“No Other Art Moves Me as Deeply as Music”: The Anthropology of Sound in Franz Boas

• Main Author: Irene Candelieri
• Other Authors: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Academic LAB, Candelieri, Irene
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Academic LAB 2021
• Subjects: Franz Boa; ethnomusicology; anthropology of sounds; Arctic; Boa; Indian
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11368/2998231

This contribution addresses the anthropology of sound in Franz Boas (Minden, 1858 – New York, 1942), the German Jewish scientist who became the recognized founding father of American anthropology as a discipline. Music and language were two research fields shared by Boas and European scholars, like...