Volksgeist as method and ethic : essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition / edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition -- The study of geography / Franz Boas -- Franz Boas and the Humboldtian tradition : from Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an anthropoligical concept of culture / Matti Bunzl -- From Virchow to Fischer : physical anthropology and "modern race theories" in Wilhelmine Germany / Benoit Massin -- German culture and German science in the Bildung of Franz Boas / Julia E. Liss -- The ethnographhic object and the object of ethnologoy in the early career of Franz Boas / Ira Jacknis -- "The culture as it appears to the Indian himself" : Boas, George Hunt, and the methods of ethnography / Judith Berman -- "The little history of pitiful events" : the epistemological and moral contexts of Kroeber's Calilfornian ethnologooy / Thomas Buckley -- Orientalism as Kulturpolitik : German archeology and cultural imperialism in Asia Minor / Suzanne Marchand.