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The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward Sapir was among the most distinguished. Virtually all of the classic Boasians were at least part-time linguists alongside their ethnological work. During the crucial transitional period beginning with the founding of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879, there were as many continuities as discont

Boas, Franz --- Anthropology --- Anthropologie --- History --- Histoire --- Boas, Franz, --- Smithsonian Institution. --- History. --- Primitive societies --- Human beings --- Boaz, Franz, --- Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution) --- United States. --- Museum of Natural History (U.S.). --- Social sciences

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The Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program were the most ambitious archaeological projects ever undertaken in the United States. Administered by the National Park Service from 1945-1969, the programs had profound effects-methodological, theoretical, and historical-on American archaeology, many of which are still being felt today. They stimulated the public's interest in heritage preservation, led to the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, served as the model for rescue archaeology in other countries, and helped launch

Archaeology --- Salvage archaeology --- Archaeological surveying --- Archaeology and state --- Historic preservation --- Archaeological resources management --- Conservation archaeology --- Crisis archaeology --- CRM archaeology --- Cultural resource management archaeology --- Developer-funded archaeology --- Development-led archaeology --- Preventive archaeology --- Public archaeology --- Rescue archaeology --- Antiquities --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural property --- State and archaeology --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Surveying --- Collection and preservation --- Protection --- Methodology --- Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- River Basin Surveys --- History. --- Missouri River Basin Survey (U.S.) --- Museum of Natural History (U.S.). --- River Basin Survey (U.S.) --- Smithsonian Institution. --- United States. --- Midwest Archeological Center (U.S.) --- Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- IASP --- Interagency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- Interagency Archaeological and Paleontological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- Inter-Agency Archaeological and Paleontological Salvage Program (U.S.) --- Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Program (U.S.)