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Aboriginal languages
About 45 First Nations languages are spoken in Canada (the estimated number depends on the classification system). The languages with the greatest number of speakers (the numbers are approximations) ...
Alain Locke
(1886–1954).Philosopher, writer, and principal theorist of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Philadelphia, Alain LeRoy Locke graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1907. That year, he was the first ...
Alfred Louis Kroeber
(1876–1960) [Bi]American anthropologist and archaeologist who advocated the efficiency of seriation as a means of understanding artefact sequences. He formally defined the idea of the horizon style. ...
anthropology
In philosophical usage, a general theory of human nature, sometimes thought to be the necessary foundation of history and all social sciences. The philosophy of anthropology considers such issues as ...
Augusta Savage
(1892–1962).Sculptor. Largely because much of her work was lost or destroyed, she is more remembered today for her community activism during the Harlem Renaissance than for her art. During a ...
Boas, Franz (July 1858) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
(b Minden, Westphalia, July 1858; d New York, 21 Dec 1942),
anthropologist and art historian
Boas, Franz (1858–1942) Reference library
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
(1858–1942)
One of the founding figures of modern anthropology, Boas directed the field away from evolutionary theories,
Boas, Franz (1858–1942) Reference library
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.)
(1858–1942). American anthropologist (born and educated in Germany).
Boas was the teacher of Edward Sapir and other eminent
Boas, Franz (b. 9 July 1858) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
(b. 9 July 1858; d. 21 December 1941),
pioneer in discrediting the racist concepts that characterized early
Boas, Franz Reference library
Regna Darnell
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
(1858–1942), North America's foremost 20th-century anthropologist.
Boas was born in Germany, taught in the United States, and did his fieldwork in Canada among the Baffin Island ...
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The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
Franz Boaswas born on 9 July 1858 in Minden in Westphalia, Germany, to middle-class Jewish parents. Boas studied physics
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
German-born US anthropologist, who was the principal founder of the culture-history school of cultural anthropology that arose in the USA in the early twentieth century....
British Columbia
Canada's westernmost province is a mosaic of diverse landscapes noted for its spectacular scenery of snow-capped mountains, pocket deserts, coastal rainforest, and scenic rivers. While 46 First ...
Clyde Kluckhohn
(1905–60)An American anthropologist who taught at Harvard University and whose writings combined elements of anthropology and psychology. His main publication was Navajo Witchcraft (1944), in which ...
cognitive anthropology
Concerns itself with the search for patterns and variations in human cognition from one culture to another. It emerged as a distinct subfield in the 1950s with the development of ...
comparative method
A method of testing hypotheses about causal relationships, or establishing social types and classes, by looking at the similarities and differences between phenomena, societies or cultures. It could, ...
culture
The way of life of a people, including their attitudes, values, beliefs, arts, sciences, modes of perception, and habits of thought and activity. Cultural features of forms of life are learned but ...
diffusion
[Th]The spread of ideas, items of material culture, or cultural traits from one culture or society to another. Diffusion does not necessarily imply a movement of people, for ideas can move through ...
Edvard Alexander Westermarck
(1862–1939)Finnish anthropologist who wrote on the diversity of moral systems. Westermark espoused a kind of relativism, although without an account of what the truth of a moral statement actually ...
