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==Further reading== * {{Cite magazine |last=Appiah |first=Kwame Anthony |author-link=Kwame Anthony Appiah |date=28 May 2020 |title=The Defender of Differences |magazine=[[The New York Review of Books]] |pages=17–19 |volume=LXVII |quote=[Boas] was skeptical... about doctrines of [[Supremacism|racial superiority]]. He had, more slowly, become a skeptic of [[Sociocultural evolution|social evolutionism]]: the notion that peoples progress through stages (in one crude formulation, from savagery to barbarism to civilization)... 'My whole outlook', [Boas] later wrote in a credo, 'is determined by the question: how can we recognize the shackles that tradition has laid upon us?' |number=9}}<br/>Works reviewed: **{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Mark |title=From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology |date=2019 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=9781503607286}} **{{harvcoltxt|King|2019}} **{{harvcoltxt|Zumwalt|2019}} * {{Cite journal |last=Baker |first=Lee D. |year=1994 |title=The Location of Franz Boas Within the African American Struggle |journal=Critique of Anthropology |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=199–217 |doi=10.1177/0308275x9401400205 |s2cid=143976125}} * {{Cite journal |last=Baker |first=Lee D. |year=2004 |title=Franz Boas Out of the Ivory Tower |journal=Anthropological Theory |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=29–51 |doi=10.1177/1463499604040846 |s2cid=143573265}} * {{Cite journal |last=Bashkow |first=Ira |year=2004 |title=A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120129372/abstract |url-status=dead |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=106 |issue=3 |pages=443–458 |doi=10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.443 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105072145/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120129372/abstract |archive-date=2013-01-05}} * {{Cite journal |last=Benedict |first=Ruth |year=1943 |title=Franz Boas |journal=Science |volume=97 |issue=2507 |pages=60–62 |bibcode=1943Sci....97...60B |doi=10.1126/science.97.2507.60 |jstor=1670558 |pmid=17799306}} * {{Cite book |last=Boas |first=Norman F. |title=Franz Boas 1858–1942: An Illustrated Biography |publisher=Seaport Autographs Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-9672626-2-8 |location=[[Mystic, Connecticut|Mystic, CT]]}} * {{Cite journal |last=Bunzl |first=Matti |year=2004 |title=Boas, Foucault, and the 'Native Anthropologist' |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120129371/abstract |url-status=dead |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=106 |issue=3 |pages=435–442 |doi=10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.435 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105233951/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120129371/abstract |archive-date=2013-01-05}} * {{Cite book |last=Cole |first=Douglas |title=Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858–1906 |publisher=University of Washington Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-55054-746-7}} * {{Cite book |last=Darnell |first=Regna |title=And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology |publisher=Benjamins |year=1998 |isbn=978-1-55619-623-2 |location=Amsterdam}} * {{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Brad |title=Where Was Boas During the Renaissance in Harlem? Diffusion, Race, and the Culture Paradigm in the History of Anthropology |year=2006 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-21920-8}} * {{Cite book |last=King |first=Charles |title=Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-385-54219-7 |edition=First |location=New York |oclc=1109765676}} * {{Cite journal |last=Kroeber |first=Alfred |year=1949 |title=An Authoritarian Panacea |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=318–320 |doi=10.1525/aa.1949.51.2.02a00210 |pmid=18153430 |doi-access=free}} * {{Cite book |last1=Krupnik |first1=Igor |title=SIKU: Knowing Our Ice |last2=Müller-Wille |first2=Ludger |publisher=Springer Netherlands |year=2010 |isbn=978-90-481-8586-3 |editor-last=Igor Krupnik |location=Dordrecht; London |pages=377–400 |chapter=Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" |doi=10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_16 |editor-last2=Claudio Aporta |editor-last3=Shari Gearheard |editor-last4=Gita J. Laidler |editor-last5=Lene Kielsen Holm}} * {{Cite book |last=Kuper |first=Adam |title=The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion |publisher=Routledge |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-415-00903-4 |location=London}} * {{Cite book |last=Lesser |first=Alexander |title=Totems and Teachers: Perspectives on the History of Anthropology |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-231-05087-6 |editor-last=Silverman |editor-first=Sydel |location=New York |chapter=Franz Boas}} * {{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Herbert |date=June 2001 |year=2001a |title=The Passion of Franz Boas |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_american-anthropologist_2001-06_103_2/page/446/mode/2up |journal=[[American Anthropologist]] |volume=103 |issue=2 |pages=447–467 |doi=10.1525/aa.2001.103.2.447}} * {{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Herbert |year=2001b |title=Boas, Darwin, Science and Anthropology |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=381–406|doi=10.1086/320474 |pmid=14992220 |s2cid=23943679 }} {{emdash}} contains transcription of Boas's 1909 lecture on Darwin * {{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Herbert |year=2008 |title=Franz Boas: Boon or Bane" (Review Essay) |journal=Reviews in Anthropology |volume=37 |issue=2–3 |pages=169–200 |doi=10.1080/00938150802038968 |s2cid=145679059}} * {{Cite thesis |last=Liss |first=Julia Elizabeth |title=The Cosmopolitan Imagination: Franz Boas and the Development of American Anthropology |date=1990 |degree=PhD |publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/504b0bf04a606ddfc6a08eead0e81474 |language=en}} * {{Cite journal |last=Lowie |first=Robert H. |date=January–March 1944 |title=Franz Boas (1858–1942) |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |publisher=The American Folklore Society |volume=57 |issue=223: Franz Boas Memorial Number |pages=59–64 |jstor=535755}} * {{Cite journal |last=Lowie |first=Robert H. |date=January–March 1944 |title=Bibliography of Franz Boas in Folklore |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |publisher=The American Folklore Society |volume=57 |issue=223: Franz Boas Memorial Number |pages=65–69 |jstor=535756}} * {{Cite book |last=Maud |first=Ralph |title=Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology |publisher=Talonbooks |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-88922-430-8 |location=Vancouver, BC}} * {{Cite journal |last=Price |first=David |year=2000 |title=Anthropologists as Spies |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20001120&c=2&s=price |journal=The Nation |volume=271 |issue=16 |pages=24–27}} * {{Cite journal |last=Price |first=David |year=2001 |title='The Shameful Business': Leslie Spier On The Censure Of Franz Boas |url=http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/HAN-Spier.htm |url-status=dead |journal=History of Anthropology Newsletter |volume=XXVII |issue=2 |pages=9–12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111110045/http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/HAN-Spier.htm |archive-date=2017-11-11 |access-date=2006-05-21}} * {{Cite journal |last=Stocking |first=George W. Jr. |year=1960 |title=Franz Boas and the Founding of the American Anthropological Association |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |doi=10.1525/aa.1960.62.1.02a00010 |doi-access=free}} * {{Cite book |last=Stocking |first=George W. Jr. |title=Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology |year=1968 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-77494-7}} * {{Cite book |title=Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition |year=1996 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-14554-5 |editor-last=Stocking |editor-first=George W. Jr.}} * {{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Vernon J. Jr. |title=Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-8131-1963-2 |location=Lexington}} * {{Cite journal |last=Xie |first=Yu |author-link=Yu Xie |date=1988 |title=Franz Boas and Statistics |url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/yuxie/publications/franz-boas-and-statistics |journal=Annals of Scholarship |volume=5 |pages=269–296}} * {{Cite book |last=Zumwalt |first=Rosemary Lévy |url=https://archive.org/details/americanfolklore0000zumw |title=American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=1988 |isbn=0-253-31738-X |editor-last=Dundes |editor-first=Alan |location=Bloomington}} * {{Cite book |last=Zumwalt |first=Rosemary Lévy |title=Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-4962-1554-3 |location=Lincoln}} {{emdash}} [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55922 online review] * {{Cite book |last=Zumwalt |first=Rosemary Lévy |title=Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-1496216915 |location=Lincoln}} {{emdash}} [https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/36810/39460 Online review]
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