"The research program that Franz Boas initiated for ethnographic research on the peoples of Siberia in the 1890s resulted in major contributions to anthropological knowledge as well as long lasting relationships between Boas and a small group of Russian scholars. The latter were caught between their science and the roiling politics of their homeland. The editors of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3 of have produced a painstaking, valuable, and remarkable volume containing letters and little-known publications that capture anthropological, political, and biographical aspects of this long and fruitful Republic of Letters."--Herbert S. Lewis, author of In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology "Valdimir Bogoras, Lev Shternberg and Sarah Ratner Shternberg, Valdemar Jochelon and Dina Jochelson Brodsky, Berthold Laufer, and Gerald Fowke struggled against the forceful and shifting dominant political powers of Imperial Russia, China, and the United States. Three of them were familiar with Siberia from their time in exile. Together they all created the fields of Arctic and Siberian anthropology. For a Boas scholar, this work is the central publication that must be consulted for the impact of Boas on shaping and stimulating the intellectual engagement of international scholars.

"--Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist e of them were familiar with Siberia from their time in exile. Together they all created the fields of Arctic and Siberian anthropology. For a Boas scholar, this work is the central publication that must be consulted for the impact of Boas on shaping and stimulating the intellectual engagement of international scholars."--Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist e of them were familiar with Siberia from their time in exile. Together they all created the fields of Arctic and Siberian anthropology. For a Boas scholar, this work is the central publication that must be consulted for the impact of Boas on shaping and stimulating the intellectual engagement of international scholars."--Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist e of them were familiar with Siberia from their time in exile. Together they all created the fields of Arctic and Siberian anthropology.

For a Boas scholar, this work is the central publication that must be consulted for the impact of Boas on shaping and stimulating the intellectual engagement of international scholars."--Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist.