The pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), who refuted the basic principles of racist ideology in a book once described as the “Magna Carta of race equality,” will be the subject of a ...
volume 1. Franz Boas as public intellectual : theory, ethnography, activism / edited by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith. Historiographic conundra : the Boasian ...
Charles King’s lively, ambitious book makes a very large claim: that the eminent anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) inspired an “intellectual revolution” in the first half of the 20th century. The ...
Franz Boas is widely hailed as the "Father of American Anthropology." An immigrant from Germany who first arrived on these shores in the 1880s, he rejected the prevailing belief among Western students ...
Funeral services were held today for Prof. Franz Boas, 84, one of the world’s leading authorities on anthropology, and in the last decade the most prominent debunker of the Nazi theory of “racial ...
QUESTION: Why is Franz Boas a significant figure in the field of anthropology? LEE D. BAKER: [Franz Boas left two major legacies. The first is that] he de-linked race, language and culture, making ...
Incomplete edited film shot by Franz Boas on his last field trip to the Northwest Coast. Documented are various Kwakiutl dances which were staged for the camera at the site of Fort Ruppert, Vancouver, ...
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