Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on Translations
1. Ardently Desired Boy: Young Boas and His Family
 2. Student Life into Its Deepest Depths: Boas at University
 3. In Heaven, in Love, and Separation: Preparing for the Arctic Voyage
 4. Creating a Future for Us: To Baffin Land and Back
 5. Divided Desires: Pulled between New York and Germany
 6. West to the Indians: Northwest Coast Fieldwork, Employment by Science, and Marriage
 7. All Our Hopes Came to Such a Disgrace: Boas at Clark University
 8. The World’s Columbian Exposition: Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam
 9. Your Orphan Boy: Struggling to Find a Place
 10. The Greatest Undertaking of Its Kind: The Jesup North Pacific Expedition
 11. Taking Hold in New York: From the amnh to Columbia University
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Promotional Information

- Rosemary Levy Zumwalt offers the first, major two-part biography of Franz Boas in a generation, a literary and intellectual tour-de-force that surpasses all previous work in literary flair, research depth, and biographical insight.
- Franz Boas: Education of the Scientist, Emergence of the Anthropologist will appeal to a wide, non-scholarly audience since most Americans know of the term "cultural relativism" from secondary education and general cultural literacy.
- Franz Boas differs from all previous biographies of Boas, since Zumwalt writes in the personalized voice of Boas, his family, his students, and his colleagues through a focus on archival correspondence in the Franz Boas Papers at American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
-Zumwalt is the first writer and scholar to use German language archival collections related to the life of Franz Boas, surpassing the parochialism of English language work about the anthropologist.
- Zumwalt greatly expands readers' understanding of Franz Boas by bring to life the emotional universe that drove him in all spheres of his work.
- Franz Boas will be a vital text for anthropology students, as it presents the extent to which Boas is present in contemporary anthropology, e.g. the importance of the individual, the rejection of casual generalizations, the crucial nature of the specifics, the vital need to know the language, the importance of fieldwork, and the need constantly to recheck one's sources.

About the Author

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt is vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college emerita at Agnes Scott College. She is the coauthor of Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906 and the author of numerous books, including Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist and American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent.

Reviews

“[Franz Boas] has its rewards, especially in its generous use of correspondence.”—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books

"Zumwalt's book is a testament to far-reaching, thorough, and careful archival work."—Diana E. Marsh, Journal of American Folklore

"Zumwalt has woven together a variety of materials from a range of sources into a comprehensive and coherent story."—Elliott Oring, Journal of Folklore Research

“Zumwalt leads us to know Franz Boas as never before, and we should be grateful. She gives us his engrossing love and life story across vast continents. She lets us walk with him into the classroom as well as into his home. She marvelously gives him voice, so we can discern his message for our time as well as in his.”—Simon J. Bronner, author of American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History

“Rosemary Zumwalt has written a biography of Franz Boas truly for the twenty-first century. Going beyond George Stocking and Douglas Cole, she focuses here on Boas’s early life in its historical and cultural setting. We eagerly await her second and concluding volume.”—Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley