Why did Boas reject the "evolutionary assumptions" that were current when he began his anthropological work? What was the substance of his "historical" approch that was substituted for the evolutionist assumptions?
Stocking - Chaps 7 (pp. 133-160), 9 (pp. 195-233) and 11 (pp. 270-307)
Boas, Franz. 1940. Race, Language and Culture. New York: (reprinted 1966. New York: Free Press) (CFAL: GN8 B68 1948 - on reserve) pp. 270-280. The Limitations of the Comparative Method (1896) } 3 pp. 639-647. The Study of Geography (1887) } copies pp. 626-638. The Aims of Ethnology (1888) } on pp. 290-294. Evolution or Diffusion (1924) } reserve
Boas, Franz. 1911. The Mind of Primitive Man. New York: Macmillan pp. 1-65, 124-139, 244-250, 268-278 (3 copies on reserve) (revised ed. 1938. New York:) (reprinted 1965. New York: Free Press - *do not use the revised ed.*)
Wax, Murray. 1956. The Limitations of Boas' Anthropology. American Anthropologist 58(1):63-74 (3 copies on reserve)
Hughes, H. Stuart. 1958. Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of Social Thought, 1890-1930. New York: Knopf Chap. 2 (pp. 33-42, 63-66), Chap. 6, Parts I & II (pp. 183-200) (3 copies on reserve)
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