Correspondence with Franz Boas, 1907-1927 [microform].

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Correspondence with Franz Boas, 1907-1927 [microform].

Collection contains early correspondence concerning field work with Chief Gibson; Iroquoian studies. Other materials pertain to professional affairs in anthropology, including controversy with Robert Lowie on totemism.

50 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7417387

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...

Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957

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Robert H. Lowie was a noted anthropologist, professor of anthropology, and specialist on the Crow Indians. He moved from Vienna to New York in 1893, and later received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying with Franz Boas. After doing curatorial and field work for the American Museum of Natural History, in 1921 he joined the anthropology faculty at U.C. Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1950. Lowie published hundreds of articles, reviews, and monographs in English, Ger...

Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940

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