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Franz Boas: Biography, Theory and Contribution

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Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist known as the "Father of Modern Anthropology." He was the first to apply the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Boas opposed scientific racism and promoted cultural relativism, believing that all cultures were equally valid and had to be understood in their own contexts. He helped establish anthropology as an academic discipline in the U.S. and supported a four-field approach integrating cultural, linguistic, archaeological, and physical anthropology. Boas trained the first generation of American anthropologists and made significant contributions to the field through his research and publications.

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Franz Boas (Encyclopedia Article)

Boas, Franz from the analysis of texts collected by Truman Michelson, and he later reconstructed much of the Proto-Algonquian language’s sound system and morphological structure, although his construction of a Proto-Central Algonquian language, including Ojibwe, Cree, Fox, Nenominee, and Potawatomi (and Miami-Illinois and Shawnee), has not withstood the test of time. Bloomfield’s best work tends to be of considerable length, and much of this appeared posthumously or is still only accessible through the Human Relations Area Files. Charles Hockett, Bloomfield’s literary executor and fellow Algonquianist, produced an anthology of his work in , which contained most of the important short pieces but omitted much good work (e.g., almost all his Austronesian work). This was often due to its bulk, though the anthology’s contents show Bloomfield as deeply humane. In , Robert Hall also published an interesting volume about Bloomfield and his achievements, in

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Franz Boas Biography PDF

Franz Uri Boas[a] (–) was a German-born American[21]

Franz Boas
anthropologist and a pioneer of modern antropologi who has been called the
"Father of American Anthropology".[22][23] His work is associated with the
movement of anthropological historicism.[24]

Studying in Germany, Boas was awarded a doctorate in in physics while

also studying geography. He then participated in a geographical expedition to
northern Canada, where he became fascinated with the culture and language of
the Baffin Island inuit. He went on to do field work with the indigenous cultures
and languages of the Pacific Northwest. In he emigrated to the United
States, where he first worked as a museum curator at the Smithsonian, and in
became a professor of antropologi at Columbia University, where he
remained for the rest of his career. Through his students, many of whom went on
to funnen anthropology departments and research programmes inspired by their
mentor, Boas pr