Franz Boas

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Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.

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Franz Boas canonical 86
Boasian anthropology 1
Franz Uri Boas 1

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instanceOf academic ⓘ
anthropologist ⓘ
ethnologist ⓘ
human ⓘ
professor ⓘ
academicDegree PhD in physics ⓘ
birthName Franz Uri Boas ⓘ
linked to: Franz Boas
causeOfDeath stroke ⓘ
child Franziska Boas ⓘ
citizenship German Empire ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
countryOfBirth Germany ⓘ
Kingdom of Prussia ⓘ
linked to: Prussia
dateOfBirth 1858-07-09 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1942-12-21 ⓘ
describedAs father of American anthropology ⓘ
doctoralThesisTopic color perception in seawater ⓘ
educatedAt University of Bonn ⓘ
University of Heidelberg ⓘ
University of Kiel ⓘ
employer American Museum of Natural History ⓘ
Columbia University ⓘ
ethnicGroup German Jews ⓘ
fieldOfWork anthropology ⓘ
cultural anthropology ⓘ
ethnology ⓘ
folkloristics ⓘ
linguistic anthropology ⓘ
influenced Alfred L. Kroeber ⓘ
Ashley Montagu ⓘ
Edward Sapir ⓘ
Leslie Spier ⓘ
Margaret Mead ⓘ
Melville J. Herskovits ⓘ
Paul Radin ⓘ
Ralph Linton ⓘ
Ruth Benedict ⓘ
Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ
influencedBy Adolf Bastian ⓘ
Rudolf Virchow ⓘ
knownFor Boasian anthropology ⓘ
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critiquing scientific racism ⓘ
developing cultural relativism ⓘ
field-based ethnographic research ⓘ
founding American cultural anthropology ⓘ
promoting historical particularism ⓘ
languageSpoken English ⓘ
German ⓘ
memberOf American Anthropological Association ⓘ
movement Boasian school of anthropology ⓘ
name Franz Boas ⓘ
notableWork Anthropology and Modern Life ⓘ
Handbook of American Indian Languages ⓘ
Kwakiutl Ethnography ⓘ
Race, Language and Culture ⓘ
The Mind of Primitive Man ⓘ
opposed biological determinism ⓘ
scientific racism ⓘ
placeOfBirth Minden, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia ⓘ
linked to: Westphalia
placeOfDeath New York City, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to: New York City
positionHeld president of the American Anthropological Association ⓘ
president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ⓘ
professor of anthropology at Columbia University ⓘ
religion Judaism ⓘ
researchFocus Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast ⓘ
Inuit communities of Baffin Island ⓘ
linked to: Inuit

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) culture ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
spouse Marie Krackowizer ⓘ
theory cultural relativism ⓘ
historical particularism ⓘ

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