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William Y. Adams was a student of Robert H. Lowie at the University of California, and is thus a second-generation Boasian. As a professor of anthropology he taught 33 different courses, and has published 22 books. He has done ethnological fieldwork in the U.S. Southwest, where he grew up, and archaeological fieldwork in both the Southwest and the Nile Valley.
PHOTO CREDITSPART ONE: BACKGROUND- Introduction
- Antecedents and circumstances
- The founding grandfather: Franz Boas, 1858–1942
PART TWO: THE FOUNDING FATHERS- Clark Wissler, 1870–1947
- A. L. Kroeber, 1876–1960
- Robert H. Lowie, 1883–1957
- Edward Sapir, 1884–1939
- Paul Radin, 1883–1959
- Melville J. Herskovits, 1895–1963
- The journeymen
Frank G. Speck, 1881–1950Alexander Goldenweiser, 1880–1940Fay-Cooper Cole, 1881–1961Leslie Spier, 1893–1961Melville Jacobs, 1902–1971Alexander Lesser, 1902–1982PART THREE: THE FOUNDING MOTHERS- Elsie Clews Parsons, 1874–1941
- Ruth Benedict, 1887–1948
- Margaret Mead, 1901–1978
- The handmaidens
Gladys Reichard, 1893–1955Erna Gunther, 1896–1982Esther Goldfrank, 1896–1997Ruth Bunzel, 1898–1990Gene Weltfish, 1902–1980Ruth Underhill, 1883–1984Marian W. Smith, 1907–1961Zora Neale Hurston, 1901(?)–1960PART FOUR: RETROSPECTIVE- Achievements and failures
- The legacies
BIBLIOGRAPHY
William Adams has...produced a valuable work by marshalling so much information about the men and women who created the distinctive discipline that is (or was) American anthropology.
— Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute