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Boas, Franz
BOAS, FRANZ (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist, was born at Minden, Prussian Westphalia, on July 9, 1858, the son of Jewish parents of comfortable means, both of whom were ...
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Franz Boas
1858-1942
German-American Anthropologist
Franz Boas is primarily remembered for his pioneering work as an anthropologist and ethnologist. Boas was the founder of the culture-centered (but s...
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The German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) established the modern structure of anthropology and applied anthropological findings to problems in education, race relations, nationali...
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Franz Boas, an anthropologist and linguist, helped to found modern cultural anthropology in the United States. He and his students influenced all areas of anthropology through the 1930's, revolutioniz...
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In the following review of Anthropology and Modern Life, Slesinger commends Boas's scientific methods and applauds his major conclusions concerning the roots of human behavior.
Anthropology and...
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Boas near the end of his life.
Krupat is an American critic and scholar who has written extensively on Native American cultures. In the following excerpt, he discusses elements of modernism in ...
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Benedict was a renowned American cultural anthropologist who studied with Boas. The following excerpt is taken from her obituary tribute to her former teacher.
[Franz Boas] was born in Minden, Westpha...
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In the following essay, Wax argues that while Boas was successful in introducing a spirit of critical inquiry and empiricism into modern anthropology, he failed to develop viable theories of his own.
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A respected American anthropologist, Mead is noted for her psychological and cultural studies of primitive societies, most notably Coming of Age in Samoa. Mead also studied with Boas, and in the follo...
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In the following essay, Spier provides an overview ofBoas's contributions to the field of anthropology.
Boas left no body of dogma as a legacy. What he established, as a foundation to modern an...
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In the following excerpt, the critics describe Boas's approach to the study of human societies and place him in the context of nineteenth-century ethnographic theories.
Even today, a quarter of...
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A distinguished American anthropologist, Stocking is the editor of numerous volumes of writings on the subject. In the following excerpt, which was originally published in the 1979 collection The Uses...
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Lesser was a distinguished American anthropologist who, like Boas, specialized in the study of Native American cultures. In the following excerpt, he summarizes Boas's achievements.
In retrospe...
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In the following excerpt, Hyatt applauds Boas's efforts to effect social change.
The life and thought of Franz Boas has had a profound impact on many diverse elements of American society. In a ...
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Franz Boas
Franz boas was one of the founding fathers of anthropology in North America. He studied through the First and Second World War when there was a rise in Ant-Semitism across Europe and the...
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