The Franz Boas Enigma

Name: The Franz Boas Enigma
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781771860147
Price: 15.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 978-1-771-86014-7

Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences

de Ludger Müller-Wille (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

février 2014

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“By examining the published works of Boas on the Inuit and the Arctic from 1883 to 1894, Ludger Müller-Wille has restored a profoundly important chapter of Boas’ life and allows Boas to speak again through his German-language publications.” Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, coauthor, Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906, and Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women

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How did Franz Boas become the central founder of anthropology and a driving force promoting science in public life in North America? To answer this question, linguistic and cultural barriers must be overcome to grasp the importance of Boas’s personal background and academic achievements as a German Jew. Müller-Wille asserts that the key is in his publications in German on Inuit and the Arctic as related to environmental, geographical, and ethnological questions. These writings have remained largely unknown and neglected in the English-speaking world, yet they represent his emerging scientific interpretations of Inuit culture and the Arctic. They also provide insight into the crucial period of Inuit history 130 years ago at a time of European and North American colonial expansion into their homeland.

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Ludger Müller-Wille (auteur)

Ludger Müller-Wille is a Montreal anthropologist and geographer who taught at McGill University for thirty years. Author and editor of books and articles on Franz Boas, he has conducted extensive research in the Arctic and Subarctic among Sámi and Finns in Finland and Inuit, Dene, and Naskapi in Canada.

Auteur(s) : Ludger Müller-Wille