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Description of  The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2: Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography (Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition)

1496235711 pdf The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau as revealed through the correspondence between Franz Boas and the Scottish-born James Teit, who married into an Interior Salish family and community and became fluent in the Nlakapamux language. The letters between Teit (18641922) and Boas (18581942) chronicle Teits varied career as an ethnographer, from shortly after his initial meeting with Boas in 1894 until Teits death at the age of fifty-eight. A postscript documents Boass contribution to Teits legacy through the posthumous publication of the manuscripts Teit left unfinished at his death. Teit made significant contributions to ethnography and the history of southern British Columbia through his photography of the people with whom he worked, his contributions to ethnomusicology and ethnobotany, his anthologies of mythic narrative, and his collections of Interior Salishprimarily Nlakapamuxmaterial culture. In addition to collaborating with Boas in the development of Interior Salish ethnography, between 1909 and 1922 Teit worked to support Indigenous groups in British Columbia who were seeking recognition of Aboriginal title and resolution of their outstanding land claims. Read more