Subject | • | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork |
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| | • | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment |
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| | • | Financial support for research and publication |
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| | • | Folklore, mythology, religion |
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| | • | Linguistics and philology |
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| | • | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections |
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| | • | Personal matters |
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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | • | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous |
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| | • | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology |
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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: | Franz Boas Professional Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | German | | | | Dates: | Circa 1860-1942 | | | | Extent: | 27 boxes (12.5 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | This is a collection of miscellaneous materials concerning Franz Boas' family life and professional career, useful for studies of Boas' general intellectual and social interests and commitments. His teaching career can be partially traced through Columbia University course listings, public and professional addresses and speeches, various committee reports, notebooks, research accounts and budgets, etc. There are folders containing translations of some of Boas' letters to Abraham Jacobi, Marie Boas, Ernst Boas, and other family members, between the years of 1877 and 1931. Professional correspondence (not included in Scholarly Resources' Guide to the Microfilm Collection of the Professional Papers of Franz Boas) is present in this collection. Correspondents include Adolph Bastian, Ruth Bunzel, T. McKeen Cattell, J. Waiter Fewkes, A.C. Haddon, A.L. Kroeber, Robert Lowie, F. von Luschan, William McGee, J. Alden Mason, F. W. Putnam, Paul Radin, Edward Sapir, Karl von den Steinen, John W. Swanton, Alfred W. Tozzer. Other documents include a draft constitution for the "American Anthropologic Association"; "Report of Committee on Introduction of Anthropologic Teaching", to Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science; papers relating to American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; Columbia course descriptions in anthropology (various years); research accounts and budgets for 1928, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941; diary of Arctic Expedition, 1883-1884, along with maps, notebooks, photographs, sketchbook; diaries for 1886, 1889, 1890; copies of various lectures, 1885-1917; curricula vitae, with short autobiographies; collections of notes on various topics; Kwakiutl ethnographic texts and vocabularies; addresses and papers, 1909-1941; catalog of Boas' library; radio addresses and speeches; Boas family genealogies; news clippings; photographs. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Professional Papers (B B61p) | | | | |
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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 | 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 | Personal matters | |
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