The Boasians : Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Anthropology.

Intro -- Contents -- Photo Credits -- I: Background -- 1 Introduction -- The Boasian Men -- The Boasian Women -- Boasian Anthropology -- Rise and Fall -- The Content of This Book -- 2 Antecedents and Circumstances -- The German Contribution -- The American Contribution -- Anthropology as Natural History -- The Four-field Tradition -- Museum Anthropology -- 3 The Founding Grandfather Franz Boas, 1858-1942 -- Early Life and Education -- Ethnography -- Folklore -- Linguistics -- Physical Anthropology -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Social Advocacy -- Boas' View of Anthropology -- Boas, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- II: The Founding Fathers -- 4 Clark Wissler, 1870-1947 -- Early Life and Education -- Professional Career -- Ethnography -- Museum Work -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Professional Commitments -- Wissler's View of Anthropology -- Wissler, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- 5 A. L. Kroeber, 1876-1960 -- Early Life and Education -- The California Appointments -- Ethnography -- Linguistics -- Archaeology -- Widening Horizons -- Psychoanalysis -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Kroeber's View of Anthropology -- Kroeber, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- Notes -- 6 Robert H. Lowie, 1883-1957 -- Early Life and Education -- The Museum Years -- The Berkeley Years -- Ethnography -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Trade Books -- Lowie's View of Anthropology -- Lowie, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- Note -- 7 Edward Sapir, 1884-1939 -- Early Life and Education -- The Canadian Years -- The Chicago Years -- The Yale Years -- Linguistic Research -- Psychological Anthropology -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Sapir's View of Anthropology -- Sapir, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- Note -- 8 Paul Radin, 1883-1959 -- Early Life and Education -- Professional Career -- Ethnography -- Linguistics -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Radin's Philosophy.

Radin's View of Anthropology -- Radin, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- 9 Melville J. Herskovits, 1895-1963 -- Early Life and Education -- Physical Anthropology -- Ethnography -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Professional Activities -- Controversies -- Herskovits' View of Anthropology -- Herskovits, the Man -- An Assessment -- Sources -- 10 The Journeymen -- Frank G. Speck, 1881-1950 -- Alexander Goldenweiser, 1880-1940 -- Fay-Cooper Cole, 1881-1961 -- Leslie Spier, 1893-1961 -- Melville Jacobs, 1902-1971 -- Alexander Lesser, 1902-1982 -- Notes -- III: The Founding Mothers -- 11 Elsie Clews Parsons, 1874-1941 -- Early Life, Education, and Marriage -- The Social Critic -- The Folklorist -- The Ethnographer -- Writings -- Power and Patronage -- Parsons' View of Anthropology -- Parsons, the Woman -- An Assessment -- Sources -- 12 Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948 -- Early Life, Education and Career -- Research -- Tutelage -- Writings -- Benedict's View of Anthropology -- Benedict, the Woman -- An Assessment -- Sources -- 13 Margaret Mead, 1901-1978 -- Early Life and Education -- Professional Career -- Fieldwork -- National Character Studies -- Writings -- Teaching and Lecturing -- Controversies -- Mead's view of anthropology -- Causes and commitments -- Mead, the Woman -- An Assessment -- Sources -- 14 The Handmaidens -- Gladys Reichard, 1893-1955 -- Erna Gunther, 1896-1982 -- Esther Goldfrank, 1896-1997 -- Ruth Bunzel, 1898-1990 -- Gene Weltfish, 1902-1980 -- Ruth Underhill, 1883-1984 -- Marian W. Smith, 1907-1961 -- Zora Neale Hurston, 1901(?)-1960 -- Notes -- IV: Retrospective -- 15 Achievements and Failures -- Ethnography/Ethnology -- Linguistics -- Archaeology -- Physical Anthropology -- The Bottom Line -- 16 The Legacies -- Bibliography.

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today.

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