Franz Boas

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academic anthropologist ethnologist human professor

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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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → anthropologist → ethnologist → human → professor →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
birthName	Franz Uri Boas →
causeOfDeath	stroke →
child	Franziska Boas →
citizenship	German Empire → United States of America →
countryOfBirth	Germany → Kingdom of 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 → 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 →
placeOfDeath	New York City, New York, United States →
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 → Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) culture →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Marie Krackowizer →
theory	cultural relativism → historical particularism →

Referenced by (48)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alfred L. Kroeber → Alfred Marston Tozzer → Ashley Montagu → Boasian school of anthropology → Coming of Age in Samoa → Edward Sapir → Franziska Boas → Leslie Spier → Margaret Mead → Margaret Mead → Melville J. Herskovits → Ralph Linton → Ruth Benedict → The Nature of Culture →	influencedBy
Anthropology and Modern Life → Handbook of American Indian Languages → Kwakiutl Ethnography → Race, Language and Culture → The Mind of Primitive Man →	author
Alfred L. Kroeber → Leslie Spier → Ruth Benedict →	academicAdvisor
Adolf Bastian → Wilhelm von Humboldt → Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues →	influenced
American historical particularism → Boasian school of anthropology →	associatedWith
American Anthropological Association → Boasian linguistics →	foundedBy
Boasian linguistics → Boasian school of anthropology →	namedAfter
Franz Boas ("Franz Uri Boas") →	birthName
Kwakiutl Ethnography →	contributor
Ashley Montagu →	doctoralAdvisor
Tlingit ("linguist Franz Boas") →	documentedBy
Handbook of American Indian Languages →	editor
Bureau of American Ethnology →	employed
Franziska Boas →	father
Alfred Marston Tozzer →	hasAcademicAdvisor
Boas →	hasNotableBearer
Boasian linguistics →	keyFigure
Franz Boas ("Boasian anthropology") →	knownFor
Franz Boas →	name
Marie Krackowizer →	partnerOf
Marie Krackowizer →	spouseOf
Zora Neale Hurston →	studiedUnder
Coming of Age in Samoa →	supervisedBy
Marie Krackowizer →	supported