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Franz Boas
Standard Name: Boas, Franz
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Instructor | Zora Neale Hurston | Among her instructors were Franz Boas
and Ruth Benedict
, poet and author of Patterns of Culture (1934). Before graduating, Hurston travelled to the South on a Carter G. Woodson Foundation fellowship, in her first... |
| Instructor | Margaret Mead | After graduating from high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, MM
intended to go to Wellesley College
, her mother's alma mater, which was then an all-female institution. But her father refused to fund her higher... |
| Publishing | Zora Neale Hurston | The first edition has an introduction by Franz Boas
and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias
. Later editions are provided with introductions by Robert Hemenway
(1978) and Arnold Rampersad
(1990). |
| Textual Production | Margaret Mead | She did her research during eight months spent in Samoa, during which she learned the language, conducted interviews, and was chosen the taupou, or ceremonial virgin representative of a village she stayed at. Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. xii; 540 pp. 234 |
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