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Volksgeist as method and ethic : essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition /
Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline of America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. Though this fact is widely known, the significance of Boas' roots in German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth century German anthropology remains obscure. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©1996.
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| Colección: | History of anthropology ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline of America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. Though this fact is widely known, the significance of Boas' roots in German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth century German anthropology remains obscure. The essays in Volkgeist a Method and Ethic explore the Germanic influences on Boasian anthropology and clarify their implications for the ethnographic practice that Boas promulgated. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 349 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780299145538 0299145530 1282643215 9781282643215 9786612643217 6612643218 |