... on cultural and national identities , edited by Laura García-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House. Boas, Franz. [1906] 1974 . Commencement address for Atlanta University. In A Franz Boas reader: The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911 , edited by George W. Stocking Jr...

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... 54 Genealogies of Race and Culture and the Failure of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: Rereading Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois Charles L. Briggs 75 Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS Blues: The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic Neville Hoad...

.... Public Culture Society for Transnational Cultural Studies Coming Attractions Vol. 17, no. 1: David Bennett on psychoanalysis and shopping; Charles L. Briggs on Franz Boas’s cosmopolitanism; Kaylin Goldstein on exhibiting orientalism at the Israel...

.... Public Culture Society for Transnational Cultural Studies Coming Attractions Vol. 17, no. 1: David Bennett on psychoanalysis and shopping; Charles L. Briggs on Franz Boas’s cosmopolitanism; Kaylin Goldstein on exhibiting orientalism at the Israel...

.... 1 , 210 – 13 . Bennett Jane . 2010 . Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Berlant Laurent . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Boas Franz . 1910 . “ The Origin of Totemism .” Journal...

... thank Madiha Tahir, Shamus Khan, Jesse Goldberg, Caren Kaplan, and Andrea Miller. 1 On hearing from different languages and the notion of “sound blindness” see Boas 1889 . 2 In the introduction to Illuminations Hannah Arendt (1968 : 49–50) explains that this purer language is about...

... . Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Osmanlı Arşivleri Daire Başkanlığı . 2007 . “ BOA/Ş FR, 69/252 from the Ministry of Interior to the governor of Kale‐i Sultaniye, November 12, 1916 ” In Osmanlı Belgelerinde Ermenilerin Sevk ve İskanı ( The Transfer and Settlement of Armenians in Ottoman...

... as “collecring,” hcluding ?he recording of linguistic and kinship information. Franz Boas, for example, wrote, “I wanted to have full information on the social organization of the Haida, and to get this it was necessary to collect, in the original language, the whole history of the families.” (Quoted...

..., and it benefited greatly from the response of participants there (a shorter version of this article appears in the conference volume of the same name). Earlier versions of this essay were presented also at the African Studies Association meeting, Columbia University’s Boas Seminar, and the Media and the Future...

... Boas? The point was money: to be spent and to be made. Paris 1889 and, closer to home, the 1876 centennial of United States inde- pendence in Philadelphia had proven to North American entrepreneurs that international fairs generated profits. By the late 1870s, consensus was reached among...

...- sented them as revelations of what American Indians really meant to sing, but couldn’t realize. This work initially suckered the most prominent ethnomusicolo- gist (Frances Densmore) and anthropologist (Franz Boas) of the day, although...

... divide in the story you have sketched in your question. Robert Park, the foundational figure in the Chicago school of sociology, wrote his dissertation in Germany (and in German); Franz Boas built up anthropology at Columbia with the university president’s explicit agreement that he could send his...

..., at the University of Amsterdam. Earlier versions were presented at a conference at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; at the Anthropology Department of New York Univer- sity; as a Boas Lecture at Columbia University...