Franz Boas (1858–1942)
Autore di Primitive Art
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: In collection of American Philosophical Society, F8.1.16.
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Opere di Franz Boas
A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 (Midway Reprint) (1982) 37 copie
Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas' 1895 Edition of… (2002) 21 copie
Ethnography of Franz Boas Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas Written on the Northwest Coast from 1886-1931 (1969) 13 copie
Handbook of American Indian Languages Part 1 : Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Volume 49 (1911) 11 copie
Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (Based on Personal Observations and on Notes Made… (1987) 5 copie
35th Annual Report of the American Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Intstitute 1913-14 part 2 (1921) 3 copie
Bella Bella tales 3 copie
Notes on the Tillamook 2 copie
Handbook of American Indian Languages 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (2013) 1 copia
Journal of American folk-lore 1 copia
Siouan: Dakota (Teton and Santee dialects) with remarks on the Ponca and Winnebago : an illustrative sketch (1911) 1 copia
35th Annual Report of the American Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Intstitute 1913-14 part 1 (1921) 1 copia
Kwakiutl dictionary 1 copia
Opere correlate
From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies (1939) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 22 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Boas, Franz
- Data di nascita
- 1858-07-09
- Data di morte
- 1942-12-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Germany (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Minden, Westphalia, Germany
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Minden, Westphalia, Germany (birthplace)
Heidelberg, Germany
Bonn, Germany
Kiel, Germany
Baffin Island, Canada
Berlin, Germany (mostra tutto 10)
British Columbia, Canada
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Heidelberg (Universität Heidelberg)
University of Bonn (Universität Bonn)
University of Berlin (Ph.D.|Freie Universität Berlin) - Attività lavorative
- ethnologist
anthropologist
professor (Anthropology) - Relazioni
- Hurston, Zora Neale (student)
Bunzel, Ruth (student) - Organizzazioni
- American Anthropological Association
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 94
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 1,139
- Popolarità
- #22,542
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 171
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 2
particolare Boas ferma la sua attenzione sulla produzione proveniente in buona parte dalle popolazioni indiane del Nordarnerica, specialmente della costa nordoccidentale del versante pacifico che egli conosceva meglio di chiunque altro, e ne offre una eccezionale documentazione attraverso quasi trecento illustrazioni e disegni di grande suggestione. L'ultima parte del libro è dedicata alla letteratura primitiva orale, un tema che solo oggi sta ricevendo un'attenzione adeguata e un campo in cui Boas è stato un eminente raccoglitore di documenti e materiale autentico. Un breve accenno all'etnomusicologia e ai legami tra musica e testi e tra canto e danza conclude il volume. Si tratta dunque di un'indagine a tutto campo, che potrà essere apprezzata particolarmente oggi che le culture primitive sono al centro di un. rinnovato interesse.… (altro)