The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual―Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition)

"This inaugural volume of The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858-1942). Few of Boas's intellectual progeny span the range of his disciplinary and public engagements. In his later career, Boas moved beyond Native American studies to become a public intellectual and advocate for social justice, particularly with reference to racism against African Americans and Jews and discrimination against women in science. He was a passionate defender of academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, and anthropology as a humane calling. The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1 examines Boas's stature as a public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography, and activism. The volume's contributors move across many of the disciplines within which Boas himself worked, bringing to bear their expertise in Native studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, folklore, ethnomusicology, museum studies, comparative literature, English, film studies, philosophy, and journalism. This volume demonstrates a contemporary urgency to reassessing Boas both within the field of anthropology and beyond. "-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Acknowledgments 10 Historiographic Conundra: The Boasian Elephantin the Middle of Anthropology’s Room 12 Part 1. Theory and Interdisciplinary Scope 28 1. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: BoasianTheory at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man 30 2. The Individual and Individuality in Franz Boas’s Anthropology and Philosophy 46 3. The Police Dance: Dissemination in Boas’s Field Notes and Diaries, 1886– 1894 70 4. Franz Boas and the Conditions of Literature 92 5. From Baffin Island to Boasian Induction: How Anthropology and Linguistics Got into Their Interlinear Groove 110 6. The Boasian Legacy in Ethnomusicology: Cultural Relativism, Narrative Texts, Linguistic Structures, and the Role of Comparison 156 7. Friends in This World: The Relationship of George Hunt and Franz Boas 190 8. The Ethnographic Legacy of Franz Boas and James Teit: The Thompson Indians of British Columbia 218 Part 3. Activism 240 9. Anthropological Activism and Boas’s Pacific Northwest Ethnology 242 10. Franz Boas, Wilson Duff, and the Image of Anthropology in British Columbia 264 11. Cultural Persistence in the Age of “Hopelessness”: Phinney, Boas, and U.S. Indian Policy 290 12. Franz Boas’s Correspondence with German Friends and Colleagues in the Early 1930s 304 13. Franz Boas on War and Empire:The Making of a Public Intellectual 320 Part 4. The Archival Project 356 14. Anthropology of Revitalization: Digitizingthe American Philosophical Society’sNative American Collections 358 15. “An expansive archive . . . not a diminished one”: The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition Project 372 Contributors 390 The Franz Boas Papers Project Team 394 Index 396 "The introductory volume to the Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition, which examines Boas' stature as public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography and activism"-- Provided by publisher