Books by Franz Boas

The decorative art of the Indians of the North Pacific coast is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

These myths and tales were collected between 1890 and 1894 - a time when the Kathlamet dialect was spoken by only three persons, and originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1901. This book contains the texts and their translations into English, followed by a grammar and dictionary of the language, which contains a comparison of all the known dialects of the Chinookan stock. The Kathlamet is that dialect of the Upper Chinook which was spoken farthest down the river. Its territory extended from Astoria on the south side and Grey's Harbor on the north side of the river to Rainier.

As Michael Silverstein discusses in his introduction to this new edition, the two foundational essays presented here are culminating moments in the scholarly history of North American Indigenous peoples' languages and cultures.

This volume provides a collection of Franz Boas's essays covering topics involved in the field of anthropology.

?In the compass of this short volume Franz Boas accomplishes the annihilation of the bases of almost all the prejudices and passions on which modern society rests, and arrives by the least spectacular kind of reasoning at revolutionary and yet strangely hopeful conclusions.?-Nation

Essays on the development of Boas' theories on primitive art and his legacy i Northwest Coast art studies offer a theoretical framework for this collectio of 14 articles written between 1889 and 1916 by the art historian and anthropologist. The articles, in which he disputes Eurocentric art theorie