 | Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884: Journals and Letters Subjects: Boas Franz 1858–1942 -- Journeys -- Northwest Territories -- Baffin Island; Inuit -- Northwest Territories -- Baffin Island -- Social life and customs; Baffin Island (N.W.T.) -- Social life and customs; In the summer of 1883, fledgling anthropologist Franz Boas spent a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island. This book presents in English his letters and journal entries from the year that he spent among the Inuit. Muller-Wille Ludger : Ludger Müller-Wille is an associate professor of Geography at McGill University. His book Franz Boas. Bei den Inuit in Baffinland 1883-1884, Tagebücher und Briefe was first published in German by Reinhold Schletzer Verlag, Berlin, in1994.Barr William : William Barr is professor of Geography at the University of Saskatchewan, editor and translator of A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-1854, and Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880. |
