Description
Thirth-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1913-1914, (Part 1 only) including
Boas, Franz. The Ethnology of the Kwakiutl. (Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1921)
Quarto. 794 pages, index. Bound in olive-green boards with gilt image of a Native American on front cover and Series number and date with two devices on spine.
Condition. Good. Binding is shaken, with color loss on 10% of rear board, hinges starting, spine faded near to illegibility.
“Franz Uri Boas (/ˈfrɑːnz ˈboʊ.æz/; German: [ˈboːas]; July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the “Father of American Anthropology”. His work is associated with the movement of anthropological historicism.
“Boas has had an enduring influence on anthropology. Virtually all anthropologists today accept Boas’s commitment to empiricism and his methodological cultural relativism. Moreover, virtually all cultural anthropologists today share Boas’s commitment to field research involving extended residence, learning the local language, and developing social relationships with informants. Finally, anthropologists continue to honor his critique of racial ideologies. In his 1963 book, Race: The History of an Idea in America, Thomas Gossett wrote that “It is possible that Boas did more to combat race prejudice than any other person in history.””- Wikipedia
“The Kwakiutl (/ˈkwɑːkjʊtəl/; natively Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw “Kwak’wala-speaking peoples” IPA: [ˈkʷakʷəkʲəʔwakʷ])[3][4] are a Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous people. Their current population is approximately 5,500. Most live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island and the adjoining mainland, and on islands around Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait. Some also live outside their homelands in urban areas such as Victoria and Vancouver. They are politically organized into 13 band governments, consisting of a total population of about 5,500.
“Their language, now spoken by only 3.1% of the population, consists of four dialects of what is commonly referred to as Kwak’wala. These dialects are Kwak̓wala, ’Nak̓wala, G̱uc̓ala and T̓łat̓łasik̓wala.” – Wikipedia
