THE REACTIONS OF FRANZ BOAS AND KONRAD THEODOR PREUSS TO A STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF KWAKIUTL MYTHOLOGY IN 1933

In the preface of his book The Mouth of Heaven, An introduction to Kwakiutl religious thought, Irving Goldman refers to The serpent in Kwakiutl religion which I wrote in 1932 as a dissertation for my doctor’s degree at Leiden university under the supervision of my teacher of cultural anthropology J...

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Zusammenfassung:In the preface of his book The Mouth of Heaven, An introduction to Kwakiutl religious thought, Irving Goldman refers to The serpent in Kwakiutl religion which I wrote in 1932 as a dissertation for my doctor’s degree at Leiden university under the supervision of my teacher of cultural anthropology J .P.B. de Josselin de Jong. Goldman makes this remark: “It is a curious reflection on the state of ethnological maturity in English-speaking anthropology that the subject on which the corpus of Kwakiutl ethnography was most complete, namely, Kwakiutl religious thought, has been virtually ignored. Boas’s original aim to reveal to