Franz Boas Cultural Anthropology.
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Madison, Wis. Description Book — viii, p. Summary Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in America, came to the United States from Germany in This volume in the acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first Franz Boas Cultural Anthropology explore fully the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and lateth century German anthropology. Boas' own early essay ""The Study of Geography"", reprinted in this volume, suggests his profound debt to the Herderian tradition of ""Volksgeist"" and ""Nationalcharakter"" - an intellectual lineage Matti Bunzl traces from Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt through Ritter, Ratzel, Waitz and Bastian to Boas. Benoit Massin painstakingly reconstructs another powerful influence on Boas, that of Rudolf Virchow, the leading physical anthropologist in Germany in the days before the discipline took its extreme racialist turn in that country.]
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