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Publication details [#51106]
Darnell, Regna. 2005. Franz Boas. In Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 2003–2005 Installment. John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
Franz Boas (1858–1942), the preeminent figure in 20th century North American anthropology, established the four-field structure of the discipline around cultural, physical, linguistic and archaeological studies of the American Indian, and contributed to these four subdisciplines. This essay mainly focuses on Boas’s wide-ranging contributions to Amerindian linguistics and their inseparability from his views on culture.