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Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Ludger Muller-Wille
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-16 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the I
Franz Boas
Language: en
Pages: 644
Authors: Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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This is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, and social science, the vi
The Central Eskimo
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Franz Boas
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-15 - Publisher: Read Books Ltd

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This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1888 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Central Eskimo' was
The Franz Boas Enigma
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Ludger Müller-Wille
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-31 - Publisher:

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Addressing, for the first time, the enigma of how Franz Boas came to be the central founder of anthropology and a driving force in the acceptance of science as
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Geoffrey K. Pullum
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-07-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."