Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Building the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University
  • Franz Boas and his early students, 1901-1915
  • Race and the quest for social justice
  • Folklore and ruins in Mexico and Puerto Rico
  • Conflict, war, and censure
  • Preponderance of women students
  • Loss and loneliness
  • The last cohort of Boas's students
  • Rescuing scientists
  • After retirement
  • Appendix: Tribal and historical designations.