About Franz Boas.




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Today I will talk about Franz Boas, who was born in Minden, Westphalia on July 9, 1858, and died in New York on December 21, 1942. He studied at the University of Heildelberg and received his doctorate at the University of Kiel in 1881. In 1899 He was appointed professor at Columbia University.

Franz Boas is known for his work studying the Kwakiutl Indians in northern Vancouver (Canada), which allowed him to establish a new concept of culture and race, as well as one of the most influential anthropological currents: cultural relativism. In addition, Boas was one of the most prominent opponents of the ideas of scientific racism, very popular at that time, who defended race as a biological concept and claimed that human behavior was explicable through the typology of biological characteristics.

I like this anthropologist since he was very influential in what is now known in Anthropology, addressing issues that are still applied in societies and destroying erroneous ideas that existed in his time.

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  1. Nicole Atbeat18 de noviembre de 2017 a las 9:46 p.m.

    It's great that he was opposed to the scientist racism. I read about him in my anthropology subject (I am from pshychology), but I don't remember much :(

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  2. Thalia Medina19 de noviembre de 2017 a las 12:32 a.m.


    He is not my favorite author, but his theory on culture was the one that I understood the most in the course of anthropology.

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  3. Ignacio Vallejos19 de noviembre de 2017 a las 12:32 p.m.

    I love the opposition about biological typology of the human races that Boas proposed, because on that time, with more emphasis, the European an American culture were the best, almost just because they were "white people" and it's fool and ridiculous to think it. Boas was right to his equalitarian and no discriminative view about the "races".

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  4. Unknown19 de noviembre de 2017 a las 8:06 p.m.

    Enjoy Boaz's class this semester, I think without him anthropology would be empty!

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  5. Unknown19 de noviembre de 2017 a las 9:50 p.m.

    ajaja I like the classes about Boas, it's a very interesting character in the world of anthopology <3

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  6. Unknown19 de noviembre de 2017 a las 11:46 p.m.

    It's a so great anthropologist, all of us learn so much about him this semester, thank you Dimas hahaha

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  7. Anónimo20 de noviembre de 2017 a las 11:14 a.m.

    Franz Boas has good anthropological approaches, and apparently was a great mentor to many others. Although with so many classes of him I already want to stop listening to his name for a while jajaja regards

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  8. Unknown20 de noviembre de 2017 a las 5:52 p.m.

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  9. Unknown20 de noviembre de 2017 a las 5:53 p.m.

    Franz Boas was a great anthropologist with his theory of culture, and I agree with my classmate, Boas was a mentor to many others authors like margaret mead or ruth benedict. !!!

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