Volksgeist as Method and Ethic
Essays
on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
History of Anthropology (VOLUME EIGHT)
Richard Handler, Series Editor
This volume in the highly acclaimed
History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly
exploration of Boas’ roots in the German intellectual tradition
and late nineteenth-century German anthropology, and offers a
new perspective on the historical development of ethnography
in the United States.
Franz Boas, the major founding figure of
anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America
from Germany in 1886. The extent of his influence on anthropology,
and other fields, cannot be overstated.
 George W. Stocking, Jr. (1928–2013) was the Stein-Freiler Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee
on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of
Chicago. He was editor of the History of Anthropology series published
by the University of Wisconsin Press and the author of After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888–1951;
Victorian Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; The Ethnographer’s Magic; and Delimiting Anthropology. In 1993, he was
awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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July 1996
358 pp. 6 x 9
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