Reenvisioning Boas and Boasian Anthropology

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884: Journals and Letters. Ludger Miiller Wille. ed. Translated by William Barr. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 298 pp.
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906. Douglas Cole. Vancouver: Douglas and Mclntyre, 1999. 360 pp.     

How It Came to Be: Carl O. Sauer, Franz Boas, and the Meaning of Anthropogeography

How It Came to Be: Carl O. Sauer, Franz Boas, and the Meaning of Anthropogeography. William W. Speth. Ellensburg, WA: Ephemera Press. 268 pp.     

The classics revisited

Franz Boas, RACE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Midway Reprint, 1988, 647 pp, £19.95 and $27.50, (paperback only).

V. G. Kiernan, THE LORDS OF HUMAN KIND, London: Century‐Hutchinson/ Cresset Library, 1989, viii + 336 pp., £6.25 paperback.     

The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography (1910–2000)

The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography (1910–2000) . Hugo G. Nutini. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 386 pp.     

"Handbook of biomedical optics", edited by David A. Boas,Constantinos Pitris,and Nimmi Ramanujam

David A. Boas, Constantinos Pitris, and Nimmi Ramanujam, Eds.:     

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People–Wildlife Relations

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People–Wildlife Relations. John Knight. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 296 pp.     

The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan: The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom: Río Azul: An Ancient Maya City

The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan. Don E. Dumond. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.571pp.
The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. Grant D. Jones. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.568 pp.
Río Azul: An Ancient Maya City. Richard E. W. Adams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 238 pp.     

Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction

Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction. William A. Foley. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.495 pp.     

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Lyle Campbell. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999. 396 pp.     

Archaeological Theory: An Introduction

Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. Matthew Johnson. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1999. 240 pp.     

The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations; Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik

The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations. Dara Culhane. Burnaby, BC. Talon Books, 1998.406 pp.
Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik. Susan G. Drummond. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.189 pp.     

Global Diasporas: An Introduction.

Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Robin Cohen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 228 pp.     

Boas's Changes in Bodily Form: The Immigrant Study, Cranial Plasticity, and Boas's Physical Anthropology

In two recent articles, we and another set of researchers independently reanalyzed data from Franz Boas's classic study of immigrants and their descendants. Whereas we confirm Boas's overarching conclusion regarding the plasticity of cranial form, Corey Sparks and Richard Jantz argue that Boas was incorrect. Here we attempt to reconcile these apparently incompatible conclusions. We first address methodological differences between our reanalyses and suggest that (1) Sparks and Jantz posed a different set of questions than we did, and (2) their results are largely consistent with our own. We then discuss our differing understandings of Boas's original argument and of the concept of cranial plasticity. In particular, we argue that Sparks and Jantz attribute to Boas a position he explicitly rejected. When we clarify Boas's position and place the immigrant study in historical context, Sparks and Jantz's renalysis supports our conclusion that, on the whole, Boas got it right. [Keywords: Franz Boas, plasticity, anthropometry, heritability, immigrant study]     

Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader

Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader . June C. Nash, ed. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 344 pp.     

Heredity, Environment, and Cranial Form: A Reanalysis of Boas's Immigrant Data

Franz Boas's classic study, Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants , is a landmark in the history of anthropology. More than any single study, it undermined racial typology in physical anthropology and helped turn the tide against early-20thcentury scientific racism. In 1928, Boas responded to critics of the immigrant study by publishing the raw data set as Materials for the Study of Inheritance in Man . Here we present a reanalysis of that long-neglected data set. Using methods that were unavailable to Boas, we test his main conclusion that cranial form changed in response to environmental influences within a single generation of European immigrants to the United States. In general, we conclude that Boas got it right. However, we demonstrate that modern analytical methods provide stronger support for Boas's conclusion than did the tools at his disposal. We suggest future areas of research for this historically important data set. [Keywords: Franz Boas, cranial form, immigrant study, heredity, environment]     

The European Family: An Historico-Anthropological Essay

The European Family: An Historico-Anthropological Essay. Jack Goody. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.209 pp.     

Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey; An Anchored Radiance

Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey; An Anchored Radiance. Jay Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.185 pp.     

Eldoret: An African Poetics of Technology

Eldoret: An African Poetics of Technology. Richard M. Swiderski. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. 228 pp.     

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. Joseph A. Maxwell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. 155 pp.     

The Archaeological Process: An Introduction.; Archaeological Theory Today.

The Archaeological Process: An Introduction. Ian Hodder. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 242 pp.
Archaeological Theory Today. Ian Hodder. ed. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 328 pp.