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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT ON THE ACADEMIC TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY By FRANZ BOAS IN May, 1916, a number of anthropologists met at Columbia University in the City of New York to discuss the objects and methods of anthropology teaching in colleges and universities. The following were invited: Franz Boas Albert E. Jenks Roland B. Dixon A. L. Kroebr Pliny Earle Goddard Robert H. Lowie A. A. Goldenweiser George Grant MacCurdy George B. Gordon Bruno Oetteking F. W. Hodge Marshall H. Saville W. H. Holmes Frank G. Speck E. A. Hooton A. M. Tozzer Walter Hough Clark Wissler Ales HrdliCka At the end of the conference the participants undertook to write out their opinions in regard to special topics. These reports were circulated among the members of the conference and among a few other anthropologists who had been unable to be present. In December, 1916, during the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York, the conference met again at the American Museum of Natural History, and the discussion was continued on the basis of the previous conference and of the reports that had been circulated. At the annual meeting of the Association held at Philadelphia in 1917, a committee on Teaching of Anthropology in the United States was made permanent and directed to make reports to the Council annually. The committee consisted of Franz Boas (chairman), R. B. Dixon, P. E. Goddard, E. A. Hooton, A. L. Kroeber, George Grant MacCurdy, F. G. Speck, A. M. Tozzer. This committee was continued by action of the Council at the Baltimore meeting, December 28, 1918. As a result of the conferences, the following report has been drawn up: § I. The Science Of Anthropology The scientific aim of anthropology is the reconstruction of the history of m...