Boas

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Boas is a surname most prominently associated with Franz Boas, the pioneering anthropologist often regarded as the father of American anthropology.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anthropologist
ethnologist
family name
human
linguist
surname
university teacher
academicDegree PhD in physics
citizenship German Empire
United States of America
countryOfBirth Prussia
surface form: "Kingdom of Prussia"
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1858-07-09
dateOfDeath 1942-12-21
educatedAt University of Bonn NERFINISHED
University of Heidelberg NERFINISHED
University of Kiel NERFINISHED
employer Clark University NERFINISHED
Columbia University
ethnicGroup German Jews
fieldOfWork cultural anthropology
ethnography
folkloristics
linguistic anthropology
hasChild Ernst Boas
Franziska Boas
hasNotableBearer Franz Boas
influenced Alfred L. Kroeber
Edward Sapir
Margaret Mead
Ruth Benedict
Zora Neale Hurston
knownAs father of American anthropology
languageOfOrigin Dutch
German
Portuguese
mainInterest Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples
surface form: "Native American cultures of the Pacific Northwest"
movement cultural relativism
historical particularism
notableWork Anthropology and Modern Life
Race, Language and Culture
The Mind of Primitive Man
placeOfBirth Minden
placeOfDeath New York City
positionHeld professor of anthropology at Columbia University
religion Judaism
sexOrGender male
spouse Marie Krackowizer

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