Correspondence with Franz Boas, 1925-1934 [microform].

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Correspondence with Franz Boas, 1925-1934 [microform].

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Collection pertains largely to studies of the Negro; field trip to Surinam and West Africa (Dahomey), etc.

101 items.

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963

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Pioneer anthropologist and Africanist; Professor of Sociology (1927-38) and of Anthropology (1938-61), Northwestern University. From 1961 through 1963, held Northwestern's Chair of African Studies, the first such position in the United States. From the description of Melville Herskovits Papers, 1906-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80577063 Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. ...