Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist

460 Pages·2019·22.227 MB·English

by  Rosemary Levy Zumwalt

FRANZ BOAS
Critical Studies in the
History of Anthropology
Series Editors
Regna Darnell
Stephen O. Murray
F RA N Z
B O A S
The Emergence of
the Anthropologist
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
University of Nebraska Press
Lincoln
© 2019 by the Board of Regents of the University of
Nebraska. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy, 1944– , author.
Title: Franz Boas: the emergence of the anthropologist
/ Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
[2019] | Series: Critical Studies in the History of
Anthropology | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2019004038
isbn 9781496215543 (cloth: alk. paper)
isbn 9781496217455 (epub)
isbn 9781496217462 (mobi)
isbn 9781496217479 (pdf)
Subjects: lcsh: Boas, Franz, 1858– 1942. |
Anthropologists— Germany— Biography. |
Anthropologists— United
States— Biography. | Racism in anthropology.
Classification: lcc gn21.b6 z86 2019 | ddc 301— dc23
lc record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2019004038
Set in Arno Pro by Mikala R. Kolander.
Dedicated to Ludger Müller- Wille
Scholar of the Arctic and of Franz Boas
Friend and colleague

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Series Editors’ Introduction xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Note on Translations xxi
1. Ardently Desired Boy: Young Boas and
His Family 1
2. Student Life into Its Deepest Depths:
Boas at University 31
3. In Heaven, in Love, and Separation:
Preparing for the Arctic Voyage 62
4. Creating a Future for Us: To Baffin Land
and Back 95
5. Divided Desires: Pulled between
New York and Germany 132
6. West to the Indians: Northwest Coast
Fieldwork, Employment by Science,
and Marriage 162
7. All Our Hopes Came to Such a Disgrace:
Boas at Clark University 192
8. The World’s Columbian Exposition:
Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam 211
9. Your Orphan Boy: Struggling to Find a Place 240
10. The Greatest Undertaking of Its Kind:
The Jesup North Pacific Expedition 267
11. Taking Hold in New York: From the amnh
to Columbia University 300
Conclusion 329
Notes 331
Bibliography 375
Index 395
Illustrations
Following page 210
1. Franz Boas, about age four, 1862
2. Franz Boas, about age twelve, school group portrait,
ca. 1870
3. Franz Boas, Hete, and Anne, 1873
4. Boas family: Franz, Sophie, Meier, Toni, and
Anne, 1881
5. Boas’s fraternity, Burschenschaft Alemannia
Bonn, 1878
6. Franz Boas as a soldier, ca. 1881
7. Franz Boas with three other soldiers, ca. 1881
8. Franz Boas on board the Germania en route to
Baffin Land, 1883
9. Franz Boas in Inuit clothing, Minden, 1885
10. Franz and Marie Boas, wedding portrait, 1887
11. Franz, Helene, and Marie, Worcester,
Massachusetts, 1890
12. Franz Boas at World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
13. Franz Boas with baby “Trudel,” New York, ca. 1898
14. Franz Boas with Marie in study, 1900