A series of essays about and in honor of Franz Boas, one of the founders of Anthropology

Preface /A. L. Kroeber -- Introduction / Walter Goldschmidt -- Influences during the formative years / Clyde Kluckhohn and Olaf Prufer -- Apprenticeship under Boas / Margaret Mead -- Boas' natural history approach to field method / Marian Smith -- The understanding of the kwakiutl / Helen Codere -- Boas' contributions to knowledge of human growth and form / J. M. Tanner -- Boas as statistician / W. W. Howells -- Boas sobre ceramica y estratigrafia / Manuel Gamio -- Folklore / Melvile Jacobs -- Boas' view of grammatical meaning / Roman Jakobson -- Some central elements in the legacy / Leslie Spier -- Acknowledgements -- Sponsors -- Index.