scholarly journals Noémie ÉTIENNE, Les Autres et les ancêtres. Les dioramas de Franz Boas et d’Arthur C. Parker à New York, 1900

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-275
Author(s):  
Nicole Edelman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Franz Boas

Clark Wissler, 1870–1947

1948 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. C. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Natural History ◽  
York City ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
University Training

American Archaeology lost one of its . most enthusiastic promoters and interpreters by the death, in New York City on August 25, of Doctor Clark Wissler. As one of the last of the passing generation of anthropologists with university training to enter the profession from another discipline—in this case Psychology—-he came to the American Museum of Natural History in 1902, at the age of 32. He served at first as Assistant in the Department of Ethnology under Curators F. W. Putnam and Franz Boas; but not long after, probably on Putnam's departure, was advanced to Assistant Curator of Ethnology and by 1905 is recorded as Acting Curator of Ethnology. Succeeding Boas, on the latter's complete transfer to Columbia University in 1906, he was named Curator of the Department of Ethnology and finally, in 1907, Curator of the Department of Anthropology, a rank which he held until retired to emeritus status in 1942, at the ripe age of 72.

Lewis Henry Morgan

Anthropology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Launay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subsequent Generation ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
Kinship Terminology

Lewis Henry Morgan (b. 1818–d. 1881) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. As a young lawyer in Rochester, New York, he founded a local club, The Grand Order of the Iroquois, whose members championed Iroquois rights to their land, claimed by the Ogden Company. In the process, he acquired a more systematic interest in Iroquois culture. His researches among them led to the publication of a book-length study. His later discovery that patterns of kinship terminology in other, even unrelated, Indian cultures were very similar to those of the Iroquois launched a systematic survey of kinship nomenclature that provided a template for modern studies of kinship in anthropology. While he was working on kinship terminology, he also conducted an extensive, pioneering field study of the activities of beavers. Toward the end of his life, he formulated a grand scheme of social evolution focusing on progress in the domains of technology, government, family, and property. His work attracted the favorable attention of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but it was sharply criticized by a subsequent generation of anthropologists, especially followers of Franz Boas in the United States, who were skeptical of grand evolutionary schemes. Nonetheless, his work remains an enduring influence in the discipline.

“My Soul Was with the Gods and My Body in the Village”: Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict

Prospects ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 285-322
Author(s):  
Mark Helbling
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Zora Neale Hurston ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Jessie Fauset ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
Florida Panhandle ◽  
The Village

In august, 1927, Zora Neale Hurston posed with Langston Hughes and Jessie Fauset at the foot of the statue of Booker T. Washington on the campus of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. Now, after six months of collecting African-American folklore – customs, games, jokes, lies, songs, superstitions, and tales – Hurston was ready to return to New York City and to finish her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at Barnard. She had left New York City the previous February and had spent most of her time in and around her hometown of Eatonville and Tallahassee, Florida, before driving across the Florida panhandle to Mobile, Alabama. There she interviewed Cudjo Lewis, reputed to be the only living survivor of the last ship to bring slaves from Africa to America. By chance, Hurston also met Hughes, who had just arrived in Mobile by train from New Orleans. Soon after, she and Hughes drove up to Tuskegee, joined Fauset to lecture to summer students, then continued on their way to New York City.

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