Field notebooks and physical anthropological data, 1889-1897, n.d.

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Field notebooks and physical anthropological data, 1889-1897, n.d.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86138565

This includes anthropometric data from various Native American groups, language materials from the Northwest Coast and Mexico, typescripts of papers, a diary of a field trip to Baffin Island (N.W.T.), Canada, and genealogical data.

ca. 3000 items ; 10 notebooks.

American Philosophical Society Library

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American Philosophical Society 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...