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Boas, Franz (1858–1942) Reference library
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.)
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ). American anthropologist (born and educated in Germany). Boas was the teacher of Edward Sapir and other eminent scholars in both linguistics and anthropology, and, more than any other before or since, the founder and organizer of linguistic fieldwork in the United States. See also Anthropological Linguistics and History of Linguistics , article on American Structuralism . Anna Morpurgo...
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A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology
...Boas, Franz ( 1858–1942 ) German-born anthropologist who played a protagonistic role in the founding of American cultural anthropology, including the creation of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and the American Anthropological Association . Originally trained in physics and geography, Boas eventually conducted pioneering ethnographic fieldwork among several groups of Native North Americans, most famously the Kwakiutl of the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. Boas was one of the first advocates for extensive ...
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The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...of Franz Boas (Chicago, 1969) [diaries and letters, 1886–1931] ed. G.W. Stocking : The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883–1911: a Franz Boas Reader (New York, 1974/ R ) ed. C.C. Knötsch : Franz Boas bei den kanadischen Inuit im Jahre 1883–1884 (Bonn, 1992; Eng. trans., 1998) [diaries and letters] ed. A. Jonaitis : A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art (Seattle, 1995) Bibliography B. Laufer , ed.: Boas Anniversary Volume: Anthropological Papers Written in Honor of Franz Boas (New York, 1906) [incl. list of pubns, 515–40] “Franz...
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Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
...Anthropology, 1883–1911 . Edited by George W. Stocking Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Boas, Franz . Race and Democratic Society . New York: J. J. Augustin, 1945. Boas, Franz . Race, Language, and Culture . New York: Macmillan, 1940. Cole, Douglas . Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858–1906 . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Williams, Vernon J., Jr. Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. — Frank A....
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The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
...Relevant Works Boas’s papers are at the American Philosophical Society and Columbia University. The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883–1911: A Franz Boas Reader , ed. George W. Stocking, Jr. (New York, 1974). A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art , ed. Aldona Jonaitis (Seattle, 1995). Further Reading Amer Nat Bio, Appleton’s Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Encyc Relig, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v12, Who Was Who in Amer v2 Cole, Douglas . Franz Boas: The Early...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ) [Bi] American anthropologist who worked at the American Museum of Natural History and later at Columbia University. He advocated detailed regional studies based on empirical research rather than a preoccupation with grand evolutionary schemes. This school of anthropology became known as ‘historical particularism’. Bio.: American National Biography , 3, 83–6]...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ) A German -born anthropologist , initially a student of geography, who founded modern cultural anthropology ( see social anthropology ) in the United States. He and his students came to dominate American anthropology for the first three decades of the 20th century. Boas revolutionized fieldwork methodology, relying on analysis of local texts, linguistics, and training local representative researchers to document their own culture . His Primitive Art ( 1927 ) greatly influenced later approaches to examining the material culture of...
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Vernon J. Williams
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Boas, Franz ( 1858–1942 ), founder of modern American cultural anthropology . Born in Minden, Westphalia, Germany, into a freethinking Jewish household, Boas attended Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel universities, receiving his doctorate in physics from Kiel in 1881 . After a year in the German army and another two years of reading, Boas went to Baffin Island on an expedition to study the cultural geography of the Eskimos. His experiences among the Eskimos created in him a desire to understand the laws of human nature and prompted him to make a gradual transition...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...Bibliography G. W. Stocking Jr. , ed.: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883–1911: A Franz Boas Reader (New York, [1974]) A. Jonaitis : A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art (Seattle, 1995) G. W. Stocking Jr. , ed.: Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (Madison, WI, 1996) V. Williams : Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and his Contemporaries (Lexington, 1996) D. Cole : Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858–1906 (Vancouver and Seattle, 1999) Aldona...
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
..., Franz ( 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 Inuit and on the northwest coast, especially among the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw). He reoriented anthropology around collaboration between universities and museums , placing his students in major positions across the continent (e.g., Edward Sapir in Ottawa) from his base at New York's Columbia University. He imposed a holistic scope, including cultural, archaeological,...
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Vernon J. Williams
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ), founder of modern American cultural anthropology. Born in Minden, Westphalia, Germany, into a free-thinking Jewish household, Boas attended Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel universities, receiving his doctorate in physics from Kiel in 1881 . After a year in the German army and another two years of reading, Boas went to Baffin Island on an expedition to study the cultural geography of the Eskimos. His experiences among the Eskimos created in him a desire to understand the laws of human nature and prompted him to make a gradual transition...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.)
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ) American anthropologist , the teacher of Sapir and other eminent scholars in both linguistics and anthropology and, more than any other before or since, the founder and organizer of linguistic field work in the USA. His most important general contribution to linguistics is his introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages (1911), which emphasizes, in particular, the structural diversity of languages and the need to describe them in terms independent, where necessary, of the grammatical categories inherited in the...
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ) One of the founding figures of modern anthropology , Boas directed the field away from evolutionary theories, armchair analysis, and assumptions of racial determinism, and toward a fieldwork-intensive approach to the study of culture . He was a prolific writer and perhaps more significantly a masterful teacher and promoter of research. Together with his students, Boas defined the dominant methods and objectives of American anthropology for much of the twentieth century, and collected anthropological data of extraordinary breadth and...
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Vernon J. Williams Jr.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ), founder of modern American cultural anthropology . Born in Minden, Westphalia, Germany, into a freethinking Jewish household, Boas attended Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel universities, receiving his doctorate in physics from Kiel in 1881 . After a year in the German army and another two years of reading, Boas went to Baffin Island on an expedition to study the cultural geography of the Eskimos. His experiences among the Eskimos created in him a desire to understand the laws of human nature and prompted him to make a gradual transition...
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
..., Franz ( 1858–1942 ) 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. Boas attended the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel; after receiving a doctorate in physics from Kiel in 1881 he switched to geography. He met leading German anthropologists, including Rudolf Virchow , and in 1886 went to British Columbia to study the native Indian tribes of the region, studies he continued throughout his life. After this he decided to...
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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...Franz Boas 1858 – 1942 German-born American anthropologist Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought. Now we begin to see their differences. We recognize that these are no less important than their similarities, and the value of detailed studies becomes...
