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Franz Boas ( Minden, Westphalia , July 9 of 1858 - New York , December 21 of 1942) was an anthropologist U.S. home Jewish German.
After studying at various German universities ( Heidelberg, Bonn ) of doctorate at the Kiel . rejected evolutionism and diffusionism as not believe that the same facts in place and time apart may come from universal laws that would lead the human spirit. He represented the school relativistic and, in turn, the precursor of historical particularism. In the beginning was a student of physical . In 1886, during some research, traveled to northern Canada to study various water sources. Was lost and was rescued by the Inuit Indians . Following this event he decided to stay in U.S. and became an anthropologist , from teaching at the University Columbia, which led the department of Anthropology. In 1921
performed work related to the consequences of migration, they consisted of comparing the first and second generation immigrants in the populations of origin, who had remained sedentary. The aim of these studies was to measure the impact of the new environment on migrants.
He founded the American Anthropological Association and in 1931 was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. When the NSDAP German denounced the "Jewish science" (attack not only against him but against Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein ), Boas replied in writing along at 8,000 intellectuals, what mattered was the science, and that race and religion were irrelevant.
Sources and readings
Writings by Boas Boas
nd "The relation of Darwin to anthropology," notes for a lecture , Boas Papers (B / B61.5) American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Published on line with Herbert Lewis 2001b.
Boas, Franz 1911 The Mind of Primitive Man ISBN 0313240043
Boas, Franz 1940 Race, Language, and Culture ISBN 0-226-06241-4
Stocking, George W., Jr.., Ed 1974 A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 ISBN 0-226-06243-0
Boas, Franz 1928 "Anthropology and Modern Life" (2004 ed.) ISBN 0-7658-0535 -9
Writings on Boas and anthropology su
Bashkow, Ira 2004 "Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries" in American Anthropologist 106 (3): 443-458
Bunzl, Matti 2004 "Boas, Foucault, and the 'Native Anthropologist'" in American Anthropologist 106 (3): 435-442
Cole, Douglas 1999 Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 ISBN 1-55054-746-1
Darnell, Regna 1998. “And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology.” ISBN 1556196237
Kuper, Adam 1988 The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion ISBN 0-415-00903-0
Kroeber, Alfred 1949 "An Authoritarian Panacea" en American Anthropologist 51(2) 318-320
Lesser, Alexander 1981 "Franz Boas" in Sydel Silverman, ed. Totems and Teachers: Perspectives on the History of Anthropology ISBN 0-231-05087-9
Lewis, Herbert 2001a "The Passion of Franz Boas" en American Anthropologist 103(2): 447-467
Lewis, Herbert 2001b "Boas, Darwin, Science and Anthropology" en Current Anthropology 42(3): 381-406 (On line version contains transcription of Boas's 1909 lecture on Darwin.)
Stocking, George W., Jr. 1968 "Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology" ISBN 0-226-77494-5
Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. 1996 Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition ISBN 0-299-14554-9
Valdés Gázquez, María. 2006. "El pensamiento antropológico de Franz Boas". Bellaterra : Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. ISBN 84-490-2443-9
Boas, antropología, e identidad judía
Glick, Leonard B. 1982 "Types Distinct from Our Own: Franz Boas on Jewish Identity and Assimilation" in American Anthropologist 84(3) pp. 545-565.
Frank, Gelya 1997 "Jews, Multiculturalism, and Boasian Anthropology" in American Anthropologist 99(4), pp. 731-745.
Mitchell Hart 2003 "Franz Boas as German, American, Jew." In German-Jewish Identities in America, eds. C. Mauch and J. Salomon (Madison: Max Kade Institute), pp. 88-105.
Kevin MacDonald 1998 The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements -- chapter 2 provides a critique of Boas, by resurrecting the Nazi notion of "Jewish science ."
A Reassessment of human cranial plasticity: Boas revisited - Criticism made by Corey S. Boas Richard L. Sparks and Jantz.
Heredity, Environment, and Cranial Form - article confirming searches Boas, by Clarence C. Gravlee, H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard
Franz Boas Out of the Ivory Tower - essay on the relationship between academia and policy making as an example
Boas Scam The Great Social Anthropology, Chris Brand - The West article Quarterly, a website and daily views advocating white supremacy . Est e article examines what the author describes as "destructive legacy of Franz Boas" while displaying strong diatribes against immigrants and non-Western peoples.
The Culture Cult: Web page
romantic primitivism is English Literature
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