Boas, Franz 1858-1942

Overview

Works:	1,970 works in 5,265 publications in 9 languages and 60,321 library holdings
Genres:	Folklore Music Folk literature Records and correspondence Diaries Reference works Criticism, interpretation, etc Legends Biography History
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Author of introduction, Honoree, Contributor, Other, Correspondent, Bibliographic antecedent, Creator, Publisher, Compiler, Collector, Cinematographer , Photographer, Interviewee, Arranger
Classifications:	N5310, 398.209759

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Franz Boas

Rethinking race : Franz Boas and his contemporaries by Vernon J Williams( )
Volksgeist as method and ethic : essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition by George W Stocking( )
Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 : journals and letters by Franz Boas( )
And along came Boas : continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology by Regna Darnell( )
Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F Vermeulen( )

Franz Boas; the science of man in the making by Melville J Herskovits( Book )
The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911; a Franz Boas reader by Franz Boas( Book )
The ethnography of Franz Boas by Franz Boas( Book )
The Franz Boas papers by Franz Boas( )
The anthropology of Franz Boas; essays on the centennial of his birth by Walter Goldschmidt( Book )
Franz Boas, social activist : the dynamics of ethnicity by Marshall Hyatt( Book )
The method and theory of ethnology; an essay in criticism by Paul Radin( Book )
Franz Boas : the early years, 1858-1906 by Douglas Cole( Book )
The Franz Boas enigma : Inuit, Arctic, and sciences by Ludger Müller-Wille( )
Indigenous visions : rediscovering the world of Franz Boas by Ned Blackhawk( )
Constructing cultures then and now : celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition( )
A Franz Boas reader : the shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911 by Franz Boas( Book )
The culture of critique : an evolutionary analysis of Jewish involvement in twentieth-century intellectual and political movements by Kevin B MacDonald( Book )
Franz Boas, 1858-1942 by Franz Boas( Book )
The culture concept : writing and difference in the Age of Realism by Michael A Elliott( Book )

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Most widely held works by Franz Boas

Primitive art by Franz Boas( Book )

98 editions published between 1927 and 2015 in 9 languages and held by 2,706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The book is a definitive analysis of the fundamental traits of primitive art, covering the formal element in art, representative art, symbolism, style, literature, music and the dance. Among its illustrations are examples of Indian embroidery, paleolithic paintings, woven blankets, wing and tail designs, totem poles, hats, cutlery, painted boxes, earthenware, baskets and many other primitive objects and motifs

Race, language and culture by Franz Boas( Book )

97 editions published between 1940 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 2,315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Early history of man and its effect on our current problems

The mind of primitive man by Franz Boas( Book )

197 editions published between 1901 and 2016 in 6 languages and held by 2,292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911. First published in 1911. This landmark collection of lectures reflect Franz Boas's theories that previous studies of societies--based on criteria of Western observers--were largely subjective; each society and culture is the result of unique historical developments. He also believed there was no such thing as a "pure" race or a superior one

Anthropology and modern life by Franz Boas( Book )

94 editions published between 1928 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 2,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This new edition of Anthropology and Modern Life is enhanced by an introduction and afterword by Herbert S. Lewis, who details Franz Boas' life, influence, and ideals. This volume will be a welcome contribution to the libraries of anthropologists, sociologists, and those concerned with human rights."--Jacket

Mules and men by Zora Neale Hurston( Book )

15 editions published between 1935 and 2008 in English and held by 1,532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of African-American folklore, oral histories, sermons, and songs, dating back to the time of slavery

General anthropology by Franz Boas( Book )

44 editions published between 1938 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The central Eskimo by Franz Boas( Book )

65 editions published between 1877 and 2016 in English and held by 1,254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reprint of part of Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 1888, p.409-669. (AB1728)

Introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages by Franz Boas( Book )

18 editions published between 1966 and 1991 in English and held by 1,187 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages

Kwakiutl ethnography by Franz Boas( Book )

21 editions published between 1966 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Race and democratic society by Franz Boas( Book )

33 editions published between 1945 and 1969 in English and German and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Handbook of American Indian languages by Franz Boas( Book )

in English and held by 711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee. (AB1739)

Kutenai tales by Franz Boas( Book )

3 editions published in 1918 in English and held by 569 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collection of texts made by Alexander F. Chamberlain in 1891 and by Franz Boas in the summer of 1914

Tsimshian texts by Franz Boas( Book )

7 editions published in 1902 in English and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kathlamet texts by Franz Boas( Book )

6 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 513 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kwakiutl culture as reflected in mythology by Franz Boas( Book )

24 editions published between 1935 and 1976 in English and held by 503 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mind of primitive man : a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911 by Franz Boas( Book )

19 editions published between 1911 and 2010 in English and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911. This landmark collection of lectures reflect Franz Boas's theories that previous studies of societies--based on criteria of Western observers--were largely subjective; each society and culture is the result of unique historical developments. He also believed there was no such thing as a "pure" race or a superior one

A wealth of thought : Franz Boas on Native American art by Franz Boas( Book )

9 editions published between 1994 and 2017 in English and held by 459 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the nineteenth century, scholars who wrote about art of native peoples assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate peoples were therefore examples of early stages of development. Boas was familiar with evolutionary theory in both the European and American art literature, and he set about to dispute much of what his contemporaries held as truths. Case studies from his own fieldwork on the Northwest Coast of North America demonstrated different tenets: the variety of history, the influence of diffusion, the symbolic and stylistic variations in art styles found among groups and sometimes within one group, and the role of imagination and creativity on the part of the artist. Aldona Jonaitis has chosen fourteen articles, written during the period from 1889 to 1916, to reveal Boas's intellectual development as an art historian. The subjects of his first analyses were the paintings and carvings of Northwest Coast Indians, primarily the Kwakwaka'wakw, the people he called the Kwakiutl. Later he went beyond the Northwest Coast to interpret other Native American artworks, and began to investigate the influence of psychology on art. This volume includes Boas's most significant writings on art, many originally published in obscure sources now difficult to locate. The essays are illustrated with their original photographs and drawings, and the collection is supported by an extensive, combined bibliography at the end of the book

Contributions to the ethnology of the Kwakiutl by Franz Boas( Book )

17 editions published between 1925 and 1977 in English and held by 451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kwakiutl texts dealing with dreams and with information relating to the social organization of the tribe

Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes by Franz Boas( Book )

23 editions published between 1917 and 2015 in English and held by 426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six Pend d'Oreille tales related by Michel Revais. Coyote, wren, and grouse, snake monster, mountain sheep and Skukula man

Kwakiutl texts by Franz Boas( Book )

47 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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