Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Russian Beginning and the Early American Years
2. Early Scholarship, the Iroquois Fieldwork, and Columbia
3. The New School, Academic and Popular Writing, and a Devastating Divorce
4. The West Coast Exile
5. The End
Notes
References
Index

About the Author

Sergei Kan is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of several books, including New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations (Nebraska, 2006), Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors (Nebraska, 2015), and Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist (Nebraska, 2009).
 

Reviews

"Kan's excellent biography is deeply researched, easy to read, and economically written. It does a good job of telling the story of an important but little-known figure in the history of folklore and anthropology."—Alex Golub, Journal of Folklore  Research

“Alexander A. Goldenweiser is a unique figure among American anthropologists. A Maverick Boasian is a valuable contribution to the history of anthropology, specifically to the study of the first generation of Franz Boas’s students and the establishment of professionalized anthropology in the United States.”—Robert Brightman, author of Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships

“An authoritative contribution to the history of anthropology.”—Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice