This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth-century German anthropology, and offers a new perspective on the historical development of ethnography in the United States.
Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. The extent of his influence on anthropology, and other fields, cannot be overstated.