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Franz Boas
Franz Boas , 1858-1942, German-American anthropologist, b. Minden, Germany; Ph.D. Univ. of Kiel, 1881. He joined an expedition to Baffin Island in 1883 and initiated his fieldwork with observations of the Central Eskimos. In 1886, Boas began his investigations of the Native Americans of British Colu... Read more
Kwakiutl
Kwakiutl , group of closely related Native North Americans who inhabit N Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia, Canada. They, together with the Nootka, their southern neighbors, make up the Wakashan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American lan... Read more
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948, American anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. Vassar, 1909, Ph.D. Columbia, 1923. She was a student and later a colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. She did fieldwork among Native Americans and studied contemporary European and Asian ... Read more
Melville Jean Herskovits
Melville Jean Herskovits , 1895-1963, American anthropologist, b. Bellefontaine, Ohio; educated at the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1920) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1923). After teaching at Columbia and at Howard Univ. he went to Northwestern Univ., where he taught anthropology from 1927. He did ethnographic ... Read more
Alfred Louis Kroeber
Alfred Louis Kroeber , 1876-1960, American anthropologist, b. Hoboken, N.J., Ph.D. Columbia, 1901. He taught (1901-46) at the Univ. of California and was director (1925-46) of the anthropological museum there. An authority on the indigenous people of the Americas, he participated in many expeditions... Read more
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston 1891?-60, African-American writer, b. Notasulga, Ala. She grew up in the pleasant all-black town of Eatonville, Fla. and, moving north, graduated from Barnard College, where she studied with Franz Boas . Her placid childhood and privileged academic background are often cited as ... Read more
culture
culture in anthropology, the integrated system of socially acquired values, beliefs, and rules of conduct which delimit the range of accepted behaviors in any given society. Cultural differences distinguish societies from one another. Archaeology , a branch of the broader field of anthropology, st... Read more
linguistics
linguistics scientific study of language , covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar ), sounds ( phonology ), and meaning ( semantics ), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human behavior. Phonetics , the study... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Franz Boas"

Franz Boas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Franz Boas The German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) established the modern structure...America was essentially preprofessional when Franz Boas began its study. The science was not established... Read more
Boas, Franz
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Boas, Franz (1858–1942), founder...freethinking Jewish household, Boas attended Heidelberg, Bonn, and...another two years of reading, Boas went to Baffin Island on an...climate of Bismarck's Germany, Boas immigrated to the United States... Read more
Mead, Margaret (1901 – 1978)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...anthropology, working with Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas at Columbia University. Mead spent...studying cultural anthropology with Boas, Mead went to Samoa to document the...na ï ve and driven to confirm Boas's position that culture, not biology... Read more
Paul Radin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...American anthropologist, b. Poland, grad., College of the City of New York, 1902, Ph.D. Columbia, 1911. He was a student of Franz Boas and studied the Winnebago tribe for much of his life, writing classic accounts of this group: The Winnebago Tribe (1923... Read more
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. Vassar, 1909, Ph.D. Columbia, 1923. She was a student and later a colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. She did fieldwork among Native Americans and studied contemporary European and... Read more
Clark Wissler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Indiana Univ., 1897, Ph.D. Columbia, 1901. At first a teacher of psychology, he became interested in anthropology under Franz Boas at Columbia. In 1902 he began an affiliation with the American Museum of Natural History that lasted until his retirement... Read more
Zora Neale Hurston
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pleasant all-black town of Eatonville, Fla. and, moving north, graduated from Barnard College, where she studied with Franz Boas . Her placid childhood and privileged academic background are often cited as major reasons for her work's general lack... Read more
THORNDIKE, Edward L(ee)
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...He won a fellowship to Columbia, where he studied with the psychologist James McKeen Cattell and the anthropologist Franz Boas, from whom he acquired a lifelong interest in the quantitative treatment of psychological data. Thorndike's research... Read more
Robert Harry Lowie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Lowie soon became involved with the anthropological program taught by Franz Boas and changed his professional aspirations. He received his doctorate...American Anthropology, 1879-1920: From the Bureau of American Ethnology to Franz Boas. □ Read more
Kwakiutl
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...area (including the custom of potlatch ). The ethnographer Franz Boas produced a significant number of ethnographic studies on...mainly engaged in fishing and farming. Bibliography: See F. Boas, Kwakiutl Ethnography, ed. by H. F. Codere (1966); R. P... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Franz Boas"

