 - 17 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 45 letters (5 to Boas, 40 to Wissler) + 11 letters to/from American Anthropological Association; W. Jochelson; B. Laufer; T. Michelson; W.K. Moorehead; C. Rau; E. Sapir; E.R. Seligman. Anthropology at Columbia University; anthropology teaching; American Museum of Natural History; relations between Columbia University and AMNH; museum collections; NRC; Berthold Laufer; fieldwork funding; American Anthropologist; congresses; Jesup North Pacific expedition; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 10 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Bunzel and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 9 June 1923 - 30 April 1937 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 56 letters (39 to Boas, 17 to Bunzel). Ethnological Society; Zuni life and culture; relations with Zuni sources; Maya Indians in Guatemala; employment; research funding. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 11 | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Bunzel and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 9 June 1923 - 30 April 1937 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 56 letters (39 to Boas, 17 to Bunzel). Ethnological Society; Zuni life and culture; relations with Zuni sources; Maya Indians in Guatemala; employment; research funding. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 13 | Author: | Bandelier, Adolf F., 1840-1914 | | | | | Archaeologist, historian. American Museum of Natural History, 1903-1914; lecturer, American archaeology, Columbia University, 1904-1914. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Adolf Bandelier and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 June 1905 - 7 January 1910 | | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | 11 letters (8 to Boas, 3 to Bandelier). Employment at Columbia; personal. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| 14 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Adolf Bandelier and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 June 1905 - 7 January 1910 | | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | 11 letters (8 to Boas, 3 to Bandelier). Employment at Columbia; personal. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| 16 | Author: | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | | | | | Biologist, eugenicist. Instructor, zoology, Harvard University, 1892-1899; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1899-1891, associate professor, 1901-1904; director, summer biological lab, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1898-1923; director, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, 1904-1934; director, Eugenics Record Office, 1910-1934 (1920-1934, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution). Davenport was a central figure in American eugenics and, secondarily, in genetics research, from the founding of the Cold Spring Harbor Station in 1904 to the 1930s. He frequently found himself in serious disagreement with Boas and his supporters over the role of environment versus heredity in shaping racial morphology and social behavior. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Davenport and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 December 1899 - 24 December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 35 letters | | | | Abstract: | 35 letter (18 to Boas, 17 to Davenport) + 1 letter from Davenport to Hrdlicka. Anthropometry; comparative racial mental capacities; stature; research funding; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 17 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Davenport and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 December 1899 - 24 December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 35 letters | | | | Abstract: | 35 letter (18 to Boas, 17 to Davenport) + 1 letter from Davenport to Hrdlicka. Anthropometry; comparative racial mental capacities; stature; research funding; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 18 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 February 1929 - December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 42 letters | | | | Abstract: | 42 letters (31 to Boas, 11 to De Laguna). Studies and course work at Columbia University; archaeological fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, Yukon; museum collections and work; Eskimo material culture; support for research; professional positions; personal; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 19 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 February 1929 - December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 42 letters | | | | Abstract: | 42 letters (31 to Boas, 11 to De Laguna). Studies and course work at Columbia University; archaeological fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, Yukon; museum collections and work; Eskimo material culture; support for research; professional positions; personal; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 20 | Author: | Dixon, Roland B., 1875-1934 | | | | | Anthropologist. Member, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898; instructor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1901-1906; assistant professor, 1906-1915, professor, 1915-1934. Curator, ethnology, Peabody Museum; member, National Research Council, 1922, Social Science Research Council, 1926-1929. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Roland Dixon and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 8 January 1898 - 18 November 1931 | | | | Extent: | 305 letters | | | | Abstract: | 305 letters (127 to Dixon, 178 to Boas). Folklore; American Folk-Lore Society; professional employment; research funding; linguistics; graduate education; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; use of anthropometric data for distinguishing physical types within populations; 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 | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | 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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