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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Franz Boas canonical	66
Boasian anthropology	1
Franz Uri Boas	1
linguist Franz Boas	1

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instanceOf	academic ⓘ anthropologist ⓘ ethnologist ⓘ human ⓘ professor ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in physics ⓘ
birthName	Franz Boas self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Franz Uri Boas
causeOfDeath	stroke ⓘ
child	Franziska Boas ⓘ
citizenship	German Empire ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Germany ⓘ Prussia ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Heidelberg University ⓘ surface form: University of Heidelberg University of Kiel ⓘ
employer	American Museum of Natural History (original buildings) ⓘ surface form: 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	Franz Boas self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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 self-link ⓘ
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	Westphalia ⓘ surface form: Minden, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia
placeOfDeath	New York City ⓘ surface form: 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 North America ⓘ surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast Inuit ⓘ surface form: Inuit communities of Baffin Island Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) culture ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Marie Krackowizer ⓘ
theory	cultural relativism ⓘ historical particularism ⓘ

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Handbook of American Indian Languages → author → Franz Boas ⓘ

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Alfred L. Kroeber → academicAdvisor → Franz Boas ⓘ

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Melville J. Herskovits → influencedBy → Franz Boas ⓘ

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Coming of Age in Samoa → influencedBy → Franz Boas ⓘ

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The Nature of Culture → influencedBy → Franz Boas ⓘ

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Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race → influencedBy → Franz Boas ⓘ

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu → doctoralAdvisor → Franz Boas ⓘ