Anthropologists I: Boas, Mead, Benedict Flashcards
Father of American Anthropology who trained Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and even Zora Neale Hurston at Columbia.
Franz Boas
Tribe on Baffin Island which Boas studied
Inuit
Tribe on Vancouver Island, where Potlach was practiced, which Boas studied
Kwakiutl (Now known as kwakawakawak or something)
Expedition planned and executed by Boas to study the natives of Alaska and Siberia, named after the industrialist who funded it.
Morris Jessup North Pacific Expedition
Hall in the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) where Boas exhibited his studies from the north pacific expedition
Northwest Coast Indian Hall
1887 Essay by Boas in which he distinguished between physical and historical sciences, and where he argued that geography must be historical.
The Study of Geography
Racist pseudoscientific Idea that was famous opposed by Boas
Cepahlic Index / Phrenology (Head shape determines intelligence)
Book by Boas in which he rallied against racist pseudoscientific ideas such as white supremacy. This is his most famous work.
Mind of the Primitive Man
Essay by Boas in which Boas debunked Brinton’s claim that a certain feature of Native American Languages was evidence of their racial inferiority (not fully evolved yet).
On Alternating Sounds
Book by Boas made up from his notes on the Baffin Island Inuits
The Central Eskimo
Controversial American Anthropologist, a student of Boas who was a proponent of the Sexual Revolution.
Margaret Mead
Book in which Mead examined the differences in gender and sexual conventions in the Mundugumor, Arapesh, and Tchambuli tribes in Papua New Guinea.
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Most famous book by Mead where she examined the adolescents of the island of Ta’u.
Coming of Age in Samoa
Book in which Derek Freeman argued that the people of the island of Ta’u duped Mead.
The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead
Book following a transcript of the conversations between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead
A Rap on Race
