List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Historiographic Conundra: The Boasian Elephant in the Middle of Anthropology’s Room
Regna Darnell
Part 1. Theory and Interdisciplinary Scope
1. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: Boasian Theory at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man
Regna Darnell
2. The Individual and Individuality in Franz Boas’s Anthropology and Philosophy
Herbert S. Lewis
3. The Police Dance: Dissemination in Boas’s Field Notes and Diaries, 1886–1894
Christopher Bracken
4. Franz Boas and the Conditions of Literature
J. Edward Chamberlin
5. From Baffin Island to Boasian Induction: How Anthropology and Linguistics Got into Their Interlinear Groove
Michael Silverstein
6. The Boasian Legacy in Ethnomusicology: Cultural Relativism, Narrative Texts, Linguistic Structures, and the Role of Comparison
Sean O’Neill
Part 2. Ethnography
7. Friends in This World: The Relationship of George Hunt and Franz Boas
Isaiah Lorado Wilner
8. The Ethnographic Legacy of Franz Boas and James Teit: The Thompson Indians of British Columbia
Andrea Laforet
Part 3. Activism
9. Anthropological Activism and Boas’s Pacific Northwest Ethnology
David W. Dinwoodie
10. Franz Boas, Wilson Duff, and the Image of Anthropology in British Columbia
Robert L. A. Hancock
11. Cultural Persistence in the Age of “Hopelessness”: Phinney, Boas, and U.S. Indian Policy
Joshua Smith
12. Franz Boas’s Correspondence with German Friends and Colleagues in the Early 1930s
Jürgen Langenkämper
13. Franz Boas on War and Empire: The Making of a Public Intellectual
Julia E. Liss
Part 4. The Archival Project
14. Anthropology of Revitalization: Digitizing the American Philosophical Society’s Native American Collections
Timothy B. Powell
15. “An expansive archive . . . not a diminished one”: The Franz Boas Documentary Edition Project
Michelle Hamilton
Contributors
The Franz Boas Papers Project Team
Index