Boas, Franz
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Boas, Franz (1858–1942) A German...decades of the twentieth century. Boas revolutionized fieldwork methodology...peoples. Using these methods Boas provided an enormous amount...cause and effect in culture. Boas was a cultural relativist, arguing... Read more
Linguistics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of three eminent scholars — Franz Boas, who studied Native American languages; Edward Sapir, the most prolific of Boas's students; and Leonard Bloomfield...Germanic philology and taught languages. Boas, Sapir, and Bloomfield were among... Read more
Lowie, Robert H.
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Lowie, Robert H. (1883–1957) A student of Franz Boas , Lowie's book Primitive Society (1920) was the first modern survey of social organization in non-Western societies since the decline... Read more
Benedict, Ruth Fulton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Benedict, Ruth Fulton (1887–1948) A student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, Benedict conducted her first fieldwork in the early 1920s, developing a strong interest in comparative... Read more
Herskovitz, Melville Jean
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Herskovitz, Melville Jean (1895–1963) An American economic anthropologist who was influenced by Franz Boas and A. A. Goldenweiser during his studies at Columbia University, and himself taught at Northwestern University. He is probably... Read more
National Museum of the American Indian
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Heye worked in collaboration with the University Museum in Philadelphia and with Franz Boas at Columbia University. In 1916, however, Heye established, over Boas's strenuous objections, his independent institution in Manhattan: the Heye Foundation... Read more
Westermarck, Edward Alexander
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...to refute the (then fashionable) thesis that our earliest human ancestors lived in sexual promiscuity. Together with Franz Boas , Westermarck was a pioneer of fieldwork (mainly in Morocco), who communicated directly with his subjects, attempting... Read more
race
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...that social and cultural differences could be explained on racial grounds. In the early 20th century the anthropologist Franz Boas claimed that racial typing on a physical basis was arbitrary and argued the cultural origin of psychological differences... Read more
Ethnology, Bureau of American
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by F. W. Hodge; the three-volume Handbook of American Indian Languages, by Franz Boas; Handbook of the Indians of California, by A. L. Kroeber; and the seven-volume Handbook of South American Indians, by... Read more
culture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...arose through the work of field anthropologists such as Franz Boas , around the turn of the century, and tend towards relativism...and contrast cultures, rather than ranking them, although Boas and some later North American anthropologists have also... Read more

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Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island 1883-1884: journals and letters.
Magazine article from: Arctic; 9/1/2000; 579 words ; FRANZ BOAS AMONG THE INUIT OF BAFFIN ISLAND 1883-1884...travel delays, and Inuit companionship. Franz Boas among the Inuit fills much of this gap in...The Central Eskimo (1888) is about Inuit, Franz Boas among the Inuit, for all its insights and... Read more
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1999; ; 627 words ; Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. By Vernon J...theories of the famous anthropologist, Franz Boas. Rethinking Race begins with an examination...describes as the fundamental paradox in Boas's racial thought, which was rooted in... Read more
Franz Boas and W.E.B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 136 words ; 9780871699824 Franz Boas and W.E.B. Du Bois at Atlanta University...Willis's (1921-1983) intended book on Franz Boas 1858-1942), considered the father of...anthropology, Agnes Scott College) expands on Boas's 1906 trip to Atlanta University. The... Read more
"That commonality of feeling": Hurston, hybridity, and ethnography.(Zora Neale Hurston)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: African American Review; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Zora Neale Hurston wrote to her mentor, anthropologist Franz Boas, full of tremors, lest you decide that you do not want...of two cultural theorists, her contemporary and mentor Franz Boas and our own contemporary Homi Bhabha, reveals further... Read more
Myth mongering.(To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/28/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...relativism that she had imbibed from Papa Franz --i.e., Franz Boas, her handlebar-mustachioed mentor...lambasted the cultural determinism of Boas and berated Coming of Age in Samoa...they leave out letters Mead sent to Boas from Samoa, on the grounds that... Read more
Information please! (Natives lack knowledge of their past).
Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 6/1/2000; ; 586 words ; ...it right there. `You're wrong. That's not what Mr. Boas said. [Franz Boas, German anthropologist, ethnologist, 1858-1942] ... Yeah they look at the book `Here, not according to Boas.' And I said to them a lot of times, you can't say... Read more
Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Arctic; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...the past and contemporary issues. Franz Boas, as a scientist, stressed the importance...At first, Claude Levi-Strauss and Franz Boas appear to be on opposite ends of...de Laguna, a student and friend of Boas, explains how her studies with European... Read more
The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many.(Review)
Magazine article from: African American Review; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...more accurate title might have been The Anthropological Influence upon the Harlem Renaissance, or, more specifically, Franz Boas, Melville Herskovits, Ruth Benedict, and Five Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Other significant personalities get... Read more
Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology. (reprint 2004).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 116 words ; ...anthropologist Redfield (1897-1957) was one of the first to challenge the historical anthropological approach, pioneered by Franz Boas, which eschewed generalization and evolutionary thinking. He was also important in the debates over the nature and purpose... Read more
Montagu, Ashley. The Natural Superiority of Women.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Communication Research Trends; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...1953. Montagu is a Boasian --a student and follower of Franz Boas, one of the founders of American anthropology early in...natural biological inferiority to men. The central thesis of Boas and his students--a perspective which came to dominate... Read more