{"product_id":"franz-boas-shaping-anthropology-and-fostering-social-justice-hardcover","title":"Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosemary Lévy Zumwalt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. \u003ci\u003eFranz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt's two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Zumwalt takes the reader through the most vital period in the development of Americanist anthropology and Boas's rise to dominance in the subfields of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Boas's emergence as a prominent public intellectual, particularly his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I, reveals his struggle against the forces of nativism, racial hatred, ethnic chauvinism, scientific racism, and uncritical nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Boas was instrumental in the American cultural renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, training students and influencing colleagues such as Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Botkin, Alan Lomax, Langston Hughes, and others involved in combating racism and the flourishing Harlem Renaissance. He assisted German and European émigré intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany to relocate in the United States and was instrumental in organizing the denunciation of Nazi racial science and American eugenics. At the end of his career Boas guided a network of former student anthropologists, who spread across the country to university departments, museums, and government agencies, imprinting his social science more broadly in the world of learned knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFranz Boas\u003c\/i\u003e is a magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, social science, visual and performing arts, and America's public sphere during a period of great global upheaval and democratic and social struggle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosemary Lévy Zumwalt\u003c\/b\u003e is emerita vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college and professor emerita of anthropology at Agnes Scott College. She is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eFranz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2019) and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e, and is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eFranz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 648\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.2 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759451144480,"sku":"9781496216915","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/be897cefd899f0ff21331812d9e59d26.webp?v=1780153072","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/franz-boas-shaping-anthropology-and-fostering-social-justice-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}