Synopses & Reviews
This classic study, first published in 1922, presents the writings of A. L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, Clark Wissler, Paul Radin, Truman Michelson, and other prominent anthropologists. The distinguished career of Elsie Clews Parsons and its debt to Franz Boas are considered by Joan Mark in an introduction that also explores the message behind the twenty-seven stories in American Indian Life.
About the Author
Affiliated with the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Mark is the author of A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (1988), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.