The pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), who refuted the basic principles of racist ideology in a book once described as the “Magna Carta of race equality,” will be the subject of a ...

Franz Boas is widely hailed as the "Father of American Anthropology." An immigrant from Germany who first arrived on these shores in the 1880s, he rejected the prevailing belief among Western students ...

volume 1. Franz Boas as public intellectual : theory, ethnography, activism / edited by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith. Historiographic conundra : the Boasian ...

Incomplete edited film shot by Franz Boas on his last field trip to the Northwest Coast. Documented are various Kwakiutl dances which were staged for the camera at the site of Fort Ruppert, Vancouver, ...

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, making ...

This compilation of scholarly essays, chosen from an interdisciplinary conference held at Yale in 2011, highlights both the accomplishments and shortcomings of Franz Boas, one of the most important ...

Ludger Muller-Wille. Baraka Books (IPG, North American dist.), $24.95 trade paper (188p) ISBN 978-1-77186-001-7 Franz Boas was a pioneer of anthropology, but much of his early career remains unknown.

Charles King’s lively, ambitious book makes a very large claim: that the eminent anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) inspired an “intellectual revolution” in the first half of the 20th century. The ...

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 ...