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Boas, Franz
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Boas, Franz ( b . Minden, Germany, 9 July 1858; d...Y., 21 December 1942) anthropology . Boas exercised considerable influence in the...of the Indians of the Northwest Coast. Franz was one of six children of Meier Boas...
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Ethnicity and Race: Anthropology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...ethnicity has not always been the norm in anthropology or in Franz Boas, Ethnicity, and Contemporary Physical Anthropology: Continuing Tensions Franz Boas (1858 – 1942), widely considered to be the...
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Linguistics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...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...
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Diffusion, Cultural
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...societies to which they are introduced. In the 1920s, with Franz Boas (1858 – 1942) at the helm, American anthropology...the contingent, selective nature of borrowing. Among Boas's students was Alfred L. Kroeber (1876 –...
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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...contrast cultures, rather than ranking them, although Boas and some later North American anthropologists have also...
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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...
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United States
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...University attracted diverse listeners: the psychologists William James and Edward Bradford Titchener, the anthropologist Franz Boas, the revolutionary anarchist Emma Goldman, and many Protestant clergymen, psychiatrists, and neurologists —...
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Everyday Life
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...everyday events such as lapses of memory or slips of the tongue as evidence of an individual's psychological states. Franz Boas, one of the founders of the discipline of anthropology in the United States, argued in Race, Language and Culture...
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Racial Science
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...respected anatomist T. Wingate Todd, outspoken anthropologist M. F. Ashley Montagu, and famed Columbia anthropologist Franz Boas were among the leading figures in their fields who (along with their former students) sought to discredit racial determinism...
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American Museum of Natural History
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...sponsors hundreds of working scientists, who continue the legacy of the researchers Carl Akeley, Roy Chapman Andrews, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Henry Fairfield Osborn. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hellman, Geoffrey. Bankers, Bones, and Beetles: The...
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