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 ...

MR. WATTENBERG: Hello, I'm Ben Wattenberg. Franz Boas is known as the father of American anthropology. In the early 20th Century he bucked the trends of the time with his pioneering anti-racist ...

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Daniel Terna for The New York Times Supported by By Julia Jacobs In the early 1900s, Franz Boas, who is considered one of the founders of American anthropology, became fascinated by a large shrine ...

By Moruff Adenekan Renowned scholar and anthropologist, Franz Boas, in one of his scholarly works, gave a perspective of culture as a unique thing peculiar or specific to each group of people or ...

The Mind of Primitive Man. By Franz Boas. A Course of Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910–11. Pp. xi + 294. (New York ...

The Whalers' Washing House was removed from its home in 1904 following a controversial acquisition by Tlingit-Scottish ethnographer George Hunt for German-American anthropologist Franz Boas.