Volksgeist as method and ethic : essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition / edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
| Other author | Stocking, George W., Jr. (George Ward), 1928-2013. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1996. |
| Description | viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | History of anthropology ; v. 8 History of anthropology ; v. 8. ^A163390 |
| Contents | Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition -- The study of geography / Franz Boas -- Franz Boas and the Humboldtian tradition : from Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an anthropoligical concept of culture / Matti Bunzl -- From Virchow to Fischer : physical anthropology and "modern race theories" in Wilhelmine Germany / Benoit Massin -- German culture and German science in the Bildung of Franz Boas / Julia E. Liss -- The ethnographhic object and the object of ethnologoy in the early career of Franz Boas / Ira Jacknis -- "The culture as it appears to the Indian himself" : Boas, George Hunt, and the methods of ethnography / Judith Berman -- "The little history of pitiful events" : the epistemological and moral contexts of Kroeber's Calilfornian ethnologooy / Thomas Buckley -- Orientalism as Kulturpolitik : German archeology and cultural imperialism in Asia Minor / Suzanne Marchand. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 95025272 |
| ISBN | 0299145506 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | GN17 .V65 1996 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |