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3 days ago · Franz Boas was the founder of the relativistic, culture-centered school of American anthropology that became dominant in the 20th century.
4 days ago · American Anthropologist is the flagship anthropology journal of the AAA, publishing articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge.
5 days ago · Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist. She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin ...
2 days ago · Western biases do not always apply to non-Western contexts; to quote the anthropologist Franz Boas, “civilization is not something absolute, but … is relative, and … our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes” (Boas, 1887, p. 539). While these are only a few examples, they demonstrate that cultural variation ...
6 days ago · Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Franz Boas and his students rapidly gathered ethnographic material from Native American cultures so that we could learn as much as possible about them before they disappeared.
6 days ago · Franz Boas (1858-1942) rejected unilineal cultural evolution, instead suggesting that different cultures arise as the result of very different causes and will vary widely. What do we call his approach?
6 days ago · fieldwork strategy developed by Franz Boas to collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about Native American populations being devastated by the westward expansion of European settlers
