Boas is regarded as the founder of American anthropology. This book demonstrates the rich and fertile range of Boas’s thought, engaging with controversies that resonate loudly today. Includes a new foreword by Regna Darnell and an introduction and afterword by Herbert S. Lewis.
As Michael Silverstein discusses in his introduction to this new edition, the two foundational essays presented here are culminating moments in the scholarly history of North American Indigenous peoples’ languages and cultures.