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Handbook of American Indian Languages

Handbook of American Indian Languages( )
Editor: Boas, Franz
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics Ser.
ISBN:978-1-139-62656-9
Publication Date:Oct 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $110.00
Book Description:

Edited by eminent anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), this pioneering work was originally published in two volumes between 1911 and 1922. Volume 2 contains descriptive studies of the Takelma, Coos, Siuslaw and Chukchi languages. Overall, the project ranks as a landmark in entrenching scientific principles for modern ethnographic study.

Author Biography
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Franz Boas, a German-born American anthropologist, became the most influential anthropologist of his time. He left Germany because of its antiliberal and anti-Semitic climate. As a Columbia University professor for 37 years (1899-1936), he created both the field of anthropology and the modern concept of culture. Boas played a key role in organizing the American Anthropological Association (AAA) as an umbrella organization for the emerging field. At both Columbia and the AAA, Boas encouraged the "four field" concept of anthropology; he personally contributed to physical anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, as well as cultural anthropology. His work in these fields was pioneering. Both directly and through the influence of such students as Ruth Benedict, Melville J. Herskovits, Alfred L. Kroeber, and Margaret Mead, he set the agenda for all subsequent American cultural anthropology.

In His lifetime Boas had many leadership roles including: Assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History; editor of The Journal of American Folklore; president of the New York Academy of Sciences, and founder of the International Journal of American Linguistics.

Boas is the author of hundreds of scientific monographs and articles. He died in 1942.

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