Race, Language and Culture By Franz Boas. Pp. xx + 647. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.) 21s. net. IN this volume Prof. Franz Boas, the doyen of anthropologists of the United States, ...

Franz Boas is a towering figure in the world of anthropology. An iconoclast and a mentor, Boas is known for using the scientific method to disprove racist theories that had become dominant in the late ...

Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created new forms of categorization that reinforced their underlying biases.

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 ...

Franz Boas, writes King, was a product of Aufklärung, the German Enlightenment, a reader of noisy newspapers, knockin’ on Heaven’s door by way of Luther, a believer in the categorical ...

In the United States around the turn of the 20th century, anthropologist and German immigrant Franz Boas challenged the accepted view, at the time, that all human beings could be grouped into ...

PROF. FRANZ BOAS of Columbia University, in his presidential address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the meeting at Atlantic City in December last, made a survey of ...

BAKER: Franz Boas was a Jewish-German immigrant who came over to this country in the 1880s, ... WATTENBERG: I mean the argument is made that Boas' theory of cultural relativism, ...

In the 1900's, Franz Boas revolutionized anthropology by breaking out of racist conventional wisdom. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Charles King about his book about Boas, "Gods of the Upper Air".

During the 1930s, the New York-based anthropologist Franz Boas grew increasingly worried about events in his native Germany. He was in his 70s, and close to retiring from Columbia University ...