Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist · United States · Academics · Lived 1858 to 1942 · aged 84
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Something wrong?Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
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Boas's dissertation: Beiträge zur Erkenntniss der Farbe des Wassers
An illustration from Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) by Thomas Henry Huxley, which became emblematic of the now-discredited idea of evolution as linear progress
Franz Boas posing for figure in US Natural History Museum exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room" 1895 or before. Courtesy of National Anthropology Archives. (Kwakiutl culture)
Columbia University library in 1903
Drawing of a Kwakiutl mask from Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Wooden skulls hang from below the mask, which represents one of the cannibal bird helpers of Bakbakwalinooksiwey.
A painting by Wilhelm Kuhnert illustrates the 1894 potlatch ceremony at Tsaxis, titled "The Walas'axa". Painting printed as Plate 36 in the classic Kwakiutl study The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, written by Boas (1897).Family
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