Foreword / Sydel Silverman
Introduction / Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald
Franz Boas: scientist and public intellectual / Regna Darnell
Ruth Benedict: relativist and universalist / Virginia Heyer Young
A century of Margaret Mead / Ray McDermott
Education and democracy in the anthropology of Gene Weltfish / Juliet Niehaus
The social anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker / Jill B.R. Cherneff
Culture and race in the classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American education / Richard Handler
Human activity and a theory of schooling: an assessment of Solon Kimball's anthropology of education / Alexander Moore
They are all our children: Eleanor Leacock and the anthropology of education / Eve Hochwald.