(born July 9, 1858, Minden, Westphalia, Prussia [Germany]—died Dec. 22, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German-born American anthropologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the founder of the relativistic, culture-centred school of American...

Franz Boas, born in Germany in 1858, naturalized US citizen in 1892, unquestionably dominated both the intellectual paradigm and institutional development of twentieth-century American anthropology until the Second World War, presiding over the...

During 1883–84 Boas undertook his first fieldwork, a study of the Inuit of Baffin Island. His objective was to compare the physical environment, which he mapped and measured objectively, with the knowledge of it held by its inhabitants. Boas...

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 assimilated into German culture. His education was largely at...

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 still scientifically based) approach to anthropology. He...

The lesson that Boas learned on the Northwest Coast—that *race (biological traits), language and culture were not linked to each other—is unobjectionable today, but was hardly so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century heydays of...

Between 1887 and 1895 Boas held a number of editorial, research and educational positions, but had neither a secure income nor an institutional base. In 1895 he received an appointment at the American Museum of Natural History (which he resigned in...

(born July 9, 1858, Minden, Westphalia [Germany]—died Dec. 22, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German-born U.S. anthropologist. Trained in physics and geography (Ph.D., 1881), Boas was part of an early scientific expedition to Baffin Island...

Born in Germany in 1858, Franz Boas was the dominant figure in *American anthropology from the late 1890s through the 1920s. His major ethnographic research among the Inuit and *Native Americans of the Northwest Coast was complemented by his work in...

Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942[2]) was a German anthropologist, a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".[3] Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his...