Under Boas fieldwork assumed central importance as a source of anthro- pological data. How did the people that the Boasians studied affect the kind of field investigation that they undertook?
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Boas, Franz. Race, Language and Culture (3 copies on reserve) pp. 564-592. 1908. Decorative Designs of Alaskan Needlecases: pp. 281-289. 1920. The Methods of Ethnology. pp. 243-259. 1932. The Aims of Anthropological Research. pp. 316-323. 1916. The Origin of Totemism.
Goldenweiser, Alexander. 1925. Diffusionism and Historical Ethnology. Journal of American Sociology 31:19-38 (3 copies on reserve)
Linton, Ralph. 1937. One Hundred Percent American. American Mercury 40:427-429 (to be distributed)
Wissler, Clark. 1914. The Influence of the Horse in the Development of Plains Culture. American Anthropologist 16: 1-25 (3 copies on reserve)
Wissler, Clark. 1917. The American Indian. New York: D.C. McMurtrie (pp. 1-3, 219-262) (CFAL: E58 W83 1950 - on reserve) (3 copies on reserve)
Kroeber, Alfred. 1939. Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press pp. 1-14, 205-228 (3 copies on reserve)
Harris, Marvin. 1968. Historical Particularism: Boas, pp. 250-289 in The Rise of Anthropological Theory. New York: Crowell (CFAL: GN320 H33 - on reserve)
Freed, Stanley A. & Ruth S. Freed. 1983. Clark Wissler and the Development of Anthropology in the United States. American Anthropologist 85(4):800-825
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Wissler, Clark. 1926. The Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press (pp. xi-xx, 180-222) (Schwerin)
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