Lexicon of Alaska native languages [microform], 1894-1954.

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...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975

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De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004

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Frederica de Laguna, an archaeologist and anthropologist, studied Alaskan native cultures. From the guide to the Tlingit and Yakutat songs, March-August 1954, (American Philosophical Society) Frederica De Laguna is an anthropologist. From the description of Field notes, 1949-1960, on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632871 From the description of Atna of the Copper River ...