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Franz Boas

(1858—1942) German-born American anthropologist

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Boas, Franz   Reference library

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The Oxford Companion to Canadian History

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2004
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(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 ... More
Boas, Franz

Boas, Franz (July 1858)   Reference library

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

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(b Minden, Westphalia, July 1858; d New York, 21 Dec 1942),

anthropologist and art historian

Boas, Franz

Boas, Franz (1858–1942)   Reference library

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers

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2010
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Franz Boaswas born on 9 July 1858 in Minden in Westphalia, Germany, to middle-class Jewish parents. Boas studied physics

Boas, Franz

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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century

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2003
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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, Franz

Boas, Franz (1858–1942)   Reference library

Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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2002
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Social sciences
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560 words

(1858–1942)

One of the founding figures of modern anthropology, Boas directed the field away from evolutionary theories,

Boas, Franz

Boas, Franz (1858–1942)   Reference library

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.)

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2003
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(1858–1942). American anthropologist (born and educated in Germany).

Boas was the teacher of Edward Sapir and other eminent

Boas, Franz

Boas, Franz (b. 9 July 1858)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present

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2009
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(b. 9 July 1858; d. 21 December 1941),

pioneer in discrediting the racist concepts that characterized early

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