Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father...

communications with Franz Boas in 1903 about the existence of the Shrine, photographing it meticulously to gauge his interest; Boas was excited to purchase...

kayak, which was described by Franz Boas as the most widely known Inuit legend in the circumpolar region. Boas, Franz (March 1904), "The Folk-Lore of...

classifications of race. It is said that before Boas, anthropology was the study of race, and after Boas, anthropology was the study of culture. The 20th-century...

Boasian anthropology was a school within American anthropology founded by Franz Boas in the late 19th century. Boasian anthropology was based on the four-field...

The houses were about 20–60 feet wide and 50–150 feet long. In 1888, Franz Boas published "The Journal of American Folk-Lore" a journal discussing American...

established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "...civilization...

currently contains members from about three dozen nations. Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social...

Look up boas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boas might refer to: Boidae, snakes Boas' sign, pain below the right shoulder BOAS is an acronym for...

dog-like fidelity which has stood the supreme test." Since the 1920s, Franz Boas and his school of anthropology at Columbia University were criticising...