Rosemary LÉvy Zumwalt is vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college emerita at Agnes Scott College. She is the coauthor of Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906 and the author of numerous books, including Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist and American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent.

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editors’ IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on Translations1. Ardently Desired Boy: Young Boas and His Family2. Student Life into Its Deepest Depths: Boas at University3. In Heaven, in Love, and Separation: Preparing for the Arctic Voyage4. Creating a Future for Us: To Baffin Land and Back5. Divided Desires: Pulled between New York and Germany6. West to the Indians: Northwest Coast Fieldwork, Employment by Science, and Marriage7. All Our Hopes Came to Such a Disgrace: Boas at Clark University8. The World’s Columbian Exposition: Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam9. Your Orphan Boy: Struggling to Find a Place10. The Greatest Undertaking of Its Kind: The Jesup North Pacific Expedition11. Taking Hold in New York: From the amnh to Columbia UniversityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“[Franz Boas] has its rewards, especially in its generous use of correspondence.”-Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books "Zumwalt's book is a testament to far-reaching, thorough, and careful archival work."-Diana E. Marsh, Journal of American Folklore "Zumwalt has woven together a variety of materials from a range of sources into a comprehensive and coherent story."-Elliott Oring, Journal of Folklore Research “Zumwalt leads us to know Franz Boas as never before, and we should be grateful. She gives us his engrossing love and life story across vast continents. She lets us walk with him into the classroom as well as into his home. She marvelously gives him voice, so we can discern his message for our time as well as in his.”-Simon J. Bronner, author of American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History “Rosemary Zumwalt has written a biography of Franz Boas truly for the twenty-first century. Going beyond George Stocking and Douglas Cole, she focuses here on Boas’s early life in its historical and cultural setting. We eagerly await her second and concluding volume.”-Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Rosemary LÉvy Zumwalt is vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college emerita at Agnes Scott College. She is the coauthor of Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906 and the author of numerous books, including Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist and American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent.

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editors’ IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on Translations1. Ardently Desired Boy: Young Boas and His Family2. Student Life into Its Deepest Depths: Boas at University3. In Heaven, in Love, and Separation: Preparing for the Arctic Voyage4. Creating a Future for Us: To Baffin Land and Back5. Divided Desires: Pulled between New York and Germany6. West to the Indians: Northwest Coast Fieldwork, Employment by Science, and Marriage7. All Our Hopes Came to Such a Disgrace: Boas at Clark University8. The World’s Columbian Exposition: Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam9. Your Orphan Boy: Struggling to Find a Place10. The Greatest Undertaking of Its Kind: The Jesup North Pacific Expedition11. Taking Hold in New York: From the amnh to Columbia UniversityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“[Franz Boas] has its rewards, especially in its generous use of correspondence.”-Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books "Zumwalt's book is a testament to far-reaching, thorough, and careful archival work."-Diana E. Marsh, Journal of American Folklore "Zumwalt has woven together a variety of materials from a range of sources into a comprehensive and coherent story."-Elliott Oring, Journal of Folklore Research “Zumwalt leads us to know Franz Boas as never before, and we should be grateful. She gives us his engrossing love and life story across vast continents. She lets us walk with him into the classroom as well as into his home. She marvelously gives him voice, so we can discern his message for our time as well as in his.”-Simon J. Bronner, author of American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History “Rosemary Zumwalt has written a biography of Franz Boas truly for the twenty-first century. Going beyond George Stocking and Douglas Cole, she focuses here on Boas’s early life in its historical and cultural setting. We eagerly await her second and concluding volume.”-Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Rosemary LÉvy Zumwalt is vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college emerita at Agnes Scott College. She is the coauthor of Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906 and the author of numerous books, including Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist and American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent.

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editors’ IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on Translations1. Ardently Desired Boy: Young Boas and His Family2. Student Life into Its Deepest Depths: Boas at University3. In Heaven, in Love, and Separation: Preparing for the Arctic Voyage4. Creating a Future for Us: To Baffin Land and Back5. Divided Desires: Pulled between New York and Germany6. West to the Indians: Northwest Coast Fieldwork, Employment by Science, and Marriage7. All Our Hopes Came to Such a Disgrace: Boas at Clark University8. The World’s Columbian Exposition: Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam9. Your Orphan Boy: Struggling to Find a Place10. The Greatest Undertaking of Its Kind: The Jesup North Pacific Expedition11. Taking Hold in New York: From the amnh to Columbia UniversityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“[Franz Boas] has its rewards, especially in its generous use of correspondence.”-Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books "Zumwalt's book is a testament to far-reaching, thorough, and careful archival work."-Diana E. Marsh, Journal of American Folklore "Zumwalt has woven together a variety of materials from a range of sources into a comprehensive and coherent story."-Elliott Oring, Journal of Folklore Research “Zumwalt leads us to know Franz Boas as never before, and we should be grateful. She gives us his engrossing love and life story across vast continents. She lets us walk with him into the classroom as well as into his home. She marvelously gives him voice, so we can discern his message for our time as well as in his.”-Simon J. Bronner, author of American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History “Rosemary Zumwalt has written a biography of Franz Boas truly for the twenty-first century. Going beyond George Stocking and Douglas Cole, she focuses here on Boas’s early life in its historical and cultural setting. We eagerly await her second and concluding volume.”-Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley