Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist

by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Rosemary L vy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist's birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, while also examining his role in training professional anthropologists from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496215540
• ISBN13: 9781496215543
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"