A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology 1883-1911 (Midway Reprints)

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"The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boass contributions to American anthropology as well as anthropology in general very well. . . . He is in a word the foremost historian of anthropology in the world today. . . . The reader is both a collection of Boass papers and a solid 23-page introduction to giving the background and basic assumptions of Boasian anthropology."David Schneider University of Chicago "While Stocking has not attempted to present a person biography nevertheless Boass personal characteristics emerge not only in his scholarly essays but perhaps more vividly in his personal correspondence. . . . Stocking is to be commended for collecting this material together in a most interesting and enjoyable reader."Gustav Thaiss American Anthropologist